There have been a lot of threads recently on this site about people thinking about buying a camera to do some filming and the answers have been pretty consistent: DSLRs.
For narrative I can only recommend a DLSR for the best most film like results on a budget.
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Frank Kelly gives the low-down getting your film into festivals.
First I would say don't worry too much about getting rejected, it's often not a sign of how good or bad your film is (unless it's really bad!) But I found out the film festival programmers often programme their festivals like a mix tape... or an iTunes playlist...
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Ian Campbell talks to award-winning director of photography PJ Dillon about the difference between film and video.
Anyone with even a passing interest in Irish film will know the name of Irish cinematographer PJ Dillon. In February he won the best cinematography gong at the Irish Film and Television Awards, the second time he’s bagged the top prize in three years.
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Producer Dave Leahy gives a personal insight into the making of the feature documentary "Hill Street" about the evolution of skateboarding culture in Dublin since the late 1980s, directed by JJ Rolfe.
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For this article a call was put out to FilmmakersNetwork members for questions they'd like to ask the filmmakers of acclaimed Irish film One Hundred Mornings.
In the glowing Irish Times review Tara brady wrote "One Hundred Mornings is the third and final issue from Project Catalyst, the Irish Film Board’s 2007 micro-budget initiative. It’s not only a very fine picture; it’s practically a ransom demand for like-minded schemes. More movies like this one, please."
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For four years I have been working as a continuity/Script supervisor (scripty) and there is one thing that has really started to bother me. More and more of the Irish film makers I meet either don't know what a continuity supervisor does, they get their friend to do it for them or think they don't need one at all. These are the same people who will happily complain about the amount of mistakes there were in whatever piece of crap they were watching the night before yet it doesn't occur to them to pay someone to prevent these mistakes from happening in their own films.
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