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As my plans to start a production company in high school begin to come together, my friends and I have begun our search for equipment. One of my friends scored us some lighting equipment, although we may need more, as well as an absolute beast of a computer, and I got us cameras and a couple...

I was looking at the thread about that yesterday, I watched the trailer and it looked AMAZING!!! I was surprised that a camera almost as old as me could be used to shoot scenes that looked that good. I still have a lot of learning to do, but I hope that I'll be able to get good enough to make...

I was leaning more towards DaVinci, so that’s nice to hear. I have a lot of prior experience with Premiere, and I think that would be fine to begin with and then see where it takes me and when I feel like upgrading it, if I do.

Ah, that's really good to know. Both DaVinci and HitFilm both look really good, and I'll probably go with the free version of DaVinci for a while and save up to get Hitfilm or DaVinci studio. If for some reason I can't do that, I get all the adobe products for free from my school so I'll at...

Yeah, sound was another thing I was concerned about. I'll probably be able to find someone who'd be down for that. As for the computer, I'm looking at one that has 8 gigs of RAM, which isn't necessarily a ton so I'll probably spend the extra $70 to upgrade it to 16, and it's got a bunch of other...

You have a good point with that last paragraph. I’m not like, broke broke, but I’m buying a computer soon and I probably won’t have much money to spend on film stuff after that. But I think it would be good to try and spend on things to make the story better rather than a camera. I guess video...

So, I'm thinking of starting a mini production company thing with a bunch of people from my school next year, but I wanna have some good recording equipment to start out with. Currently I have my dad's old JVC GZ-EX355BU Camcorder (idk that's the model number) and my mom's old Canon EOS Rebel...

Hey, those are the names of 2 characters I made up in 7th grade! They were brothers though rather than friends. Anyways, welcome!

Thanks my fellow Southern Californian!

Man, I love LA. Even with all the smog & traffic stuff, it's still a really awesome place.

Thanks to everyone for all the advice, too! Nate, the criteria you gave for good ideas is super useful, and while I will still try to just experiment with everything, it'll be really good to have those in mind when determining if something is still good to do since my perfectionism will...

That's EXACTLY what I wanted to start doing next year. My hope is to form a little production company within my school as I know a lot of people who would want to go into the film industry and I think it would be really cool for all of us to have this experience. I have a whole bunch of plans...

Well that's nice to know! I'm a huge perfectionist so I always try to make everything really good, but it's nice to just goof off and have fun. Back when I first started making short films in 7th grade, we kinda just flopped around the whole time making stuff that nobody would ever see or care...

I'm the type of person who absolutely loves using every idea I ever have in some way, but the thing is, I find it hard to come up with good ideas, especially with film. They just don't come as naturally for me as they do for other things. What are some good ways to brainstorm good ideas, and...

Thanks for all the advice! When I first wrote it back then, I didn't really know what I wanted to do with it. I wanted it to be scary, but I didn't know how to do that and since I didn't have a full story thought out, I put in the more comedic part about them finding out that it was actually...

I've been collecting information from people for a while to discover what kind of movies and stuff people like. I know I could probably just look it up, but where's the fun in that? I made a small list of questions to see what people are into, and while I do know it would be easy to just look at...

So I was digging through some old files, and I found this screenplay I wrote who knows how long ago and read it. It was one of my first and is really bad, but I still liked the concept and thought it would be cool to try and actually make it since I never ended up using it in the first place...

Hey there! I've been looking for a cool forum to discuss all things film, and this seems like the place! I've been making movies since 7th grade, and I'm hoping to start getting more serious next year, possibly even submitting a film to Sundance or some other film festival. I really enjoy...