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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 …

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/

Does one system have the edge over the other with less error messages when editing for example ?

Have you transferred from a PC based AVID onto a MAC or vice-versa to get more wo…

Thanks for the interesting responses. Have yourselves a great Xmas.

Regards,
Projectionpictures

I've looked at Dropbox and its competitors (Drive, Box, skydrive, etc), and the free versions appear to be slow. I wonder if it's worth upgrading. Ten seconds a megabyte might b…

http://www.box.com and drive.google.com have apps. www.scriptbuddy.com is a place if you just want to do screenplays.

Royal mail looks like an option. Thanks to all who answ…

Seeking 2000/2011 Silver/Grey Lincoln Town car TO RENT for 2-day shoot in NYC for short film. Please contact icm7@columbia.edu with information leads. Thank you!

Search for "Picture Cars" on NY411.com. Great resource for stuff like that.

Jendra Jarnagin
Director of Photography
www.floaitngcamera.com

Hi,

We're a small film production company in Wales. We are shooting our latest film in February and are currently on the hunt for 1 Ambulance & 1 Police Car for our final sce…

All the police signs/badges/lights must be covered when moving the vehicle to and from locations. You must also have written permission from the local police force where you are f…

Hi Shooters


After 2 years I'm at the stage of logging my tapes (yes I use good old fashioned tapes and not those daft cards). Making a follow-up feature docu to my 2004 film cal…

Thanks for that, John!! Good to hear from someone in the same boat even though we are both struggling to get our projects finished.
The one card I have up my sleeve is a large ac…

Just putting together a budget for a short and wondering what are Shooters experiences with casting directors and how much are their fees?

Fees vary from job to job. Is it a shot or a feature? If it's a feature then what budget? How many characters to cast?

If you email me directly with more details I can give you a…

Hello Shooters.

I have a slight dilemma.

I have a modest budget to shoot my next project; and I have a choice. Do I go with a short (Featurette/30-40 mins), or do I go with a f…

Go for a feature, I had the same dilemma recently and went for the feature. Which was hard work but I learnt more from it than any short film I've made. So the personal journey…

Hi All!

I am looking to start filming and broadcasting content live over the internet, so I am wondering where to start in terms for looking for equipment and people...

Can anyo…

It would be much easier to lose the live element, and why would you want it anyway?

Shooting a gig on several cameras and then cutting it later is much easier. Trying to broadca…

Hi Shooters,

I’m looking for a Blu-ray duplication service to run off a small quantity of Blu-ray discs. The only snag is that I don’t have the software or burner needed to creat…

Hi Matt.
I can get the BD-Authoring done for you, we are based in Central London in Kings Cross area and we can also offer a high quality printing on the discs also. If you do nee…

Short film in need of a Bank vault location in London and surrounding area

Micro budget but some location fee available

Any suggestions, websites, recomendations welcome

If you only need a few key angles on the vault door and lock boxes etc, then there is a revolution vodka bar in the City (converted bank) which is already quite atmospherically li…

I'm used to fcp7 but I am seriously considering fcp x for my first feature-length doc. I understand that it's good for organising and searching through footage, of which i will ha…

More RAM would certainly be helpful. Also, think about breaking the show into "reels." In the film days, a reel was about 1000 feet, or around 11 minutes. Do the same digitally, k…

Am aware of Wordpress, Wix and Weebly. Any others? Would you like to share your website with me? Am looking to beef up this: http://digitalbootcamp.wikispaces.com/4.+Sales%2C+mark…

I'd consider creating a simple page in something like Wordpress linking to a Vimeo album. It makes it very easy to update - in fact, I have made a couple of portfolio sites whic…

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…

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…

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…

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…

Is it Verbatim, Lacie or Freecom?

I will give you a long answer we need more info to be precise, I have experience of several, I am currently using a USB 2.0 Verbatim (1.5TB) to backup to on my P.C. but having to …

Just wondering what the best method is to achieve professional results without additional camera/lighting equipment as we can't afford them or location fees for train companies...…

By the way, does anyone know if there are any penalty's for filming without permission on carriages or stations?