MattHawkins Online - Film Making Forum

Another thing! The guy who is loaning all those weapons (2 Kar-98's, 1 M-1 Carbine Wood Stock, some uniforms and helments) he let me fire off 10 rounds from his Carbine; and if anyone else has ever fired one, that had alot more kick than I thought. So whoever is going to have a M-1 in their next mov...

It's not really that big of a deal either, at first I thought it was the shadow of the couch, but then I saw it move when it got hit; but still, a great video none the less.

Very cool, the only thing that was bad was that you could still see the shadow of the box, good luck with that!

What happened to it in the first place?

I found a few good ones, the rest crappy.

Yea but I don't think they had pines and oaks in the Pacific either, lol. And besides I already have it scripted for Europe, I'll just try to avoid it; and if you see it: TOO BAD!

I could probably make a digital smoke nade.

Very nice; the pouch on the helment is a very nice touch. Much better than my costumes; the only other things I'll have on mine are just ammo pouches on the duty belts.

HOLY cr** THAT WAS GOOD! The only problem I can see was seeing the camera man in the reflections, also the constint looking at the door in the beginning, and ending was a little long. But it was very scary; I jumped when I first saw that leg come out (it loses it power after the first time), and see...

Life without death was a good one.

Well I started a new thread for my movie, mostly because the one JUST for the script started to be filled with stuff not with the script (my bad!); if you have read it yet: The Enemy Within Script Anyways to start off, here are some more pictures of the set that I took; again it got dark fast so I d...

Okay I'll start a new thread with this cr**; and it's glad to hear that seeing innocent animals being ran over by the train is funny. Also If it is realistic to have them call in the airstrike then I will keep it, thanks. And I'm 16.

If your blue screening a low budget movie, you can't really do dynamic camera moves, instead you have to depend on artificial camera pans and stuff like that. When you try moving the camera with a blue screen the same image moves with the camera, so you do the color keying and save re-import, then y...

Small firecracker (like a black-cat)
Metal wire
Car battery

You wouldn't really need a car battery, you could use a 9 volt; that's want I- I mean my friend used for some squibs. I'd try it, but I need to find some fire crackers; I don't see much until around the New Year or the 4th.

'The Rising' was a zombie novel by Brian Keene.

That sounds better than The Rise.

I do have some of the weapons: Okay, I bought a M-1 Carbine magazine ($21.00, HOLY cr**! that's alot), and the guy ringing me up starts talking to me about what guns he has like how he has a M-1 Carbine himself and has two Kar 98's (ones longer than the other, because one's older than one, I don't q...

yeah it can help make a film look really amatuer.

Only if you don't know how to use it.

Just get a DV cam, or get a Canabus.

Here are some pictures of the place I will be filming (AKA: The Set). I only got a few because it got dark pretty fast. http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v625/maj_barnes/Sets/DSC00075.jpg The tank scene will take place here. To the left side in the woods is the treehouse. http://img.photobucket.com/...

Not as bad as just record the stuff on the camcorder and leaving it be; that's what I did until I got a VCR in my room, then I went on to computers, and then...

Unearthed sounds cool, besides The Rise sounds like some kind of soft porn movie...

Well, the characters in Zombie Island are a little too dynamic when it comes to their personality. Childs at first is not wanting any violence then is so ready to kill Peter (no matter how much a jerk he is). Also the Reverend, why would he kill himself? If he's a reverend, then that means he's a Ch...

Somebody just shoot me right now. Okay: http://photobucket.com/albums/v625/maj_barnes/th_tank.gif From seeing other posts it sounds like this is going to be a shoot 'em up gangster (not gangsta') movie, and I doubt they'll let them carry guns around in public. Besides, the blue screen can help, but...

The whole gun range deal. You'd think in Canada they would have gun ranges. Besides I don't really want stuff that sounds like whistles and pops, I'm trying to get stuff like SPR had, like random winds and buzzes, but that zipper deal sounds like a good idea: now I'll be listening to my zipper for ...

You don't need lighting, just split the different channels for color on the character and decrease or increase untill it matches, just like in photoshop. Besides, where else are you going to find a 1920's town?