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OK, wow. I was just going to leave this thread alone, but I can't. Since I lecture on camera placement at NAB and film schools, this odd way of selecting shots kind of hurts my heart a bit. This is too vast a subject to get into on a forum, but camera placement should be, above all else...

Dear appleguy, You've asked a huge question that's not easily answered in a forum. A little of my background: early on in my career I was pegged as someone who could "save" a movie. This is crap, of course. You can only make something badly written, directed or acted only slightly better. But...

Re: Scale Re: Scale Carole, I think he was asking just about actors, not the whole crew. SAG has different contracts available depending on the budget of your film. But scale is the same whether you're a movie star or an actor with one credit. To avoid problems, I'd certainly go with the SAG...

Re: How to get money for your project Because there's a difference between a capital investment and stock. If you formed a "C" corporation and sold stock to fund your movie, you could approach as many people as you like. (Other corp. models like "S" limit the number of shareholders you can...

Good lord, $10 is pretty cheap. Surely there is someway you can find an extra $100 bucks! Why don't you try contacting some of the smaller acting schools. Maybe in exchange for letting their students audition, they'll give you the space for the day. The instructor could even make a "How to...

Here's an answer from a New York Attorney, Warren Goz about shooting a documentary in public: Implied Consent The answer depends on two things: the context in which the subject is filmed and the laws of the state where the subject is being filmed. There are four distinct kinds of invasion of...

I'd like to expand on Bryants answer: The amount of bodies in a room affects the sound, so room tone should be collected at the time of the shoot with everybody being completely silent. I've worked on films where we had to loop some sound between the slate and "action" because the tone collected...

Hi Tama, While I haven't worked as an editor in a long while, I'm still pretty plugged into the scene, and I've never heard of Advanced Cinema Post. Are you sure you got the name right? Dan

Hey, it was the depleted endowment and the Chandler's that paid my way through! ;=) Holy Moly! $20,000 a year WITHOUT Mackendrick! Everyday better be like Christmas in the equipment department. Dan

sounds like it's time to hit up schools in Canada! Calarts has really changed since I went. I was up there to visit with Kris Malkiewicz a while back, and I couldn't believe the mass of students! I think the year I was accepted, there were only 35 slots open for the film school. It's great that...

Wow, I didn't even know about your classifieds. Very Cool. Dan

The easiest thing to do is ask the rental house where you are renting your equipment. They deal with production insurance all the time and they know who they like, who pays with no hassle, who doesn't. I'm assuming you don't want the complete package like completion insurance, actor's getting...

Temerson is SO right! An LLC might be a lousy way to go or a great way to go. Make sure you consult a TAX attorney for any incorporating you'll be doing, and clearly define jobs of the officers involved to keep all of you friends. An S corp might be better for taxes, but you really have to do a...

If it's anything like here in the U.S., a production company is just like any other business. Start with your local city government to see what kind of license, taxes, and other permits you'll need. In Los Angeles for example, I need a city business permit, a resellers permit, a DBA (doing...

Why don't you shoot me an e-mail off forum, and I can probably point you in the right direction once I know more details about your project.

I'm not an actor, so I can't say with personal experience, but the Howard Fine studio seems to have a good rep. Your first stop should be the Samuel French Book Store. It is chock full of actors. Just start asking! Dan

It's a good idea to have someone that has directed a feature. As far as the politics of a set is concerned, shorts and features are 2 different worlds. You don't want a director that angers crew members out of ignorance of the process (see project greenlight, season 2!). Dan

Kim, yes, that's my imdb, incomplete as it is. When you re-do other people's hard work, you don't see a credit for that. And there's a whole slew of Canon films I assisted on that are not there. Anyway, my first feature film editing job was on a bad horror flick, and once the director's contract...

Mr. Mullen is right of course. But I also think the skills can be easily acquired, creativity and film grammar is a bit more slippery. I started out as a gaffer and eventually moved to camera operator on commercials before attending Calarts live action film program. Most of what I learned...

We can't list books on the forum unless they are StudentFilmmakers.com approved advertisers, but if you e-mail me I have a couple of suggestions. Dan@dvcameraRigs.com