I don't know any links but I have a couple of hints for amateurs. (1) Don't look at the camera unless going for a THE OFFICE style documentary look...
A couple of things. First, when I said it was on obvious choice I didn't mean the ending. I mean money or your life. Giving up the money is the obviou...
Minimal dialogue, try to tell the story in pictures and with music. Write into the screenplay why there is no sound. Perhaps one character blares the ...
Start with the guy staring at a refridgerator full of food. Specifically the milk. He's got whole milk, slim milk, 1%, 0%. He reaches for one, than ch...
Music worked well and the cuts and such were fine but I'm not sure I "get" the picture. Gone, is the person dead, missing, or just whacked out drugged...
One of the best ways is to (a) Copyright it (b) Make it cheap enough that there is no market for pirated versions. Story 1 - VHS was pirated all th...
I had a similar experience, sort of. I wrote some short scenes that took place in a fraternity. I figured I could film them in a day. They were pro-fa...
You could always get a job at a non-chain grocery store. Work your butt off to get known and loved by the owner. Than ask if you can film during the n...
On another thread he said his financing fell through (I think that was Simon_mac). This can happen to anyone and it's too late to undo. You need to us...
Actually I think a lot can be learned, about what is going to cut together, about what is required to tell a story visually, and about how to handle t...
My actors were actually very careful to keep track of their movements and timing which saved a lot of headaches. Beyond that I had a lot of cutaway fo...
Ask to see the manager. Odds are the manager will bump you up to the next level in the chain of command and so on. RJSchwarz San Diego, CA
You have a bit of an advantage now, as you write, consider exactly how you want to do shots and how things will work, and which props and locations yo...
Perhaps those can be fixed frame-by-frame. Either that or use greenscreen to put something in front of the dot, something the action can slip behind f...
Create a layer of all black (or whatever the color surrounding the white pixel is) and create a garbage matte just large enough that the pixel is repl...