How do I get actors to want to travel to make a movie?
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That's true the DC sniper attacks were a good example. After that though, the country went back to normal. These guys have to do so much damage that the country's government actually changes as a result, and is beyond repair, at least for a long while.
Instead of 4 villains though, I'm thinking more like 6 now. I originally came up with the story to fit 15-30, and trying to change it for four. But maybe 6 now, cause that will be better, as long as I can find that many actors, plus actors to fill the other character roles, and extras for cops, and media, etc.
Instead of 4 villains though, I'm thinking more like 6 now. I originally came up with the story to fit 15-30, and trying to change it for four. But maybe 6 now, cause that will be better, as long as I can find that many actors, plus actors to fill the other character roles, and extras for cops, and media, etc.
You seem to be completely overlooking the advice that's been given countless times.
So, I'll reiterate it on more time, hopefully clear enough to understand:
Shelf your project until you have the means to do it with an adequate budget and cast (and locations, etc).. and write something SMALLER that works where you are with the people and things you already have access to.
So, I'll reiterate it on more time, hopefully clear enough to understand:
Shelf your project until you have the means to do it with an adequate budget and cast (and locations, etc).. and write something SMALLER that works where you are with the people and things you already have access to.
To anwser the original question:
"how do I get actors to travel?"
Make cool stuff they like and show it.
"How do I make cool stuff they like?"
Use the resources you actually have access to to make something short to show you can tell a little story and that you have the skills to make it.
"How do I make something short?"
- Cut all the 'large' crap like demonstrations where a few 1000 people or villan gangs of 30 persons are involved.
- Put one normal person in an extreme situation, add two people who expect something from in (a boss, a wife, a child, whatever), add an adversary that causes the extreme situation that makes it hard for him to keep everyone happy. (Conflict!)
Make the ending humorous, dark, surreal or absurd.
- Keep it under 5 minutes. You seem to overcomplicate everything, so I guess that also shows in your scripts. Keep it simple!
"But how is that possible?"
Ok, start making something even shorter. Make a commercial for a nonsense product.
Something that will give you 'guts' or 'superpower'.
Now you have an excuse to use a shot of a carchase, a fight, a romantic scene, running through the woods at dusk, etc without a complex scenario. Add a shot of someone drinking or eating or wearing it.
Keep it under 1 minute.
(lol, sounds like a coke zero add... don't try to emulate that: keep it simpler)
"Isn't that a lot of work for less than 1 minute?"
Yes, it is. You may even need a few days (2 or 3) to shoot it all right without rushing or without making it 16 hour days. It will be educational and fun!
Storyboard it well. Plan it well.
Editing should be done in 3 days or less.
"But what to do then?"
Put it on youtube/vimeo, show it to everyone you know.
"But what if it isn't perfect?"
Still show it. Learn from critiques and feedback, but don't let it discourage you, because never forget: you started it and you finished it. A lot of people just talk about it.
You learnt from it, you got more experience and you got something to show.
BTW, it is almost never perfect anyway!
"But what if they still don't want to travel?"
Make something short again with local resources.
It will probably be better than the first one and you will learn even more!
And don't be surprised if there suddenly appear to be more local actors than you thought.
"But that means I made the first one for nothing!"
No, you learnt from it and you can show it: that's not nothing.
Everytime you finish something, you will grow. Grow your skills, grow your portfolio, grow your reputation.
"how do I get actors to travel?"
Make cool stuff they like and show it.
"How do I make cool stuff they like?"
Use the resources you actually have access to to make something short to show you can tell a little story and that you have the skills to make it.
"How do I make something short?"
- Cut all the 'large' crap like demonstrations where a few 1000 people or villan gangs of 30 persons are involved.
- Put one normal person in an extreme situation, add two people who expect something from in (a boss, a wife, a child, whatever), add an adversary that causes the extreme situation that makes it hard for him to keep everyone happy. (Conflict!)
Make the ending humorous, dark, surreal or absurd.
- Keep it under 5 minutes. You seem to overcomplicate everything, so I guess that also shows in your scripts. Keep it simple!
"But how is that possible?"
Ok, start making something even shorter. Make a commercial for a nonsense product.
Something that will give you 'guts' or 'superpower'.
Now you have an excuse to use a shot of a carchase, a fight, a romantic scene, running through the woods at dusk, etc without a complex scenario. Add a shot of someone drinking or eating or wearing it.
Keep it under 1 minute.
(lol, sounds like a coke zero add... don't try to emulate that: keep it simpler)
"Isn't that a lot of work for less than 1 minute?"
Yes, it is. You may even need a few days (2 or 3) to shoot it all right without rushing or without making it 16 hour days. It will be educational and fun!
Storyboard it well. Plan it well.
Editing should be done in 3 days or less.
"But what to do then?"
Put it on youtube/vimeo, show it to everyone you know.
"But what if it isn't perfect?"
Still show it. Learn from critiques and feedback, but don't let it discourage you, because never forget: you started it and you finished it. A lot of people just talk about it.
You learnt from it, you got more experience and you got something to show.
BTW, it is almost never perfect anyway!
"But what if they still don't want to travel?"
Make something short again with local resources.
It will probably be better than the first one and you will learn even more!
And don't be surprised if there suddenly appear to be more local actors than you thought.
"But that means I made the first one for nothing!"
No, you learnt from it and you can show it: that's not nothing.
Everytime you finish something, you will grow. Grow your skills, grow your portfolio, grow your reputation.
I like to go guerilla. Need a few fire engines / fire trucks? Set fire to something and put a couple of cameras nearby!
Need some police? Fire a gun in the air a few times, call it in and film them as they arrive. Greenscreen is your friend.
Need a small riot? Leaflet a poor neighbourhood that they will all be evicted in the morning (by government order) to build a sewage works, leave some molotov cocktails and a few crates of beer conveniently lying around and there you go!
Want to shoot a mugging? Just pull on a balaclava, pick your target and go PoV. It's what GoPro was invented for!
Filming a jewelry heist film and need a location and some actors? Go to the worst bar you can find, buy a few tough looking guys some beers, pass them the sawn-off shotguns, steal a car, drive them to the right location and with a bit of luck you will have police, a gunfight, everything!
You will be famous! You will be rich! You will make great art and will be able to shoot an intimate follow-up documentary into the abuses of the prison system (that new Black Magic is small enough to smuggle into a prison in your, well, you get the idea but you might struggle with the lenses).
Guerilla is your friend. Guerilla is the way. Guerilla is the only way.
Need some police? Fire a gun in the air a few times, call it in and film them as they arrive. Greenscreen is your friend.
Need a small riot? Leaflet a poor neighbourhood that they will all be evicted in the morning (by government order) to build a sewage works, leave some molotov cocktails and a few crates of beer conveniently lying around and there you go!
Want to shoot a mugging? Just pull on a balaclava, pick your target and go PoV. It's what GoPro was invented for!
Filming a jewelry heist film and need a location and some actors? Go to the worst bar you can find, buy a few tough looking guys some beers, pass them the sawn-off shotguns, steal a car, drive them to the right location and with a bit of luck you will have police, a gunfight, everything!
You will be famous! You will be rich! You will make great art and will be able to shoot an intimate follow-up documentary into the abuses of the prison system (that new Black Magic is small enough to smuggle into a prison in your, well, you get the idea but you might struggle with the lenses).
Guerilla is your friend. Guerilla is the way. Guerilla is the only way.
In my nonprofessional opinion you seem to have some sort of fantasy mind and a attention seeking disorder.
You ask more questions which do not need asking, you get given solutions to which you go" oh but I can't, oh but this,oh but what if aliens came and abducted my memory cards and my camera is swallowed mistakenly by jabba the hut while he goes on one of his drunken rampages through my street"
You sir have asked questions 95% of which you can answer yourself, in my opinion you make up 90% of the situations.
Again I reiterate I believe you are a fantasist and have a disorder.
If you do not then you the laziest thought processing person I have ever come to known existence of.
How should I get actors to want to travel to make a movie? Really? Really? How do you get a girl to like you? You pay, persuade, be nice and don't act like a dick, that how and convince them your something good!
A 4 year old could have given you that answer why don't you ask proper questions that require more than two brain cells to answer.
Even better go film school
Il wait for tomorrow's question..
How do I persuade my camera to record.
You ask more questions which do not need asking, you get given solutions to which you go" oh but I can't, oh but this,oh but what if aliens came and abducted my memory cards and my camera is swallowed mistakenly by jabba the hut while he goes on one of his drunken rampages through my street"
You sir have asked questions 95% of which you can answer yourself, in my opinion you make up 90% of the situations.
Again I reiterate I believe you are a fantasist and have a disorder.
If you do not then you the laziest thought processing person I have ever come to known existence of.
How should I get actors to want to travel to make a movie? Really? Really? How do you get a girl to like you? You pay, persuade, be nice and don't act like a dick, that how and convince them your something good!
A 4 year old could have given you that answer why don't you ask proper questions that require more than two brain cells to answer.
Even better go film school
Il wait for tomorrow's question..
How do I persuade my camera to record.
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