A lot of directing can be sped up with preplanning. Spend the time to make a shot list, and storyboards accurate enough to show how you want things li...
Contact a group of reenactors. They can be extras and have their own uniforms and weapons. Usually they have enough to kit a few extra people who mig...
The only way it is doable is if you go with natural lighting or set up the lights so they work for both people, and then you still have the sound guy ...
I've seen zombies talk, run, die only with headwounds, die only with heartwounds, not die no matter what. I've seen them created by voodoo, by toxic w...
The question on camera price goes to how the end product will be distributed. The difference between a 20,000 and 2,000 camera is non-existant when vi...
Even if the music is in the public domain the folks that played the music still have certain rights so if you use Mozart (who is in the public domain)...
I belielve most people in the film industry are compelled to be there and would probably (or did) work for nearly nothing in order to make films. If y...
That sort of thing is normally left up to the director. HOwever you could simply put at the end of a scenes something like... INT "THE ROOM" - DAY?...
Now they simply put the the next Scene Header, the cut to is implied. William Goldman still uses the cut to from time to time because he believes it ...
Cut To is old style but a few already well known screenwriters continue to use it which probably makes for a miss-match of styles in newer scripts. ...
Okay, first formatting. I don't think CUT TO is used very often anylonger. I also think you should get rid of the fade in fade outs as these mean a lo...
I can't actually speak for the ships but I met the Captain of the Hawaiian Chieftan and he was a good guy. Occasionally they sail to other ports, it m...
I would try the Adobe website. RJSchwarz San Diego, CA
In the SF Bay Area there is a ship called the Hawaiian Chieftan, in San Diego there is the Californian and the HMS Surprise (used in Master and Comman...
Two ways to fake it without CGI. Put two cars together and reverse them rapidly away from the crash site and reverse the film. This works for the l...