Producing a movie

senile · Post by **senile** » 31 Mar 2011, 10:31

Where to begin? I have an idea for a movie that I want to produce. Can a person generate cash by filming and uploading it to boobtube?

Nuke · Post by **Nuke** » 31 Mar 2011, 10:34

boobtube?

Ya pr0n always sells....

Website · Post by **hamin_aus** » 31 Mar 2011, 10:59

senile wrote:Where to begin?

Film school.

Molean · Post by **Molean** » 31 Mar 2011, 11:17

jamin_za wrote:
senile wrote:Where to begin?
Film school.

And all the good ones are in Cape Town sadly...

What Idea do you have senile and Do you have equipment? Script?

Sojourn · Post by **Sojourn** » 31 Mar 2011, 11:27

Target audience?
Budget?
Self-filming?
Self-producing?
Self-editing?
Distribution media?

Uploading to youtube will not directly get you money, but the opportunity exists that your production could go viral and that might generate opportunities which should be worth it.

Molean · Post by **Molean** » 31 Mar 2011, 11:33

Sojourn wrote: Uploading to youtube will not directly get you money, but the opportunity exists that your production could go viral and that might generate opportunities which should be worth it.

+1

Molean · Post by **Molean** » 31 Mar 2011, 13:25

You there senile? Reply...I want to talk movies...

senile · Post by **senile** » 31 Mar 2011, 13:36

Molean wrote:You there senile? Reply...I want to talk movies...

Yes. I am considering to rather make short clips in a series called Oh shucks it's Senile. Instead of ripping off Schuster the series will be about old-timers setting up young guns for some epic lolz. I have great original ideas that are really funny.

The other idea I have is a post-apocalyptic movie for which I don't have any resources at the moment...

Molean · Post by **Molean** » 31 Mar 2011, 13:45

Sounds interesting! Originality is key and if you can bring it, that's a major plus.

Like the picture of the buggy. Can you go explain more about what your post-apocalyptic movie is about?

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wizardofid · Post by **wizardofid** » 31 Mar 2011, 22:15

Sigh,

Well lets see....

1. No budget
2. No script, just an idea.
4. No editorial, production, script, producer or any related film experience.
5. No particularly attention grabbing ideas.

Go and look on youtube for some short films in particular this one that got a 30 million contract and was made on a 300$ budget.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-dadPWhEhVk.
Now once you have looked that over, go back and think carefully about what you want to achieve how you want to achieve it.This is not simply going onto a forum and saying "Hey I have this cool idea for a movie I want to make."

Unfortunately straight to the point, but a reality is completely in order.This isn't really some thing you wake up one morning and decide I am going to shoot a short amateur film.

Now unfortunately I might have it all wrong from you very short, "Hey I want to be the next Uwe Boll." I want to make a movie post, or you have worked out your story board, written a script, have a decent camera, have actors, have their consent, and nearly a billion other little things I haven't even remotely considered important.

I wanted to be a game developer, still not one, instead I found making models for game developers the next best thing, and I make a little money on the side, just enough so that I can upgrade my modeling software every 3 years or so.I have been doing it for at least 10 hours a week on-of for the last odd 10 years, and still no big break.

What it comes down to, is lots of hard work, research , and opening doors for your self, youtube ain't going to do it all for you.

Siemens · Post by **Siemens** » 31 Mar 2011, 23:10

And you need tigerblood.

RiaX · Post by **RiaX** » 01 Apr 2011, 00:48

how about this, i dont know much about making a movie but i do watch movies. How about outline the ideas, script and genere of the movies you want to make. Then let us give you honest opinions (hopefully clean ones and people wont troll like idiots), then you can move forward from there.

I say this because its expensive and time consuming to do projects like this, and an idea for a movie in your head might be so awesome but to the rest of us its like "meh". Unfortunately for a movie its the opinion of the masses that matters

Tribble · Post by **Tribble** » 01 Apr 2011, 06:15

Didn't NDA (the resident alien) have to make a movie? I know someone in the English thread was talking about having to shoot a movie. I am old and not all the pieces of my brain work any more

senile · Post by **senile** » 01 Apr 2011, 07:28

wizardofid wrote:Sigh,

Well lets see....

1. No budget
2. No script, just an idea.
4. No editorial, production, script, producer or any related film experience.
5. No particularly attention grabbing ideas.

Go and look on youtube for some short films in particular this one that got a 30 million contract and was made on a 300$ budget.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-dadPWhEhVk.
Now once you have looked that over, go back and think carefully about what you want to achieve how you want to achieve it.This is not simply going onto a forum and saying "Hey I have this cool idea for a movie I want to make."

Unfortunately straight to the point, but a reality is completely in order.This isn't really some thing you wake up one morning and decide I am going to shoot a short amateur film.

Now unfortunately I might have it all wrong from you very short, "Hey I want to be the next Uwe Boll." I want to make a movie post, or you have worked out your story board, written a script, have a decent camera, have actors, have their consent, and nearly a billion other little things I haven't even remotely considered important.

I wanted to be a game developer, still not one, instead I found making models for game developers the next best thing, and I make a little money on the side, just enough so that I can upgrade my modeling software every 3 years or so.I have been doing it for at least 10 hours a week on-of for the last odd 10 years, and still no big break.

What it comes down to, is lots of hard work, research , and opening doors for your self, youtube ain't going to do it all for you.

It will be a computer generated movie. What types of models can you make, maybe I can use it?

wizardofid · Post by **wizardofid** » 01 Apr 2011, 07:50

It will be a computer generated movie. What types of models can you make, maybe I can use it?

CGI ?

What software will you be using.?
How long have you been using it ?
Can you model, animate, and render ?

Do you have at least 2500$ + or willing to pay $100+ plus for a custom animated model.

senile · Post by **senile** » 01 Apr 2011, 07:54

1. Yes
2. No
3. No
4. No
5. No

But I will recruit people that want to animate and render to build their online profile like yourself. Still need to work on the logistics....

wizardofid · Post by **wizardofid** » 01 Apr 2011, 07:58

Sigh, you do not have a cooking clue how to either animate, model or render a scene.....But you expect some one to do the work for you, and that for free.

Not going to happen.

Oh lets not forget, you actually can't even mention at least 10 different CGI camera movements without using google.?

Some how I see my self making a better movie, even if you had free help...

Molean · Post by **Molean** » 01 Apr 2011, 08:21

*Listens in the distance* TIIIIIIMBER!

Tribble · Post by **Tribble** » 01 Apr 2011, 08:31

Play nice Wiz. Don't bash his dreams - I have a philosophy. Don't let other people tell you what you can't do. If you believe you can - you will find a way.

wizardofid · Post by **wizardofid** » 01 Apr 2011, 09:16

Tribble wrote:Play nice Wiz. Don't bash his dreams - I have a philosophy. Don't let other people tell you what you can't do. If you believe you can - you will find a way.

Yeah,

"If you direct it, they will help." doesn't have they same ring to it.

Actually dear certain dreams and aspirations, are just that for a reason, you of all people should know that.....

Don't bash his dreams

I am no bashing his dreams. I am bashing his hopes of becoming a viral sensation, for all the wrong reasons.....

I just smell a fail coming on.

Perhaps he can draw little stick men on paper, a million times over then, photograph each page and combine them to make a movie....a bit low tech...or he can open a modeling program...animate the stick figures and render it in a quarter of the time....and use the rest of the time to produce music, credits and wot not....

Website · Post by **hamin_aus** » 01 Apr 2011, 09:44

Tribble wrote:I have a philosophy. Don't let other people tell you what you can't do. If you believe you can - you will find a way.

That's more of a cliché than a philosophy since 99.9999999% of people with dreams eventually catch a wake-up

Tribble · Post by **Tribble** » 01 Apr 2011, 09:51

Most philosophies are clichés. I must be one of those 0.0000001% then. I believe that until you have done it - and failed - it remains possible. And if you fail - try again - or rethink how you did it. Often it isn't that you cannot do it - it is just that your approach was wrong.

wizardofid · Post by **wizardofid** » 01 Apr 2011, 10:12

Tribble wrote:Most philosophies are clichés. I must be one of those 0.0000001% then. I believe that until you have done it - and failed - it remains possible. And if you fail - try again - or rethink how you did it. Often it isn't that you cannot do it - it is just that your approachwas wrong.

How about failing kop oor gat into a industrial meat grinder....

GreyWolf · Post by **GreyWolf** » 01 Apr 2011, 11:01

wizardofid wrote:Go and look on youtube for some short films in particular this one that got a 30 million contract and was made on a 300$ budget.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-dadPWhEhVk.

300$ budget?

Maya / 3ds max : US$2000
Adobe After FX : US$1000
Adobe Photoshop: US$1500
Decent workstation: US$5000

Total (not including camera, sound editing software, extras fees, stock footage etc): US$9500

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