You say Toe-maw-toe and I say Toe-may-toe.  Should you cast kids for kids roles or go with adult voice over actors that can be easier and faster to work with but may not be able to give you that pure kid essence in voice quality?

Often hated but always needed, the poor budget can and should be the best friend of anyone trying to produce a film.  But rather it is more often the target of everyone's discontent and blamed for a multitude of sins and offenses. The film's budget normally stands in the dock accused of any and all the ills plaguing the production.  "If only we could have another month we could redo that sequence."  Or, "They say there's nothing left in the budget to rerecord the orangatang!  Who in the hell said betty white could still play the ingenue?"  But....whose faults are these?  If the budget was correctly made, everyone going into the production knew exactly what they had and what they had to do.  Why blame the budget for other's failings?

We all have our own projects that we feel are better than some of the things that we see on broadcast television or cable.  Who hasn't wondeded what would happen if only they could get their film seen - After all it has to be better than a lot of the crap that seems to fill the airways.  Kent Butterworth worked for a number of years off and on to make his film Attila the Ham, in the end he finsihsed the film, found a distributor and kept the lion's share of ownership and rights.... Just like the good old days when broadcasters were broadcasters and producers were producers...  Here's how he did it.

Recently a friend and I started talking about his film "Attila the Ham" and how he got tired of trying to sell his ideas to the media giants who were always complimentary but always had their own 5 films in development and had no interest in producing anything they didn't have a heavy peice of or own outright...  He came to the conslusion that he should pmake his own films, and he did.

You ever take something apart and think you can fix it?  You know, you're talking to a guy that has this nice toaster that just doesn't seem to make very good toast so you think you'll buy it off of him and take it apart and repair it.  Happens with films as well.  Seems like a perfectly good film or tv series but it just doesn't work for one reason or another.  Someone gives up on it and you pick it up for a song and decide to take it home and get it working...  The only trouble is these little repair projects often can make you wish you had never seen them.