Recent content by HomerS3

That is precisely my fear, that I will come to my senses and never make a go of it. I go for a semester of film school (none worrth mention) in January of '08. During that time I will have my rent covered by my tuition. After that few months, I'm on my own and having to find a new place to live...

Honestly I won't allow myself to do wait. Primarily because I know how things can go. Life happens and I'm afraid that if I don't go now, I'll never do. I know people personally who have told me "I always planned on chasing the dream, but I got a job, then a family.....etc." I don't want to...

Far from it! <-- Thanks for the advice, I cringe to think about volunteering for student films. That's what I have people doing for me currently. Twisted irony!

After I finish with my Film Studies major in college I am going to be packing up and moving to LA. (I'll actually be doing my last semester in Los Angeles). I plan on putting it all on the line and diving in head first. So here is my question for those of you out there. How easy is it to find a...

I'll be the one hiding in my basement with a shotgun I suppose! I guess it's the trends I have observed over the years that show that these things will get much cheaper and much better in the next couple of years... it'll probably take me that long to warm up to the idea anyway

Am I the only one who isn't ready to trust their footage to cards and drives quite yet? All I think about is how many times I've had drives go out, or flash drives suddenly corrupt. There's just something nice about having that little tape in your hand...

I have the feeling I'm going to have to go w/ a real firearm firing blanks. It obviously will give me the most realistic effect. I am hearing, unfortunately, that real firearms won't cycle with blank rounds

Buller?...Buller?

one more question: will a blank gun (not a real gun firing blanks) create a flash large enough to llight the room. I am attempting to decide between a real Glock w/ full flash blanks or a blank gun with a muzzle flare added in post.

The consensus seems to be that I can gel a camera flash to create the interactive light from the gun? I'll do some test shoots w/ a decent flash and hopefully it'll work for me. Thanks for the tips

really? I will definetly d/l the demo right now...

That doesn't look half bad. The only issue I have is that some of the gunshots occur off camera, down a hallway. This means I don't need to see the flame, just the flash off of the surroundings...

That was my fear. I was hoping for a magical idea that would just make everything better... I might just have to bite the bullet as you said.

Ok, here is the current crisis I am face with my upcoming project. I have a sequence in which a firearm must be fired in a small interior setting. The firing must be onscreen. I have a decent idea of how to create the visual muzzle flash exiting the barrel of the weapon, however I am at a loss...

Good stuff, very well done!