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It's so funny that my personal recommendation for people reading this thread is to NOT to follow the links. Basically, we're dealing with another film maker who has so little respect for either his audience or his product that he believes he has to con people into visiting his site. Laugh that...

More fake referral marketing! God, I bloody hate that.

Equipment faults have to approached systematically... if you assume that's it's the pre-amp you're entering a world of pain and expense. So before you do that, it might be a good idea to plug in a different microphone and to use some different cables. It's just that cracking sounds and hiss...

A great short film is a combination of two things: On one level it's a showcase of your visual style... so, ignore Madman's advice, if it was a feature he'd be semi-right, but for a short he's wrong. On a short you play to YOUR strengths because it's your showcase. So, as you're going to be the...

Your budget projections currently don't match your cast list. If you want to bring it in in the $5M-$10M budget range you need to think about moving the project to Europe... where there is a high level of bankable talent, but willing to work in that budget range... and where direct access is...

Audio noise... six possible problems 1) Mic to far away from the source 2) record levels too low and raising the levels is raising the noise 3) bad pre-amp (so PD150's and Sony VX2000's were notorious for high hiss levels) 4) if you use a camera's auto level for sound it can create excess hiss...

Dude, you're making a classic baby screenwriter mistake of thinking that ideas arrive fully formed and perfect... and that the process is about searching for the "perfect" idea. Thing is ideas need development as much as characters and plots. So, you take an idea you think isn't good enough...

I know this may sound like an odd response, but it's probably the most useful one you'll get: How important is it to your story that the character has this nickname? If the story won't work without it, then that's pretty important... if it's just something you think is amusing then in real...

Go to the meeting and listen... answer their questions, be enthusiastic and passionate about your project. Sales Agents are looking for projects they can make money from... so they are going to be looking at your project as an investment. Your only job is prepare and deliver your pitch. A...

The gate is the amount of money they take in ticket sales. This is a real undistributed "indie" deal... because the normal deal on a film is a fixed rental fee for screening + plus a percentage of the gate. However, that's where the cinema is banking on the reputation of the film to draw an...

A couple of things... Make sure you have put enough work into your loglines before you try this... if you can't sell the film's core concept in forty words or less then it won't matter if you can get meetings or not. Next: You say that you've five or six screenplays that no one has seen... I...

It's simple Every film is a new product... if you think of film production in a strictly business sense, the producer is the CEO of the company who makes all of the major decisions about how the product will be developed, marketed and ultimately sold. Other than the screenwriter the producer...

OK, but before you do invest just do a little research into just how many different tape and disc formats are currently on the market... I think you'll be shocked: DV; miniDV; DVCam; HDV(one deck and about the cheapest of the lot) DVCpro; ... oh and I think this one only does DVCPro50 and...

OK... that's too big a question to expect anyone to type out for you, because we're talking about a complicated process... so, here are the three books I'd recommend to anyone who wants to make a film but who knows nothing: Guerilla Film Maker's Blueprint This is written by Chris Jones, who...

Rik I agree... the whole "who is bankable" approach to film making is like a lot of Hollywood's decision making process designed as a safety net for people who aren't capable of telling a good script from a bad one... Trust me, this is a subject nobody in their right mind wants to get me on...

OK I see what your real question is... You want to know what computer interface and decks you'll need to run a post production facility. Have a look at the "Black Magic Intensity card"... most post production suites use this or something similar and capture HDMI In terms of decks... well, the...

I can chip in one this one... I did lunch with a UK film finance accountant about three years ago and we were discussing why it is so hard to get money into film. He put it really simply: "Film is a high risk investment, with no clear outline of potential return... the number one high return...

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In the mainstream US market you couldn't use money to land a producer's role... however in Europe, you could probably cut a deal to get an executive producer credit, with a further agreement by the Producer to let you shadow them through-out the process. The importance of a cash stake of...

A 3:1 shooting ratio is going to need an expert DOP, a superb cast and storyboarding of the entire project... and not ratty student film maker storyboards, but the entire film visualised as it will be edited laid out on paper. Basically you'd need to approach it the same way the Coen Brother...