Any movie's actual footage in a day?
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Chris Messineo
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This question made me laugh out loud.tinfood said:
Chris
p.s. Are all these questions for real?
Amerikan123
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seriously man, are you kidding? every one of these is negotiable and dependant on so many things that they are utterly unanswerable. sorry
Filmjunkie677
Master of Horror
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Chris Messineo
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Yes and Yes.tinfood said:
9 times.tinfood said:
33 days (except during leap years).tinfood said:
Just a few hours, the rest of the time is just sitting around and laughing with the teamsters.tinfood said:
2 minutes, maybe 3 if there are some heavy duty effects.tinfood said:
Yes, they love to do this.tinfood said:
No, this is not allowed, because of the Taft Hartley Act of 1924.tinfood said:
Absolutely. Does the name Sylvester Stallone ring a bell?tinfood said:
Unfortunately, that is exactly what they are all like.tinfood said:
I hope that helped.
Chris
tinfood said:Hello guys (new to this forum).
how long would a high budget movie take to film?
ok by that i have a few questions to break down:
tinfood said:
A 90 minute movie would shoot over 45 days based on that ... not a bad estimate. Some low budget features shoot in a couple of weeks or over a couple of years. Studio pictures take about as long as you mentioned but some are quicker and some take six months or more Eyes Wide Shut took a year os something, Million Dollar Baby took 3 weeks .... as for not having ANY footage ... if you are in production (not post or pre) you should have footage unless you took off to build a set or wait for weather or something ... not having any footaga on a day where you are supposed to be shooting is not seen as the norm or something that happens now and then but a big mistake that's wasted lots of time and money.
As many times as it takes for you to do it honestly, at the pace the director thinks approriate, and to nail your character arc at that point in the story. As for angles? Some directors like M. Night cover a scene with one angle. Other's like Tony Scott use 5 or 6 angles at once and do 2 or 3 setups of the scene. Some directors do one or two takes, some do twenty. This question is really impossible to answer based on the criteria you've given.
Impossible to answer ... what movie? Some do it all in a couple of months. Some take 4 years.
again -- really hard to answer. I guess most commonlt you spend 12-18 hours on set and do somewhere between 2 and 12 pages.
Impossible to answer. Keep in mind the spectrum of movie making encompasses Dogma 95 (use only available light and a single camera) and complex make-up FX and SPFX driven movies. How big is your crew, how much gear do you have? What special FX? How long does it take you to get dressed?
er ... yes and no. Your agent could submit a script to universal and they would give himr or her cash and they would keep 10-20% and give you the rest. ... but that's selling a screenplay.
In terms of handing you cash for a movie ... not really ... not unless you have a couple of killer screenplays ready to go and you have made one or two killer shorts and have an agent ... then the agent may broker a deal where you direct 1 or 2 pictures and write 2 or more, but the studio is not going to give you money and let you do what you want under those circumstances - it will be their film more or less.
Its called product placement and its why ET loved Reeses Peices. But Hershey is not going to give you thousands of dollars ... maybe your uncle Sal's Pizzaria will give you a couple of hundred ... but ... not likely.
lol .... your questions seem to assume there is a rule book with set rules. All of this depends on the deals made and who is financing the film. If you and your uncle Sal are then sure go ahead and be in it. If you sell your screenplay or get someone interested in making it, you being in it or directing it will be a deal breaker or not -- in other words part of the negitiation. Several studios were interested in Rocky (the first one) but Stallone insisted on directing and starring in it. I think he had done some small parts as an actor (can't remember) but he had never directed before. Door after door was slammed in his face for not allowing someone else to direct and star, but he stuck to his guns and finally someone agreed to let him direct and star (he was lucky could have turned out just as easily that you woulda never heard of him or Rocky)
Sometimes, and sometimes like with Tony Scott they are silly class clowns to the actors while being short with the crew. Are all Highschool Principles mean? Are all bondes dumb? Being a director is a leadership position and every individual has a different approach just like every U-Boat commander, every head of the high school cheerleading squad, every president, police chief, minister, class president etc. And some succeed inspite of poor interpersonal skills but damned if I can tell how.
Chris Messineo
Veteran
Jack,
Why did you have to go and get all serious?
Chris
Why did you have to go and get all serious?
Chris
Dude I laughed too :grin:
But the guy was so naive I felt he needed some clue at least to get started learning about this stuff.
And I typed all that while you guys were making fun of him so I didn't know I was jammin the flow when I hit post.
My biggest lol was
and I liked your answers better than mine, Chris :laugh:
Good luck tinfood :thumbsup:
But the guy was so naive I felt he needed some clue at least to get started learning about this stuff.
And I typed all that while you guys were making fun of him so I didn't know I was jammin the flow when I hit post.
My biggest lol was
and I liked your answers better than mine, Chris :laugh:
Good luck tinfood :thumbsup:
Moving this to the cafe.
good call Isaac :thumbsup:
you closed your own thread ...
what does your friend think ... i.e., what's he contending? That Unversal will give you a million dollars to shoot and star in feature shot in one day in one take with no setup?
and if there was a bet do we get a percentage?
tinfood said:topic closed
see below.
ps. wow thats fast
lol, :laugh:tinfood said:
you closed your own thread ...
what does your friend think ... i.e., what's he contending? That Unversal will give you a million dollars to shoot and star in feature shot in one day in one take with no setup?
and if there was a bet do we get a percentage?
Brandon Rice
Distributed Producer
Read some books, and go shoot a short film.
Jack Daniel Stanley said:
I knew this guy that worked in the mall back home in Georgia?
He walked around telling everyone that he had a deal going through with Universal for one of his scripts.
So, I pushed on... "really!?! That's so cool. Is the script finished?"
"Yeah, completely done. I'm looking at thirty million."
"......... How many pages is it?"
"Fourty pages."
I then proceeded to eat my chicken salad.
Brandon Rice
Distributed Producer
Lolololol!
Larry Rutledge
Fest Master
They probably plan to trim that down in re-writes.Kholi said:
Was it a chicken SALAD, or a chicken salad SANDWICH?Kholi said:
Larry Rutledge
Fest Master
Kholi said:
Was the Chicken crispy or the salad?
J/K I love a good salad and Chicken just makes it all the better!
Kholi said:
LOL!