The DVX100 has a firewire out port. You need a four-pin firewire cable but once you have that you can dump your content into any Mac (or a PC with fir...
I could be wrong but I think the standard way would be to do something similar to the old arrow through the head trick. The pipe connects to a piece o...
You also have to evaluate how you value your expenses. Are you including your computer and software package as part of your expenses? If you do than h...
The problem with YouTube is over copyright legalities. If you post your video on YouTube the owners of YouTube can redistribute it in any format at an...
Dancer 1 is on the left. Dancer 2 is on the right. You shoot the scene at location 1. You frame the shot to include a section of location 1 where Danc...
Choreograph the timing very, very carefully to the song, ESPECIALLY the moment when one crosses over to the other frame. Have both people dancing i...
Another thing you can do is have your actor suck on some icecubes before entering. You should get the cold breath and it would look better than the sm...
One of the little hoboglins that plagues the work of writers is the effort to get something perfect. A lot of people will work on their first chapter/...
The lesson I learned directing is that Action scenes are hard (at least for me). Get what you think you need and then get it again and again and again...
Crank the AC to make it cold inside or get the guy to take a puff of a cigarette (off camera) and blow it out as he enters to possibly simulate the co...
Apparantly Robert Rodriguez and Frank Miller used Frank Miller's art directly from a few of the Sin City Graphic Novels as storyboards for the Sin Cit...
By example scripts I mean primarily those on the web and that you can purchase which are beyond the point where the WGA numbers would be helpful. I...
Work and cost, that is why DV has caught on so well with indendents. Still film has a certain something that makes it all worthwhile and many swear by...
I have found my best stuff is when I fly through the first draft and get a complete story together before going back through to clean up, remove chara...
Question for the pros out there. Is it common to put the WGA number on a screenplay? The samples I've seen never have it and it seems like pretty much...