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Does anyone know how to make the sound quality in a film the same, i have a case of up and down volume setting in the film the editor cant adjust it fully , is there a softw…

Just to clarify what people have said above a compressor will bring down the loud parts of the sound (above a set threshold ) and then make up the level by boosting the signal aft…

...And no it's not a p*rn film. It's a short film and we could would only need the room for an evening. We are willing to pay but do not have a huge budget.

Ibsis hotel say they do but they never actually did in the end with us so we had to improvise as we did not want any hotel to stand against the finished product.

A few weeks ago I was trying to make a post in the Filmmakers Bulletin. I’m a writer director producer (I normally say filmmaker, but I want to be clear here) and I was hoping to …

Has any debate been more muddled than the one current raging furiously on the Screenwriters' Network?

Today my blog provides a handy outline of most of the biggest confusions tha…

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Looking for a reasonable priced mic for this DSLR camera

Anyone else heard about the latest Spielberg film about aliens and robots? It’s called Robocalypse (yes that really is the title) and it’s based on a book which is based on...well…

You know what actually matters?

A good story well told.

Nothing else.

Hi, I'm looking for someone/an agency who takes on the administration of film submissions to various festivals. This might include researching the appropriate festivals, writing t…

Thanks for your insight Martin, having made a feature (btw which looks great upon watching its trailer), and getting or beginning to get into festivals, did you write/create the f…

I have posted on Facebook but I have had no replies yet!!

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Appart from Gumtree and this bulletin, I want to know where can I post or sell my Sony Nex FS100 camera? I bought it 8 months ago and used only 4 times. It is in excellent conditi…

Others can shed light on this, but maybe call hiring companies, given that most of the gear they rent are second hand stuff, worth trying me thinks.

Something that would get sixth formers to attend the cinema as part of the school, boys and girls and nothing 18 thanks

Both of the above are good choices, if I had to pick, i'd go for the Edukators as its feels more relevant to our times, the Wave however is a little edgy but still a good film to …

Basically an artist sent me an email saying he wants to go ahead and take me to court. The deal was
1)Shoot a music video, edit and complete. Unpaid.
2)Edit one video (not direc…

Sorry Ned, but the principle was the fact that you didnt do the paperwork, the situation you are in, is exactly the cause of that. As independent artists, we are obligated to get …

I have an art director on board tasked to achieve dyeing at least five sheep ginger. If anyone out there can point us in the right direction then we'd appreciate your help. We are…

Food dye and henna to make sure it doesn't run in case it rains during the shoot. That would disastrous!

Looking to do a short at a TFL Bus stop but no idea what the rules are etc?

your not going to be stopping traffic nor are you going to be cause disturbances on the pavement with a lot of gear, just film it. I mostly shoot guerilla, with the exception of f…

How can someone claim to be a screenwriter and not like reading screenplays?

I'm sure the average budding novelist has read a thousand novels before attempting his or her first o…

Yeah, sorry, but this is nonsense. Watch any Tarantino movie, and count how
many he steals from (beautifully, by the way). Or if you can't learn something
from reading a William…

Chatting with a development executive friend recently she expressed her long held bewilderment that writers have such low status in the industry, especially compared to directors.…

Here in Los Angeles, that would never happen. Unions have negotiated with one another to arrange the single title card in specific positions. Having said that, the one credit that…

I'm surprised no-one has yet brought this up. Plenty of Shooting writers must have seen it.

If we leave aside the fantastic production design, the superb effects (Guy Pearce's hi…

I haven't seen it. Probably won't, probably wouldn't even if all the reviews had been positive. Though I am the sort of person that can just enjoy a film for what it is and worry …

We're a small crew of 6, we are students and our projects are insured for £5 million. We want to shoot on a location which is gated and locked with 'Danger of Death' signs, howeve…

Need a food delivery service for a 5 day film shoot for 25 people with a £100 a day budget ?

I blogged here http://ravingdaveherman.blogspot.nl/ about dodging the rewrite.

Curious to hear how other people motivate themselves to dive into a serious rewrite, when just get…

Rewrite phobia? Writing IS re-writing. The sooner one accepts that, the better off they'll be.

Often I've read scripts that didn't deserve a second draft, much less a 3rd or 14t…

I am making a documentary about British Blues man Billy Jenkins and would need some of this material. Thank you.

you can get Captain Zip at captainzip2000@yahoo.co.uk, 020 8221 1622, Phil's got some great stuff, John

The frequent discussions that arise on the topic of self-publishing interest me because I, too, have ventured into that field. (See http://godstriangle.com/ plug! plug!). My book …

After publishing 3 books (2 "award-winning" novels and a novella) with a
traditional publisher, I took an idea I had for an original screenplay and
adapted it into a novel, with…

The video is a short music video with a 'spitting image' style puppet of Donald Trump singing Bohemian Rhapsody and was made to highlight the issues surrounding the harassment of …

Thank you, I will have a look at the free festivals, so far all have been quite expensive to enter - I've been entering via the online entries in withoutabox, so haven't needed to…

I have written a fairly hot script for a graphic novel for teens and up which I would like to tie in with a film if possible.

Barefoot Gen

I am in the process of doing research for my dissertation, and i need to find an article i saw on this bulletin ages ago about Pixar's stories being very dark much like the brothe…

Hi Steve,
Have you looked in the bulletin archive? If you can remember what the article or a word/phrase from the post search here: https://shootingpeople.org/bulletin/search

Hi, I want to buy final cut pro. People have warned me off version X. Am I right in thinking final cut studio comes with fcp7 and final cut studio 2 is version fcp6? I'm confu…

Why not consider lightworks? It has a long history for feature films but used to be very expensive. The new company are charging only £40 for the pro version. Pulp Fiction and th…