jamesgatz

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by jamesgatz 15y ago
I know two people who have bricked their gas-powered cars by going too long between oil changes. This isn't a novel problem for complex machines. You need to maintain them if you'd like to continue using them.
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by jamesgatz 15y ago
OK. I have to say I think you're acting bizarrely entitled. "Bizarrely" because you're acting like you're entitled to fictitious, impossible technology. Objects that exist within the physical world require maintenance to retain their use
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by jamesgatz 15y ago
Just sent you an email.
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by jamesgatz 15y ago
With the rather off-the-cuff operating strategy I outlined above, your annual operating budget (including staff and production costs) would be ~$14 million. Initial start up costs (focusing mainly on equipment buys) would be about $4 milli
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by jamesgatz 15y ago
Dreamworks and Corman's AIP/NWP both produced films, but that's where their similarities end. The differences between the two can be summarized by "scale" and "intent." In terms of scale, Dreamworks was designed to compete directly with th
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by jamesgatz 15y ago
In the contemporary marketplace, where the only starting options for nearly all young filmmakers are unpaid internships with zero real creative opportunity, a three year contract at $30K/yr to direct, write and edit feature length films wou
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by jamesgatz 15y ago
Guerrilla film-making is when you make a film in your parents' basement using a VHS handicam and your brother's lego collection. For $35,000, using modern production equipment, it's entirely possible to produce a genre film that meets (and
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by jamesgatz 15y ago
Exactly right. As a film person, I've always been incredibly jealous of YCombinator and the amazing talent that it cultivates. A project of its kind, geared around films and storytelling, would do wonders to change the landscape of Hollyw
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by jamesgatz 15y ago
I love the Google comparison. To me, "Kill Hollywood" doesn't mean kill the movies we all love, but kill the politics and ladder climbing that keep new and unique voices from growing and finding an audience.
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by jamesgatz 15y ago
The thing about Kickstarter is that it fosters the unhealthy kind of competition instead of collaborative creation. The point of our studio is to grow creators. Set up a playground where people can run free, where taking risks and falling
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by jamesgatz 15y ago
What you're proposing is no different than most independent production companies. LA is flush with such businesses already; I've worked for a few of them. Another indy production house is not the solution. I said it in the previous threa
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by jamesgatz 15y ago
I'm not sure if this thread is dead at this point, but I want to put forward my suggestion to founders. What you should really be trying to to do, is found a new AIP or New World Pictures. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roger_Corman#.22The
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by jamesgatz 15y ago
Films aren't entertainment. Films are stories, and stories are primal. Farmville is entertainment. Memes are entertainment. Entertainment is distraction. Trying to fight stories with entertainment is a losing battle. There's a reason th
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by jamesgatz 15y ago
"there is change afoot; whoever can make the awesomest, most loved art / entertainment of the next wave will win big" I think the reason this ycomb call to action is going to fizzle out is because all you excited engineers keep using this l
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by jamesgatz 15y ago
I like youtube quite a bit, but if someone told me I could either: a) have unlimited youtube forever or b) re-experience my first viewing of a favorite film (say, No Country for Old Men), I would always choose b. This is likely my own perso
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by jamesgatz 15y ago
Exactly. And honestly, the answer to your question is not "youtube."
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by jamesgatz 15y ago
And just to add to the "everything is a copy of a copy": the French New Wave was a reaction to Hollywood itself. Godard and Truffaut were infatuated with genre studio pictures, and most of their best work was a result of their passionate d
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by jamesgatz 15y ago
I love FFC. I'm a current UCLA film student - Coppola's alma mater. One thing to think about: UCLA has always been the "indy, intellectual" film school. It's our rep, internally and (to an extent) externally. When Coppola left UCLA to w
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by jamesgatz 15y ago
What about Deus Ex? Though the original game doesn't have an overworld, it's levels are quite large (and open ended) and it seems to meet all the other criteria. I'd never thought about it before, but this might be why I enjoy the game so