I agree-- pay travel expenses. Always pay travel expenses, including transportation, food and lodging. It adds a level of professionalism to your proj...
Hey red, I'm a little surprised no one's taken a crack at this one yet... Totally depends on your budget of course. If there are key actors you ...
With a documentary, the only sales you cut yourself short on by not printing to film are going to be theatrical. And if your doc is not a feature, the...
Certified's point is a good one-- when you shoot DV you don't need the AMOUNT of light that you do for film in terms of EXPOSURE, but you still want t...
The thing that adds to this problem is the simple rock star appeal of being a "name" filmmaker. Every one of us wants to get our movie out there, and ...
Right on! So you're selling to the exact companies I'm familiar with in terms of product, that's good. And that figure, max 100,000-- is that for A...
Man, those numbers are even lower than I thought! I've spoken with a rep from Cinemavault Releasing here in Toronto (mostly foreign sales) and his wor...
Where do you live? If you live in a place with a production community of any size-- as in they do professional work there like commercials, movies, TV...
To pick up on something the Instigator mentioned... You're doing your d2dvd movies for closer to 60g's? What kind of movies are they, genre-wise? A...
All right, now we're getting somewhere-- when you say that investors own a "share in the return based on distribution," you're not talking technically...
rj, Replacing the word "copyright" with the word "share" is exactly the thing I'm trying to AVOID, believe it or not... but same idea. Instead o...
I do have an ent lawyer on board. He's used to the so-called "Canadian" route for financing films, which essentially combines TV broadcaster presales,...
That's a good point about the sequels-- hadn't thought of that. I understand the idea that investors are entitled to a piece of the profits only (a...
Hi indy, Yes: you can use gels to change the colour temp of the light. You just have to use the right gel with the right light. For example, if ...