Anyone else excited about the future of DSLRs?

Zak Forsman said:
you’re going to have to qualify that.
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The real world will do that for you. Opening a dist company creates way more liability than it eliminates (not talking about a coffee shop 'dist' co. for 20 friends either).

If you can make a $5m movie look like a $50m movie you won't have any worries, I know how you like to write and sell stories but I'm lost about anywhere further you have gotten to give non scenes advice.

As far as my insights go you know them, not sure why you bring it up on a public board either.
 
lol. no, i don’t know them. that’s why i’m asking. I do hope the real world starts an account here at dvxuser soon so we can all benefit.

what you know about me is limited to an indie drama i wrote and directed in late 2007 with little understanding of the way things work. I have ambitions that far exceed the microbudgets we’ve been working in and some new developments and new relationships will allow us to begin meeting them. the creative method and microbudget expertise we have are a scalable asset, regardless of genre or marketing hooks. i look forward to shocking everyone when I announce our upcoming slate.
 
Zak Forsman said:
lol. no, i don’t know them. that’s why i’m asking. I do hope the real world starts an account here at dvxuser soon so we can all benefit.

what you know about me is limited to an indie drama i wrote and directed in late 2007 with little understanding of the way things work. I have ambitions that far exceed the microbudgets we’ve been working in and some new developments and new relationships will allow us to begin meeting them. the creative method and microbudget expertise we have are a scalable asset, regardless of genre or marketing hooks. i look forward to shocking everyone when I announce our upcoming slate.
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I hear ya! Glad to hear about your new personal relationships and ambitious projects.

A slate of micro films or $2m+ films?
 
Zak Forsman said:
lol. no, i don’t know them. that’s why i’m asking. I do hope the real world starts an account here at dvxuser soon so we can all benefit.

what you know about me is limited to an indie drama i wrote and directed in late 2007 with little understanding of the way things work. I have ambitions that far exceed the microbudgets we’ve been working in and some new developments and new relationships will allow us to begin meeting them. the creative method and microbudget expertise we have are a scalable asset, regardless of genre or marketing hooks. i look forward to shocking everyone when I announce our upcoming slate.
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Lol, you told me on the phone you knew one of them very well btw.
 
Zak Forsman said:
$2mm to $5mm each.
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I'm confused when you say announce your slate, do you mean that as you have a bunch of scripts with $2-$5m price tags on them that you are looking for buyers or investors or do you mean you already have these funded, cast with attached names and are in production with studio distribution deals?
 
The best of all would be a full-frame CCD sensor with changeable lens mount in an HPX-170 body that shoots AVC-Intra to P2 cards.

I'm sure they could do it at this point, but it'd probably be SUPER expensive.
 
El Mariachi

El Mariachi

Finnegan said:
Ok, allow me to clarify for the sake of logical argument your position. You, Kodjo, are saying that without money to pay for production design, sets, and "the works", a film will always look like a film by the little fat girl from Ohio. Is this correct? If so, allow me to retort.

Tarantino - Reservoir Dogs - $30,000 (initial)
Smith - Clerks - $27,000
Carruth - Primer - $7,000
Peli - Paranormal Activity - $15,000
Rodriguez - El Mariachi - $7,000
Lynch - Eraserhead - $10,000
Nolan - Following - $6,000
Linklater - Slacker - $23,000
Hopper - Easy Rider - $340,000
Raimi - The Evil Dead - $350,000
Miller - Mad Max - $200,000
Romero - Night of the Living Dead - $114,000
Carpenter - Halloween - $325,000
Lucas - American Graffiti - $700,000
Hess - Napoleon Dynamite - $400,000

I could go on for hours. A mountain of evidence refutes the claim that you need money to make good movies. All of these listed movies are sub-million dollar films which have either gone on to gross enormous amounts of money or be given the status of "classic" or "cult-classic", some are even recognized by the film industry and film academics to be of significant cultural or artistic importance. Now tell me, Kodjo, do all these films look like films made by a little fat girl from Ohio with no money to you?
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subtleinspiration said:
I don't know where you got your numbers from, but Reservoir Dogs was 1.2mil. Eraserhead was $20,000 (and not a conventional-type movie at all), El Mariachi had a good chunk of money spent on additional post before it was actually released, and a lot of those movies aren't adjusted for inflation, so that actual value is even more than what you would seem to indicate.
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I think I read somewhere that Eraserhead was actually made for around $100,000. He started off trying to do it for $10,000 but it ballooned up to around $100,000 when completed.

Something to consider is Primer, Knowing and El Mariachi were all shot on 16mm film. This is very important because if you do the math, it would appear most of their budgets all went to film stock and processing and that they begged and borrowed for everything else. For all we know everything else was $1,000 or less, so in our modern era they made a movie for the equivalent of maybe $1,000. That in itself is amazing.

I think if you can give yourself enough time to get over all your technical mistakes and flaws as well as your flaws of telling weak stories that bore people, and still have the same drive and passion to try, then you might have a shot.

I personally feel that all you need is to make a movie with no technical flaws that is not boring but entertaining. I've seen hundreds of indie films and feel it's rarely to never done.
 
Most of the "technical flaws" though (in my experience) are things that are really dumb. Like not nailing down the exposure (being way off, not just a little over or under exposed), recording sound with the onboard mic, really obvious things that people should totally know better, but seem unable to grasp.
 
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