One thing that could help you get the visual style of these films would be the pictures contrast, many of these films use a high contrast picture, mak...
I don't know who made it, or were they got the stock footage, assuming it was stock footage. But is was impressive in terms of visual style (there was...
The most I've ever spent on a movie is $4,000, and that was for a camera, powermac, and final cut studio, which I'm still using. But when it comes to ...
Again, not trying to dissuade you from blowing stuff up, but depending on the editing software you're using (I use final cut pro) you can composite im...
Depending on the gear you're using now, there could be different responses. I guess I would say use a multi camera set up, as there will probably be c...
I agree with figuring out what assets you have available, and to try and write the script yourself. Not only is it more rewarding to film something yo...
One thing that you could do is to composite and explosion over what you've filmed (I'm not trying to talk you out of it, I've played around with some ...
One thing you can do for music would be to download royalty free music from places such as www.stockmusic.net, it costs about $30 for a song, but you ...
For a camera I would recommend a Sony DCR-VX2100, it is a good starting camera, but costs about $2000. Another camera (smaller, cheaper) would be some...
On FCP, one thing you could do in post is to bring the contrast out more. It will deepen the shadows, and make the colors stand out more, giving you a...
One thing you could do (although I wouldn't recommend it) would be to export it as an AVI file. However I wouldn't recommend because FCP 5 seems to ha...
One other thing you could do for both ground and human bullet hits is to do it digitally by compositing. If you go to they have some royalty free exp...
I use a powermac G5 with final cut studio, and I know people who use macbooks and PC's. Personally I would go for a mac, not only do they seem more me...
I also use a VX-2100, and have played around Canon's Gl-1 and XL-1. I haven't shot on high def either, however when editing the footage from the XL-1,...
For bullets hitting the ground, you could do any number of things to get to fly up in the air for far cheaper than renting the pressurized canisters. ...