Recent content by locust tree

in response to the "normal guy driven to the edge of his sanity" idea, i'd like to suggest a movie that came out in 1993 (i think) called Falling Down. It wasn't an incredible movie, but it explores the concept of a normal dude who just totally loses it because of circumstances. The good twist...

hey mr. blonde, this is off topic, but where abouts in connecticut are you? odd coincidence that i'm also 17 (well, i'm assuming you're in high school.) back on topic, i think for this conversation to continue further, someone needs to define "indie", because clearly some people are defining...

Re: Beat Sheets and Treatments this is the point at which i get stuck. i've used my brother's copy of final draft... and i just can't navigate the program. There's nowhere for me to find out the etiquette for screenwriting. I read other screenplays to see how it's done, but when it comes...

i'm just in a state of shock. The Date was amazing. one technical question though... how did you go about obtaining the right to use all those great jazz standards? Did you have to pay a lot of money for royalties?

good point! it's not a position that casual moviegoers are put in very often. every character in Pulp Fiction... well, maybe with the exception of Jules... would have been painted as a total villain through the eyes of any other director. it's so hard to get the audience to sympathize with a...

First of all, this thread's title was really just a ploy on my part to lure people in, because if i saw the words "i'm a newbie, hi" in a subject line, i'd probably just skip right over it. Now, i'm not saying QT is a bad filmmaker by any means. I really got a kick out of Pulp Fiction. But...

exactly my style of humor. by the time the line "fucking impotent" came around, i had fallen out of my seat. peter john ross, you are an inspiration to us all.

Ok, i don't think he sucks. But if i titled this post "n00b intro" none of you would read it. I'm from CT. I'm 17 years old. I own a Sony TRV740 digital 8 camera. It was son'y's top of the line... in 2001. I joined this board to get inspiration, and to be able to bounce my ideas off other...

I use hi-8 tapes with the Digital 8 format... and my guess would be that differences in tape quality would be a lot less noticeable since it's a digital format. But for longevity's sake... drop a little extra money to get the better tapes. I don't know much about the quirks of hi-8, but...

i was originally going to buy a super 8 camera, and after doing some pretty extensive research i decided i couldn't afford it. But i've heard about 100 complaints about Pro8mm before this one. Fak 'em.

My blues are mainly coming from the fact that i'm picking up filmmaking as a new hobby. I've been a musician for so long, and i just don't run into a lot of the technical problems that confound beginners. There's a lot less of a gap between ideas and finished products when i'm working with...

you know, it's all context. really crappy movies just have swears needlessly thrown in everywhere. realistically, the use of swearing should signify some sort of emotional high point. or, there's that scene in the Boondock Saints where the italian guy walks into the room where 9 guys had just...

One of the first differences I noticed between good-looking and amateurish movies was the frame rate. Higher frame rates always make viewers think "camcorder" for some reason. My camera has an option on it that seems to make the frame rate a little bit slower. Whether it slows it down to...

i actually laughed out loud! i find most online shorts, no matter how funny they are, to be excruciatingly hard to watch. but this was great! and, i have a real soft spot for Super 8. It had a great contrast with the video footage- the change in medium was enough to let the viewer know...