Lets Make A Movie

[i.getmoney]

just got out of college and asked myself is making a movie that simple?.. after watchin blair witch/ReC1&2/paranormal Activity, yes it is that easy. Not taking anything away from those movies they were great. I thought the best place to look for an "A-team" of ppl that loved movies which are carried by the plot not the actors was SHH

Personally, Im great at music production, so themes and music would be my part. Does anyone have film experience, after effects skills, or any type of other skills that pertain to making a movie. Once we figure out an "A-team" we'll talk about the plot ectt.. I have alot of music that once you listen to you can just think of a plot that would go well with it, one in particular is http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MJlo0hWnZWc , my beats/music are very similar.

Lets Do It

[Spider-Fan]

What kind of movie are you talking about? Are we talking something like Kickassia that was made by the people at ThatGuyWithTheGlasses, or something bigger? Also, while many people here go to film school (and I myself have written a screenplay), how would you plan on bringing everyone together for this. We at the hype tend to be a poor bunch :csad:

[Wolfwood]

Along with this place, you should check out a place called wreck-a-movie. It's a nice little community that is trying to do what you're doing here.

[Spider-Fan]

Honestly, I wouldn't be against working with a gang of people from here and making something. I have been looking for something to write, and it would prob be fun.

However, the problem is I find it hard to trust that anything would actually get done. I can see a bunch of us getting together, all gung ho about doing it. And then months go by without any progress and it would slowly die.

If I were to dedicate time and energy on something here, I'd have to be sure stuff would get done.

[Wolfwood]

That definitely is an issue, when someone isn't sitting right in front of you it's hard to make sure they're on task.

[Spider-Fan]

Exactly. Which is why I raise the question of how closely involved would we all be, would we want people on set with one another (assuming we needed actual filming), and if we needed people on a set, how would we account for travel.

Like I said, if anyone was serious about doing something, I'd gladly help. But, I'd want assurance it is serious. I'm right now trying to get involved with films anyway I can right now, so I'd be willing (I actually might be a production assistant on a low budget horror movie soon). But, I would have to know it is worth the time.

[Wolfwood]

I would imagine the only people who wouldn't need to be actually present would be writers, effects, music and possibly editing people. Director/Camera/Sound/Actors would all have to be there at the least.

[Spider-Fan]

Exactly, and you'd have to find a way to get all those people together to film something. Which means people moving or crashing with someone for possibly months (I know I couldn't quit my job right now to do something like this...I need money, lol). Other people likely would have to work during it too, which would delay production.

I'd be interested in writing and maybe directing. I do have many ideas for films, and I think I am good at keeping people on task and I have a good eye for story I feel. However, I have not worked much with film/sound equipment, so we'd have to get people who know what their doing if this went anywhere.

[i.getmoney]

yea kickass is def. a path we can go towards, i was just trying to get a feel of if anybody else would be down.. As far as movie ideas, i'm thinking the horrors genre fits most perfectly with an amateur movie crew. Simple ideas work in this genre also. Like i said before im good at everything music and thats usually were I get inspiration for movie ideas. im in NY btw, which i feel is the PERFECT place to film something, the scene changes constantly depending on what your looking for, the people are the most diverse, all in all everything is up for customization in NY. Where's everyone else from?

on a side note I feel like professionally filmed "low budget" movies are whats in right now instead of that big blockbuster feel, so now would be a perfect time to exploit that. and this is something that has been on my mind for a long time, i jus needed the right group to circulate the motivation..and have skills associated with movie production lol

[Spider-Fan]

The pitfall of NY is it is hella expensive and complicated to do any exterior shots in. You'd be better off doing it in somewhere more suburban. I'd agree horror is best bet in making something low budget.

[Erzengel]

I make movies in the bedroom all the time. It'd be nice to make something with more of a storyline and character development.

[PemLam]

I make movies in the bedroom all the time. It'd be nice to make something with more of a storyline and character development.

I don't think he's talking about short films! :awesome:

[Spider-Fan]

I actually have an awesome idea for a film that I think would be fairly cheap and fit this site's clique perfectly. But, I would be afraid of someone stealing my idea...cause it is good :csad:

Also, you couldn't just blind hire departments on here. how you'd need to run something like this is first get like 3 or 4 people together. 1 of them the Director, and a couple of Producers who sole job would be raise money. Then you'd have to either have the director write it or get a script from someone. You can't hire Post-Pro people before you have a script, lol. You need those parts moving, first.

[i.getmoney]

sounds good, im happy im actually having a serious conversation about this with people. I think the first question to ask everyone is who's down and who's in NY?

[i.getmoney]

Even if were not close as far as location wise imagine overcoming that to make a movie, that would be an accomplishment

[Spider-Fan]

Like I said before, I'd be down...but depends on many things and how serious anyone interested would be.

[The Apatow Crew]

I would hardly call BW or PA good movies, but I don't think its that easy as you think. Especially if you want to make a quality product.

But I'd be willing to look for people to help me out and vice vera.

[i.getmoney]

yea i did'nt mean it would be that easy making it but with direction and organization I can def see it being not as stressful as you would think.. are you guys from NY?

[i.getmoney]

with youtube/SSH/facebook&myspace&twitter on our sides now is an ideal time to make something happen, im done with school so i can focus all the time in the world to this...

[The Apatow Crew]

yea i did'nt mean it would be that easy making it but with direction and organization I can def see it being not as stressful as you would think.. are you guys from NY?I live in Pennsylvania.

It can be very stressful if you have a idea and whatnot, but don;t have anyone to help you out at all. Like with me, there is no one around me.


I am also on Facebook and Myspace.

I have 4 full done scripts, plus I'm working on a few and also have a lot of ideas that I haven't even written yet. I mainly dabble in the Horror/Thriller genre.

[Spider-Fan]

I'm an Ohioan. That is the frustrating part, when you have no help to get work done. Places like Ohio are not good for aspiring filmmakers (at least, in the learning process) :csad:

[The Apatow Crew]

I'm an Ohioan. That is the frustrating part, when you have no help to get work done. Places like Ohio are not good for aspiring filmmakers (at least, in the learning process) :csad:Hey, PA ain't any better.

[BeserkerHilf]

I just graduated from college as well with a film degree. I just finished my thesis about a month ago, which was preceded by an entire year of stress to get it right and that was for a 12 minute short where everyone working on it was within a 5 block radius. Regardless of how much praise it's gotten since, it's ****ing aggravating at times.

Don't get all touchy about the next comment, but I find your original post slightly insulting.

Fine, that makes me one of those whiny pretentious film majors who won't find a job right out of college. Wah wah wah.

If you want to make a quality film, then you need to make a film that doesn't just rely on plot and say "**** it" to your characters. otherwise, you're wasting everyone's time and wind up with crap like those "_____ Movies" and when that happens, be prepared for pitch forks.

[The Geek Vault]

Hey I'm in! I love making short films! What if we all met up at NYC comic-con and made like a little mockumentary about SHH?

[AlteredEgo]

Hey I'm in! I love making short films! What if we all met up at NYC comic-con and made like a little mockumentary about SHH?I second this. That sounds amazing.

[The Geek Vault]

Anyone want to work on a script with me?

[The Apatow Crew]

Anyone want to work on a script with me?What kind of script are we talking about?

[The Geek Vault]

well if we went with the idea of doing a mockumentary we could have like a rought script of how the plot would go?

[Spider-Fan]

We're talking a mockumentary about SHH or are we talking superhero fans in general? What exactly is the idea?

[The Apatow Crew]

Yeah, like what SF said, whats the mockumentary suppose to be about?

[Spider-Fan]

If we made a mockumentary about SHH, why would anyone care about the site? The idea I think needs explored more outside it being about SHH or whatever. I mean, what is the hook? What kind of story are we trying to tell? Are we trying to dispell the bad images people get with nerds? Are we lovingly making fun of ourselves? I just don't get the hook for this idea. Is this basically a SHH version of Trekkies?

[The Geek Vault]

I was thinking it could be about a bunch of us meeting up at comic con and just our community.

[Spider-Fan]

So, kind of like what that one girl is doing meeting her facebook friends, only for SHH?

That doesn't sound like it needs a script. What would be the story idea that would need scripted?

[The Apatow Crew]

I was thinking it could be about a bunch of us meeting up at comic con and just our community.Okay, we meet there and from there what?

[The Geek Vault]

true so how do we actually get this thing made?

[Spider-Fan]

Getting people in one location is tough, but depending upon where people live not impossible.

I just think we need to come up with an idea worth working on and scripting. I mean, mockumentary on the site is not a bad idea. It's just, what makes it a mockumentary and not just documenting a bunch of us hooking up?

[The Apatow Crew]

I mean you actually need to come up with a story and whatnot. Not just saying okay, so were gonna get a bunch of people in place and then not what to do.

I mean I think something needs to be more well thought out, before even trying to do anything or asking how its gonna get made. You just cause say okay were gonna do a mockumentary and BS it from there.

[Spider-Fan]

Agreed. If we don't have any idea for a story beyond people hooking up and winging it, it is a documentary. Mockumentaries need to be films in the style of a documentary, but with a scripted purpose in mind.

[The Apatow Crew]

If your just talking to people and hooking up, I wouldn't call that a Mockumentary, it just seem like people meeting up and talking about events. Sorta like what a documentary is.

Now say if people were at a Convention where you were meeting and greeting people and I don't know all of a sudden a monster attack happens all of a sudden ALA Cloverfield happen. They made you need a written script for it. You then could film it that was in a Mockumentary.

I don't know, I'm just pulling stuff out of thin air. LOL.

[Spider-Fan]

You could make a mockumentary about people hooking up and such, but they couldn't be real people. They'd have to be characters, and there would have to be some sort of story unfolding in the documentary style. We don't necessarily need a monster or anything, lol. Just an underlying story and purpose. Like Borat.

[The Apatow Crew]

I know, that's why I was just pulling things out of thin air, it was the first thing that popped into my head. But if its low budget, something like you said.

[Spider-Fan]

Exactly. Now, hypsters hooking up at a convention for comics is a nice backdrop for the story, but I feel like the convention needs to be somehow symbolic to the overall point/theme of the project. With the digital age of the internet, and the changing dynamic in friendship to being more remote, doing something that shows the difference between real life interaction and message board interaction is cool. But, I kind of fear it would be too similar to that internet series right now about the girl meeting all of her facebook buddies in real life.

[The Apatow Crew]

Thats why add something else to it. At the start make it out to be one type of movie, where all the friends meet each other, then half way in it drastically turns into a different movie. It turns into a suspense/thriller. Like someone is after them. I mean you could go from there and it wouldn't seem like that one thing. I mean its real I guess you could say and something that could happen.

Here's a good Mockumentary that doesa good job of mixing two things.

t432rePirH8

And the person doing this is the person who was been mocked or made fun of on the website and even banned. I know it might sound cheesy, but hey.

It adds that certain little something to it.. While making it real and yet not.

[The Geek Vault]

What i'm thinking is that we come up with a basic plot. But then use a lot of real life things on the hype in the film. As for characters we all just act like ourselves but exagerate the personality types.

[The Apatow Crew]

It sounds like you wanna write a fanfic. LOL. No offense.

[The Geek Vault]

It sounds like you wanna write a fanfic. LOL. No offense.
haha I wasn't really trying to go down that route. It's so hard to make a film when we're not all together though. But if we actually pull this off we win at life.

[AlteredEgo]

i don't think it sounds fanfic-ish. all you need is a good plot and interesting characters. i think it could be great.

[The Geek Vault]

thinking about when I go on the skype hype I think we have a lot of interesting people who could be awesome characters in a mockumentary.

[Spider-Fan]

I think you need the story premise before you can move forward with bringing people together. Bounce ideas off me in PMs, and I'll help you formulate a story.

[AlteredEgo]

Same, I'd love to help come up with a plot.

[hippie_hunter]

I've always had this idea of a Night of the Living Dead remake that focused a lot more on the psychological effects of the people barricading themselves in the house.

[The Apatow Crew]

I think you need the story premise before you can move forward with bringing people together. Bounce ideas off me in PMs, and I'll help you formulate a story.I know, its like you even need a idea or a story first to present something to people to get them interested.

You can't just dive into it head first, with a simple thought of something.

[AlteredEgo]

So I think I may have just come up with a loose plot, but it's late, so I think I'm gonna head to sleep now, let it ruminate a little, and then see how I feel about it still in the morning.

[The Apatow Crew]

Okay, do that then.