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I'm not sure I follow your need to rent gear out to your own production company. I think when you're doing low budget stuff you take what you can get, and if it's your own equipment there's nothing in festival submission etc that makes you justify how you shot your film. The most festivals will ask for is music licenses and MAYBE some other legal paperwork but yeah...when you're low budget i doubt you need to worry about that stuff. Or maybe I'm missing the point (I probably am). Given it's your production company though I don't see what issue you're trying to avoid.
As for renting to others...depends what kind of gear you're giving out. I would take a pretty big security deposit though, draw up some pretty serious contracts. Especially regarding lenses and things of that nature. I don't do it personally, most of my cinematographer friends don't rent out their equipment, they only use it themselves and they will just let their camera crew on a given set use it. Long story short, if you really want to rent out your equipment to make some money, do so but by not having your equipment you're denying yourself the chance to use it yourself.
As for selling your personal gear to your corporation, absolutely you can. Not only can you, I highly recommend it. I mean I don't know how it works in the States but here if you're making a movie, you budget for for instance camera rental. Then you rent the camera from your production company. Office space? Home office rented to your production company from you personally.
It's hard to make a living as a film creator here. I'm not saying everyone owns all their own equipment, but what ways you can make sure the money comes back to you you take.
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Now, back to the keyboard. Where did I put my monkey suit?
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I just watched "popatopolis" ... I could probably take an outing as "alan smithee" and flip a b softcore/horror movie real fast, pay for a bigger movie...
funny thing was i never used to use it till i read a script noticing how they were using it to enhance a scene (it was probably a shooting script too) and i was like "aw yea man, thats how you do it!" and then i had every other dialogue using it thinking it would make shit better.
what gives.
or is this one of those things where its basically "oh but its scorsese/sorkin/tarantino they are allowed to do that but you're not." type bullshits?
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What do you think about that, eh tough guy?
But no seriously its a great film except for the "and then this happened" ending which is bullshit added because God forbid you had a downer ending.
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The conclusion i am coming to is yes, the egos in play matter, as does what stage of production the film is at...later scripts have more direction in them when you read multiple drafts...
there's a bit of that, but also scorsese and tarantino usually write or co-write their own scripts, so things like parentheses, stage directions, little notes, and weird bits of quirk are basically acceptable not because "theyre them" or anything but because they're going to be referring to these scripts themselves rather than handing them off to someone else who might have different ideas for how to shoot a given scene.
This. Also @AnActualBear it is probably one of those cases. Cases where the director writes their own script they get free reign. Kubrick for instance didn't particularly like scripts, he wrote most of his important stuff in prose and the script was extremely bear bones since he would make the executive creative decisions later on.
You know what movie has a surprisingly read-able script? Children of Men. Pretty sure it's easy to find in public domain, you guys should check it out if you haven't.
scripts are hard to find as hell these days on the internet, used to be mypdfscripts had a brilliant robust collection (all scanned originals) until they got hit by lawyer letters and then a studio started selling un-scanned scripts for kindles that no one is buying.
but yeah you're right about the children of men script.
http://www.dailyscript.com/scripts/children_of_men-script.pdf
Not done, merely uninspired as of late.
in an old short i wrote with two other people that never got produced, i had a line that was something like the character mentioning how everything worked out fine in dog day afternoon because thats what john travolta told her. (they were planning on a robbery, crime caper way) i thought it was a great random line but the other two thought i was insane and kept removing it every time they went to rewrite. assholes.
@Deaderinred, I think it is a nice throw-away line.
might need to upgrade the RAM but it should be okay
also EDITING ON A 44 INCH HDTV YES YES YES
and got an offer to join the writing staff of a comedy puppet show
think battle of the bloodbath might be a thing I should make
Then you should fit right in with the current crop! Burrrrrrrrn.
That dude is ludicrously nice. And I can't imagine a better home for you than Troma. Love that place, and your shit's a great fit.
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What you can do for music rights is get a festival license...something to that degree. In these cases it's wise to go to the music company very much saying "I have money but we are not professional" (even if you see yourself that way) and sometimes you can work out discounted licenses that they have for amateur filmmakers and considering how expensive they are...get it. Then again, this was in England, so it might be different. But depending on where you're screening your movie...I would choose to care or not care about the rights too much. If it's a festival you'll need the rights to submit it (sometimes) and if it's just on your vimeo page you can probably get away without it as long as you credit it. Worst case scenario you'd maybe get someone saying "don't use that song" and you just go into the edit again and replace it or go about acquiring the rights.
Don't know yet. Straight to video or premium movie channels, probably. Depends if I actually end up shooting it or just sell the script.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/writersroom/scripts
It's got loads of scripts for TV, radio and films they've produced, and they include soaps, dramas, science-fiction, sketch comedy shows, children's shows, etc.
It's really the best kind of resource for anyone wanting to write scripts.
On that note, if anyone finds any sources for TV mini-series scripts I would be much obliged. Stuff like John Adams, or Rome or Spartacus and the like.
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