Recent content by casey88

"You mean you want a large depth of field rather than a narrow depth of field. You want more DOF (more in focus) instead of no DOF (nothing in focus)." Yes, that's it. The movie will be shot from the main character's hand-held perspective a lot of the time and she'll be moving around quite a...

I guess what I mean by a video look is that there won't be any depth of field (?) like with a film camera. We won't be pulling any focus. It needs to seem as if it was shot using a home video camera. Hope that better explains the look and feel we're going for.

So, I think I understand this 24p stuff now. I guess if you shoot in 24p it will give you a somewhat film look without shooting on film but the biggest advantage is that if someone does decide to distribute it theatrically and blow it up, then shooting in 24p will make that process much...

Thanks for all your responses on our original question about shooting with a 24p HD camera for festivals and possibly getting acquired by a distributor. Our project requires a "video" look, much like "Paranormal Activity" and "Cloverfield", it's a fictional docu-drama. Our question is, can we /...

Getting ready to shoot a low budget feature and sending out feelers to see what type of camera to shoot it on, like I said it's a LOW budget feature, I'm hearing 24p is the best grade to shoot if we are sending it to festivals or the slim chance of anyone wanting to buy it and distribute it...