eHow videos on indie films like editing and distribution

Adding Special Effects to Indie Films:

It's also about budget like what can you afford to do a special effect on? This takes time, and if you are going to do a special effect, only have that scene scheduled for that one day. It will most likely take a day to film that difficult scene.

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Preparing your Indie Film for Edit:

Get all your tapes together and watch it. Take notes about what take is good and will be used for the final cut. Do the best you can with what you have.

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How to Edit an Indie Film:

When you edit, use your script as a reference.

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Choosing Music for your Indie Film:

You can use local bands and play their music in your film. You can put an ad out for bands for what kind of music you want to put in your film. Get someone to play instrumental music. Get the bands to sign a release form so you can use their music. Ask: "Does the music fit with the movie?"

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How to Distribute your Indie Film:

After you have finished making the film, you want to get it to the audience. Go to the internet and look up film distributors. You can go to the video store and look at the dvds that is the same genre as your film. You then write to them. Send an email or a scene from your movie.

If the distributor says he will sell your movie and you will get residuals, then you won't get paid. Ask for money upfront, even if it's a couple of thousand dollars. You can sell it on the internet, sci-fi conventions, horror festivals.

Find someone to make the box art. If you sell it yourself, you know where all the money is going and will actually make more of it than through a distributor.

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