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Wacky stuff I liked it- Very creative and surreal. I laughed more than a few times- that baby came out of nowhere! Hilarious. Keep making these they can only get even better.

Now change the...

These are seperate issues- dialog that sounds like real people and that reveals character. Keep in mind movie/drama dialog is not real , its the illusion of real speech.

Anyways......

It...

this is alright for what it is, you might be limiting yourself unnecessarily; you don't have to emulate old movies to shoot a black and white silent film. Black and white "works" because it cleans...

ultimately its amazing that otherwise intelligent people, whose business is, essentially, making art, have not figured out that subject matter, tone, and form/execution are separate artistic...

ps the pic you did below is not a terrible composition-- its actually quite decent. thats why im not using camera movement right now, and focusing on learning to get well composed not moving shots.

I know diddly squat about image quality and have no idea how to grade my stuff. My movies will likely continue to
look like cheap video for a while. So be like me and worry about that stuff...

that's cool, I say put your wildest stuff in the trailer that's what trailers are for no? like in the Batman '89 trailer when the batmobile goes through that wall after shooting it and then jack...

kewl still think u need one with a monster but this does have a certain verite vibe

also, needs blood spatter she could be hiding from the paparazzi

yeah, I posted that movie as an example of the "scale" of production if you will-- shot in peoples apartments, telling a simple tale with a few characters and exploitation elements, etc. Its...

is the edit locked on this? I don't think you went FAR ENOUGH. Its a combo concert and ART FILM, and lets see.. you got the slowy down bits, some impressionsitic video-ish bitty-bit stuff, which...

the guy who did these is a pretty good designer, but..... top ones the best by far (second ones weakest- no contrast between figure/ground size). I'm still :( :( :( there's no clear monster in two ...

thanks for all the ideas, yall.

About turning it into a thriller, that's not a bad idea, but I must state my firm belief that the GENRE and TONE of a movie have nothing to do with its quality. ...

food for thought: horror movies often have christian undertones- Frankenstein pays for trying to create life, those that deal in occult forces usually pay with life and soul, and even slasher movie...

actual dvx100A user here (yeah, I know- shudder)....whenever I've toyed with shooting contre-jour / into the sun whatevers, Ive had to stop down mucho-much, even with the 1/64 filter on, so much that...

This is soulless, perverse, quite stupid, and flat out wrong-- its amazing that anyone involved in movie-making would think that this could work reliably. Story elements interact and intertwine, so...

Funny you mentioned that-- Blood Simple (and the Cohens as a whole) is a huge influence on me-- stark, raw, minimalist imagery is what I'm going for...im taking test shots to come up with a high...

In regards to moving furniture, I did get a little lucky on this shoot- the couch was already in the center of the room (something movies and tv do as a matter of course), with the dvds behind (we...

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take a deep breath, dvxuser.....

This is true, these movies are usually made by the brain-dead. I think they keep making them
simply...

Im gearing up to do my first no-budget horror feature, I'm barely ready for it but want it to be my big learning piece and Im gonna jump in the deep end of the pool and flail my arms like crazy. I...

I haven't done a short where the story and lighting really gelled (lots to learn, huh?), so I
don't post my movies. I did post a frame here tho--- I ain't genius or nuthin', but its a
girl, a...

Dude that's enough of you- youre gonna put me in the crazy house....


Im basically giving you a lil' course in cinematic picture making and youre fighting me on it. Hopefully someone else gets...

Dude, you're killin' me.


I ALREADY TOLD YOU HOW TO SPICE IT UP.


It's called.....PICTURE MAKING BY PLACEMENT OF THE CAMERA.....ALSO KNOWN AS CINEMATOGRAPHY.....ALSO KNOWN AS......

no-budget art direction tip: google "office" or "police precinct" etc. try differnet wording ...look at LOTS AND LOTS of pictures, then get some idea of what you need, the broad strokes, to...

alright, very good. I'm glad you mentioned this. Now we are getting somewhere.

there are many, many, many approaches to (any) art. Yes, there are some directors or DPs that would feel that you...