The movies you are doing, how much do you know about the subject to get into it? If you’re doing a documentary on the waterlue george washington fight, do you know that the fighters are 14-18 year old kids? Did you know that some of them were black African American kids.

Chiz (professor) did a docudrama on that subject.

A man one times wrote a script, and went to every studio. They loved the script, but didn’t want the writer to be in it. The writer wouldn’t budge. The movie was Rocky and the writer was Sly

A group of people in Denmark started DOGME. They had rules:
- Shooting on Location
- Sound and Image are produced together
- Handheld camera
- Natural Light
- No genre film
- No signature (credits)

One of the films was produced with these guidelines called “Celebration”. Some effects you get as a result of that are:
- You feel like you’re really peeking in
- It feels intimate

Later people tried to use these elements, in filmmaking but they were disaster. The later people didn’t have the knowledge of how to make movies, just these elements.

In the business, the goal is to do is cheaply as possible, and to sell it as high possible. For most of us as indy low-budget producers, we don’t care about selling high as we care about making it low.

A good example is “super-size me” which is a low budget documentary on McDonalds. Its very low-budget, but its done very well.

If your attitude is to make as much possible and make something like lethal weapon, go for it. No one’s stopping you.

Vachon has a common denominator in filmmaking which is passion. Not having enough money causes often very creative solutions. For example, if she didn’t have adequet lighting equipment for one of her movies, so she ended up doing a lot of closeups.

Often if you don’t have the money, your creativity can create something even better.

Three graduate students from Florida had no money, and decided to use what they had. They ended up with “The Blair Witch Project”