quote:there hasnt been an original film out there in 11 years! (pulp fiction was the last great film in my opinion) I hate to tell you, but 'Pulp F...
If you're sure it's going to be black-and-white in the finished movie, I'd shoot using black-and-white mode on the camera: that way at least you can s...
It can be anything from nothing to tens of thousands of dollars or more, depending on who owns the music rights and what they think of your movie. I r...
This is one good place to try: lots of old copyright-free industrial, news and propaganda movies to download.
So there's no trailer on the site? Or did I just miss it?
Only that it's an analog format, so harder to edit, and the color reproduction and resolution aren't as good as DV. But a good Hi8 camera can still pr...
Cool, I've actually been writing a horror script about people like that here in the UK... unfortunately I think it's unfilmable as I doubt I could con...
Well, super-8 is different. The kind of festivals I was talking about are the ones that have the 'we only show movies made on silver, not movies made ...
If it's a good documentary with a strong story you can probably get away with anything, otherwise you're looking at more than that for a true 'broadca...
It's going to be difficult if you want multiple bullet hits. The cheap way to do blood spurts is with a pressurised container and a hose rigged up ...
Well, I'm sure you don't want to hear it, but the best answer, particularly if you're not working with experienced stunt-people, is almost certainly t...
Looks a bit too much of a moody teen gangster movie for my taste, but the editing and cinematography are better than most low-budget movies I see (so,...
There's also HDV now appearing at the top of the list, though Digibeta would still be better at SD resolution since the cameras are generally better. ...
Most festivals will accept DV movies these days: it's generally only the ones with a big stick up their butt that would refuse. Certainly it'll be ...
It's the ratio between what you shoot and what you use. Typically it'll be between 5:1 and 10:1 for a low-budget shoot on film (i.e. for a ten minute ...