In the case of the cheap ones, it was mostly locations. For example, I originally had access to a wood, so I wrote a horror script set there, but by t...
I've written several, but none have been produced yet: I wrote a couple deliberately designed to keep costs low to make myself, but without a good bla...
Should be enough for pretty much anything :).
Haven't used it, unfortunately. I'm told it has one of the best deinterlacers -- it tries to detect motion in the frame and only deinterlace the parts...
If you want to be taken seriously, get a name actor, and then they won't care in the slightest about what format you shoot on :). Depends on where ...
Personally I'd shoot HDV, unless you have a sizeable budget. I don't think it's really going to be much easier to sell a 16mm feature than an HD featu...
Yeah, Final Draft is great, but it's about a hundred pounds to buy, so a bit much for a struggling screenwriter. I've been meaning to check out celtx,...
I have it (came free with Avid Xpress Pro), and it's proven useful in the past. However, I think you'd need to spend a lot of money buying their music...
To be honest, the future of movie-making is probably HD video and >35mm film: HD isn't far behind 35mm film right now and getting better all the ti...
You pay the lab to do it. They run the film through a telecine machine which, at the simplest level, is basically a projector pointing into a video ca...
You might want to mention where in the UK you are :).
quote:How do you follow a moving person and do it smoothly? Look up the '$10 homemade Steadicam'-type sites on the web. Or, if that's too hard to b...
quote:Maybe someone could wake up and it was all just a dream. If I was a 'slasher', I'd kill any writer who did that at the end of their movie, un...
The thing about shorts is that they don't have to cost much, so you can either scrounge things for free, or fund it out of your own pocket. If you hav...
Find a script. Find money. Hire people to make the movie. To start you could find some other people in your area who are interested in making short...