Pro tip, indie filmmakers: After you've lost precious blood, sweat and tears making your indie film passion project, don't blow it when it comes to getting your baby out there! Let big time producer Wallace Cotten show you what not to do — namely, let your goofball actors muck it up — unless you want to get stuck submitting your independent feature film to international film festivals in VHS form. Or "HD-VHS." It's not called "submitting" for nothing, people.
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Thank god for post-production. After the travails of casting, owning the director's chair and wrangling two unruly actors, the final shot is done. No more sets and arguments, it's now all about catching Zen in the edit room. Wallace Cotten begins to edit his masterpiece. Cotten recalls his favorite part of the post-production process and that means he doesn't have to see some particular people again - at least offscreen. Or does he? Much to his dismay, Don and Lizard Man are there to help out with "final cuts" and songs for the soundtrack. Watch it all play out in Episode 4 of Modern Imbecile's Idiot's Guide To Making Movies For Dummies presented by Slamdance TV!
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You've cast your low budget indie feature and navigated the ins and outs of directing a love scene. But how do you, intrepid independent filmmaker, wrangle two unruly actors bent on going off-script for the all-important emotional climax of your opus? Find out in Episode 3 of Modern Imbecile's Idiot's Guide To Making Movies For Dummies presented by Slamdance TV!
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So you've got your low-budget indie feature cast, for better and most definitely for worse. What next? Learn how to DIRECT the thing, Modern Imbecile-style, in the latest installment of Idiot's Guide To Making Movies For Dummies presented by Slamdance TV, in which Don and Lizard Man show Wallace the finer points of shooting a love scene.
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With indie cinema season kicking off next month in Park City, Slamdance TV is here to help with a five-part behind-the-scenes primer on making movies (for dummies) by Slamdance vets Kevin M. Brennan (It's a Disaster) and Doug Manley (Modern Imbecile's Planet World). First up this week, exclusively on Movieline: How to cast your low-budget indie feature, survive audition ad-libs, and find "yesterday's Robert De Niro, today."
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