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rhys wrote: decapitated head

It's a tautology....

Maybe you know this: http://filmmaker.com/DUMPS.html

just get the hell out there and make a f*** movie. I am. And also trying to survive. My last movie was such a cr** that I dont wanna show it to anyone. I'm not created to do documents. Anyway: You won't create anything new if you don't know classics. The rules haven't change so much. Shots are shor...

BWP was so "successful" because of a lot of bucks put into marketing and promotion and I'm pretty sure that that was steered by Hollywood from a scratch. No one before and no one after BWP put a lousy and bad made indie into major distribution. Wonder why? The only reason I can imagine is ...

Battle for Algiers Citizen Kane Battleship Potemkin Gone with the Wind Blair Witch OK,A-Must-See,OK,OK... Blair Witch Project?? What the... hell? This insulting fo the rest of the moviest on the list. I would add to your list: "Twelve Angry Men" "American Beauty" "Apocalyps...

I read this thread and Lawriejaffa is right that some films, well... let's say: are not quite good and using teens in roles typical for adults is rather funny but still... there's no better way to gain a mastery then practice. I agree that many thing could be improved. You can't judge this film that...

You need to learn a lot about making web sites. It's chaotic, links don't work or are wrong. Value of many of informations is not big.
Do you have a permission from authors of these articles?

OK - here's another link: http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid ... 4588&hl=en

Harry Potter... I wonder if it's the only book which is read by kids these days

Basic tips about editing? You must be kiddin. Basis of editing would took few pages.
No offence but I can't imagine how someone could hire an 14 y.o. editor without checking his demoreel. If had one you wouldn't need basic tip, would you? The world is going mad.

only the http://sfx.com.pl/vid/bazyliszek_web.wmv worked for me but i got no idea what the speeches are. Damn it! My mistake. I put a wrong link. This is the one with subs. http://sfx.com.pl/vid/basilisk_web_eng.wmv Any chance of loading it onto Youtube or Google vid Santi? It may make it more acce...

Try this one: http://sfx.com.pl/vid/bazyliszek_web.wmv

Thank you. Some PVC pipes, styrofoam, tape and hot glue gun and a lot of madness.

I guess your the only one on this forum who ever tried to watch this

Thanks. I made it in my garage. It's my first puppet that big and it was full of glitches but I'm proud of it anyway. Although there is only head seen in the film it's 2 meters long (with tail) and has legs. I was feeling like some damn Stan Winston (for poor ones). I love old school puppet monsters...

I tried to watch it but I fell asleep after about 2 minutes. Sorry, pal, but this is boring, bad shoot, bad edited video joke (not funny indeed).

They used helicopter minitures on Underworld: Evolution and it turned out awesomely. You realize that there's a "small" difference between hollywood filmmakers and beginner with DV. The minatures they use are quite big, they shoot on high speed 35mm cameras. i havnt filmed it yet, can u s...

Just make simple dark grey (graphite) with low glossiness and specular leve and that should do it. It's an Apache not "Pimp my ride". Miniatures are usualy to small so their movents are to fast. Professionals use cameras set to higher speed so when footage is played with normal speed movem...

Stop Motion? For Christ sake! It would be extremely unnatural movement. CG blades would be better.

Maybe try to make helicopter backlighted (you need proper shots also: low angles with a lot of sky in frame) - as a dark silhouette on bright sky it could be easier to hide details. Make it bit small and out of focus (blurred). Use a lot of cuts and close ups of an actor and let the helicopter be mo...

Hey PDJ... Thanks for positive review. One of the kids wrote the script ( this "troublemaker" who realesed basilisk) and I polished it a bit, removed most of adults (lack of actors and I did't want to use "kids-pretending-adults" style). Janek "the nerd" is my best acto...

Here's the last production of my filmmaking class: http://sfx.com.pl/vid/basilisk_eng_web.avi (with english subtitles) It's an adaptation of an old legend but in modern creature-feature style. We made this short for constest and we won in "Best Directing" cathegory. Actors are 11 y.o. the ...

And when I just thought that I've seen everything... If you are shooting some live event (for example some kind of show at school or theatrical play) whern there's no chance to repeat shots using more then one camera i strongly advised. But to shoot action movie one camcorder is enough. Using more r...

ALove wrote:The Polish?

Not swords but sabres to be correct.

I guess you saw that german fake film from Polish Campaign 1939. We are crazy nation but not so stupid to attack tanks with cavalry. We love blades and I we don't have any restrictions against swords, sabres, knifes etc.

Check this out: http://www.fxguide.com/fxtips-269.html

Very lousy masking.

Editing is not well - continuity is broken in many shots. Lighting could be better.

Ending was scary but almost ruined by this sigh (cliche)