1200fps at Micro-Budget Prices
August 20, 2008 by clive · 3 Comments
Just three weeks ago I was having a conversation with James McAleer, our resident expert on cinematography, where I was predicting the evolution of HD technology into high spec SLR stills cameras… and guess what, it’s already happened and in a way that’s both astounding and affordable. That’s how cool we are at $1000, we can often predict stuff that’s already happened! LOL
Basically, Casio have just released a $900 35mm SLR, the Casio Exilim Pro EX-F1, which will shoot short bursts of JPEG images at 60fps… and MPEG4 HD at 1200fps… no, I didn’t mistype that, they really do have an off the shelf camera that will shoot a genuine ONE THOUSAND TWO HUNDRED FRAMES PER SECOND! Yikes! Read more
A Diamond In The Rough… by Unk
August 10, 2008 by clive · 3 Comments
By Unknown Screenwriter
Thanks to Clive for asking me to come on board the 1000DollarFilm.com crew. Not many people know that I actually come from a micro-budget film background. Did I say micro-budget?
Scratch that. What’s lower than micro-budget? Hmmm. No budget? Whatever I could scrape up? Read more
You Can’t Teach a Screenwriter to Say “I was wrong”
July 14, 2008 by clive · 6 Comments
In my twenty years as a professional writer and the last twelve as a screenwriter, I’ve yet to meet a stupid writer. Pretty much all of them are literate, intelligent people who can string together a pretty neat sentence.
Running along side the general intelligence of screenwriters is the abundance of available information about screenwriting. Let’s face it, there is a lot of it… and it ranges from the downright daft to the pretty good.
It’s also true that more people than ever are trying to write screenplays.
Therefore, with all these smart people writing screenplays and so much information about how to do it well, there ought to be hundreds and possibly thousands of hot screenplays doing the rounds… and yet there aren’t. Talk to any producer and they will tell you the same story… there is still a shortage of great screenplays out there. In fact, you only have to look at what is making it into production to see that even at the top end, a great screenplay is the exception rather than the norm.
So, why is this? Why are so many smart people, with all the information they need to do the job well, failing to write great movies? Read more
