If you haven't please watch this video because it may answer some of your questions.
Movie Making Hacks:
Be careful when downloading hacks because sometimes they can harm the game and cause game crashing.
Action Hack:
The action hack allows sims to perform different kinds of actions such as punching, kicking, falling, and etc. This hack is a good tool because you can use it in movie to give an illusion of fighting, or any kind of physical activity.
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Pose Box:
This is one of many pose boxes out there! A pose box allows you to pose a sim, so the sim isn't doing a lot of random hand moving and head nodding. There are countless types of poses you can download, depending on what kind of poses you want.
Poses: http://simswiki.info/wiki.php?title=Content_List:Hacks_and_Hacked_Objects/Pictures,_Movies,_Stories,_and_Poses
Other Hacks:
The talking hack allows your sim to talk in any kind of way. This hack is very good for filming because it allows the sim to have any kind of conversation on demand for a movie. Using the pose hack, you can pose your sim and use this hack to allow them to talk.
Download Here: http://www.modthesims.info/download.php?t=223451
The dance hack will allow sims to dance together and dance all types of dances such as smustle, sequence, etc. This hack is especially good for music videos.
Download Here: http://www.modthesims.info/download.php?t=195616
Useful Cheats:
Moveobjects on: Allows you to be objects in places you couldn't before. Objects can be placed anywhere.
Sethour 1-21: Set time (night/day)
Allmenus on: Unlocks hidden sim actions. Visit this site to learn how to activate the allmenus cheat :http://www.jd-movies.com/allmenus.php
boolProp Allow45DegreeAngleOfRotation true: Using these keys [<, >] you can turn objects to the diagonal, instead of only left, right, front, and back
