Recent content by JimS2

For a crime thriller script, I would also like to produce myself, I am trying to make changes to save on budget. The theme at the end of the story is how the police detective protagonist feels guilty about getting other people killed and harmed in the third act, such as a SWAT team he was...

I am directing a biographical documentary right now, but the person narrating it, does not speak English very well. It was his and a producer's idea and they just wanted me to direct. However, since his English is not as good, I was thinking maybe it would be better to just suggest to him, to...

The producer is someone who worked on a short film of mine, so I am helping him on his documentary short film in return. However, just when the documentary was almost finished, the host of it, became unavailable now, and could not do the finishing narration. But now the producer is wanting me...

I got a job recording location audio for a feature film, and I am use to using my own equipment. But for this one, they want me to use this particular field recorder. I read the user guide on it, but if anyone knows of any hidden catches I should be aware of that the user guide does not go...

I and a couple of other filmmakers decided to do a mock commercial for fun. We shot it at night which made lighting tough of course, and need to work on that of course. What do you think? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pfykR1219VM&feature=youtu.be

I want to try to make a feature film, but it would be a lot easier to attract actors if they were allowed to wear the masks, while on camera it seems. However, will this look really odd because you want the actors to show their faces and emote? Or will audiences accept this as normal, since...

I and another filmmaker were thinking of putting together some youtube videos where we as filmmakers talk about scenes from movies and we break them down and discuss them. However, whenever I try to upload a clip from a movie to youtube, it always gets blocked for copyright reasons...

Yes, sorry that's what I mean. Well I can just to frame it better. When you say put enable the crosshair of the view finder of the camera, I don't think mine has that option but I can check. Thanks. Does this one look better than the last one I posted?

I want to do a shot as if it were a POV shot of a person looking through a rifle telescope. I googled on if there is a way to do this in camera, but every source that comes up so far talks about how to do it in post. But in post, you can tell that it's animated. I am wondering if there is a...

I wasn't sure if this was the right forum to post this in. If not, I apologize, but here goes. I am shooting a documentary film for someone, and got back from the days shoot to make copies of the footage. When I put the data card in the computer, all that comes up on the card is a file called...

I am shooting a short documentary type film soon, and I have two subjects in the frame, one is quite short, and the other quite tall. The short subject will start off in the shot, and then the tall one will enter later. However, I don't want to give the short one too much headroom for the...

Now that covid is slowing down, I thought I would try and give another try at making a feature film. I don't think I would be able to do it this year, because I need enough time for shooting where the seasons won't change from summer to winter noticeably, of course. But how do other filmmakers...

I was told my script could use more white on the page for readers, because I wrote it so that a lot of the paragraphs don't go over 5 lines. I was advised that nowadays, the paragraphs are more spread out and that I should have a paragraph end after 3 lines tops, thus creating more white on the...

I was acting in a short film where we were not given much direction in terms of blocking. I usually just do what I am told, nothing more, so if a director tells me to sit in the chair, then I will just sit there and perform. Or if they tell me stand, I will just stand on there in that spot and...

I have a documentary style project that I would like to edit, but it's news clips of interviews. I am guessing it's best to avoid jump cutting if I want to skip ahead in the interview. I watched how the news does it for research and I noticed how some news shows will do a 'flash to white' over...