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Hello Again,

You've probably all seen my post by now, but I just wanted to let you know for New Years, I'm offering a special discount on my services, if you want a treatment or …

As a freelance film maker there are lots of things I can claim as expenses for tax. I'm wondering though if I make a short film which is self-funded, can i claim all the expenses…

This post happened three years ago! The responses were excellent. I would add however that people ought not be quite so kow towing to the erroneous presumption of the powers of H…

i Guys

Just wondering if anyone is interested in a treatment, script and scheduling advice service? I've been offering these services for a few months now and have had great feed…

If anyone else is looking for any helps with development of shooting schedules feel free to drop me a message,

Happy Christmas!

This is a reminder / advice for filmmakers, directors, producers out there.

This might sound biased coming from a sound engineer, but then again, who else would know more about t…

Its not just not planning for sound its often using the wrong sound equipment as well. In our early days in the 90's we used all sorts of poor quality low cost fit on camera mics …

Hi,

We are looking for a producer / production company to partner with, who has experience filming live theatre for release in cinemas. We are an opera company based in West York…

Tim - I'm curious to know , now that the dust has settled on this discussion and some time has passed, what you thoughts/conclusions are on the style and approach to take?

Did yo…

Need a cursory intro before I get my hands dirty...Thanks.

Cheers Paddy

I'm looking for two funding partners with a bit of spare cash to put in £1500 each into a film with a budget of £4500. I'll be putting up the other third myself. Six day schedule,…

I am putting together a film pack in order to sell a feature film project. I need to understand the target audience that my film might attract. I have a rough idea of who might se…

You pick 10 films with stories an genre similar to yours that made a profit. Start there. But be careful, if it's a spy film, don't add James Bond to your list. That's pretty obvi…

I'm looking for a total of £5000 to make a feature length drama project, producer credit and almost any involvement you wish,
plus a good percentage of gross income.

I've now got the budget down to £4,500 with a six day schedule. Have got one third of the funding and am looking for two people who would be interested in covering one third each.…

Is anyone in the UK looking for a first time DOP to shoot, light and sound? I have over 2 years experience in short adverts and documentary. I have become increasingly interested …

I am in i ve got sci fi script mostly..

I've seen that often in ads for low/no pay. 'it will be fun', 'it will be a fun project'. I think I have a different definition of fun. My fun is not working for free for 12 hours…

If FUN means enjoyment then fun in that context has a variable value that differs from individual to individual. I'll always take, with a big pinch of salt, any advert that seeks…

I was chatting with a screenwriting friend about what kind of storytelling we might see emerge with VR, and he said that maybe we've seen it all before...

https://www.youtube.com…

That's the problem. I'd rather be a passive observer.
Maybe there something immersive on a deeper level about that..?

Hi Guys,

I have posted a couple of times and had great feedback and questions from you guys, so I just wanted to throw it out there again,

Just wondering if anyone is intereste…

Hi Sherice

I'd be interested talking to you about this. Please email me: toby1kenoby@yahoo.com.

Cheers
Toby

Ave Maria, a woman's decent into schizophrenia. Pools of deceipt, a detective drama, could be noirish. Harem Life, daily life in the Ottoman harem of 1784, needing only one turkis…

Please email me:
stephen@zelicafilms.co.uk

I'm keen to work with others to gain more set experience in different environments but I'm unable to work for free. I have been applying for some expenses and low paid work on her…

In honesty, agencies won't be a lot of help for paid runner work. The reality is that more people want paid runner work than there are jobs, which is why you're running up agains…

Anyone got any good Korean translator contacts. Have development money to pay obviously.

Thanks,

Brian

www.picturewell.co.uk

Thanks a million guys. Cheers Abid for the contact details, I may be in touch. Thanks Tim for the lead and yeah Dan, I fell into that mistake of hiring a translator for the treatm…

Hi all!

I'm currently looking to do some research on the UK film industry for a passion project.

Does anyone know where I could find some statistics on things like:

How many Ru…

Hi Ross

I run statistical analysis on the film industry. I've not looked at those direct questions (yet) but I have researched similar topics which may be useful...

https://ste…

Hello,

I'm a screenwriter with 2 years of experience so I'm relatively clued up on the writing side of things and have a pilot script and proposal ready but Ive no previous exper…

Thanks for the detailed responses guys,

Originally with this project I had a guy who wanted to produce and we had a long chat about what he was going to do to produce and he said…

Hi,

I have now uploaded some films I directed, produced, composed for and acted on my Shooting People Profile.

I am Logic, FCPX savvy and too an extent After Effects.

I have al…

Hi Guys ,

I have a weird problem.

I have finished my film , and its all edited, and I even took it to a mastering studio, and had it done twice.

The final video file sounds fi…

If your audio is encoded as Dolby AC3 then that's likely Dialnorm doing its thing - encoding with PCM audio should leave the audio as mastered.

Music concrète is an ear-catching composition technique which blurs the line between sound and music. I have developed 300 royalty free, high quality audio files which you can dr…

Hi Paddy, thanks for your compliments on the sample pack. I would love to offer discount, unfortunately I have no control over the price set by Loopmasters - although the price w…

Hi,

We have 1 Sony large DVCAM, 8 Betacam SP and 5 Umatic tapes that we are looking to convert to digital format (either DVD or online). Would anyone be able to do this for us, o…

Hi Philip, I'll PM you

Any one able to recommend a place for hiring a VR rig? Or any one here got one?

I'd like to dip my toe, and am tempted to buy something, but I think it makes sense to do some tes…

Karel,

I've got two of the HD Kodak 360 cameras at the moment -

http://www.kodakcamera.jkiltd.com/Europe/cameras/actioncamera/sp360.php

They're the yellow and black predecesso…

Hi all,

Does anyone know of a London-based line producer who is reasonably priced, professional, good at his job and who might be interested to work with an international coprod…

Not London-based, but that's the purpose of hotels! I'm assuming you have money you want help in spending?

Hi folks

I am in R&D for a documentary about people with weird and unusual hobbies- we have to find 6 contributors, I've managed to find 3 suitable - I got some feedback whic…

Also try starnow .