One more big mistake. Sound equipment. When I started my movie i got the film students advice and bought a camera, but I leaned on the film students t...
There have been other threads specifically on auditions. It really depends upon your location. Big city vs small town. Personally I found that team...
My personal opinion is that it is far better to look amateurish on this board than in front of cast and crew. When in doubt, even if you're pretty sur...
I had the help of a lot of my friends when I made my movie. A few of them not at all, or they unintentionally gave me stress by frequent requests for ...
Go to YouTube and search for greenscreen and how-to and you should find a bunch of stuff. The basics. Have the screen a distance behind your actors. L...
There were a three big mistakes during my pre-production. First, I hired one of the main actors without an audition, based on my producers word tha...
A couple of ways. (1) Hire an expert and let him tell you how to do it safely. (2) Use a computer generated character and animated flames. (3) Do it w...
Sides would be in standard script format. At least the ones I cooked up from my own screenplay were. I figured the actors would be more accustomed to ...
Some people are creative. Ideas pop into their heads left and right and the problem is sorting them out. YOu have a problem, well I'm not sure how you...
Sides are just a short section or two of script. Usually dominated by one character so that the actor can read for that character while you or someone...
You should do as much as you can to filter it out naturally. If you can get to the site again try to capture some ambient noise without the humm. E...
Find a way to add some character saying "What's that damn noise? My ears are humming." and go along with the scene as if the humm was intentional. ...
You probably should get the screenplay done first. If you don't finish that you could be wasting everyones time. If you are confident that you'll g...
Yeah, you can try Craigslist but your chances of getting any non-college based actors is probably slim so i wouldn't waste time with a Magazine ad. Fe...
Also what city are you in? Some cities are overflowing with actors willing to work for free to get credits and notice. Others might have a very limite...