ya know, depending on your friends to show up and be actors sucks.  If only I had money to hire actual actors, I wouldnt be nearly as stressed out.

hahhhaaha

well you have to find friends who WANT to act in your movies.....or else theres not motivation

after i finish one project, everyone wants to be in the next one.


Then when it comes time to shoot and I ask them to give me their schedule when they can shoot, they committ.  Then comes the day and they say "ohh..i ..i think im going to the beach..." 

they want to, but when it comes down to it they want to be on screen but not do any work.  I hate this.  When your friends have crazy schedules, its near impossible to get say 5 of them at the same place at the same time for an entire day.

I agree, I have these great ideas but none will do them for "we might get arrested" or "i don't like him, i won't act with him" and other stupid crap that my friends make up even though they can't act their way out of a closet. I freakin' hate the process but I don't want to work with the druggy, low life, gothic, skateboarding morons at school so I will have to do. At least I have saved enough money to fund my own projects and I can be very convincing and aggressive while directing but my friends hate is I make them do the lines over and over and over again tell I feel some sort of intensity and the chance of reaching that level is like hitting a three-pointer at half court while playing the game for the first time. It is a lucky shot but sometimes it goes in and you have a winner unforunetely, it is usually not on camera and you never get it and feel bad. Well that is my couple pieces of mindless jabber, night.

If you are shooting digitally film ALL THE TIME! Even when it is rehearsal. That way if some greatness comes you have it and can delete the other junk.

I want to write a COOL low budget script. The action script my friend and I were gonna make bombed when the snow melted. So i am moving on to try and find a new plot line that can be filmed with a minimum number of actors.

that's a good idea...

i figure, if Evil Dead can become such a hit, than there's an off-chance a coupla kids can make something relatively similar....

if not better!!! mwahhahhaha!!

.....but i'm getting ahead of myself.

that was SO not my fault....scott is simply bad at handling sharp things....soo....

muzzle flashes are difficult, but we should actually try out a gun fight with them and see how it turns out....

sword fights....agreed, to many nicks and dents.....we need to come up with a good way of making wooden ones look like real ones.....

excellent.....so i was thinking....kenny's got Adobe Photoshop 7.0 or something....
since i have more patience than him, i've got some ideas for special effects....all i gotta do is get the program...

like using the program in the same way he made lightsabers of drum sticks to make sticks that look like swords look like...um.....swords....only better...or something like that

Director is what I want to be. Nothing but that. Noting can be harder than that.

I remember this:

"If I am a dreamer. I'm not the only one."

I once filmed a black-and-white short with tiny toy aliens.  I did a lot of the voices too.  It was really funny.  If I ever find that video tape, I'm going to have to upload it to the internet for all to see...  

...and risk demolishing your reputation.  Just kidding.  I'd love to direct some day,

I've made three or four short films with only two actors. There are two hitmen films, a zombie film, a reality tv show in space (three people), a martial arts tournament flick and a killer movie.

Me and my friend (only two of us) have made quite a few shorts. We're working on our longest right now, a half hour samurai flick. We do pretty good, we shoot real fast and just get whatever we think will work, then I edit it all together at the end. So far we're at the 15 minute mark (non-stop fighting and such, yay!) and we've come out of it intact. Though I did take a good hit to the head that knocking me into the side of a tree. One for the blooper reel.

As soon as I head off to college then it'll really start, because I'll have more people to use--I mean, hire. With just two people it's hard to do anything but kill one another.

I made a short flick where I only had three people. It was just a kill after kill script, so after the hero killed the two people I had to dress the other two guys up in different clothing then kill them again. And the short turned out to be only about 5 minutes.

That's what we did one time, only it was just me. And I was wearing the same red jacket every time. We just said they were clones and went from there.