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General powell11
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im wanting to make a movie, but i dont have any ideas, but NO!!!! love stories plz, ill see what i can come up with, plz help give me ideas! thanks in advance

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Yodaman Jer
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You could make a movie about this homeless guy who finds houses and fills them up with massive amounts of spray cheese. That'd be funny.

Or, to be more serious, you could make a movie about animals. Chipmunks are a good subject. They are fascinating creatures.

OK, seriously, it all depends on what you like doing. If you like doing ninja-style movies, work on those. Write ideas for different movies involving ninjas. Or, if regular life is more your taste, write stories about that and figure out ways to make movies from them. Just a thought.

Good luck making movies!

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I recommend looking at IndyMogul.com and their YouTube page. They're great with video tips and CHEAP special effects. Erik Beck is a great guy who understands videos. Check them out!

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yes, indymogul is great, i really dont need help with special effects, i pretty much got them down, plus i just got a better editor so, it should be all good, but i just need stories, i cant think of any

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Matt Rock
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It's difficult to help you out with a story without knowing your strengths, weaknesses, budget, and tools. I'm a proper idea factory lol, I come up with too many ideas to actually work with. There isn't a day that goes by where I'm not jotting down some new idea for a game, a book, or a movie on paper in a text file, and most of them end up getting forgotten about or molded into some other thing. Maybe I should pitch some of those ideas to you to see something actually come from one of them, lol. But what are you good at doing genre-wise, and what are you bad at? What are you shooting on? Is this a feature length project or a short?

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Oh no...I actually agree with Matt on something...

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Yeah, I think Matt made some valid points. We need some pointers so we know what direction you want to go in.

From a completely unguided perspective, though, you might want to consider horror. It can be set in "real life" so you don't need any weird sets (and you might be able to borrow a castle for an evening or something). And the "monster" need never actually show itself so you don't need to worry so much about special effects: you just need to have a very tense script and a real talent with the camera to create the right atmosphere.

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Kiwi is spot on, horror movies are a walk in the park. Love stories, as lame as they are, are the easiest movies to make. All you really need is a guy, a girl, and some MiniDV's, lol. And regardless of how overdone the story is, people will still want to see it.

Guy meets girl, girl doesn't like guy, but guy works with girl's friend and gets dating tips. Meanwhile girl is dating jerk, and thinks he's awesome, but really he's a jerk (go figure). Guy convinces girl that jerk is a douche, girl falls in love with guy, jerk exacts revenge but guy and friend team up to stop him. Guy and girl live happily ever after. Fin.

^ one of numerous formulas for a romantic comedy, it doesn't get easier than that lol. Not only will that make you a fortune, but it might even win you an oscar, lol.

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Or guy meats girl, guy and girl fall in love, guy and girl fight, guy and girl break up, guy and girl somehow fix it, guy and girl get together again. The end.


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Matt Rock: Thanks for posting, I am pretty much no budget, but I can see what I can come up with, as for length, short. If you watch my films you can see what im good with i guess. I have a forest behind my house that i can use, plenty of guns, blood, makeup. I have a sony handycam DCR-HC28, its a pretty nice camera, it has a lot of features, if you watch my films you can see where i live and look at the setting around, and i can also go into my town and film also, there is a river going through it, and a bridge going across. Its kinda a small town 18,000 population, located in a river valley, and its an old type of town, not new, no skyscrapers or anything like that. Thanks for the response everyone!

Edit: NO love storys.

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I love psychological thrillers, you know those films where you start to wonder if you know what is actually real any more!
They are cool, if you could do that you'd be cool

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I was looking at the forums on a site about the 10th dimension, this guy was talking about a time he nearly drowned when he was about 5 years old: he was cycling his trike around the pool in his yard and fell in. He blacked out and then felt as if he drifted up out of the pool and flew into the house, he could see his sister reading a book and called out to her. She came outside and found him, she called her parents and they dragged him out of the pool.
He later found out that when he was in the pool his sister really was reading a book, and she thought she heard him shout her name, that's why she went outside. Spooky!

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OBese87: that is a spooky idea, then what happens to the guy searching the forums?

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Try a movie where a homeless guy drowns but then somehow yells out to a girl with his mind, then they fall in love. Unfortunately, they break up due to the homeless guy's obsession with filling houses with spray cheese. The plot is resolved when she buys some ninja chipmunks to eat the cheese.
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KYP: haha, that would be..... random, but i like how you combined everyones idea, into 1

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Or guy meats girl, guy and girl fall in love, guy and girl fight, guy and girl break up, guy and girl somehow fix it, guy and girl get together again, girl leaves guy for Chuck Norris. THE END.

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or GUY leaves girl for Chuck Norris, and call it "Brokeback: Texas Ranger."

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@ Matt Rock:

That'd be funny, although slightly off-color for the younger generation.

GP11:

Nobody can write a movie for you on the spot. Movies require scripts to be written, edited, re-written, re-edited, filed, lost, found, and then re-edited again just for good measure. Not to mention coffee. You needs lots of coffee to stay awake and flesh out your idea.

Let's say you like to do spy movies...

This guy has lost the secret MICROFILM and needs to get it back from the BAD GUYS (can be up to a whole army of them, if you so desire). The BAD GUYS are located in a completely remote part of the world, so the good guy needs to rent helicopters and machine guns, not to mention woo about 10 ladies along the way. The ever-popular hero then receives news that the BAD GUYS have moved to another part of the world, and so on and so on until the end of the movie.

Bad plot I know, I just wrote that as an example. Also, it depends on your hardware and software on what exactly you can do in a movie.

Do you have a green screen? What about lights? Make-up? Money? You need a budget, even if it's low. If it's low, look into Indy Mogul and they'll show you how to create cool props for nearly no money at all. That's why I recommended them in the first place. Your movie is going to need props, no matter what the plot is.

We need to know what you can do with your camera and software before we can help you write a movie. And when we do help you write it, you better include us in the credits.


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Quote: "Not to mention coffee. You needs lots of coffee to stay awake and flesh out your idea."

I don't agree with that, Yodaman.
I'm currently writing the script for a short film I'm going to film around Christmas.
Its about a little boy who gets mad at his family, and writes a letter to Santa asking him to "punish the bad people", but...
He misspells "Santa" as "Satan"
then...
All hell breaks loose. (pun intended.)
And I NEVER drink coffee.

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Omega, your idea sounds hilarious!

I just threw the coffee in there as a joke, honestly, but there have been times when I wished I had some while I was writing stuff down.
I'm a coffee addict. That may explain a few things. LOL.


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To quote Jeff Duham:
Quote: "Jeff: Whats the matter with you?!
Peanut: Its the caffeine! Coffee, coffee, coffee! MMMMMMMMM!
Jeff: you didn't have any coffee.
Peanut: Okay, I admit it, it was crack."


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Yodaman Jer: i wasnt asking for anything but a simple story that mite spike my ideas and other gam craetors alike, not a whole movie, just a little idea for a movie, thats all. I do have a green screen but its not very big, but all i need is an idea, because im running out. thats all, thanks for posting evryone

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When you run out of ideas, just look at a plot list!

http://changingminds.org/disciplines/storytelling/plots/friedman_plots/friedman_plots.htm

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Quote: "or GUY leaves girl for Chuck Norris, and call it "Brokeback: Texas Ranger.""

Call it "Brokeback, Brokelegs, Brokearms, Brokemountain: Chuck Norris"


Quote: "OBese87: that is a spooky idea, then what happens to the guy searching the forums?"

He became a trillionaire by selling rare paperclips!
No, forum searcher was me, muahahahaha!
No it really was me, it was a true story, unless he just made it up.

Quote: "I'm currently writing the script for a short film I'm going to film around Christmas.
Its about a little boy who gets mad at his family, and writes a letter to Santa asking him to "punish the bad people", but...
He misspells "Santa" as "Satan"
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All hell breaks loose. (pun intended.)
And I NEVER drink coffee."

That's actually a good idea.
"Rob Schneider finds out that being the Anti-Christ is much tougher than it looks... Dear Satan (rated PG-13)"

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Things you should NOT make because they will be lame include:

Any kind of "secret agent" film or "action film" with your friends. Just no. I can see a 13 year old with sunglasses on now. They are always lame and you will learn little from it except how to composite muzzle flare.

Also, I did not read this thread deliberately before typing this up. I just scrolled up and the suggestions include... a secret agent film.

Comedy is the easiest genre in my opinion. Try coming up with a minute "funny" and a one minute piece about "inner turmoil" and see which one ends up being complete pish. It'll be the attempt at a 'serious' film. Anyone can make come up with funnies, in fact - most people make jokes every day! - and you'll learn all about camera angles and acting and all that good stuff, too.

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I just watched your newest video. It appears you have in fact learned how to composite muzzle flare.

Textbook indie film making!

Also, mods please remove this or combine it or something, forgot about double posting - bit out of the loop with forums!!!!

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I definitely have to disagree with you there Drew. Comedy comes naturally to some people, but not so much for others. I did a comedy radio show a while back and a TV show based on the radio show. We had to come up with eight hours of funny, original material every week, and another 50 minutes of material for the 30 minute TV show... not fun, and probably the most stressful period of my life to date in terms of how much work I was doing. You're more natural at comedy than you realize Drew .

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If you can make a movie out of this, you'd be amazing.

(Er.. it makes more sense if you read the alt tag on the image, and the subject line under "comments" in the header menu)

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Yes, Drew you are quite naturally a funny person. I like to think I am a funny person, and maybe I am, but I feel very very unfunny everytime I read one of your posts or watch a Milk Paton or something. For me to be truly funny you have to know me, understand me. For you, most everyone just thinks you are funny.

Not saying people can't be funny or think up some good jokes for a movie though. Anyone can be funny if they put their mind to it, but I don't think you really have to Drew. Am I wrong?

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I remembered when you posted on the FPSC forum about your hostage film, which I still like to watch from time to time. Here are a few tips for you.

1. If you don't own one already, buy a tripod. They are only around $15, and they work with all camera's. It stops the camera from shacking during those out door scenes due to the person holding the camera.

2. If your filming a scene where the camera has to be moving (for example, in your film "The Murder On Dark Bluff Dr." @ 0:08 seconds), use a tripod, and get into the back of a truck or in an SUV and open up the back door. It works great.

What kind of camcorder do you have?

Its good to see you and your friends have fun shooting films.



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Drew: thanks for the post, indeed i did learn how to composite muzzle flashes quite well actually, at first iffy, but now i can do it almost perfectly, ooh, and animated blood . But about the action, watch hostage situation, not really anystory line, just a little action scene, now the composoting isnt the greatist but the camera was good n what not


Jerico2day: lol i dont think i would be able to make a film out of that

And yes, i am a naturally funny person as well, its just that, when i try to make a comedy, it turns oout really random and doesnt make sense, oh well! thanks for posting everyone!







EDIT: Retrogamet, you posted the same time i did , yes i have a tripod now, but i think without one on the hostage film worked quite well with the genre, and the murder one, haha, yea very shaky, that was my fault, it wasnt my best produdction anyways, i have a Sony handycam DCR-HC28 if you were wondering

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Ah ok cool. I just got my camcorder, hope to make a film sometime.

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sweet, hopefully you might find this board to be helpfull if any ideas get on , lets keep in touch so we can watch each others videos

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If someone made that.. they'd be a god amongst the internets.

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lol idk how i would get dionosours

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ahhh hostage situation got taken off youtube, from hans zimmer, bc i used his song in my video! this is an outrage, they said i broke copyright content! ahh

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Well, you did, so... yeah. Maybe you should enter one of your films into Project: Direct.
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If you can't think if a decent story, just make a movie with lots of explosions. That makes it awesome by default.

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zaibatsu, thats usually what it comes down too, a weak plot and lots of explosions

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*bump*

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