It is what it is.
If people laugh, it’s funny. If they don’t laugh, it wasn’t funny.
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Low-Budget Filmmaking Tip #79
Bingo! A spiny pee fish!
Please don’t ever have a character say “We’ve got company” to announce the arrival of monsters, bad guys, or other undesirables. You can do better. Likewise, “Bingo!” should probably never be used outside of the actual bingo parlor context.
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Low-Budget Filmmaking Tip #77
And this isn’t some European movie, now!
Always know what emotion you want your audience to feel, for every character, for every scene, and at the end of the movie. This is your compass, and as long as you follow it, you’ll always stay on track.
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Low-Budget Filmmaking Tip #63
Not to be confused with “hobo glue,” which is something completely different.
The same technique that will help you write a script will help you complete a movie: bum glue.
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Low-Budget Filmmaking Tip #43
After he destroys the Ring, of course.
You can’t just eject the warp core and hope a matter/antimatter explosion will produce a shock wave that let’s you surf out of the event horizon. That’s stupid. Find a more down-to-Earth solution to problems for your story.
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Low-Budget Filmmaking Tip #41
Except when they’re in the bathroom.
When writing a script, keep track of each character, and always try to know what they’re doing at any given point in the narrative, even if we never see it in the script or in the movie. Doing this helps keep the timing right, and the rhythm of the movie benefits from it.
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