Recent content by JonPlant

Thanks for all the support guys - it's really appreciated! Just to keep people updated, I really happy to say that it's currently at the top of the leaderboard of Shooting People's film of the month (you'll either know what I'm talking about or you won't!). If you do know what I'm talking about...

@ Knightly, thanks @ Blanc/Noir, the edit did take a few months - but that was because me and the editor both had jobs and he was also contending with moving to Australia. I think that we were on about version 40 by the final cut... that's a bit of a misleading number as there were about 5 or so...

Of the five players two were traceurs and three were freestyle footballers. I initially intended to have people swapping costumes but decided that 1 we didn't have the time, and 2 people were unlikely to notice because of the pace... I did make sure to have shots where the parkour guys gave the...

Hey! @ Onix - thank you... if you didn't already work it out from Roc's post it was shot on the RED ONE camera, using a set of primes... most of the budget went on the camera (approx 1,250 including insurance). You really need a RED to get the decent quality slow-mo that we wanted... a canon 7D...

@Danjama... haha I got a bit carried away, I've written a bit of a treatise on writing an non-dialogue or action sequence. It's on the screenwriting thread - hopefully it will provoke some discussion

I posted my last short, Break-In, on here a couple of days ago (I'll link to it at the bottom of this you may want to watch it before you read the whole post as otherwise it might not make sense). It is a short action viral that has no dialogue but does have a clear narrative. Somebody asked me...

Hey dude - thanks a lot. I don't know how much of the written material I have left - I can try to seek it out but much of it was hand written. I'd be happy to chat about it, maybe better to do it on a different thread so it's relevant... what's the best way to do this?

Thanks for the welcome everybody! I'm from Reigate (south of London, just outside the M25). You can see my last film "Break-In" here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0xSj-fKnZ3g please let me know what you think

Haha, there has actually been one genuine game of this! The last hour of filming in the carpark, we were getting pickups... so I just directed the players to actually see whether they could do it - it actually worked surprisingly well as a game... shame we don't have the car park every weekend!

Haha - is there any way I could have made myself look more of an idiot in this introduction! In my defense, if you look at my first post you will see that I work nights and I've actually had all of 5 hours sleep in the last two days! Trust me, my film-making is nothing like as incompetent as you...

Sorry about the repost... browser was playing up and it didn't look as though the first one had sent - don't seem to be able to delete it

Hey, thanks - good work on Jacked - really like the concept, got a Guy Richie kind of feel to it.

Hey, thanks - good work on Jacked - really like the concept, got a Guy Richie kind of feel to it

Hi I wanted to share the last film I shot with you all. I shot this in a weekend for a budget of just under £2,000 which all went on rental, insurance and expenses. It's short and fun, so you don't need to be in any particular mood to watch it! So far (touch wood) it's been universally...

Hi, My name's Jon - I'm 23 and I'm currently trying to gain momentum as a writer/producer/director. I have experience of other roles on set and commonly work as a Focus Puller when I'm not working on my own projects. I graduated from University last year with a Masters Degree in Chemistry, but...