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I'm not sure of the law on this. But are old soundtracks from the 60's and 70's that were released by an italian production company for example, protected by US copyright law? If not are these useable materials for indie film, or no? Thanks.

This is my entry to the 2008 Youtube Project Direct Contest. I posted a long story on here earlier about all the trouble we had making the film and documenting the full process but i removed it. In short we had many issues during making the film, and especially at the end due to a lack of time...

I've been trying to find a technique for making cheap fake radiation burns. I have a scene where i need to have someone badly burned and bruised on the face. Any suggestions? Thanks.

I just finished filming a scene inside an airplane, some of the shots were greenscreened showing the sky out the window, some of them just shot in the plane with no sky visable. In the shots without the sky visable it does not seem very realistic. In one of the shots the actor and I were just...

I've constructed a boom pole, purchased a Audio Technica AT897 and 25' of XLR cable. I was testing it out today just holding the shotgun mic itself in a completely silent padded room. I connected it via mini-plug to my zoom H2 recorder. When recording i tested several different locations, first...

In watching alot of "award winning" independent short films, real independent films, not these so called independents that had a 6 million dollar budget and won sundance. It seems all of them are short romance, comedy, or drama stories set on a street corner, in someone's backyard or in a house...

If i am looking to create a film for serious possible career advancing reasons. Submitting it to film festivals. Should i write and shoot a feature length film, or go with a short film, what length, 10 minutes, 30 minutes? Thanks.

I have had some trouble finding a modern success story about a truely indepdent filmmaker that makes a film for very little money with no studio support that actually makes it to a studio release and a career in film. I've read about the obvious ones, Robert Rodriguez, Spike Lee, etc. Who all...

I've been making short silly films with my friends for several years now since i graduated high school and i've finnally decided to make a real movie. I've written many scripts that have been writted, scraped, re-written, filmed parts of and never finished, never really taken them anywhere. I've...