However, Rodriguez now shoots HD, and it doesn't sound like he has any intention of going back to film... it's just so much easier to deal with.
Both, on and off, though I've been editing far more than directing for the last four years.
You can set up a decent DV editing system for $2000-3000, maybe less these days. A decently fast computer, a few hundred gigabytes of disk space and a...
"but digital video isn't yet capable of being as easily manipulated" You can do far, far, far more manipulation with digital video loaded into a PC...
"DO A TEST W/O ACTORS TO INSURE THE CHARGE IS CORRECT." And after you do the test, stick it on your own body and blow it up :). I can't help but fe...
"It's just you know how ageist most industries can be." Well, there's certainly ageism in movies: for example, I often see special grant programs a...
The main problem is that it's hard to get an agent without first selling a script :). At a minimum you'll probably need three or four decent feature s...
Geez, I'm coming up to 37 and hoping to get my first feature off the ground in the next couple of years... I was nearly 30 when I made my first short....
First, buy the remake rights from whoever owns them... which, if the original was any kind of success, will probably cost a ton of money. Alternati...
I use Final Draft, which is (at least according to their marketing blurb) used by a lot of professional writers. There are a number of other 'professi...
Perhaps, but a good idea without a good script is pretty much worthless: that's why ideas can't be copyrighted.
The best thing would be to check with the TV station, but provided you keep the colors legal and the sound within normal limits (AFAIR here in the UK ...
Oh, Ok, I didn't realise that they sold DV cameras without mike sockets. Conversion from XLR to 3.5mm has never been a problem in the past, we just us...
I'd say don't worry about recording seperate sound, just be sure you use an external mike and monitor it from the headphone socket on the camera to en...
Thanks... would be good to see some actual images from the camera and hear what you think of it.