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We are accepting short films and features. Short films are anything under 45 minutes and features are anything over 60 minutes. Of course we've already had to make exceptions to those rules. So basically anything over 45 minutes is now a feature. Check out our website www.thrillerchiller.com...

Our early bird deadline for submissions to this year's festival is this Friday the 13th. After that, submission rates go up. So get them in or post marked by Friday. If you can't, don't worry. There is still time to submit to Thriller! Chiller! this year. Our regular deadline is August 3. Our...

I don't know if it's so clear cut on the getting older thing. I know plenty of older people that still like what I would consider to be the good movies. Good story, good characters, more artistic in presentation, etc... I, myself, am getting older. I really feel that the whole upgrade in...

I guess I didn't really have any stats to go on, I just feel past generations were more acceptable of artistic expression in movies than today's generation. Maybe I'm way off. For instance, my dad loves Easy Rider, Mean Streets and Apocalypse Now, but now he loves Armagedon and Gone in 60...

I think back when Scorsese, Coppola, Bogdanovich, Hopper, Fonda, Beatty and even Spielberg and Lucas were getting their starts and overthrowing the studio system was a time when artistic value of a film was held in a higher regard over the slickly polished Hollywood movies. Even Hitchcock and...

Wow, and I love "man who wasn't there" and I've only ever seen it in black and white. I think black and white is a great artistic choice as long as it serves some kind of purpose. There has to be a strong reason for using black and white over color. It's hard to convince an audience that's...

Is giving the color guys a color version and the rest of the world a black and white version an option? Just going from the point made that the Coen brothers had to give a color version of "man who wasn't there" to Asia. Is that really true? Did the Coen Brothers really do that? Seems hard...

What type of cable are you using to capture with? Just a thought, but if it's not a firewire 400 at least, that could be part of the problem. Also, check your capture settings on your FC Express and make sure you're all set up correctly to capture HD. We use FCP Studio HD and I know it took a...

Thriller! Chiller! is West Michigan’s original, alternative film festival. Last year, our fans braved snowstorms, construction and even missed the Tiger's playoffs to enjoy some really exciting independent horror and thriller cinema. Thriller! Chiller! is back and has expanded to honor the...

Well, just to confirm, we've done this before many times and it doesn't cause any problems mixing DVCAM and miniDV on the same timeline. You run into issues when you're mixing something with different frame rates or different aspect ratios, but those can also be worked around. For your...

Watch the EYES WIDE SHUT scene when Nichole Kidman "confesses" to Tom Cruise in the bedroom. In my opinion, that is one of the most intense, dialogue driven scenes ever. Excellent direction, excellent acting and excellent writing are what made that scene. Of course it looks beautiful because...

Those videos seriously kick ass. That is some great choreography.

I'm of the opinion that this is just what Lucas said after the popularity of the first film. If you watch Star Wars, you realize that it stands very well on its own as one movie with a complete beginning/middle/end. There's really no reason for a sequel. I'm not saying that Empire was bad...

I would say that unless you're a proven box office draw, like Quentin Tarantino, don't attempt to write a two parter or trilogy for spec scripts. Like you said originally, Boz, just try to write one good screenplay. That's hard enough as it is, much less trying to pitch a trilogy as an...

Best chase scenes: Raising Arizona the "Huggies" chase. Raiders of the Lost Ark the horse/truck chase. Bullitt and French Connection Best shootouts: Miller's Crossing in/outside Leo's house. The Wild Bunch end shootout. Desperado the opening scene with Buscemi telling the story. Best Fist...

There is a program called flip4mac that's out now that converts windows media files into Quicktime files. However, it's not set up to use on the new intel macs and you'd have to have a link to the download for mac users. I'm sure a lot of people don't have it yet. Anyway, at our company, we...

Our film, "Talking Dead", was rejected by a Michigan Film Festival that had a section specifically for "West Michigan made short films". We thought we were shoe ins and were already inviting our friends to the fest. Then we were rejected. It hurt, but it made us take a look at who our target...

And of course even Tarantino would give props to the master Kubrik for the film "The Killing". One of the earlier, non-sequential films that still kicks a ton of ass. I think non-linear storytelling is becoming more of a norm now. I think that can be attributed to the introduction of...

If you backup the latest version of your FCP project file onto a separate drive, you should be able to just re-capture the video files and be back up an running right where you left off. The project file saves all the editing, just not the video files. The project would just say "media...

I would suggest getting an external, firewire drive to capture your video on. I either read this in the FCP manual or online somewhere, but the computer and Final Cut work better when the video and project file are on a different hard drive than the FCP program files. If you decide to go this...