This is my last and biggest shot

$85k spent all on production equipment, I got some great deals too. All my money just went towards me making a movie and I haven't tried filming anything other than public freakouts on my phone since college.
My girlfriend has left me because she wants to have children. If this does not work out and my movie is not a success enough to make another one, that's it for me, I've got it all on the line, rolling the dice and going all in on my dream.
So what the fuck should my movie be about?

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If I write you a script, would you film it?

Have a film set in World War II, where the protagonist, Noah, a closeted homosexual Jewish musician, is sent to the Auschwitz concentration camp for challenging the Nazi party, and dedicates himself to protecting a young prisoner, Sira, while also reconnecting with his childhood friend Hugo, now a Nazi soldier also struggling with his homosexuality. As the Holocaust looms, Noah decides to write a final piece to leave as his legacy.
Not only will you rake in big bucks in the euro arthouse scene you’ll be sure to win the golden lion or some shitty foreign film fest award but it’s probably too niche for the McOscars

You should just quit, Ralph.

Chris-chan docudrama

Serious btw, answer me OP

Shot for shot remake of your birth.

Not joking, feminist will eat it up.

I don't know you personally.

I mean at best you'll make something mediocre and technically passable but I don't think you'll even pull that off. Besides even if you did it's not going to get noticed.

Your best shot imo is to make something highly novel, creative, edgy, or whatever. Something memorable.

Maybe start making porn, not even joking.

>dropping 85k on equipment with no idea or experience

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it would be extremely painful

Edgy in what way though so much has been done.
Can't do porn, way too greasy.
I'll google what I need to know.

Space Cop 2

Is this bait? Cause if not the only think you’ll be using that equipment for is to livestream your suicide.

>$85k spent all on production equipment
That's your first mistake. Labor is what eats up most of your costs in film. Equipment should be always be rented where possible. Or hire someone with the equipment who knows how to use it.

This made me laugh.

I mean, I'm assuming he's joking. If you're not joking, then I wish you the best of luck.

doesn't have to be edgy necessarily but it has to be a little subversive, unique.
For example a movie where all the actors heads are claymation or something but not something that dumb obviously

Video tape me fucking your mother. LOL.

I'm looking at getting investors or taking out a loan, my first goal was to have the tools I'd need to make it happen and just kinda let the people with the know how trickle in to place all while I oversee operations and funding.
My gf and her parents thought I was joking too, I'm only focused on my dream now. Thanks.

Try and get her back user

Claywork seems a bit too Monkeybone when i'm wanting to go more Pirates if you get that analogy. Edgy yes but realism is a favorite element of mine in movies.

>just kinda let the people with the know how trickle in to place all while I oversee operations and funding.

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Too late.

Sounds like you want to be a producer you goddamn imbecile.

Found footage horror film. That might be the easiest thing for your budget. Just find a good spin on it

>I'm looking at getting investors or taking out a loan, my first goal was to have the tools I'd need to make it happen and just kinda let the people with the know how trickle in to place all while I oversee operations and funding.

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Like Slender Man meets The Exorcist
Thumbs up

>I'm looking at getting investors or taking out a loan, my first goal was to have the tools I'd need to make it happen and just kinda let the people with the know how trickle in to place all while I oversee operations and funding.
Good luck, but I've been involved in dozens of productions and none that operate with this mindset ever seem to reach a viewing audience...most crash and burn before getting off the ground. The Room being the clear exception.
Best thing to do? Use the equipment yourself, learn the minutae of video production and do some smaller shoots. Establish yourself as a producer and make some music videos or commercials for local businesses. Make connections with local technical crew members. Spend about 5 or 6 years really learning the craft as well as the business side. Do you know how much coffee a film crew can go through in a day?

I always thought it was a phenomenon unique to /lit/ where you'd have absolute morons making threads like "Hey /lit/ I know nothing about writing and have no ideas but I'm writing a book. Where should I start?"
I stand corrected.

I can get you down a 30ft entrance to a mine in the desert of california. You can make a film solely about a guy trapped trying to figure out a way to escape.

Sorry for samefag
But a
>found footage horror film
>documentary
Would be good

I don't want to film anything and if I can't make a movie I'll just return or sell the equipment. Operating a camera seems tedious, I want to make the movies themselves.

I've always thought about shooting a movie in reverse. For example when you show them walking up the stairs its actually a reversed shot of them walking down the stairs facing up. Some weird shit like that. I think Lynch did it in Twinpeaks s3 with speech somehow, got the actor to speak the reversed words and reversed the audio.

you spent money on equipment but have no script? You know people RENT cameras and lighting equipment and sound equipment, right? You know its the idiot actors not showing up on time and dropping out randomly that are going to ruin you financially, right?

which is a genre with surprisingly low popularity, i can only recall 4 or 5 live suicides/murders in the past few years and they were all superb content. guess it's because few people do it, and the few who do can only do it once

Then why did you buy equipment? Literally nobody in the production world does this unless they intend to use it themselves. Hire a guy with his own equipment that he knows inside and out. It saves money and the final product will look better.