I hope no-one's getting their hopes up about the Matrix Paintball movie, it's a long shot it'll happen! I've got some equipment and shoot on DV, which is fine for what I'd originally planned but would not be any good for the Matrix movie. I've costed it up and it would come to around £12k, which is 35mm with all the CG effects, and a proper crew for a 2 day shoot.
And unfortunately I don't have too much money on my hands, and I can't afford that! The DV movie would only cost about £100 using what I have, what I can get, and calling in a few favours. So unless something comes along the Matrix shoot won't happen... still I'm going to make a few calls this week... you never know, maybe Diablo will back it
As for having too much time on my hands, well you make time for what you want to do. Needless to say I'm working towards a feature film (not paintball related, sorryt!) and see this as an intermediate step in my learning process.
Thanks for the input, any contacts to push the Matrix movie through would be appreciated!
Matt