19. He seemed impressed by the way you came in. "Tell us a story, I know you're not boring"...

So yeahh short post ... just thought I would add some research on indie films so I don't have any paper work to hand in at the end of this project apart from my evaulation. :)

Indie or "Independant" Films
A basic definition:

"An independent film, or indie film, is usually a low-budget film that is produced by a small movie studio and stars unknown, relatively unknown or famous actors specific to the genre. Additionally, the term is used to describe less commercially-driven art films which differ markedly from the norms of plot-driven, mainstream classical Hollywood cinema."

So there basically films made by people who don't need massive companies to fund their budget.

As the budget isn't massive it means most indie films are editted by the directors or in general not alot of money goes into the editting budget meaning ... the helpful part ... they use such programs as:

"Software

Popular software (including commercial, consumer level and open source) includes:

Mac

iMovie
Final Cut Express
Final Cut Pro
Avid Xpress Pro
Adobe Premiere Pro
Final cut Studio"

And tend to use expensive versions of the cameras we use as such as:

"Canon - XL2, XM2, GL2
Panasonic - AG-DVX100
Sony - PD-170, DCR-VX1000, VX 2000, HVR-Z1U"

Which means justify our film into the indie genre as we used FINAL CUT and smidgen below a really expensive sony camera.

That's all.

Focus group and storyboards coming soon to a blog post near you.

Laters