Hey I am new this site, and have been interested in making films for about 2 yrs now, I have a few ideas circulating in my head and this site is great for tips and advice. I'm just stuck on how to get actors and crew together, ne advice on that would be greatly appreciated, thanks.

money and food are always good incentives. surround yourself with people who actually want to work and you should be fine. if you're trying to get people without motivation and passion to work with you, forget it.

where in NZ you from?

I'm also from nz. Napier. My advice is if you really want to make a film go to film school. otherwise just try and find enthusiastic friends to help. If somebody is being tenative and doesnt really want to be there its really going to make things hard. You may want to use small crews so everybody is always busy this will stop people from messing around and slowing things down. good luck.

I live in Wellington, but I am originally from the UK, i moved here about 4/5 months ago.

Welcome. I also live in New Zealand (Lower Hutt). I'm 16, I've only been making films since the start of this year, although I've been learning the theory and reading about it for a while.

I've shot two 7 minute films in the last month. One was for a 48hour filmmaking competition and the other was for another competition. My cast consisted of two parts:

a) Drama students
b) People at school (I go to HVHS) who looked like they would do a good job.

Turned out that it was the 'b' group that acted the best. People with no experience at all, but some of them did a really good job.

It can be hard to pull a movie together when everyone's still at high school. People don't have a lot of time and some of the people in my cast were known to muck around a little bit.

You never know, some of your friends/people you know might be really good actors. And universities/film schools are full of filmmakers and actors.

Good luck and welcome to the forum.

-Chris Hurn

Chris, I also live in Lower Hutt, and also go to HVHS lol, I'm new there, started about 3 weeks ago. What year are u in? 6th form? or 5th?

No way!
You're that guy who just started in 12KA right? That's my form class too, lol! I was away today though.

Wow thats cool. We should defenately collab some time. I'll be talking to you at school tomorrow I guess.

What are the chances? heh.

-Chris

Yep thats the one!

Thats pretty freaky, but ea ill talk to you in school 2moro.

Welcome Sam

What's even weirder is that there are THREE threads like this right now, where people know each other.

here.