just thinking

[deepcope]

come on guys, i got a lot of advice on how to show the movie but i want to hear some stories of your films, how successfull have your best been...and by successfull i mean, whatever you personally consider successfull to be which is probebly diffrent for each person.

personally i d consider a successfull movie that everyone loves because it is just damn fine story and well made, compared to something that just brings in money because its got a damn fine beutifull blonde and lots of badly made sex.

[eddie]

We made a short black and white super8 film, and showed it at a fancy dress halloween party in the cellar of a pub.
It went down a storm and I ended up showing it 3 times.
Man was I a happy man that night.
That was a success in my terms, although I doubt it will make 50p on the video market....

[deepcope]

people liking it counts as a success, did you only show it at the party ? if it was so populer ?

[eddie]

It has since been polished up and entered into A film festival in Bristol, thanks for asking.
Fingers crossed and they might show it....

[deepcope]

good luck, again .. out of intrest, have you got a website or could you tell me more about the film.

not being nosy but im intrested to see other peoples attempts at amataur movies, not being sure wether amauter is the right word but people seem to class big budget movies as proffessional, so that would mean classing low budget as amataur ?

and that goes the same to others movies people on the board have made.

im goin to get a load of rodriguez stuff n all to see his attempt, i cant remember the name, el something. ( no one mention his name again before a argument breaks out )

[eddie]

http:\\www.ukoln.ac.uk\~lisey\circus01.htm

Its the start of a shining new talent (-ahem)

[Vertino]

are you in the UK?

then send it to Total Film magazine, they try to help all budding film makers (no matter how long your films is)

even if your not in the UK... still send it to Total Film - they'll give it a fair rating... plus it goes out to the no-internet users

I'd post the address... but I don't have it with me

do a Google search for Total Film / Future Publishing - or something like that!


>>>

also if its less than 40mins - send it to Atom Films!

Basically as everyone else says - get it out there - get it seen - just fecking do it!

[deepcope]

hey chance1234 i quite like the script, i love that sereal style stuff ! the bit where the blood starts pouring out of her mouth after she kissed him is a great touch (is there meant to be something symbolic about that ?)

did you design it to not make sense.

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[JAB]

After 10 years of owning a Camcorder and subscribing to two camcorder magazines, I have recently produced my first video. It was the 50th year anniversary of my local Lawn Bowling Club. I had been filming the members on and off for the past 10 years so I had quite a lot of archive material, including a few members whom, sadly are no longer with us.

One lady member had some excellent 16-mm colour cline footage taken fifty years ago at the opening of the green, which of course contained scenes of many the founder members.

The Bowling Club also held an open day to mark the occasion to which they invited former members and members from other local clubs to attend, I of course filmed the proceedings.

They played a game of bowls in the afternoon and in the evening they went for a meal with after dinner speeches.

With a fine mix of new and old footage and some interesting editing (I had lots of contrasting shots which fitted neatly together using a DC30+ and premiere 4.2) I along with popular I record using local artists I managed to produced a creative and moving video which has been very well received.

My 10 years of continual learning has went into this production, this includes all the different types of camera shots, to numerous to mention and I did not make the mistake of forgetting about the sound track.
I have already mentioned the music and the speeches, but along with these I also used sound effects, dialogue from celebrations and dialogue from previously recorded bowling matches. This dialogue was so funny, the viewer missed most of the next few clips trying to control their laughter, thus creating a need to watch the video several times in order to cover the whole video.

As most people have only ever seen two types of videos, namely the made in Hollywood type or the bog standard wedding video, it has come as a bit of a shock to everyone (my victims) to see something which they are starring in, which if I may be so bold, is so well produced.

The video is sell well and all the members have bought a copy with many other sales coming through word of mouth. The local newspapers have ran editorial reviews and this has brought further sales.

From a personnel point of view I feel I can now call myself a video producer, and although it has not yet made me rich have obtained a great deal of personal satisfaction.

The only advice I can give a budding video producer is NEVER give up, keep going, it is worth it in the end.

THE END.

[Chance1234]

this is one in production, check it out today then check it out in about two weeks for the full run down

www.lookingglass.atfreeweb.com/desktop/deadlights/index.htm

if you ask me the director is one hell of a handsome guy