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So regarding the bar - are you saying the studio was the better choice? Or are you saying there are always pros and cons on whether to use a real location or build one?

I am in the Northwest UK and may well need a studio for a few days (to make the short film on my bucket list) I can obviously talk to local studios and ask the obvious questions regarding cost, size, availability etc but would be interested in other people's experiences and things to look out...

Many thanks! Thanks - I was not sure what to call it. Having said that "Image stabilization" sounds like something you would get on a camera? eg see: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image_stabilization Er ... what is "Motion Title" please? there are 8,000 refs on Google but none of them...

Does anybody know if it is possible to get what I would call "Image centreing software"? What I have in mind is as follows: 1. You take a video of a bird, say, on maximum telephoto with the result that the image of the bird moves around fairly wildly 2. You decompose the video into several...

Yes, you are right! And I am delighted to be wrong ... here is how you do it: "Add numbered still‑image files as a single clip 1. Make sure that each still‑image filename has the correct filename extension, and that all filenames in the sequence contain an equal number of digits before the...

Lots of editors (including Adobe premiere) will convert images to a video BUT (unless I am mistaken) they have a minimum time of about one second per frame. So 25 frames turn into a 25 sec clip whereas I want 25 frames to turn into a one second clip ... :huh:

Surprisingly it seems very difficult to turn a folder full of images into a video. By this I mean start with say 250 images and turn them into a 10 sec clip at 25 frames per sec. So, does anybody know of any (preferably freeware) programs that can do this? The program ImageToVideo from...

After my rant about films where the hero is a writer, I have just seen yet another, 2012. So, in an attempt to level things up a bit here is my proposed script: The hero is a white English businessman who owns a huge supermarket chain. He provides high quality goods and services in the face...

Not sure that is worth £500 as the second saying "Nobody knows anything in Hollywood" , to give the full version, is pretty well known. The first one "Never invest your own money" I will have to break straight away. But my offer of dinner to you at the Ritz in London (far superior to the Ivy)...

CDCosta Many thanks for the offer! Let me mull this over and get back to you directorik Your response is thoughtful and much appreciated. One enormous advantage I have over most people is that I am not doing this to make money. Indeed, I suspect that it is like the old joke "Q. How do you make...

In case somebody reading this merely wants to easily record a SINGLE screen shot, there is a free download which I use which turns the "Prt Sc" button into a single click save When the site opens look for PrintScreen 0.4. It really is FREE and it really does work. I find it very handy -...

directorik Many thanks for writing at such length! It was not so much that I wanted specific answers to those questions (I did realise that they were probably answered already on the forum) but rather that I could see an almost limitless number of questions and they were merely examples! What I...

dvdguy Thanks! That is a very useful site and I have now read all that stuff but, of course, it raises a whole raft of questions in turn. I am reluctant to raise specific questions as no doubt each one has an answer but that is not really the point. No doubt film-making is like any other area of...

Hey! I didn't take it as an insult. Perhaps a slightly over-sharp observation but it is easy to give the wrong impression in print - I do it all the time. As for my experience as a writer, well, I'm not a real writer - just somebody who lacking a local pub bar to lean on takes it out on the...

LOL! I have written several scripts - one of which I submitted to the Orange Film competition about 4 years ago and got back a response which I thought was amazing (I expected two lines saying "rubbish" - not twelve pages of closely argued analysis saying "rubbish"). Actually, here is an idea...

I am in the very fortunate position of having the time and money to make a short narrative film. I have never been short of story ideas (in fact, I have too many) but have absolutely no idea how to start making a film! Ideally, I would go on a weeks course to get the absolute basics. So does...