#How to start filmmaking

[mazalejeenekasong]

Welcome to EP Ka Meter Films! I'm Eshwarprasad, an independent filmmaker who believes that great stories don’t need big budgets—they need passion and creativity. On EP Ka Meter Films, you’ll find zero-budget short films, authentic storytelling, trending reels, and travel vlogs. My journey began with just a smartphone and a dream, and now I share my experiences to inspire others. Whether it’s filmmaking tips, emotional films, or simple life moments captured on camera, our content proves that anyone with vision and heart can create impactful work. Join me on this exciting journey! #EPKaMeterFilms #ZeroBudgetFilms #FilmmakingJourney #IndieFilmmaking #AuthenticStorytelling #TrendingReels

[epkameterfilms]

Welcome to EP Ka Meter Films! I'm Eshwarprasad, an independent filmmaker who believes that great stories don’t need big budgets—they need passion and creativity. On EP Ka Meter Films, you’ll find zero-budget short films, authentic storytelling, trending reels, and travel vlogs. My journey began with just a smartphone and a dream, and now I share my experiences to inspire others. Whether it’s filmmaking tips, emotional films, or simple life moments captured on camera, our content proves that anyone with vision and heart can create impactful work. Join me on this exciting journey! #EPKaMeterFilms #ZeroBudgetFilms #FilmmakingJourney #IndieFilmmaking #AuthenticStorytelling #TrendingReels

[ketzel]

ppl who do films or any film-related production in general; do y'all got any tips?

[flowerboy11300]

I keep quoting and thinking about Medic lines. What the heck am I on???

Oh yeah and I made this yesterday

[pluvillion]

College.

this is the first time i've created a render that embodies myself. if you've ever seen me irl, chances are you'll see me in this exact outfit, including the book and the cookie.

now — aside from having myself as inspiration, there are three more things that inspired this render:

1.) neil confirming soap's sweet tooth.

2.) me and a friend's exchange.

3.) and this photo of ryan gosling.

[infinite-infinite-stars]

Literally everything that WKM might have been trying to say about choice and lack thereof, ISWM explores as well, but better. Fight me.

[magentagalaxies]

commented about the buddy cole documentary on a youtube video that has nothing to do with the kids in the hall and just got a reply from someone who hasn't heard about the doc but LOVES scott thompson saying they're so excited that this project exists and immediately subscribed to my channel. i'm so happy genuinely the best part of my night

second best part of my night was watching john mulaney's netflix talk show live and texting scott asking if he wants to (re)watch it together when i'm in town and getting the reply "i'd love to do that. he is fantastic" (the fact that scott is a major john mulaney fan makes me so happy bc mulaney was one of the first comedians i was obsessed with)

third best part of my day was listening to the "masturbation fire" bit from kevin mcdonald's standup for the first time (he referenced the story when i met him irl but i didn't know the full story was available anywhere until now)

also i made a reference to "too many cooks" at dinner and realized my brother had somehow never heard of it so i'm very excited to hear his reaction. i'm usually a person who doesn't care about spoilers but watching "too many cooks" with zero expectations is such an experience i'm lowkey jealous of him seeing it for the first time lmao

[street-corner-felines]

Zero Day Director commentary - With actor Andre Keuck

[nctjpeg]

so….. “see myself in a documentary” was an item on my bucket list that i didn’t know i had but can now be crossed off…….

[forgaeven1]

i've got a job interview today, and as you'd expect, i'm mighty nervous. if i'm more absent / present ooc ( really, my anxiety loves playing russian roulette with my attention ) , that's why !

[mazalejeenekasong]

How Eshwarprasad Built EP Ka Meter Films: From Smartphone Dreams to Real Stories

Introduction: You Don’t Need a Big Budget to Tell Big Stories Big dreams often get delayed because we think we need big resources.But the truth is, creativity starts where excuses end. Here’s how I, Eshwarprasad, founded EP Ka Meter Films with just a smartphone and a love for storytelling. The Beginning: Filmmaking with a Smartphone I didn’t have money for fancy cameras or lighting…

[epkameterfilms]

How Eshwarprasad Built EP Ka Meter Films: From Smartphone Dreams to Real Stories

Introduction: You Don’t Need a Big Budget to Tell Big Stories Big dreams often get delayed because we think we need big resources.But the truth is, creativity starts where excuses end. Here’s how I, Eshwarprasad, founded EP Ka Meter Films with just a smartphone and a love for storytelling. The Beginning: Filmmaking with a Smartphone I didn’t have money for fancy cameras or lighting…

[thenotoriousscuttlecliff]

There are many reasons The Flash movie failed, but the character's popularity really isn't one of them. Plenty of comic book movies with more obscure characters have succeeded (Guardians of the Galaxy), Andy Muschietti is just trying to find the best excuse to explain failure that avoids personal blame or saying the movie was trash because he's still on WB's payroll and studios don't like directors bad mouthing their projects even after they flopped.

[sarabyfleetwoodmacmp3]

💭

[starberry-cupcake]

not to talk about flow again, but the thing is, a lot of people talk about independent film making and its importance etc, but it's hard to get more independent than flow this year

not only because it was made with a free and open source software anyone can use, not only because it beat competitors from major studios with an average of 3% of the budget they had, not only because it represented a country that had never won an oscar before, not only because it didn't have any star power involved, not only because it didn't come from a filmmaker with past history, not only because it was made by a small team...

but also because it's an animated movie

animators often get the short end of the stick in the entertainment industry and, for the past years, it was starting to look as if the only way to make an animated project happen was to sell your soul to a major studio and see your work transformed into what they need and how they want it marketed

especially for movies from outside the US, from non-English speaking countries, where insanely talented animators tend to be used as freelance cheap labor for major US studios or have to adapt as much as possible to fit into their market in order to find work

passion projects for animation seemed to only be reserved to the shorts category, or needed to be as high brow as humanly possible to be perceived as "high art" to be valued and, even in the spaces of the industry dedicated to the genre, the way in which awards are distributed are a poor reflection of the vast work animators do

it's major for this film to win awards, let alone the oscar, an award which is notably judged badly for animation and often prefers the marketable easy way out of voting rather than genuine interest

this movie used a resource that is open to anyone and, with good storytelling, made an oscar winning film

in a world in which art is constantly being attacked by capitalist greed, I'm happy that a movie with heart and little resources could do something like this, whether or not people care about the oscars anymore

[cheeseanonioncrisps]

A murder mystery film set in a medieval village. After an outbreak of plague, the villagers make the decision to shut their borders so as to protect the disease from spreading (see the real life case of the village of Eyam). As the disease decimates the population, however, some bodies start showing up that very obviously were not killed by plague.

Since nobody has been in or out since the outbreak began, the killer has to be somebody in the local community.

The village constable (who is essentially just Some Guy, because being a medieval constable was a bit like getting jury duty, if jury duty gave you the power to arrest people) struggles to investigate the crime without exposing himself to the disease, and to maintain order as the plague-stricken villagers begin to turn on each other.

The killer strikes repeatedly, seemingly taking advantage of the empty streets and forced isolation to strike without witnesses. As with any other murder mystery, the audience is given exactly the same information to solve the crime as the detective.

Except, that is, whenever another character is killed, at which point we cut to the present day where said character's remains are being carefully examined by a team of modern archaeologists and historians who are also trying to figure out why so many of the people in this plague-pit died from blunt force trauma.

The archaeologists and historians, btw, are real experts who haven't been allowed to read the script. The filmmakers just give them a model of the victim's remains, along with some artefacts, and they have to treat it like a real case and give their real opinion on how they think this person died.

We then cut back to the past, where the constable is trying to do the same thing. Unlike the archaeologists, he doesn't have the advantage of modern tech and medical knowledge to examine the body, but he does have a more complete crime scene (since certain clues obviously wouldn't survive to be dug up in the modern day) and personal knowledge from having probably known the victim.

The audience then gets a more complete picture than either group, and an insight into both the strengths and limits of modern archaeology, explaining what we can and can't learn from studying a person's remains.

At the end of the film, after the killer is revealed and the main plot is resolved, we then get to see the archaeologists get shown the actual scenes where their 'victims' were killed, so they can see how well their conclusions match up with what 'really' happened.