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rjschwarz
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RE: Talking about starting pre-production

Babylon 5 was filmed in a converted wharehouse. They felt they got more floorspace for their dollar. I imagine there are a lot of improvements that ha...

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RE: doing a Mocumentary

300 hours may be a lot of repetition (Note they didn't create a DVD with 300 hours of deleted scenes) and probably isn't the standard. RJSchwarz

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RE: doing a Mocumentary

Some mockumentaries are fully scripted (The Office for example) but I suspect you're thinking of the Spinal Tap variety. They didn't have an actual sc...

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RE: Question about L-cuts( or split edits)

Unless the lines overlap it really isn't that much trouble. At least with digital editing. You can just dip the volume on the incoming clip until the ...

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RE: Sounds like trouble!!!

You can also add ambient noise to cover the bits you can't actually fix as DavidScJr says. Depending upon the scene you could have distant cars and...

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RE: Pitching a screenplay

I will. It seems to me that a pitchfest has value in (a) get practice pitching, and seeing others pitch, and the responses (b) you can get a view of w...

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RE: Pitching a screenplay

Thanks for the heads up. The pitchfest also seems to be a good place to take classes, that's another money generator for the guys running the fest. ...

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RE: steps?

The other way is to go to a pitchfest where a lot of Producers are waiting to hear pitches. This sort of thing costs money but it allows you to avoid ...

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RE: Too Much Creativity, Too Little Everything Else

Robert Rodriguez did Planet Terror but you are best served looking at his early work, when he was signing himself up for medical tests to have time/ea...

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RE: How do I approach a SAG actor?

From a brief scan through my library I found one instance that probably gave me that idea. Art Linson's "What Just Happened?" page 42. "Dustin Hoff...

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RE: How do I approach a SAG actor?

I can't pick out what books I picked what little bits from. Most likely it was a book about/by a Producer though so I'll dig around and look. RJSch...

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RE: Too Much Creativity, Too Little Everything Else

There is script writing software that takes care of the most of the nit-picky stuff for you. Some of it is even free. RJSchwarz

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RE: How do I approach a SAG actor?

Perhaps when I used the word often I was overstepping because I really don't know. I've read about it in at least two different books. I think more li...

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RE: Too Much Creativity, Too Little Everything Else

"I'm antisocial" - Dren That is going to be a huge problem in the movie business. Filmmaking is a collaborative art, you have to get along with peo...

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