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Or you could have the camera on a tripod, film, stop everything, have the actor walk offscreen, and then start everything back up and do something in post. I like the effect of a flash of light for teleportations, personally. To be honest, when someone glitters when they teleport it just looks bad.

That's a gorgeous shot, David. If it were to dolly/track down the stairs it would be even better, but I'm thinking that that would be hard to tripleshoot. Interesting note: in Monty Python's Life Of Brian, in the scene where there are thousands of people watching a preacher on a rock, and the...

For the two people standing far apart thing, you have a few issues. 1: Focus. Use deep focus so that everything is clear, so one person isn't clear and the other blurry. 2: Lighting. If one character has a stripe of light across his chest while the other character doesn't have it where it...

A good idea is to put the plot in detail down on paper. Have all the major scenes there, and then decide how you'd like to organize them, and write the script with this in mind. Example: Movie A man goes to Las Vegas. He accidentally kills a hooker. He meets a group of people who can help...

Re: At least you're writing Re: At least you're writing I edited this to make it readable (paragraphs), because it has good things to say.

To be honest, the dialogue came off as fairly flat. In the beginning, the characters were not doing anything interesting, nor were they discussing anything interesting, and this basically carries on through the whole thing. The first scene is pretty good, where he's waking up, but the bit where...

Well, you can always print on newspaper paper. It's sort of cheap, brown-ish paper, easily torn. That works.

My digital camera (a model I'm going to assume yours is similar to) lets me choose the frame rate from a small selection. Dropping the frame rate, I believe, to just below the television's, gets rid of the cascading, but then the image may be somewhat choppy. If you go higher, that may work...

I'm not saying you actually have to make the film, but this is a fun way to create ideas.

I think he's talking about stuff like CUT TO: EXT. BUILDING, DAY Birds scatter, then SPLITSCREEN, birds against building on right, bird against clouds on left. CUT TO: EXT. AIRPORT DAY Montage of planes taking off.

I got to chase an actor down an alley with a camera on a dolly, I shot the same actor walking down the alley with the dolly, and then I played with the dolly while my actors ate lunch and produced about thirty Dolly Zooms of that alleyway. Dolly zooms are fun to make. Then I made more dolly...

This is actually something we kind of did in our film class, where each group drew one of 100 songs out of a hat and we had to make either a film inspired by it, or a music video of it. For example, my group drew "She's Too Good For Me", thus, we created a short film in which a guy fantasizes...

If you want to be crafty, take some lamps, take the shades off, and make tinfoil light directors, making a cup around one half of the bulb so most of the light goes in one direction. Then, get one or more layers of wax paper and stick it to some two-by-fours to make a screen that diffuses the...

That's very cool to see. I'd like to see more of this kind of thing.

I don't know if they neccessarily need to go in that order, but I do know that if you don't pay attention to any one of those your film will be ruined. I forgot to pay attention to sound during my last film (high school movie), and when I put it together on the computer I realised that my chest...

Interesting. Needs work, mostly on your writing skills. Creating believable dialogue can be hard. Practise practise practise. Also, when doing action, try to keep in the present tense. No "He set the pen down and walked out into the hallway, and thought about the pineapple sale". Instead, "He...

Am I the only one who feels this way about trailers? I hate them, and I avoid them at all costs. An example: I happen to be a massive fan of Paul Thomas Anderson's "Punch-Drunk Love". I saw this at a local art theater only three months ago, and of course loved it. Last night I went out and blew...

What are some of your favorite shooting locations? You know, top five or ten. Mine are... 1) Shopping market (the brightness of it, and the "smooth" texture in general) 2) Bowling alley (I love the symmetry of bowling lanes) 3) Libraries (I love the symmetry of the stacks) 4) Hotels (full of...

I did the same thing once. The character had a key in his pocket. What I did was take a shot of his pocket, and a shot of the key with some lint and a couple dollars arranged in such a way that they might be in a pocket, and superimposed it over the pocket, at something like 75 percent opacity...