And wear boots!
Find out before you go how far a hike it is out to the location. Make sure everybody knows — you don’t want to lose an hour hiking at the wrong part of the day.
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Low-Budget Filmmaking Tip #104
You really need those fingers.
It is okay to call a halt if you don’t feel a pyro or other effect is safe, or you suddenly see something that looks very wrong. It may screw up the shot, but wasting time or money is far preferable to wasting lives.
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Low-Budget Filmmaking Tip #103
“…This one’s eating my popcorn!”
Punchlines work best at the end of the joke. This goes for a verbal punchline, a visual punchline, a story punchline, whatever. Set it up with the audience, let them build up a little interest in the Anticipation Bank, and then deliver the punchline.
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Low-Budget Filmmaking Tip #102
We can replace interns!
Tape every cord down, except for under the tripods and C-stands, lights, etc. You don’t want people tripping over cords.
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Low-Budget Filmmaking Tip #101
Avoid international castigation.
Unless there’s a voice coach involved, really think about it before you use non-native accents. People are usually excited being in a movie and will go overboard and their lines pretty much become unintelligible.
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Low-Budget Filmmaking Tip #100
Plus, celebrating is fun.
If you find out it’s someone’s birthday, take five and congratulate ’em, as a crew. Birthdays are fun.
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Low-Budget Filmmaking Tip #99
Safer, too.
If you don’t have a Big Giant Machine to film (Big Giant Machines are very expensive props, so no one will blame you if you can’t get one), film people complaining about the sound of the Big Giant Machine just off-screen and then add the sound in post.
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Low-Budget Filmmaking Tip #98
Or buy a typewriter, ya pansy!
You don’t need fancy software to write a script — any word processor will do. The thing to remember is that no matter how much you spend on software and learning curve time, you’re basically producing a document that’s supposed to look like it came out of a 1920’s typewriter.
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