Re: Batman Live Action Fan Series. Any interest?
"youre going at this wrong.
do you want to make it? then there is no reason not to.
first of all, you have to enjoy doing it. dont do it for anyone else. do it for yourself. make something you want to do.
second, i have never seen anyone have sucess with their first project. thats just the nature of it. you have no experience, and even when youre reading up on everything, this is learning by doing. you can read a million articles about color correcting, until you havent done it 100 times, you will still have problems. same goes with everything else from setting up the camera right to synching up audio.
what i would suggest to you is: pick up a few friends, of which one has a smartphone of a newer generation. those are good enough for starting out to film. coreograph a fight scene with dialogue in the beginning. about 30 seconds. see how long it takes you to get that scene to look right, before even shooting. then shoot it from various angles.
when all of this is done, go into post production, and synch everything, add sound effects, cut everything together, grade it, etc.
when you are finished, upload your work to youtube and post it here, or on a filmmaking site (like the videocopilot forums) and let people tell you what you have done right and wrong.
that is the only way you will learn stuff for real. and money is not an excuse. once you have some work done, you can start doing some bigger projects. the advantage of this is, that your youtube account will also be expanded time wise.
continue writing your story, if you enjoy writing a story. dont let it be a chore. if you dont enjoy it, then its probably not for you.
Remember, this is your baby. you might as well do it right
just for reference, the video i posted that i did myself, was one of my first projects, and it took me more than two weeks to finish. now i could probably do it in 1 to 2 days"
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The question isn't that I don't like it, I do, it's not what I was asking. I was asking if this kind of project -could- be funded. I have a lot of things going on, and priorities are making the scales swing, I was asking if this a realistic goal, given the fact and evidence, which I will be adding to very soon.
Projects are in the works. I'm waiting on a few friends to get back to me on their parts (the script is one) and I'll be doing PR myself tomorrow (if life complies). I agree I need to work hands on with these sorts of projects, delve deeper into this medium, but I'm stuck at a rock and a hard place, with no friends that are interested or capable of doing this, which was another reason for this thread.
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"It's possible to make this with little backing, but if you're looking for something concrete then probably not. Because you're working off of a theory. Most of the stuff we know should work but it can easily fall through. However if you're flexible and try your best to work around and with obstacles than you never know, you may patch it up or again be delaying inevitable doom. But the biggest thing is to be flexible. Even with funding the project can still fall through.
EyeofSauron is right. You really want to change as much of this theory into fact as you can. Remember keep everything in mind aka on a list and do one or two things at a time. And if you can get a trailer, finished, show some concept art of the suits, a random video you made, villains, plot, or even if you're getting close with a camera guy or interested actors this would help your funding a lot. No one wants help with a suit they haven't seen, for a story they've never heard, to put on an unsized actor that doesn't exist.
But overall I'm kind of straying away from the main problem. No one is going to give you play money. No
one will send you thousands of dollars to buy costumes, cameras, programs and/or audio devices. Because there is absolutely no point of investing in you outside of entertaining your curiosity. What
you're really looking for is help. However the thing about help is, you help yourself first. This is your project, you should really start expecting to pull most of the weight."
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I agree with just about all of that, of which one of the largest points is the help. I live in Indiana, not really close to Chicago or any major points of interests. Again, one of the points of this thread was to find others that would be in on helping me with creating this.
I wasn't asking for the money, I was asking if this idea was something that people (with concrete evidence) would support the production of. I cannot do every role (I'm not Monty Python), every crew operation, and every pre and post production aspect by myself, and right now, due to many painful/irritating circumstances that I am in right now, is the cause why I came to ask again if this idea was enough of an idea that warranted pounding into fact to put out for funding, yes, I know that it shouldn't matter, and that it's more than sounding like I'm a lazy bum who expects everything and everyone to do my work, but it's not, and it's a little more complicated than that as well, but I am ready and willing to do my share and beyond, but without seeing more than critiques and suggestions for how to make this it was proving difficult for me to see a large interest in this, other than "let's pound on the new guy" advice.
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1st step: write an outline for the series. Ready? GO!
Already on my way with that
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So in essence, I will be having the concept art (just sketches for the most, my ability to produce sketches and traditional media is proving to be very much more quick to digital art) very soon, and will be posting links to it and the page I have been putting together as well, it just won't be coming every hour, at regular intervals.
-Seth Lind
