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			<title type="html"><![CDATA[Re: It would seem you almost have to be rich to be a great brickfilmer...]]></title>
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			<content type="html"><![CDATA[[quote=Infurno]Well yes, but in the end all hobbies cost money. I also play guitar and a good guitar + amp + effects will go high above 1000 euro.[/quote]

Exactly, all hobbies become expensive when you become fully immersed in them. My current setup for playing guitar is:

Guitar (£200) > Distortion (£30) > Delay (£50) > Envelope Filter > (£45) > Overdrive (£95) > Fuzz (£29) > Amp (£220)

That comes to £669, not taking into account costs of leads, string replacements, power for all the pedals, etc... and that's all pretty cheap equipment.]]></content>
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				<name><![CDATA[MB]]></name>
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			<content type="html"><![CDATA[TL;DR]]></content>
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			<title type="html"><![CDATA[Re: It would seem you almost have to be rich to be a great brickfilmer...]]></title>
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			<content type="html"><![CDATA[[quote]I ~really~ wasn't thinking when I made this board.[/quote]

I wouldn't say that. It's easy to fall into the trap of seeing what other people do and assume that in order to acheive the same results you need to spend a lot of money.

For example, if you were making a live-action film and wanted a tracking shot of two people walking and talking, you can:
-buy a [url=http://www.chapman-leonard.com/products/dollies/surper%20peewee%20iv.htm]proper dolly and track[/url].
-build [url=http://www.indymogul.com/post/6399/build-plans-dolly]your own[/url].
-use a borrowed pram.

With all three options, you end up with pretty much the same result. The difference is simply the cost. I've worked on projects where we just used what we had available. One of our videos (see it [url=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=52XO8TJXEz8]here[/url]) had the tracking shots done by having the cameraman sit in a pram and get pushed. You can see the shots in the "walking city streets at night " shots at 7 seconds, 41 seconds and 1:41 mark. The running can be seen at the 2:37 mark. (As an aside, I'm the one running along next to the singer carrying a light on a pole over his head.)

People can make "great" films by using what they have available creatively. That's the ability that some people seem to have naturaly and other people need to develop. Mind you, it is probably a good thing to start being limited because you see a lot of movies getting made where they had problems and simply threw money at it to fix it.

So unless you are someone who is working, then you will have very little surplus money to spend on buying the things you want, so that's where you need to work hard at getting the most out of what you have, or only buying the things you really need.]]></content>
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				<name><![CDATA[Dr Neo Lao]]></name>
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			<updated>2009-12-02T12:17:45Z</updated>
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			<title type="html"><![CDATA[Re: It would seem you almost have to be rich to be a great brickfilmer...]]></title>
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			<content type="html"><![CDATA[Ahhhhhhh my movie Whiteout is a perfect example for this. I used a LOT of bricks (all four walls were together at the same time, plus the floor and everything beneath it), but it wasn't a good movie because no one could understand it, and therefore no one thought it was funny.]]></content>
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				<name><![CDATA[BGanimations]]></name>
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			<updated>2009-12-02T03:32:41Z</updated>
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			<content type="html"><![CDATA[Yep. You all have great points. I ~really~ wasn't thinking when I made this board. XD]]></content>
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				<name><![CDATA[Scypax]]></name>
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			<updated>2009-12-02T01:54:46Z</updated>
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			<title type="html"><![CDATA[Re: It would seem you almost have to be rich to be a great brickfilmer...]]></title>
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			<content type="html"><![CDATA[Sure, if you're going to be "great", you're going to have to put some dough in. But you can still be a really good brickfilmer without 300$ sets, a 200$ camera etc. A handful of bricks, a baseplate, a QuickCam 4000, and a cheap laptop can produce a great film if you pull it off well. Like Night Owl said, there is more to a film than th fact that it's sets are huge, you can "LEGO" on every stud in HD, as long as you can put something together that has an entertaining concept can be successful.

NXTManiac]]></content>
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				<name><![CDATA[NXTManiac]]></name>
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			<title type="html"><![CDATA[Re: It would seem you almost have to be rich to be a great brickfilmer...]]></title>
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			<content type="html"><![CDATA[Just remember that so much of brickfilming, especially as you go further, is writing scripts, drawing up storyboards, and just [i]thinking[/i] before you shoot. In the 1920s, there was a serious shortage of film stock in the Soviet Union, and the result was that directors like Eisenstein or Vertov did an incredible amount of thinking and writing before they even started shooting. I'm actually not even a fan of those two directors, but amazing stuff like [url=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ps-v-kZzfec]this[/url] shows what can happen when you have limited means.]]></content>
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				<name><![CDATA[Night Owl]]></name>
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			<content type="html"><![CDATA[Well yes, but in the end all hobbies cost money. I also play guitar and a good guitar + amp + effects will go high above 1000 euro.]]></content>
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				<name><![CDATA[Infurno]]></name>
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			<updated>2009-12-01T16:04:59Z</updated>
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			<title type="html"><![CDATA[Re: It would seem you almost have to be rich to be a great brickfilmer...]]></title>
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			<content type="html"><![CDATA[Try this thread: [url]http://www.brickfilms.com/community/viewtopic.php?f=26&t=5977[/url]
- Aaron]]></content>
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				<name><![CDATA[Jargon]]></name>
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			<updated>2009-12-01T00:30:13Z</updated>
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			<content type="html"><![CDATA[[quote=Jargon]People who think this need to look up; the old 10 Bricks contest.
Think outside of the box!
- Aaron[/quote]

Where can i find this "10 brick contest"? i've already looked on google]]></content>
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				<name><![CDATA[dee99]]></name>
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			<updated>2009-11-30T23:57:54Z</updated>
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			<content type="html"><![CDATA[[quote=ScypaxPictures][quote=magicoflego][quote=ScypaxPictures]

Never I said I couldn't make a decent brickfilm from few a LEGO bricks. [b]But it would be hard to make an amazing one.[/b][/quote]

[url=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uj1rgfdeH9k]Fail.[/url][/quote]

Not really, the person did [b]still have frogs, rats, bats, and a lot of trees.[/b] (Considering I only got 2 trees, and no animals). Plus, I don't have that many mini-figs, and I don't even have a [b]green baseplate even that big[/b]. XD

But I get your point, I stand corrected on the use of how many LEGOs there where. I guess I need to be more detailed. XD[/quote]

Bricklink:

Frog: $0.30
Rat: $0.10
Bat: $0.20
Tree: $0.20
32x32 Green Baseplate: $1.75

You don't necessarily need to be rich to be a great brickfilmer. Just dedicated. For instance, if you had $100 to spend, if you were really dedicated, you'd buy that Lego set for your upcoming film, instead of  MW2 and a Trip to the movies.

I mean, that's my own opinion, but, Brickfilms aren't about how good the sets are , or how cool the characters look, it's the animation, plot, and sound that make it....]]></content>
			<author>
				<name><![CDATA[MOL]]></name>
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			<updated>2009-11-29T19:34:40Z</updated>
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			<title type="html"><![CDATA[Re: It would seem you almost have to be rich to be a great brickfilmer...]]></title>
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			<content type="html"><![CDATA[I agree, Riley, that Robota was amazing. But at the same time I really appreciate something that's made quite well on a small-scale.
Leftfield's "McBeth in 2 minutes" is one of the funniest brickfilms I have ever seen. It's one of those films I love showing to people who've never watched LEGOs move.
- Aaron]]></content>
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				<name><![CDATA[Jargon]]></name>
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			<updated>2009-11-29T19:23:16Z</updated>
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			<content type="html"><![CDATA[I wouldn't say that Hazzat's film was amazing, it was great, but I think amazing would be something like Robota, which you would need a considerably large budget to create from scratch.

Although most hobbies need time and money invested.]]></content>
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				<name><![CDATA[Riley]]></name>
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			<updated>2009-11-29T08:55:44Z</updated>
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			<title type="html"><![CDATA[Re: It would seem you almost have to be rich to be a great brickfilmer...]]></title>
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			<content type="html"><![CDATA[[quote=magicoflego][quote=ScypaxPictures][quote=Jargon]People who think this need to look up; the old 10 Bricks contest.
Think outside of the box!
- Aaron[/quote]

Never I said I couldn't make a decent brickfilm from few a LEGO bricks. [b]But it would be hard to make an amazing one.[/b][/quote]

[url=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uj1rgfdeH9k]Fail.[/url][/quote]

Not really, the person did still have frogs, rats, bats, and a lot of trees. (Considering I only got 2 trees, and no animals). Plus, I don't have that many mini-figs, and I don't even have a green baseplate even that big. XD

But I get your point, I stand corrected on the use of how many LEGOs there where. I guess I need to be more detailed. XD]]></content>
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				<name><![CDATA[Scypax]]></name>
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			<updated>2009-11-29T08:43:20Z</updated>
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			<title type="html"><![CDATA[Re: It would seem you almost have to be rich to be a great brickfilmer...]]></title>
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			<content type="html"><![CDATA[[quote=ScypaxPictures][quote=Jargon]People who think this need to look up; the old 10 Bricks contest.
Think outside of the box!
- Aaron[/quote]

Never I said I couldn't make a decent brickfilm from few a LEGO bricks. [b]But it would be hard to make an amazing one.[/b][/quote]

[url=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uj1rgfdeH9k]Fail.[/url]]]></content>
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				<name><![CDATA[MOL]]></name>
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			<updated>2009-11-29T07:31:57Z</updated>
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