OT: Help needed – Shooting feature in NY

Astronaut wrote on 3/8/2006, 2:07 PM

Want to work for free?

We’re going to shoot our first feature film in New York this fall. We’ve sold our houses, furniture and cars to make this happen and need all the help we can get (setting up casting, location scouting, cheap places to stay etc).

If anyone out there is interested, email me through the forum.

Thanks

Magnus
Poor Swedish filmmaker

Comments

birdcat wrote on 3/8/2006, 2:51 PM
OK - I'm not a professional at anything but programming now, but I might be able to have my arm twisted for the experience. I have lived in NYC almost my entire life (going on 52) and know my way around and would like to learn more of the movie making process.

I've been using Vegas for just under a year now for personal and some small business projects and have gotten OK with it (they like it at work at least).

Let me know if that's ok by you.
busterkeaton wrote on 3/8/2006, 6:04 PM
You should start looking at the various colleges around NY.

Columbia, NYU, CCNY, Brooklyn College, etc have film departments.
TheHappyFriar wrote on 3/8/2006, 6:30 PM
areyou talking about New York City or just New York state? The city is only a small part of the state (yet sucks up MORE resources then the rest of the state combined!)
Chienworks wrote on 3/9/2006, 4:30 AM
This is quite true. When people hear i'm from NY they immediately assume the big city. Actually the village i live in has a population of 430. We're surrounded by wilderness for miles and miles around. The nearest actual city with Wal*Mart, McDonalds, movie theatres, and a shopping mall is 27 miles away.

I picked up a friend in Canada once and brought her here to visit. We came through Niagara Falls and Buffalo, which are both pretty well developed. Then we hit the thruway, which is several hundred miles of wilderness, forests, plains, rivers, mountains, lakes, rolling hills, and farms. After about an hour she finally asked, "So where is New York? I thought it was all concrete from one end to the other." As far as area is concerned, cities are only a very tiny sliver of the state.

So, to bring this kind of back on topic ... when you say "NY", it really does matter whether you mean NYC or the state.
birdcat wrote on 3/9/2006, 4:31 AM
You mean something exists outside of the five boroughs?????

Wow - Live & Learn!
Jay Gladwell wrote on 3/9/2006, 4:47 AM

Actually the village i live in has a population of 430. We're surrounded by wilderness for miles and miles around. The nearest actual city with Wal*Mart, McDonalds, movie theatres, and a shopping mall is 27 miles away.

Sounds like heaven, to me!


Chienworks wrote on 3/9/2006, 4:54 AM
Population of New York State: about 19,227,088
Population of New York City: about 7,333,253

That means that almost 12 million people live in New York State and NOT in New York City! And we're 12 million people who get pretty darned annoyed at being forgotten sometimes. :) Hey, we 12 million are more than the population of Alaska, Delaware, Hawaii, Idaho, Maine, Montana, New Hampshire, North Dakota, Rhode Island, South Dakota, Vermont, Wyoming, and half of Nebraska combined! Only 5 states have populations larger than the non-NYC residents of New York.
beerandchips wrote on 3/9/2006, 6:25 AM
That means that almost 12 million people live in New York State and NOT in New York City! And we're 12 million people who get pretty darned annoyed at being forgotten sometimes. :) Hey, we 12 million are more than the population of Alaska, Delaware, Hawaii, Idaho, Maine, Montana, New Hampshire, North Dakota, Rhode Island, South Dakota, Vermont, Wyoming, and half of Nebraska combined! Only 5 states have populations larger than the non-NYC residents of New York.

+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

Try living in downstate Illinois. According to ANYONE in Chicago, if you live south of Cook county, you are in Kentucky.

We hate em up there.
TheHappyFriar wrote on 3/9/2006, 7:31 AM
sad your friends first impressions of NY were Niagara Falls & Buffalo. Very sad area compared to the ontario side of the border.... I'm assuming you eigther to the 90 or 86/17 east. Eigther way you were within 25 miles of me & my goats (city folk get a kick out of those little guys).

You should tell her that the only state that's concrete (or blacktop) from one side to the other is Deleware. ;)

Really get me (& and many others) that NYC is responsible for majority of the rules/headaches/taxes we have to deal with.

So, astronaut.. is this NYC or somewhere in New York?
filmy wrote on 3/9/2006, 10:32 AM
As has already been asked - where in NY?

beyond that - where in Sweden? Are you coming here to shoot or are you already here? we could get our Vasa lodge to get involved - maybe help out .


busterkeaton wrote on 3/9/2006, 11:15 AM
Kelly, You're using the 1990 figures for the city and the 2004 estimate for the state

The 2000 census has NYC at 8,008,278 and the state at 18,976,457.


HappyFriar, the city does not suck up far more resources than the state. The city subsidizes the state to the tune of $11 billion a year. That's the difference between the amount of state taxes that NYC pays and the amount of state aid the city gets back.
Chienworks wrote on 3/9/2006, 12:39 PM
Busterkeaton, oops, that's what i get for trusting Google. But still, NYC is still substantially less than half the population of the state. So make that nearly 11 million instead of 12.
Astronaut wrote on 3/10/2006, 12:39 PM
Sorry for causing all this confusion. For us in Sweden, New York IS Manhattan. My apologies to all the rest of you nice people living in New York. I didn't mean to insult a state with a population greater than my own country.

I live in Sweden and work in Sweden, but most of the movie I'm directing is taking place in the US. My friend and co-director went to NYU film school and know a DP living in (on?) Manhattan. So we're going to shoot as much as possible in the NYC area.

I'm not shure exactly what kind of help we need right now, right now we're trying to set up some sort of network.

/M