/fmg/-Filmmaking General

New Porn Board edition.

>what are you working on?
>what can you show us?

Other urls found in this thread:

youtu.be/K-XIm_r6EQs
youtu.be/DzTMT30N5DI
twitter.com/SFWRedditGifs

bump

>implying I would ever post some of my work on here so then outsiders would then know I browse here

People post here all the time, don't be a paranoid little shit.

Here, I'll post my own stuff. Not good but hey I made an effort, and I can only learn more from here.
>youtu.be/K-XIm_r6EQs

Making a 10 min short film for my media class, I have finished all pre prodcutino and start shooting tuesday, its about burn outish kid with a passion for photography in his final week of his Exams. Everyone around him is stressed and hes beginning to believe that he might indeed be a failure. Since its my first short film and the best movie of the class wins $200, I decided to bass heavily off Big lebowski and boogie nights.
Its not anything insanely original but its something

Hey, that's got a lot of potential there. Is it gonna be sorta slice-of-lifeish, where events just sort of fade into each other without much stringing them together? I like that shit.

Yea, it should be like that, its kinda just things happening him and he just goes with it. I hope it turns out good, dosnt really matter if its good, its more or less a way to get my hands on a camera and play with the lights and sound

Well hey, it's getting your foot in the door. Good luck.

Myself I want to make a fake trailer for a Hotline Miami film. I know it's cliche but I think there's untapped potential here and I'd like to give myself a huge challenge.

bump

shooting a short in august

rn im in the storyboard process

Glad to hear it.

What's it all about?

A guy stalks his crush and when his lonely friend finds out shit goes bad

finds out, shit goes bad*

i'm tired

Ooh, sounds creepy.

Good luck my man.

Wish this thread would take off but it looks like the Aussies are claiming this as a porn board now.

Are you in the skype group?

Also thank you!

yeah Sup Forums is dead

just watched kill list for the first time

holy shit

the only other movie that even slightly compares would be the witch

so fucking good

I'm not, and I'm kinda indifferent to the Skype group as a whole. I know of it's existence but I dunno if I'll join just yet. Thanks for asking though.

Also, I had a question: How do I keep my energy/momentum up during preproduction if, realistically, I couldn't start shooting until the fall?

lots of coffee

i think doing the storyboard and shotlist is more than enough to keep the momentum going (i'm gonna fucking burn out during the casting process)

there's always going to be a slow time but as long as you set deadlines for yourself you should be good

Y'know I've never been a huge coffee guy but I might start up now.

Also I just sorta meant in general, like I'm a very "DO IT NOW" kind of person, and I've never really planned anything out this far ahead before. How do I maintain my desire to keep doing this and not burn out next week? How does everyone else do it?

dedication and keeping yourself grounded

i used to go full adhd and make new projects up as time went on but the best way to do it is to think up a project, place everything else on the backburner, and dedicate yourself to it fully.

stay committed like you're married to it. you can divorce it after you finish it and send it off wherever.

I think I getcha.

Something I've always wanted to try is keep a journal down, to track my progress. I just wrote down a thing, and I'm gonna try keeping this up.

>director insists on being the editor just for control purposes
>doesn't have the patience to actually edit it well

That a normal occurrence? I know next to nothing about pro filmmaking.

Like, I edit my own shit because I know exactly how I want it to look, but I feel like I should get an editor just to help ease my mind about things.

that's a good idea

don't forget to keep your other various ideas in another journal because you'll get a fucking lot

i'm guilty of this. i should get an editor.

I'm not a pro either, but I do a lot of student film projects as a group.

I edit a lot and what I usually do is get a rough cut and get all the obligatory little shit done (sound cleanup, color correction, foley, etc) before handing it off to the director, who gets final cut, without having to worry about the little shit. You step on the least toes this way and it generally just works out the best in my experience.

Well it's not that common for the Director to actually edit it himself, but 90% of the time the Director will guide the editor in how he wants the film edited. I don't know what kind of narcissistic asshole thinks he's not editing a film for the director.

That sounds smart.

I've got a friend of mine, he's worked with me on some other projects, he could probably work out some editing for me given time.

yeah, the problem with me is that, as a student filmmaker, our schedules never line up. it takes an act of god for us to all get together for a few shooting days, let alone for pre or post work which is often considered "less important". so a lot of our stuff is swapped around rather than being collaborated on in-person. it's a shame, I'd like to do more of that, but I think it's worked out alright so far.

In the past it used to be that editing was an art and craft of its own. It took great skill and know-how to become a good editor, and any Director worth his own salt knew that.

Nowadays with digital it's not the same case. You could probably train a monkey to do what modern editors do. I think it's actually more common now that Directors do their own editing because of how easy it has become. Of course if they want a fresh pair of eyes to chop their film up then they'd get someone else to edit, but there a very few other actual benefits.

Fucking this.

I think, since I'm starting out to plan everything real early, I can set out a schedule and have my friends try to cross it out on their calendars way in advance.

they'll find an excuse to weasel their way out. fucking film kids, man.

Yeah, I've had experience with this kind of shit before, though to be fair it was a short-notice thing. At least two people I'm never working with again because of it.

I'm gonna try and find some incentive this go around.

Final bump because I really gotta sleep.

sleep well user

it kills me that he gets into a car that new, just looks so out of place, and the neckbeard guy just felt unnatural.

Why does it take tens of millions to combine 1 to 2 hours of sound and image?

If mirrors aren't real, how can our eyes be?

really makes you think...

I'm refining dialogue for my script, hopefully gonna start filming in a month or so.

It's about 4 loser film students trying to make a deep and pretentious artfilm but end up just making Inland Empire, like shot for shot. It's pretty much autobiographical.

...

aaaalmost a joke there. Almost.

What's the almost joke?

I've started plotting out a film about a man who is abducted by aliens who after he returns is branded a liar and a fraud.
It's pretty simple for now but it's coming along nicely.

>film about film students

DROPPED
R
O
P
P
E
D

I didn't sleep too well but hey I'm up now

Plus a detective would never drive a car like that, it'd be some slick Cadillac or some 50's car.

That's partially a joke, partially we had no other course of action.

I feel like there's a lot of potential for comedy there, running gag like how one of them is the only one that keeps realizing everything they do is just David Lynch or something.

>that music in the beginning

the fuck are u doing

Yeah I'm not too proud of that particular choice.

youtu.be/DzTMT30N5DI
This is what we were gonna use. From the same vidya.

mitebcool

Keep us posted.

I've been told Im a good editor but Im bad at managing a crew, the sound for my short film was a mix of acceptable and downright dogshit, and some of the scenes were ruined because of the canera lens being dirty.

link of your short?

Im thinking of just moving out and buying a $1000 digital cinema camera and making a few shorts. Good idea or no?

if you're directing the sound probably isn't your fault, i've had terrible sound guys who say "yeah that was a good take" and we go home and the sound is outright unusable.

managing a crew, especially feeding the actors' ego, is very very important as the director though. actors work best when they're getting fellated for what a good job they're doing with the criticisms sprinkled lightly throughout.

I tried google searching but i got no results, does anyone know which colors show up best on camera and which show up the worst.

I'll most likely be shooting on digital by the way.

you probably need a better plan than that, but it's a good start. making shorts is the best way to get practice. music videos are the best way to get practice via quantity (super easy to shoot and edit) but you'll be missing entire aspects, like recording on-set sound.

Thing is I just need a crew and actors for my bigger shorts. I got a 20 minute psychological thriller here that I want to make, but it would require a crew and some actors and I have no idea how to get them.

how i maek film

filmmaking programs at college are a great way to make connections, even community college. actors are a little tougher, I'm fortunate enough to live in LA so there's countless actors literally willing to work for free if you have a decent screenplay, but I'm not sure how easy that is to do in other places.

I'm in the same boat, i have about 10 people who can be in my movie but i plan on going to my local film school (New York Film Academy) and recruiting actors (and whatever else i need) from there.

Alright boys just started writing this shit
Basic premise: It's a road trip movie about a guy going to San Francisco so he can jump off the Golden Gate Bridge

Great well I was in Film program at college but had to drop out due to family issues.

I dig it.

Who is his road buddy gonna be?
>Friend who is trying to stop him
>Equally depressed but non suicidal friend
>Woman who makes him realize life is worth living

I'm not sure part of me wants no one and he meets many side characters along the way.

I like the side characters.

Just don't make it about the protagonist discovering a meaning to life and deciding at the end he won't jump. Way too cliché and predictable.