Ask the director/producer/editor...

[Lightbulb]

... about writing, producing, directing, shooting and editing low budget independent films on DV and low format film.

Probably.

[skalie]

Where can we see something you've written, produced, directed, shot or edited?

[Mudflap]

<FONT COLOR="Orange">Could I borrow your "casting couch" for about 20 minutes?</FONT c>

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[MAC]

I had a teacher in school who had the equipment to do films in super VHS.

What's the basic process like nowadays?
How has it changed with the advent of digital cameras?
Viewing, splicing, sound, etc.


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[Lightbulb]

Skalie:

You can see a short film I wrote, produced and edited here. (http://www.paranoidfilms.com/)

It began as a stage play. I'm not so happy with it, because the director failed utterly to grasp any of the subtlety in the story whatsoever.

It's also quite old - thus less well crafted.

Here, (http://www.complexity.org/brothers/peek/) on the other hand is something I recently wrote and directed myself, which is a promo for a television series. Those are roughcuts, but you get the idea.

Mudflap:

It's overrated. Web-cam girls are the new starlets, and they've already compromised themselves.

theMAC:

The two routes to film-making at the low end of the budget these days are either to shoot on 8mm or 16/Super16 film and then edit offline in a digital suite, or to shoot on digital media and edit directly, for transfer back to 35mm or video projection.

In the last ten years the process has evolved sufficiently to allow me to make a recent short on DV (last month), with a digital camera, edit the thing at home on my Mac, mix sound and output the whole final short back to tape. The process is completely digital and therefore there is no loss of quality throughout the whole of the post production.

At the moment, regardless of whether I'm working on film as a source, and then editing offline, or working directly from digital footage, I use a Mac, a firewire drive and a seletion of editing packages (Final Cut, EditDV, After Effects etc) in conjection with Cubase (for sound mixing). What scares me is that I can now do this all on a laptop.

Let me know if you want me to go into greater detail.


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[MAC]

The next George Lucas will be a guy on a bench with a laptop. http://www.thehypertribe.net/ubb/smile.gif

(I don't know why I picked bench)

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[skalie]

<BLOCKQUOTE><HR>Originally posted by Lightbulb:
Skalie:

You can see a short film I wrote, produced and edited here. (http://www.paranoidfilms.com/)

It began as a stage play. I'm not so happy with it, because the director failed utterly to grasp any of the subtlety in the story whatsoever.

It's also quite old - thus less well crafted.
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Not that you asked for criticisms, but I have to say I enjoyed that short film immensely, closest thing to watching TV that I've done in a long time. Reminded me of channel 4 on a sunday evening.

The more recent stuff wouldn't play as I got realy angry with quicktime a while ago and gave it the boot from my PC.

I've been dicking around a little with DV, but I found that as soon as I tried to add subtitles or music everything started going weird.

Using......basic firewire card, a cheesy JLIP editor. Would you say that a more dedicated card like 'Studio DV' by Pinacle or something similar, (I'm talking about 100 quid for so for a more hardware orientated doofer), could possibly raise the chances of me producing something a little more exciting than the holiday style vids I'm currently producing?

(I'm running 500 mhz PIII, about 200 mb ram)

[skalie]

<BLOCKQUOTE><HR>Originally posted by Lightbulb:
What scares me is that I can now do this all on a laptop.
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Scares you? Too much control, too many possibilities, no chance to say "I can't do that"?

Scares me, lending from your meta-bio-brain thread, I sometimes think my processors too slow, my random access memory is a bit jumbled, I could do with a larger hard drive and I'm prone to crashing at important moments.