Film Maker Tips

The trick to making a high quality film on a shoe string budget is to borrow equipment. Filming equipment is exspensive and so is the film editing equipment. If you’re at a school, college or university – many academic institutions have state of the art equipment. Make sure you ask before you borrow it!

Select appropriate filming locations. Friends and family may be able to provide you with brilliant on site shooting locations for the cost of including them as a credit in your movie. Reducing costs associated with locations will enable your movie to “travel” around and have great settings and backdrops throughout the entire film.

Integrate the right team. Filming using the best camera man you know, editing using the best editor and producer and following the lead of the best director you can get your hands on will save you time and money in the long run. Anything that isn’t good will have to be redone again which will cost more time and money.

Refine your skills before you shoot. Shooting scenes over and over again is very time consuming, costly and it can also increase the post shoot editing as the editor has to search for correct footage.

Ask an impartial audience throughout film creation. Getting viewer feedback before you finalise your movie is important. You made your film, you will natually like it however, this doesn’t mean everyone else will.