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took ages to download the wmv file. anyhow. Did not really get the beginning, did not make sense to me. but was quite impressed with the 2nd half, when the stop motion animation of the fax machine creeping back into the house etc. good work, the story is clear here, inventive.

Really funny script - great work. Dies a bit in the middle, try to tighten it up a bit. Your framing, I would suggest re-doing this entirely. With wides, med close ups, extreme close ups, dolly in's on the wound, way way less of the double shot. Really make your MED CU's MED CU's, frame...

I watched it with the sound turned down. I did not get the story. Try telling the same story visually without dialog.

Boz Uriel, :D thanks for that knightly, I'd love that link.

Boz, yeah but I'm using an olde 16mm Arriflex, with no video out, its a school camera (NYFA).

Thanks Will, thats great. Yet you'd have to do the shot essentially blind?

HD is a contentious issue for me. On the one hand the crisp look of HD is amazing, on the other hand your props, costumes and locations have to be 'HD ready' and you can't get away with as much sloppy stuff as you could b4 with regular film. I imagine its harder to fix in post because of this...

Hello, Is there any special equipment other than a crane or gib to help me with a low boom and tilt camera move? I need to boom an arriflex 16mm from about head height to calf height (just above ankles) while tilting progressively upwards from a horizontal position. Being a 16mm cam with no...

Ah.. to answer my own question:: Grading is essentially 'film and video color correction'. http://www.colorist.org/ This looks like a good site... just a thought, color correction software as complex as it probably is, will probably follow the same path as 3d animation software in its...

That sounds about right from what I've heard around here also. Audio audio audio - get it right or it will let you down. I just produced a show for local TV, concept was great, camera work wasn't so bad, but the sound was AWFUL. Live and learn. Talk more about grading? I'm not sure I know much...

mr-modern-life from east sussex (Brighton? - my old stomping grounds!!), now thats a post I can get behind. This is a great post. If one can shoot for $15,000, one can surely get investors, cause as long as you've got a halfway decent plan your investors will make money back and then some...

I have already read your draft. Structure, you need to work on concept and structure and be able to clearly identity the different segments of the movie and whats gonna happen in them.

Are you familiar with Writers Bootcamp here in L.A.? They have some REALLY fab tools that would help you get your concept and structure down.

Nice one Clive. Blade_Jones, tell us about making convincing rain in AE ?

Hey this does help. What software do you use in the field? Why use gold connectors ? is there really that much difference? Does your sound man hold the boom and deal with the mixer/ lap top set up as well? or do you have two seperate people doing these jobs? Do you use a radio mic on the...

Pray. Dream it, imagine it happening with all your heart, see it happening, feel it happening, feel how you feel when its happening. Then... It'll happen.

SirLaosson, read this thread. http://www.indietalk.com/showthread.php?t=8156

Seriously, does anyone know a good estimated ratio of successful indies, to total indie movies made? How might we come up with such a ratio? Now if we said something like SAG independent contract movies, SAG might keep records of how many movies apply, then we'd just have to count the...

If your going to add milk, try rice or soy milk, it won't stink like old cow juice!

Just make sure you don't get shadows on your screen.