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Men - facial hair (not stippled, but real hair), well-toned or bulkier (no baby fat looks), no designer clothes (only high school kids wear predominantly label clothes. College students are notoriously poor, and can't afford that stuff) Women - no baby fat, well-endowed (will sell the illusion...

Best bets: -Approach the film like a business. Create a business plan that includes the script breakdown, a line-item budget, an ideal production schedule, signed contracts from interested talent. Get the business aspects in line first. If you are going to people, let them know that they are...

Regardless of whether you are shooting at a public or private university, it doesn't matter. Fair Use rules (in regard to anything captured on film -- not necessarily previously-shot footage which may be available for free) ONLY apply if you are developing a project under a not-for-profit...

IF you are working in Premiere, you should be able to bring up all of your footage in the Capture window and play back with the standard controls -- you don't need to capture and digitize your footage just to play it back. You can review it straight from the tape on your computer in APP. I...

On getting permission from people who were interviewed in a television interview, you would only have to get permission from the station that did the interview itself. Once those people agreed to be on television, they gave full rights and permissions to the station to do what they wanted with...

Sounds like your pC has the file directory data, but not the file itself. You are either going to have to get the final movie files downloaded to your PC, or saved to an external hard-drive that you both can work on. If you were networked, you could work off the same data system. This does...

The key to getting a job on the set of your favorite director is really just to get on any set. Assuming you are working in the same city where your fav director does a lot of their work, remember that everybody knows everybody. All the grips have worked on films with guys from other crews...

This isn't the best time to try and sell a script anyway. With the WGA on strike, producers are falling back on their overstocked ideas, agents are firing clients, and writers aren't writing. It's just a bad time in the market to try and look for Hollywood help for new writers.

So, here's the situation. I'm not a self-proclaimed guru of cinematography by any means, but I can certainly hold my own. Just give me a nice B&H kit, a Cartoni tripod, and a gel kit, and I can make stuff look pretty good. Problem, however, is I don't have money to get a light kit for a...

Okay, a short anecdote - I just got off a music video, shooting on 35mm, as Key Set PA. On the last night before wrap, the sun is setting and everybody is scatterbrained and rushing to find our Key Wardrobe, but it was not to happen. I get on the walkie and call, "Out to All Crew. Do we have...

So the reason 28 Days Later did well was because the characters were more fully developed? I'm not sure about that, but we can go with it. The truth is, what makes zombie movies different from other zombie movies are the characters. So, kickmagnet, you are half-correct. In Shaun of the Dead...

Holocaust victims coming back as zombies...hmm...sounds very sacriligious to me. If you think you can pull it off, bon chance. The only real way to set your movie apart from other zombie movies is not in the story, but the gore factor. Besides, nobody goes to a zombie movie for the story -...

The Austin Film Festival is a very teen-friendly festival.

Film school is just an expensive way to make contacts. Every person I speak with that went to film school (not even necesarily graduated) said the only thing they learned in film school is how to make and use contacts. I did one year of film school. One of my friends graduated from the same...

When you're writing your treatment, don't feel compelled to stick to characterizations. A treatment is simply the prose-form of the story: it's the action in the movie. Now, this changes depending on if you're doing a one-sheet, a short treatment, a long treatment, or a mixed treatment (where...

Say it to yourself. If it sounds weird in your head, it definitely sounds weird coming from your mouth. Get some actor friends and ask them to do a read through. Ask co-workers and fellow students for comments, and beg them for criticism.

I'm a big fan of Axium Entertainment Software. They have separate Budgeting and Scheduling software. It is also very compatible with FinalDraft software, and lets you drop a script into the program, and will shoot out scenes, characters automatically, do breakdowns straight from script. Also...

There are two arguments: To open with a voice-over is a crutch if: - It describes the action going on on-screen. - It is cliche, "My name is John Doe, and I hate my life." - It describes something that could be shown instead of said. - The dialogue is boring, tepid, and unoriginal. To open...

In a script, it doesn't matter. Nobody sees the script except for the producers. Now, if it actually shows up on screen - that could potentially be a problem. For instance, if you said "Zippo," that reflects a very specific image. Zippo does not hold the only patent on flip-top lighters, but...

Check out the Seattle Jewish Film Festival (going on this week), and go to the Seattle Film Festival, coming up in June.