need tips from Post to Big Screen?

cheapass said:
I'm going to comment this coming at it from another angle. Even if you completely ignore all technical aspects and edit the movie in whatever software makes you happy, as long as you can shoot out an EDL in CMX 3600 it can be reconformed and colored from the raw materials. If the movie isn't good, it really doesn't matter if you have everything in a cute little DCP since no one will be interested in it. Since you seem like a technical guy (and most of the info you need is already in this thread) I'd take careful note of everything, but don't lose focus on what's most important: story.
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my question refers to what to do AFTER I have an offline final cut of whatever i decide as a good, complete story.
 
I was somewhat more answering the initial poster and skipped over the followup since so many people have thrown around their weight but here we go anyway. My own experience that I'm going through right now is that you should really, really scratch up some money to get people hired that are worthy. It doesn't take that much money to get amazing people attached to your feature. The main thing would be to try preselling rights in various territories through the application of grants. The GIFF has been very good to us. You can find some info here for the next round.

http://www.giff.se/us/industry/goeteborg-international-film-festival-fund-about.html

Also, I would suggest a small business loan as a low interest alternative to credit cards. They require a bit of work to get going, but nothing you can't take care of in a few hours. The loan provider will just want to make sure you can afford the monthly payments. Once you have some cash flow from a loan, you can move the project forward and hire an editor and colorist who know how to tune everything up and get your project out with the best possible look. That's how I stepped in on the feature I just edited. The director has a 2.5 hour offline cut and I brought it around to 94 minutes that we're really very proud of. I was attached on what started as a paid basis, but I insisted on deferring so we could hire some really solid sound folk and a colorist. We're based in Philadelphia and all of our sound people/colorist are in LA with the ADR being done in India as opposed to Bangladesh where the filming took place.

A popular alternative is to use kickstarter. The working formula is to cut an impassioned statement while breaking the 4th wall introducing yourself and your project to some behind the scenes footage and a promo trailer of your piece then a thank you outro. Music is really important so get someone to score something for a few hundred bucks to give your video some real punch.

Hope this is helpful. I'll be posting some info on my blog in a week or so about how to talk business with non-film people to get the ball rolling.
 
I am editing it in Adobe 5.5, and I have a distributor who is willing to provide some funds. I hired a Audio guy, and still editing, once edited I will hire a colorist, upto now my film was shot under $2500, now I will adjust $10,000 to sound,vfx and colorist.(originally my goal was a $0 budget movie) and for story, i worked on that for 3 years before going to production. i am hoping for the best **fingers crossed**, thanks for tips across the board
 
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