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Producer looking into developing camera skills needs suggestions please.

Talkinglens Academy in association with the prestigious White Cloth Gallery, Leeds are providing, for the first time in Yorkshire, a range of specialist intensive short media cour…

Do you have any horror stories about your experiences at any film festivals, if so we would like to hear from you

My short film, THE WRITER'S MUSE, won best short in the 2010 Pocono Mountains Film Festival and I had a great time over the 3-day fest, so I felt pretty comfortable submitting my …

Panasonic site only offers it in Chinese - googling produces a mass of dead-ends, so any tips very welcome.
(Working in N.Kenya to mentor a great pair of young film-makers; brou…

Susi please check your Gmail inbox. ive sent it but there was a problem attaching it. so if you can open it and check that it's working. Btw be prepared as London is in a cold sna…

I do a lot of time-lapse, and I'm looking for suitable bird's eye views of London.

Anyone able to help?

very nice, but £220 an hour?

Actually I'm looking for something a lot closer to town. For 3D you should ideally use 20mm lenses, which means having to be very close to your subje…

how do you film a pole dancer, dancing I would like to film it like 'tales of the unexpected' my camera does film in sillohette..cheers sally

Forgot to add.. Light your back wall too (white walls) & make sure your subject is far enough so no light spills on them. However id green screen it, if you have the facilitie…

I'm looking to hire a Canon XF100 for the last week of Feb to use to shoot in London some promotional comedy sketches and to them to then approach TV Comedy commissioning Editors …

Many thanks for the links John, greatly appreciated. Kindest regards Ray Brady

I'm hoping to film a documentary there so anyone with experience of producing and filming there would be useful. Local contacts would be useful too for established crew. Will also…

Hey Brendan,

To add to this offering of help...!

I'm a cameraman, slowly but surely building a second life here in Brazil. I'm building a house in Paraty, in the state of Rio. I…

Not looking necessary for an underpass or tunnel but even something that can substitute it like a pub cellar, disused building back of a theatre etc. Thank you again!

Ps there's several clubs and bars underneath the tunnels at Waterloo, vauxhall and London bridge, like Cable. Club owners can be surprisingly receptive if a) you promise not to im…

Also looking for camera crew. Inspiring musical doc. Any suggestions

The basics of budgeting are the logistics of the shoot. If away from home, accom, food, travel are actually a lot more expensive than most people expect, and the lower the budget,…

Looking for some decent indie film podcasts out there as most of those flagged up in the past now have tumbleweeds rolling through their RSS feeds. Any suggestions?

I listened to loads. The most helpful for me was Film Method by Cindy Freeman. Informative and intelligent - from the business of starting a film all the way though to distributio…

Why isn't Skype used more often for auditions/castings? Why should actors be expected to spend perhaps two or three hours travelling to an audition, which could be done just as ea…

At the Nancy Bishop film acting workshop I went to in Prague, she said that a lot of actors she teaches now send in video reels with what the CD has asked for and often get cast t…

Just helping to submit a short film of a SP member and want to see the festivals we can can discount as members. Thank you !

Hi Elena,
We don't have a list on the site of festival submissions because they change so frequently but you can have a look in our bulletin archive here: www.shootingpeople.org/…

Hello Shooters,

We have recently acquired permission from a musician to use music from his album in our short documentary. The documentary will be available online and will also…

http://www.prsformusic.com/users/productionmusic/Documents/ProductionMusicRateCard2013.pdf

In practice I've cleared rights for FREE (ok, a credit) from friends for non commerci…

We have a well put together concept + we shot a teaser for TV show that easily can be transformed into a web-series. We need a professional advise on how to pitch it to TV network…

The best thing to do I would say is too look at a particular TV network's guidelines on commission. Most information can be found on their websites. I know channel 4 (In the UK) o…

Hey all,

Have been doing a lot of research to find out the answer to this and trying it myself but seem to be getting no-where.

In March I want to travel to the US to make a doc…

Hi James, how about searching on line for places where you could buy a gun in America? There are gun shops all over especially where there is good hunting. That should get you ple…

could you help me to find out the correct camera mesurements for

medium close ups
wide shots
mid shots

thanks guys xx

I do a lot of 3D time-lapse, and I'm looking for suitable bird's eye views of London.

Anyone able to help?

Cheers!

Places like that charge £100+/hr. Time-lapse will take several hours... :-(

Happy New Year!

September 2012 I invoiced a production company for the camera operating job on their feature film. The contract that I was given on request stated that my invoice…

It could just be that he can't pay as he has no money, and any income from distribution has firstly to go to pay preferential creditors, ie VAT or tax etc. but he should at least …

We at Dresden Pictures are trying a crowd created film called Mini-Fitz as part of our feature film 'The Fitzroy' (www.thefitzory.com). We've had a mixed response in terms of crow…

Hi James,

Good luck with the project, I perused your sites and you definitely got my interest :) Small note, the fitzroy URL is misspelt above (I copy-pasted and got an error), y…

There was a temple there and I wondered if anyone was interested in a film project/documentary? Would help if you had some equipment too.

I am looking for funding for a short film whose story features communications technology and am thinking of approaching a commercial company in that area for sponsorship. Am als…

Hi Rob,
Many thanks for this. I have a meeting later today with my producers, where we will discuss and get back to you and take up your kind offer of advice please if we have …

Need are fairly large bedroom for a music video shoot in mid Jan. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.

Hi there,

Happy New Year to everyone, hopefully it'll be a good one!

I'm an editor with 15 years experience and I've just moved to London a couple of months ago. Most of my expe…

Thanks Virginia,

I appreciate that, I'll get in contact with them.

Peter

I am a director and screenwriting, seeking work in Edinburgh. I have recently moved from LA and am available to work as a crew member on movie/TV productions and alike.

Hey, this is a great Scotland Based website, not just jobs but other opportunities and training etc too. http://opportunities.creativescotland.com/

I am on the look out for an interesting location to film a performance-based music video*. Something like an old (victorian?) theatre or music hall, or even just a disused indust…