Recent content by FilmmakerJ

I ended up having to shoot a project in 30fps once because I didn't have the option to shoot it in 24p. My professor at the time (during film school) also had this idea that frame rates didn't really matter in the first place, so he just had us all shoot with cameras that could only do 30fps...

Early 90s fantasy shows often had that soft-focus aspect to their cinematography. Even the first season of New Doctor Who used it for whatever reason. And there was a tendency to bathe fantasy works in rich orange light, even before color-grading was around to further enhance that sort of thing...

That, and some of this feels like an adventure show from the early 90s. I also rather enjoy the crushed sound effects. They're actually kinda charming.

I dunno, ~Quality. When something looks and cuts like this, clearly trying to be humorous and wacky, I can completely forgive the lack of quality in the camera's resolution. In fact, I have a few friends who make a ton of comedic videos based entirely around their nutty performances, and they...

If you don't have a dolly or a crane, though, then I would always advice against hand-held or basic-steadicam shots unless your film is supposed to have a sense of tension or eerie closeness. If you DO have a dolly or a crane, or maybe a slider, then by all means, use them.

After thinking these questions over for many many years here are my suggestions for you. 1. You must shoot it in 24fps. This is a MUST right from the start. 2. You must take cinematography very seriously. It won't hurt you if you don't do it right. But lighting a scene without much thought...

Plenty of religious films are produced every year, especially through the Pure Flix production company. But they seem most often focused on the Protestant-born form of Christianity rather than the more tradition-heavy Catholic form. Most films that involve Catholicism to any major degree are...

If the question is asking can this be created with just Vanilla After Effects, then I guess, yeah: technically, if you spent months figuring out how to do things frame by frame and piece by piece and discovered a way to make CC Particle World do things it's not designed to do. Besides, in a...

I would shy away from the all-too-common "strumming on a ukulele" music, because it makes the whole video seem chintzy. I can accept that kind of music over a Kickstarter video for a product that's either quirky, cute, and/or small, but it just doesn't work for something like this. You need...

I'm with jax_rox here. So many filmmakers seems to just follow along with what they think needs to be in a film based around whatever particular genre they're doing. If they're making a horror film, they'll shoot in the dark, or in dimly lit locations with a lot of dark blues, they might use...

So, I'm confused. And I don't really expect anything in particular, cause ya'll don't owe me a thing. That being said, 245 of ya took a look at this post, and no one had anything to say or share? I'm stumped. And I know most of those people didn't even click the videos, cause I don't have even...

So guys, after over 1 and 1/2 years of post-production, my SCAD Senior short film, "Bill & Maggie's Intergalactic Taxi Service" is finally finished and ready to send out to festivals. I'd be interested to know what some of you think of the trailers for my 10 minute short, so here are each of...

I'm what you could call a connoisseur of 80s and early 90s visual effects. And I've seen enough documentary footage to understand the thinking process behind a lot of it. Just like today they used blue-screens to photograph models and miniatures against rather than people. And they would use...

I think before you take this any further, it'd be a good idea to treat it like a Kickstarter project, and create a short pitch video for the series you want to start. Not only would this allow us to see what the show might look like in terms of production value, but it would give you a way to...

Didn't expect to see the chief admin say something this straightforward, but... yeah. Basically, that's the gist of it. I looked through those initial quotes in this discussion, and honestly, only the last few actually rubbed me the wrong way. Especially this one. "you say it was...