Hi, i have a question for you guys: me and one of my friends are wanting to make our very first movie, he's the writer/director, and I'm the cameraman, since I own the camera. The camera is kind of low-tech(Hi8), we have a budget of nothing, and nobody is getting paid. It is a movie with nothing really but funny dialouge and can be shot all in one house, and on the side of the road for one scene where the characters go and visit one of their friends. After we shoot the movie, we plan to enter it into a film festival to see if anyone likes it. so here's the question: anyone here think this movie can get made and be semi-successful? if not, any suggestions????xx(??8D???:)?????:(!?
Hi sharp-eye.
What do you mean by "semi-successful"? Do you mean will you be able to make a movie you're proud of? Or do you mean will people buy your film and thus make it financially successful?
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I mean that people will like it and will win some awards, not like oscars but the awards given by the festival. It would be cool for a company to buy it also.
Well, most of 'Blair Witch' was shot on Hi8 and that made a few hundred million dollars, so anything is possible if you have good PR behind it :).
A lot of festivals, though, seem to put picture quality above story-telling: I'm always puzzled when I know that good movies shot on DV or similar formats were turned down by a festival where I see them screening utter garbage shot on 16mm or 35mm film. So it's probably a matter of finding the right festivals for your movie, and having a way to 'sell' it to them.
Wow, I didn't know that about the blair witch movie, that's pretty good news. we're planning to submit it to the Rehoboth Film Festival in deleware, it's probably the closest to where we live, and it's fairly cheap compared to the others I did research on. I hope we'll leave the festival with something to be proud of at least, hell I hope we get picked to be screened. and if we don't(we damn well better, we've had so many mishaps so far trying to get this one made??:)?), the director/writer, who is also my friend and neighbor, will just concoct another script(or we'll just use one of his many others he has)and we'll try again next year.
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Originally posted by sharp-eye
I mean that people will like it and will win some awards, not like oscars but the awards given by the festival. It would be cool for a company to buy it also.
In that case, my answer to your question, "anyone here think this movie can get made and be semi-successful?" is yes.
What you shoot on, be it Hi-8, miniDV, Super8, HDV, 16mm isn't as important as your story, your technique, your actors and the tech aspects like lighting and sound.
Are you making a short, or a feature length movie?
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The aim of an argument or discussion should not be victory, but progress.
Joseph Joubert, essayist (1754-1824)
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The aim of an argument or discussion should not be victory, but progress.
Joseph Joubert, essayist (1754-1824)
well I don't know how long it will be at the moment, the script is 97 pages long, so I'd say in the neighborhood of and hour and a half. and as far as the technique and actors go, the movie is about a couple of potheads and the director and myself happened to know some people who can walk-the-walk and talk-the-talk so to speak, and they pretty much look like potheads.
