TRAILER PLEASE VIEW CELICA, www.NGMFILMS.com Options

[Nigel]

hiya everybody as a celica owner I thought here would be a good place to tell you about my short film.

TRAILER >> NGM FILMSwww.NGMFILMS.com

watch the tailer on the site, i've had donations, sold on in first day, interested loads and 10,000 daily now!

Tell me what you think and tell a freind trying to raise 30k. to shot the feature film.



This post has been edited by Nigel: Mar 25, 2005 - 7:02 AM

[shid]

Hey Nigel,

here we go

1) Don't spoof an age old movie company with your title. NGM Films is neither appropriate, nor going to lead to a sucess. MGM had, and still has, a lot of respect in the industry and you'd be viewed as either trying to leech off of that, or worse, patronizing that. So, name change. Even if your initials are NGM.

2) the entire website first tries to crash my computer, than shows up with redxs for images. And has a crappy layout from what I can see. It looks like trash. Get rid of it, redesign it.

3) Hollywood is quicktime based, your trailer is wmv. Change it.

4) What are you filming on? I wish I could see the trailer, but it doesn't work.

5) If you're shooting on DV, a feature length can be made for under 10,000 (5000 pounds). If you have a ton of special effects, double it.

6) Don't shoot your first film on film. If you're shooting film, shoot a short first- not a feature.

7) Your first film won't sell. You will never make any money back. You will never sell any DVDs. You will end up with a loss.

8) Storyboards are done, at max, 3 to a page. You've got 20. Your DP is going to go nuts.

9) Do you have a DP?

10) your storyline ( http://www.freewebs.com/rising-evil/risingevilstoryline.htm ) is filled with grammatical errors and the like. No one's going to donate money to your film with a synopsis like that.

11) Your special effects section is ok, however it has very little do with making models for the silver screen. The build process is different; because the models have to be animated, and the colors have to look right and not gleam under 5,000W lights. Also, from what I gather you're shooting on MiniDV, which is almost impossible for model/green screen work.

12) one to four months PRODUCTION TIME? Get real.

13) Finally, you state that you'll be sending the film to film festivals worldwide. You won't be. 1) Festivals don't accept MiniDV for entries (well, a few do) 2) Those that do, don't accept 90-120 minute long movies. Almost no festivals do.

14) How in GODS NAME did you turn a 6 page script into a half an hour? The scripts either really poorly written, or was overproduced and overedited.

Sorry to crush your hopes and dreams,

--Sean

I'm not trying to be an asshole, I'm just trying to be realistic for you- and the people who you want to funnel $60,000 dollars into your project. I'm glad you "sold out" on the trailer DVDs the first day- but that doesn't mean much.

This post has been edited by shid: Mar 25, 2005 - 12:04 PM