I would suggest the following, from what you've written: (1) Get your cowriter buddy to write up a short screenplay. (2) Get a movie camera. Either re...
Lastly with the A-list actor there is often a meet and greet. That is the director (and perhaps producers) and the actor meet to make sure they can to...
There is an old saying, you want it (1) High quality, (2) Fast, (3) Cheap. Pick two out of three. That's the sort of conundrum you're putting yourself...
Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope is a coming of age film in many ways. Luke goes from farmboy to becoming a man. RJSchwarz
Two comments. (1) Lawyers don't write it so simply because if you write ''You pay me for this, I do this for you. Sign here''? there is still the ques...
I think they often just talk and talk and talk about non-related stuff to get the person used to talking. Then shoot. Unless it's an ambush interview ...
I could be understanding this incorrectly but I'm reading this that he wants a telephoto lense, a lense that allows foreground stuff to be in focus wh...
Music has two rights associated with it. The songwriting right and the performance right. You can avoid the performance right by singing your own vers...
I suspect documentary films are out of the realm of expertise for a lot of the filmmakers on this board. Without a qualified answer folks chose not to...
Well one way to do it is to simply make a gif that is the frame size of the FCP screen but with black bars on top and bottom and clear in the center w...
ONce you sell the screenplay, assuming you don't direct, the only creative control you have left is the threat to pull your name off the screenplay. T...
How big a shock? The actor could be yanked backwards by a cable. So they land on a pad. If this is done with an electrical sizzle sound and a look ...
Sounds like a screenwriter to me. Or the kind of Producer that makes screenwriters nuts by having a billion ideas for changes. RJSchwarz
There are two ways of doing it. The first and old fashioned way is to do it as too separate scene headings. EXT. FOREST TRAIL - DAY A woman site...
Dissolve usually means a passage of time but if you dissolve quickly it's just fading in and out and looks nice. It might be fun to use wipes as we...