MattHawkins Online - Film Making Forum

Announcing S&J Films first Comedy! Filming is set to start on March 5th, and you can expect a trailer by March 12th. "Bounty: 'We're Not Clowning Around'" is the first of a planned series of comical shorts done in a 'reality tv' style. In these films you will be following four bounty h...

we've tried that before, but without any really good equipment to record sound with (besides the camera itself) I didn't like it...

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They have full size Airsoft M16A2's for $19.95

Gyro, what state are you guys in?

Anyone have some good Pistol Soundeffects?

.45
9mm
are the two standard soundeffects that would be needed...

^^^
Was that a "good luck" as in "...your going to need it."

Anyone know of a fx kit or how to easily and safely have an arrow stick in a person?

I'm saying probably only 4 Spartans will be shown at a time, so thats the maximum number of Spartan uniforms I would need. Don't really have a set budget, but I'm trying to keep the price per Spartan down to about $25-$40 a piece. The Persians were really only peasant fools (with the exception of th...

We have to make a one minute comercial (which will equal nearly 75 percent of our grade.) It needs to have some profesional looking props. My Selection for a commercial? My own rendition of the "300 Spartans". Of course it will only be a trailer (with no intention of making the full movie)...

Wildabeast,
Those swords you bought... could they stand up in a battle, if you took it easy with them? or do you know of any way to make them sturdier?

Damn double poster....

Well I'm hoping to have a website up soon that will be updated, I'll probably post here just to let you guys know whats going on as well. Here is the brief run down... Our fist scene will probably start with a narration, showing that the country has been conqured and America has become in essence a ...

it is a great story is it not? Though I may not be having ValJean in our film... how can you do this and still call it Les Miserables? Its based off the story, not an exact copy of it...

right now I'm not giving out any of the script (just because by the time its finished, it will be changed so radically that you won't even recognize it...) but if you want I can give you the brief rundown of the story line (not the back story, but what happens during the film). As to what I am filmi...

I'm announcing my upcoming film (prodcution to start in two weeks) that will be based off the battle scene from Les Miserables, with a major difference. Instead of using 18th century France, my movie will take place in 20th century America. it is unclear as to wether the "revolutionaries" ...

How about the name of the village they are defending...

"Bastogne" or something like that...

see in my opinion the story line were the hero's are the only saviors left for humanity, occurs very often... I'm probably wrong, but thats what it seems like to me...
Yeah, the more I think about it the more there are almost unlimited ideas!!! thanks guys!

woah! I've never been into the "fate of the nation is in the hands of the few". Interesting thoughts though... I was thinking more along the lines of, this is a story about five men that take part in the war, and alter its outcome in thier own special way, but not that if they don't succed...

ever seen a movie were you were simply dropped into the middle of a story? I think I could just do that, have a narration at the begining explaining what started the war, and then pick up our mercenaries story after they've been in the war a while...

Well, I was doing some research last night and I came up with something... could you guys tell me if it is a little farfetched? The country of Monaco would be absorbed by france if the king dies with no heir to the throne (Accoridng to a treaty from 1919). Now as we all know Monaco is filthy rich, b...

@ above- Hey, man just asking for a little help, if you don't like it then don't respond.... nobody else seems to have a problem with it, and I thank them all for their help so far. @mercenary 123- None of my MERC's are blood thirsty assasins, thats a sterotype of MERC's that is not true. Instead th...

What we kind of settled on was the MERC's either taking out a meth lab in the woods, or yeah... a hostage rescue in the church... Now, just too bad we can't blow up the building

I want to do two or three short's about a five man mercenary team this winter break... but to be honest, I feel a little tapped with coming up with some ideas for a plot. My resources for sets are pretty much limited to, a large wooded area, a large are filled with small rocky hill's and my church b...

I want to have a soldier have a near miss (as in a bullet strike a rock he's hiding behind). Now, I want the man to be up and in the ready position when this happens, so naturaly we cant shoot chalk at him while he's sitting there so..... I need to overlay footage of chalk hitting the rock over the ...

$20 for a blank firing gun? you've got to be kidding me, the cheapest I ever saw was a little over $100

I can't afford Blank Firing guns...