making a film

[ice_princess5747]

<font color="#CC3300">Over the course of the summer (what's left of it, lol) I am making a film with my friends. One of them thinks that when we get it done, we should send it to a producer, but nobody knows who or how... any suggestions?</font>

[richardmorgan]

what sort of film are u making

[philipswales]

A PRODUCER who someone who gets the film made.

Once you're done, you have no need for a producer.
You should already have one at this stage - maybe you're "it".

What you want is a distributor or a sales agent to help get the film shown and sold.

[ice_princess5747]

1) it's a movie with a basic storyline that we got ppl to fill the rolls of the story

2) How would we find one of those and how good of quality would you say the movie has to be?

<font color="#a62a2a" size="1">[ August 09, 2004 06:15 PM: Message edited by: ice_princess5747 ]</font>

[philipswales]

The quality has to be VERY good to try and sell it.


From the sounds of it, you're just making the film for fun. So approach it that way.

Is it a short or a feature?

Because shorts don't sell, but they're good practice and can be used to advertise your talents if they're any cop.

[ice_princess5747]

Well, it's 40 scenes in the script and we're hoping the film will be atleast an hour from start to finish.

[philipswales]

Ah... tricky length, you see.

Too short for a feature, too long for a short film.


How many pages is the script? That's usually a good indicator of length.

If you format your script right, a page roughly equals one minute of screen time. So add up the total number of pages in your script for an approximation of the running time.

[ice_princess5747]

well, that really shortens it down, lol... double spaced its 29.5 pages

[philipswales]

Okay, it's a short.


In that case, my advice is: have fun making it, learn stuff from it and if the end results are what you hoped for, then by all means try making a feature film. You could even expand this idea and remake/rewrite it as a feature, if you think there's enough potential material to fill 90 minutes.

You can't sell shorts, so the pressure's off on that score, but you can try getting it seen at festivals, etc. if you choose to.

[ice_princess5747]

We were thinking of entering it into the Reel to Real festival, but we have some places where we were going to enter music. Would we have to create our own music to avoid copyright violation?