Recipe of a Good Movie
Recipe of a Good Movie
The advent of digital media means that you never have to take no
sitting down. Just because you don’t have the budget of a Steven Spielburg,
it doesn’t mean your dreams of cinematic ecstasy are dead. You just need to
learn how to bootstrap your own film. And these days it’s not so hard.
The key, of course, is to have a story worth telling. For real. Always
remember that you are telling a story here. Your plot is your bread and
butter and you are plying your audience’s appetite.
At the same time, though, try to be realistic. You cannot make realistic,
life size dinosaurs in your film. You just won’t be able to do it. But what
you can do is imply dinosaurs. You can do a lot with shadows and after
effects.
You don’t need the fancy equipment. That stuff
