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Kirbo:
Gross sounds.....fisting any jar of anything sounds gross. Canned tomatoes for example.

Also, make sure you use the Wilhelm scream if possible. It's my favorite movie cliche.

Bunnyman:
Don't try to shoot a Hollywood-style movie with a camcorder (or even DV).  It becomes painful to watch after a while.  Recognize your limitations and treat them as assets.  Go for more of a guerilla filmmaking style*.  Extreme camera angles will draw too much attention to the fact that you're using a camera.

* (Does not mean 'shaky handcam work.')

Try to make the actors seem natural in their settings.  Often, actors will deliver dialogue that sounds totally stilted compared to the street scene behind them, or (my favorite) talk like badass assassins while wielding $10 airsoft guns and wandering through suburbia.  On that note, try to scout some locations before shooting.

Also, unless you have really good actors, be sure to break fourth wall or somehow clue the audience in to the fact that you're just having fun.  Here's the catch:  The characters shouldn't realize they're in a film, or it all goes to hell.  Unless you're fucking David Lynch or something.

Bad Taste does all these very well, incidentally.  It should be a treatise on low-budget filmmaking that works.

Final note...Rule of Thirds.  Painful composition = bad.

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