eHow videos on legal issues, scripts, using cutaways in indie filmmaking

Contracts, Releases, & Other Legal Issues in Indie Filmmaking:

Cory Turner discusses the legal contracts to look at before filming are actor releases, contract releases, equipment, and music releases, and the script how to handle it and the contracts to do that.

http://www.ehow.com/video_2374488_contracts-releases-other-legal-issues.html

Scripts and Copyrights in Indie Filmmaking:

The writer has to file for copyright of his script and can transfer the rights of the script to the filmmaker. What compensation are you going to give to the writer? Are you going to get paid? Do you get writer credit and/ or producer credit?

You handle the above before production. Cory Turner does point out that we are all artists and that we want to produce the best project possible. The writer may not want changes to the script, but as it's filming and actors bring their influence to it, there are going to be changes. The director says he has creative control and can make changes because he can't go to the screenwriter every time and ask to change something.

http://www.ehow.com/video_2374489_scripts-copyrights-indie-filmmaking.html
Writing your own Script for an Independent Film:

He says before writing your script, think about all your resources that you have to make it. Do you have a car? The people that you know, the locations, people's talents, and put them altogether.

http://www.ehow.com/video_2374490_writing-own-script-independent-film.html

Using Cutaways in Indie Filmmaking:

It's when an actor is holding a cup, and then the next shot he isn't. You can't seamlessly put the shots together. He used an example where he's talking, cut to a watch, and then cut to him standing on the other side.

http://www.ehow.com/video_2374509_using-cutaways-indie-filmmaking.html

Multi- Angle Coverage in Indie Filmmaking:

If you shoot a scene with one camera, then it's boring. You shoot it with two are three cameras, and then film the scene again with a close up of the actors. Sometimes you can zoom in during a shot if you have a dolly to seamlessly zoom in.

Add some cutaways in the scene.

http://www.ehow.com/video_2374510_multiangle-coverage-indie-filmmaking.html