Filmshooting

It's a shame I don't check this forum more than once a year and a half or so on average.

Obviously, the only super 8 camera that you could have relied on was a Leicina Special. Everything else would have given you jitters, focus breathing, and nastiness. Use a 10mm Cinegon, set on infinity focus ...

You are on the right track.

You have achieved step #1. The story is everything.

However, Tyler Perry has a special personal-public thing going on we can learn from. I HATE his movies. On a filmmaking level, on an artistic level, on a thinking man's level, they suck ass. His movies are garbage. BUT ...