MattHawkins Online - Film Making Forum

The xl1s actually looks a little bit bulkier then the xl1.

ohhh..!! It looks really cool then. To tell you how to film it depends though, whats the scene about? The mood? What kind of impression are you going for?

Hey, it can never hurt to try! My advice would also be to scout some other backup locations, and try and sneak that footage from that one hallway, but don't let it ruin your film.

How do you plan on animating it?

I could if you gave me the money.

Tastey.

Wow. No offense, but that costume stinks. Not in the good way.

Sweet locations!! Looks very very promising. Keep us posted.

ok you've completely inspired me to reinstall after effects. Could you please point me in the direction of a good light saber tutorial, a cloning tutorial would be great also. thanks:) Your going about learning the program in the wrong way. Don't learn it by doing effects, learn the tequinques and ...

Pretty cool stuff you got going there. Nice thinking with the cardboard box, and cool to show members how it was done. Aside from no sound ( Becuase that plays a HUGE role in the effect ) it seemed kind of "slugish." Not sure exactly how, but the force feild it's self didn't seem to have m...

Guns? You can find tons of replicas of what you need in airsoft or blank fireing even. Just depends where you look. Hell, if you wanted to, you could even take a basic blank or airsoft gun, take it apart, and build a new model around it.

My comment wasn't directed to you, I already know you spent a while doing a script. It was sort of a little joke I inserted for fun.

If you just try, credit isn't good enough. Why waste the time, when you CAN play your age, and gain even more credibilty for pulling it off? Example, A world war II film, 14 year olds are all soldiers? Just looks weird.

Thinking that your 15 year old friend was going to give you 2 grand in the first place was a BAD idea. Very bad idea.

Believe it or not, it does - DEPENDING on the role. If your 14, playing a 25 year old, it looks horrible. If your 14, playing a 13-16 year old, it looks fine. Thats saying your acting skills are really good, though. Exactly what CWF said, play your age plus or minus a few years! If your talking abou...

Oh, you can make something before footage. It's called a script

I was just giving you an honost opinion. For the real trailer you should rethink the text.

Well if you want an honost review, it was very poorly done. The text didn't look very profesinal, and we didn't see but one clip of footage. The shot where we did see an image, wasn't cut into the shot right, and was to quick. It does give a teaser idea yes, but from what I see with editing it dosn'...

Spoon, from the minuite gyro got the idea of making an iraqi town, he should have known it was going to be a hell of a lot of work. Make a plan first, building blindly will screw you up really badly, unless you have the location mapped out on paper, with where your going to build what, and how.

He's using a xl1s.

Thats sweet. Cool stuff

Umm.. why are you posting contact info? Everyone on here is a filmmaker, so it's nothing special to talk to one!

Not to really hit eachother hard, but still real enough so it dosn't look faked. Some people can fake throwing or recieving a punch pretty good.

Yeah, I kinda was in the moment , and then seeing that kind of cheesy fight stuff just ended it. Try and get the punches to look forcefull, and maybe even add a slow motion for the drama. It looks pretty good though. Post the full version when it's done.

Oh , about the mic, prehaps an external one then?