One-night music stand.
Don’t marry your temporary music score. It’s temporary for a reason.\
Category: Postproduction
Child of tip – post production
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Low-Budget Filmmaking Tip #57
Noodles are for lunch!
You can noodle on a project forever. There will always be things you can fix, always things you can nudge, but that’s not progress — that’s stalling.
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Low-Budget Filmmaking Tip #40
Or even a Furby!
Anyone who thinks animation has to be hyper-realistic in order to be emotionally connective never cried watching Bambi. Conversely, the more realistic an animation is, unless it is indistinguishable from real life, the creepier it is, even if it’s supposed to be happy. At best, you can achieve a creepy sort of happy. Usually, that becomes a “fail.”
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Low-Budget Filmmaking Tip #30
Think of it as “Contemplative Time”
If you can’t cut around bad acting, the best you can hope for is to be saved by your cutaways, and by the reaction shots of other actors. Another alternative is to rewrite the scene on-the-fly to be one of those moody contemplative scenes with billowing cloth and slow-motion cigarette smoke. I suggest you grab lots of cutaways, though.
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Low-Budget Filmmaking Tip #17
Delete Current Project? (yes | delete | nuke | sorrow)
Do not upgrade your system in the middle of a big project. You can wait until it’s finished, and then do your upgrade. This includes OS upgrades, CPU upgrades, application upgrades, etc.
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