use lots of expensive software, staff and ignore half the rules byt he sounds of itIt seems very odd to run a competition for 'amateurs' and then the winner clearly seems to have had the budget of an average british film
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Joe Scaramanga with a G-double-O-D vibration,
Mon 21 Jun 2010, 9:28,
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Saying that the whole District 9 effect can be simulated in AfterEffects very cheaplyhowever the raw footage to be tracked on what looks like a "Red", the crowds and the laboratory scene and actors must have clearly been beyond amateur budgets.
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maiden is filmed before a live studio audience,
Mon 21 Jun 2010, 9:34,
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