Peter Jackson used to make guns from metal pipe and bits of wood: the ones in 'Bad Taste' were very convincing. Cheapest alternative is probably Ai...
I don't know whether it's legal, but I do know the same thing happened to a friend of a friend when one of the funders dropped out: the director refus...
Basically the only choice for good sound if you don't have a mike socket will be to record seperately. Get hold of a decent boom mike and a DAT or Min...
I've edited (and shot) actor's showreels before, and the rates look about right to me given the amount of time and equipment involved. Maybe I should ...
Yeah, big changes of size and/or angle of the shot.
Yes, particularly when looking for actors I can't afford to pay (i.e. usually inexperienced ones :)). It's much easier to tell whether someone can act...
The best place is to find a composer who's willing to do free music for you. There seem to be roughly twenty billion aspiring movie composers in the w...
quote:Troma's Lloyd Kauffman has a similar DVD series for $30 and so far its more or less the same thing as he wrote in his book for less. I keep m...
If you've never seen 2001, it's well past time you did :). In fact, watch all Kubrick's movies: I don't think he was quite the genius that some people...
I know of at least one direct-to-DVD feature shot on a GL2 which got distribution, so it's certainly possible. DVX100 footage looks pretty nice for a ...
Avid will play the movie out the Firewire port as well as on the desktop: I presume other editing programs can too.
Xpress Pro comes with Sorenson Squeeze, which will convert to most common formats.
www.archive.org is your friend :). Don't know about civil war footage, but you should be able to find tanks in the war movies. You could also tr...