Personally I post more at OTTfilms, but even that's a bit annoying cos everyone's in London and I'm, well, not in London. OTTfilms is full of UK (but mostly London) based moviemakers who are prepared to work on each other's projects for next to nothing.

I also post on JWsound.net more than this place. JWsound is full of sound guys discussing Cantar and Fusion and stuff.

Those other two sites have a focus on a niche that appeals to me personally.

What's this place's appeal? What's its niche? Until we can define that it's too broad to attract any new blood. The only thing that keeps me checking in here is some sort of tenuous emotional attachment and 10 year membership.

Perhaps we should move over to a Ning site? All three of us.

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Read my filmmaker slog

Is it the board or just apathy??

Collective movie making where we all pitch in to create a product across time zones??

Good Luck

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"Shoot Film or Shoot yourself--Just keep shooting until you die." Me

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FilmMaker, Gentleman and O iraklis then einai pio tromeros apo ta polla stilo eleous
www.chance1234.com

What are your ideas??

The banner above says "the internet resource for low-budget film-makers"

What does that even mean now? There are other resources such as Wikis and Google, low-budget generally means a shoestring rather than industry low-budget and we're moviemakers. Right?

The whole "make your film for the cost of a second hand car" has been done ad infinitum, ad nauseum. As far as I know, no one on the board except Richard Fisher (Anamnesis) and me (Crooked Features) has managed to direct and finish a feature length movie for the price of a (very expensive) second hand car.

What I have found is that once you have made your movie, nobody cares. And frankly, why should they? The one thing I have learned is that either you remain an "artist" or you market the crap out of your product. Marketing costs money.

What we really need now is the guide to "market your movie for the cost of a single unemployment benefit payment".

I can see it will be another 10 years from making it in 2004 before "Crooked Features" peeks in at the mainstream (I've always said we're 5 years ahead of anything else here in terms of thinking and doing). What a pity there are banners in my movie which will date it badly, doh! (Oh well, that's what VFX artists are for).

Of course all this assumes that the movie is actually any good/marketable in the first place. I'm not sure "Crooked Features" deserves the effort. I know today I could do better. But I'm not in a position to put anything else into production.

I was DoP on a feature that the total budget was 10k US.

And...

We shot on film.

Lets try this. Show up here from time to time and post something. Anything. A few lines about what you are working on or want to start. Once people start coming back then the ball will just start rolling.