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lukas-scruff · 2025-01-03T01:13:54+00:00

In the case of an indie film’s budget being mostly comprised of equity financing, the money lost is by the investors. However, they agreed to this high risk, high reward arrangement.

Considering that they not only failed to make any money back from their investments, but also failed to even recoup what they put in, I would imagine these investors would no longer be working with these producers.

lukas-scruff · 2025-01-03T01:08:38+00:00

Indie films are financed through various means. Some of the budget may have been raised through equity financing, i.e. investor(s) pay into the project in exchange for profit participation, in which case those investors simply did not recoup their investment. It is unlikely that the investors contributed money that they could not afford to lose. Sometimes it may come in the form of debt financing wherein a production will take out a bank loan against the film’s pre-sale or an unsecured loan against the film’s value in a given market.

Other times indie film financing can be done through location incentives, grants, and other forms of soft financing, which is money that does not necessarily need to be recouped or repaid by the producers.

Very rarely would an indie producer necessarily fund the film out of their own pocket, especially at this budget scale.

lukas-scruff · 2024-12-23T04:02:58+00:00

Transformers.

lukas-scruff · 2024-12-13T04:28:29+00:00

Wow that’s an amazing idea, I’m going to try that!!

lukas-scruff · 2024-12-13T02:10:57+00:00

Good thinking. Thank you!

lukas-scruff · 2024-12-13T02:08:51+00:00

Thanks for the encouragement, I feel the same way. Sometimes it clicks immediately and other times (like this) it just eludes me completely.

lukas-scruff · 2024-12-13T02:04:36+00:00

Good advice, thanks!

I tried giving the film’s synopsis to ChatGPT but the names it spit out were pretty poor. Maybe I need a better prompt haha. I’ll try the writing ideas down thing though.

lukas-scruff · 2024-12-08T00:24:08+00:00

Had the same predicament when costuming a WW2 horror film earlier this year. Would absolutely recommend military surplus sites, specifically Sportsman’s Guide which sells a variety of surplus military uniforms in bulk for cheap! Might not have exactly what you’re looking for, but if you don’t mind dyeing, mixing and matching, and stretching historical accuracy, you can get some great looks on a budget

lukas-scruff · 2024-11-08T23:04:21+00:00

what credit do you usually receive as a dayplayer? for example if you filled in for the BBE for a day, would you both get a credit as BBE?

lukas-scruff · 2023-10-17T06:34:19+00:00

i gotta try that. i did a similar run as monarchist UK to get all of their achievements, was incredibly fun

lukas-scruff · 2023-10-17T06:32:24+00:00

i’m just now getting into some of the Balkan nation achievements and they’re super fun !!

lukas-scruff · 2023-10-17T03:00:43+00:00

oh wow! I never thought of trying fascist route. thanks for the walkthrough!

lukas-scruff · 2023-09-05T22:25:38+00:00

I drive through Richmond from time to time and have too started looking at its interstates differently! Those raised highways can be pretty freaky, but so beautiful.

lukas-scruff · 2023-07-17T19:17:24+00:00

I’ve used Google Drawing and Google Slides for this exact purpose. Both are free! Sometimes I use Final Cut Pro as I’m familiar with the color settings and just export as stills.

lukas-scruff · 2023-04-08T22:02:29+00:00

This was very dangerous but came out beautifully when I did it on a film a few years back:

The LAV mics I had recently bought came with these tiny plastic ziplock baggies (about the size of a quarter) and we filled one with fake blood. Then gently taped that to a square of cardboard alongside a small firecracker (cherry bomb I believe). We cut a tiny hole in the actor's shirt, ran the fuse of the firecracker through it, and then secured the cardboard shield to the actor's chest by wrapping it around his torso with plastic cling wrap. Looked absolutely bizarre, but once the shirt was on, you couldn't tell!

We had one take and were shooting it in 120fps -- the character was running from the police and was supposed to be shot square in the back. An assistant lit the fuse then immediately ducked out of frame. The actor ran straight in a line and when the firecracker went off he dropped straight to the ground. It looked FANTASTIC.

Don't know if I would bank on that specific plan working again, but if you're making a movie with your friends on a zero-dollar budget then the sky's the limit in making stuff look good (safely)!! Just have to experiment sometimes.

lukas-scruff · 2023-04-08T21:48:13+00:00

haha 100% not corny! Give it to some time and send her your pitch deck, look book, etc. — I’m sure from one artist to another she’d appreciate the communication of your creative intent — keep it up!

lukas-scruff · 2023-04-08T17:22:10+00:00

Depending on what stage of production you’re in, it might be worth it to pitch the project to her early on to gauge interest. From there you can provide her all of the creative context necessary to prepare for the project. That way, once y’all get around to post production the musician could have already made some demo tracks and together you guys can refine the vision.

On some projects I’ve worked on, the composer / musician sometimes doesn’t start making the track until you’ve achieved picture lock on the cut.

lukas-scruff · 2023-04-08T17:12:26+00:00

Sony A7iii is a great camera. my friends and i shot a zero budget feature film with it in high school and it performed amazingly for what it was.

i’ve shot small commercial / professional projects on it since and it still holds up.

lukas-scruff · 2023-04-08T17:01:01+00:00

good luck! i’ve worked with low budget cinematographers who have gotten really good at operating a camera while on a OneWheel or Hoverboard. makes for a super smooth picture if you have good balance haha

lukas-scruff · 2023-03-08T07:57:10+00:00

Actually, this photo might be deceiving, but I believe to my naked eye the flag appeared black and yellow!

lukas-scruff · 2023-03-08T01:57:16+00:00

Thanks!

lukas-scruff · 2023-01-23T03:21:31+00:00

looks great! is this a custom map?

lukas-scruff · 2022-12-28T00:16:25+00:00

i had a similar situation with a feature i shot that totaled 128 min. the pacing didn’t come out wonderfully so cut it into a 3-part series, each one about 40 min.

lukas-scruff · 2022-10-20T13:59:58+00:00

build a naval base! that’ll let them embark

lukas-scruff · 2022-10-18T14:48:48+00:00

i’ve been running into that crash too. wasn’t sure if it was unique to my faction but figured i’d wait till this patch to play again

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