Joe Carney

The Original Roller Ball was prophetic. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rollerball_(1975_film)

And one of my favorites from the 70's http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Boy_and_His_Dog

Are most you incorporating as Sole Proprietor, Sub Chapter S or LLC?

That "Star Power" is having less and less effect on why people go to movies (yes for sports, but no longer for movies). There have been enough flops with big stars getting multi-million dollar paychecks, that a sort of backlash has developed. As ticket prices go up, and movies don't get any better, the public sees the high salaries the same way they see overpaid CEOs. Right or wrong, that's the general perception. Not so surprisingly, the public has become very sensitive to the fact that while those stars are making big bucks, American crews are getting put out of work. And Brian...I'll be part of a production shooting this summer in VA/MD with no tax credits and locally/self (meaning several of us) financed. Because we just want to make movies. We LOVE making movies. We have fun making movies, and we don't need you. Our fist few efforts sucked, but we learn and we get better. We hire professional actors, just not big names. We pay decent wages, just not exorbitant ones. All of us on the below the line, plus directors, have regular day jobs. I'm not anti union, I'm anti extortion. We have already found most distributors are greedy slime and are learning to setup our own distribution systems. Our budgets are too low for unions to be interested in us anyway. While we may premier in a theater digitally projected, we are not going for theatrical release, so SAG or any other union can't blackmail us. I hire SAG, because of the talent pool and am willing to pay more, but technically we don't qualify because we are not going for theatrical release. Good thing, every place in America except TMZ is a right to work place. Maybe some day we will do well enough to afford to hire top quality below the line talent, but until then, we will just keep on keeping on. I'm glad I don't have to uproot my family and move to SoCal to make a movie. If I was open to moving...I'd rather take a crew and shoot in France, but hey, can't have everything :P . Glad I live in country where people in SoCal can't determine what I can and can't do. I'm sure actors and crew in Wilmington NC feel the same way, and Austin TX and Santa Fe NM, and Boise ID, and Portland Maine,and Miami Fl,etc.... Brian, you will have to wake up to the reality that SoCal is no longer the center of the Universe for production. It never will be again. It is now, simply put, just one option among many. Talking about other states as if they are poor 3rd world nations will simply increase the overall negative attitude people have toward CA in the first place. Most people outside of CA have contempt for it. The film industry in particular, with it's perceived excesses and avarice,it's undeserved sense of entitlement. You don't give a crap about us, whey should we care about you? Did you think people in Hollywood could be condescending snobs to the rest of the country and we would forever just sit there and take it? With affordable tools, we don't have to anymore. The only thing I"m actually having a problem with, is finding a good script for my next project. Even if all film credits were eliminated, we would still not need Hollywood to make movies. With technology, that cat's out of the bag. There are plenty of places in the USA where 20.00hr is a respectable wage, where 500.00 a day makes you feel rich. As for others using words like 'rape', you are alienating the very people you are trying to convince and insulting the women and men who have been victims of it. I'm glad Hollywood has become an option, not a requirement. In case you are wondering..I'm definitely not a conservative and favor financial regulation reform. I sincerely hope the SEC breaks Goldman Sachs back. Anyway Brian, thanks for having the courage to bring this subject up.

I've been tempted by the K3, since I don't have a problem recording audio on another device. I was wondering how it worked in natural light using V2 at 24 or 25fps? Also, can they be modified for s16 and still zoom?

Sorry, can't resist. Landon, best things to do...assuming you are who you say you are... Stop telling everyone you are 16. Reminding everyone you are 16 makes most people think this is all just a big ego trip, or you're naive, or worse.. and you aren't going to make a movie at all. If, as you say, age doesn't matter, then why did you make a deal about it? Dead give away about lack of maturity. Get a really good fake ID that says you are 24 years old (still young enough so people won't suspect you're really 16). If needed, get a fake name to go with it. You will need it when you want to impress you leading female star. Make your movie. Get distribution and points and what ever. After you get famous tell them you are only 16. Then they will take you serious. Then you can tell all of us whos a better kisser, Lindsay Lohen or Hillary Duff. (Millionaire teenagers, both). Ms Lohen writes music for her films and both want to start producing. The brunette runt on 'That 70s Show' (Mina whats her name) lied about her age and got the part. When she finally turned 18 she told them the truth (she was only 14 when she got hired). So...there is some precedence here. BTW, Spielberg spent hours and hours making war movies with his 8mm film camera when he was your age. And he has publicly spoken about how proud he was of what he did. He developed his habit of in camera editing for one thing. Better to fail at 16 than 30. People will forgive a naive 16 year old. They rarely forgive a dumb ass 30 year old. If you can actually raise hundreds of thousands of dollars, than you have a bright career as an excutive producer, and the most important thing for a producer is how to pick the right people for the job. Seems you already have a handle on the numbers part of the game. That is very important when it comes time to negotiate contracts. Good luck. (hope the mix of humor and advice got through on most of this).

I heard it was filmed in a small town in Idaho.