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Growing up in Church its easy to see there not many good quality, story driven indie films being made in the UK. This group is formed for those who love God & would like to us…

Not based in London full time Arthur but a regular visitor. Will send you an e-mail and maybe hook up next time i'm around?

Mark

We have a really small structure and we struggle a bit with the accounting side of our business. In particular, when we have a production we hire 20-30-40 people for a few days (u…

For more information on National Insurance and PAYE, and self employed persons selling their services, look up

http://www.hmrc.gov.uk/specialist/fi-notes-2012.pdf

Part of the …

Hi everyone

My 2 minute short film pitch has made it to the public vote of the "Enter The Pitch" competition, and now needs your support to make it into the final. The competitio…

Hi Everyone
I‘m looking for a short script (drama or phycological Thriller).
A true story is a good start. Something that depicts peoples struggle in life.
Anything that can in…

Hi Michael,

I have a short, that could interest you. Have you got an address I could sen it to?

Kind regards

Hector

Given our 17 minute short film is completed what good repro companies are out there to produce a small run ( 100 ? ) of multiple dvds of my short film?

Many thanks
Dave BLack
Bla…

HI!
We're doing a historical documentary and would like to FILM a port-a-pak that works. We want to see the reels go around. We do not want to film with it, we want to film it. We…

Over the past two or three years I have pitched a logline and synopsis for my script, 'To Be Someone', many times on the Shooters 'Script Pitch' bulletin. I have taken great care …

Many thanks Andreas. Signed up to Script Boutique and posted my first script today :)

Hi. From the seminar How to fund your film there are 27 steps. They can no longer give out the outline for legal reasons but they said it's fine to get it from a third party. Anyo…

I'd love that too possibly ;-)
alex@lostpictures.co.uk
thanks!

We shoot in Europe and many times we need to hire crew members and/or equipment (cameras, grip, lights, etc...) locally. We usually rely for this on word of mouth and friends. I …

Thanks Aleve and Chris for your suggestions. Any other is welcome ;-) Thanks!

I need to back up 10 Tb of footage. Currently they are on G-Raids. In the past I bought Western Digital Elements external hard drives, but I thought I ask before buying / making a…

I've got loads of WD elements 2TB drives (about £70 each) which I use for archive. I did have one fail a while ago but in a recoverable way (I could move the data off but no long…

Hi,
Has anyone successfully managed to record 10-Bit 4:2:2 ProRes on a Atmos recorder (any model from the Star to the Blade) from a Hacked GH2 please?
If so did you use any spec…

currently reading shooting 007 book by great operator / DOP Alec Milles quite brilliant about about the relationships between operators / Dops.

When 85% of people say it takes 2…

The film and television industry is a tough business to be in at times and sadly there is never enough money available to make all the programming and films people want to make. S…

A short film I made is currently being submitted to festivals. One American festival has asked that I use the program "Handbrake" to convert the film in to an "Apple TV 3" format …

Is the sound clipping, or is it compression artefacting? If the latter, look at the audio bitrate which is separate from the video bitrate. 30fps ought to be irrelevant.

Hi dear fellow shooters,
Has any of you have a release form for filming interviewees and member of the public for my documentary, in Greek? I am still researching, but i might lik…

Thanks for your Response, might try the online idea. I can read and correspond in Greek quite well, but writing a form like this is a bigger task for me and I am flying to Geeece …

I am converting a short film to DCP for festivals and also want to print DVDs and blu-rays of it. Does anyone have any particular recommendations of London-based companies. I have…

Hello. I'm trying to find a good, and preferably free or cheap, way to convert a 1.5GB MPEG-4 (.MOV) file to a Windows Media (.WMV) file. The 10-minute film in question was edited…

Thanks Chris. I'll give that a go.

I am looking for either gels or frostings to cover light bulbs, so it can also be pre-cut.

Go to your local lighting hire company and ask if you can go through the scraps box - they will send out whole rolls and have odds and ends come back, some roll ends, some precut …

Hi
I am looking for someone that can do a story board.
My name is Michael Christofis and I'm co-producer of a feature film called ''Chosen''. A phycological thriller that is going…

Hi,

I've got a short showing at 3 prestigious 3D festivals this autumn. Only 84 seconds!

We had some problems with the iSpeed cameras (we shot at 1000fps) and have done extensiv…

Hi Karel

Are you still looking? I can help you with this. Send me a private message.

Chris

Hi all,

A buddy of mine wants to make an experimental short from footage in a video game. Is there ANY way OTHER THAN SCREEN CAPTURE to get this footage onto a hard drive?

He as…

I think I finally talked him into Fraps! Thanks everyone!

Any suggestions for good, cheap lenses for filmmaking with a Nikon D5200?

Hello, I've just moved from London to do an MA in Film Directing at University of Edinburgh. I have been informed that for my final project I will need to find a cinematographer, …

Hi Adam and Gary,

Thank you very much for your response. I will contact you both very soon :)

Hi shooters.
I have worked as a writer/director, random projects, film and theatre. Today I feel I want to set up my company and be a producer. What would be the best course to do…

Thanks everyone who responded here and apologies for the delay.
I'll be starting the Raindance course as most immediate. Any shooter's going? Would be great to make contact live …

I was lucky enough to get Gabe Turner on the Britflicks podcast.

Hear him discuss his first feature length film Guvnors at http://www.britflicks.com/blog.aspx?blogid=13587

Thank…

Here's a list of production apps I thought you guys might find of interest.

http://staffmeup.com/news/filmmaker_apps_you_need/

Anything missing that you can't do without?

YIKES! For that kind of money, you could hire a human. Don't they know that mid-range films don't exist anymore?