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My indie "Dawn" is on the IMDB. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0376558/ We had two screenings for paying audiences at the Angelika in Dallas, and I think that's what made it eligible. Jay

I using a Sony Vaio PC, it's loaded with with Cleaner 5 EZ. Will that work? Jay

Highway Of Death is moving, creeping rather, along. We're shooting a scene hopefully this weekend in fact. As for a Dawn trailer, I have one, but my one feeble effort to export it into a Quicktime file failed miserably. If anyone knows the process of exporting Premiere project file to...

After two years of looking for a home, it looks like my little vampire film "Dawn" has found one at Tempe Entertainment. The great and mighty J.R. Bookwalter gave us the thumbs-up for a 5 year exclusive contract for U.S and International DVD distribution. Right now I'm working with cast member...

I'm shooting a scene next Saturday that involves a car wreck. In the scene, there will be smoke pouring from the hood of the car. Does anyone know of a relatively safe way to harness smoke? I have some cds that have AVI smoke FX, but would much rather do this practically "on-set" for a more...

Thanks so much Clive. I just sent her an email.

I almost feel like I should start a new thread here, because I'm about to digress even more from the subject Chitty started. But I'll take that risk..LOL. The problem with my feature, and Poke for one can attest to this, is that it sits on the fence of ultra low budget horror, and drama. It...

My personal problem in this area is inexperience. I have a completed feature. I have good reviews from Film Threat and Creature Corner. It's been shown in front of a paying audience. But other than selling a few home made copies myself, it's been seen by very few people. I've sent several...

A good freind of mine is helping us look for investors for my next feature Highway of Death. We are needing to show investors some examples of how low-budget/direct to video films have turned a profit. I have no trouble finding the titles themselves...Scarecrow et. al., but have had a hard time...

It would be near impossible to be condescending to me when it comes to the technical aspects of the camera. I haven't even used the Manual setting on my Gl-1 yet, and I've already shot one feature..lol. The only thing I adjusted manually was contrast and focus. Great tip about the promist...

About the flourescent lights: I understand you are lighting the greenscreen and not the talent with the flourescents, so I'm assuming you have no problem with that blueish wash color that flourescents cause when shooting with video? My humble apologies for probably abusing the spelling of the...

Just my attempt at humor. I mean, thanks for all the advice. I'm very early into this project, and the tips have been invaluable. I just hope I haven't been bombarding y'all with the questions. My first indie was pretty much point and shoot, and this is quite a bit more involved. Gracious, Merci.

Dang Steve, if you were female, with a least a passing resemblence to Lindsey Lohan, I'd marry you.

Good point about the backlight. I've never used backlight before. Dawn was all front lit, but then I know greenscreen is a totally different deal. I mentioned doing outdoors greenscreening because there is a rather elaborate chase scene we've dreamed up involving a truck and a car (a hearse no...

In the test we did, we lit the screen seperately to avoid casting shadows on the screen. The results were quite good, except for that little edge around me. I do think greenscreen is the way to go with DV. Premiere seems to handle green better, using the "chroma" setting. Good tip about the...

I've been doing some experimenting with Greenscreen effects. I'm shooting my second feature on DV, and would like to do some greenscreen stuff. I did some tests with green fabric. I know the screen has to be lit seperately than the talent, and I did the best I could with the lights I had...

Yeah, I hope my local Wally World has their stuff out by now. This new thing I'm working on has zombies and demons and such, so the timing couldn't be better. If anyone out there has some zombie makeup tips, please holler!

Actually the post Trimspa ANS is not without aesthetic merit. Once she starts talking though, all bets are off.

Well I went right to the site and ordered both volumes of the xplosions on cd. Can't wait to play with them...Blow up the car, the cat, the house, the workplace, myself and others. BLOW EM UP REAL GOOD!!! Sorry...such outbursts come from living in Anna Nicole land.

I'm in the early stages of pre-production on my second independent film "The Highway of Death". It will be a mixture of horror/comedy with zombies and demons and such. I'll check out your samples. I'm working on a insanely small budget (around 3 grand), but I could probably find that fifty...