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An Offer to Disgruntled Filmmakers Who Feel They Missed Out on a Cheap SCARLET....

Could this be a start to a REDUSER feature? Well see. If my scripts were done I would be send them, but then again I'm not a hater so maybe i don't count.

Do have to say that couple years back when I bought my HVX200 and redrock before they were huge, it gave me my in on the industry because I was the only person in the market with one, and would rent it for low cost plus I would AC my rig because no one else knew how to jerry rig the damn thing properly. So there is something to be said about owning the camera even if all you have is dreams.

Owning one helps to learn everything about them and the workflow the hard way, shooting and failing.
 
If you are considering Morocco as location, I will take care of crew accommodations, plus I will provide all the local crew, transportation, filming permit and of course some equipment probably i get my epic by then.
 
Meryem Ersoz! Oh Captain my Captain!

Now THIS is the way to silences the negative attitude!

I started with an HV20. And I shot EVERY SINGLE DAY for a year. Then, I saved my money for a lens adapter so I can shoot footage with some sick bokeh all while upside-down. Bought myself an old 50mm 1.4 lens. Built my own LCD to monitor footage. Shot EVERY DAY still. Starting shooting events. Started making money. Still was editing and shooting on the side while working a fulltime job. Started my own company. Got DSLRs and kept on shooting, editing and learning. Worked my ass off to get to where I'm at and I still have goals to where I want to go. One thing I didn't do during the whole process. I never complained.

The harder I worked, the luckier I got. Plain and simple.

Camera NEVER made me a better shooter. The camera NEVER made me a better editor. The camera NEVER made me a better storyteller.

Thank you Meryem for encouraging people that it's the ideas that move people more than the tools!
 
Hey Meryem,

You see old Lackey before me, we put one of our Epics into his film and now look at him, he got scooped up from Cape Town and is now working in Dubai with us and we are onto the next at the end of the month!

For those interest we have a Scarlet on the way so your dreams are amplified... We like what you are dong BTW...

Cheers
 
Meryem, I so wish you are in Europe somewhere...such a human aproach and a big chance for a lot of us who cant afford scarlet x..you are a man..

I wish you were here..
 
This is such a fantastic thread i would love to be involved I don't have much but ill go work anywhere in any position even if its just getting coffee former U.S. army and graduating from film school next month
 
I'm in France and have been doing that for 8 years as a non profit organization. It's good to see others do the same.

As a screenwriter / director, I'll definitly send you some scripts and some pitches.

If the script is good, as a non-profit organization I can offer in Paris, a week of Epic and MX, with pretty much every regular accessories you might think of, super maxi jib 15ft with Varizoom cinemapro, Janjib 120, dollies (spyder, dino column, goblin) and mse tracks (4 straights, and a 8 ssection full circle), slider, editing and grading suite on CS5.5 and Resolve.

With your head departement and my usual crew of course.
 
Nice work Meryem... er but Im not disappointed by the announcement.... :P

I have now read well over 170 to 180 scripts in the last 4 years and there should be no surprise that... MOST SUCK when it comes to story... or at least follow this pattern:
1. LA scripts all have excellent structure and shootable formulas... (most come from screenwriting classes) but they almost all have unusually thin characters with often weaker dialogue.
2. Everywhere else in the USA usually lacks the structure above, but have excellent characters and dialogue. They almost all need story help and structure.

It all starts with a GREAT script...(ive only found/optioned 4 great stories out of 175 so far - 2 will cost over $50M to make- period films - 2 that can be shot for under $200K)
After you find that great script, don't forget it is followed by:
A. lots of smart scheduling and budgeting, followed by
B. lots of unpaid prep, followed by
C. a killer casting director, followed by
D. everything else that comes with making an indie film. time and effort

Good luck guys!
 
Josh Beadle said:
Ask yourselves: "What would Robert Rodriguez do with $8K when making his first feature"

Click to expand...

Best line in that clip: "See those guns, they're water pistols. The other two are real guns we borrowed from the cops".
 
... well I'm the middle of writing a feature that will be shot here in NYC, mostly in Queens.

If you want to know about me, an example of my writing, directing and vision is here http://vimeo.com/14144904
 
What he said, but send your pitch to me. Also, I'll look at "Pulp Fiction", rip offs.
 
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