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i think this is a transcript of some forum. nice tidbits of info. mostly about features and documentaries, but helpful nonetheless. “The question that filmmakers need to know, is which…

i’m not going to disclose how much the actual dollar amount of my budget was, but i spent 70% of my budget to shoot it. i’m pretty happy with that,…

so looking over my footage, i realized i missed some shots. i should have had a more detailed shot list. i made one for some of the scenes, but not…

i’ve read a bunch of books on filmmaking. here are a few that stood out for me: Producing and Directing the Short Film and Video this one is the best…

a student from chaminade offered to help me with production (actually, that’s the only reason why they’re letting me shoot there), but it turns out she’s going to be out…

i’m shooting on 2 days, saturday 7/29 and sunday 7/30.  the first day will be at the warehouse, and it’ll be much harder than the second day at the school. …

the traditional way of storyboarding is to draw 3 frames or so stacked on top of each other on regular pieces of paper. i started to do that, but was…

Atomfilms Studio is funding my short film. I signed the contract and sent it back today. Basically, they give me a modest budget to make my short, and in exchange,…

a little prologue. i took a summer production class at usc in 2005, directing intensive. i made a short film there called “duck duck goose”. then i made another short…