Recent content by Hutch

Poke, great to hear from you. It has been a while. Hope things are well on your end. We just received our first run of 1000 units and have already received an incredible number of pre-orders with Cast and Crew screening and general release of the DVD still over a month away. It's been an...

New feature-length movie... We have taken a great Bible story and set it in modern times in a high school with a cast of over 50 and almost as many extras. We invite you to read more about it at: www.foratimelikethis.com Regards, Hutch

I'll have to take issue with you Stephen. I think you have over-simplified to make such a strong case that something is backwards without qualifying your statement. It totally depends upon the situation... For example, I have done 2 pieces in the last 2 years without seeing a bit of footage and...

Star Trek, the original movie, was on last night. What great music. It's a case where the music is a significant part of the experience - not subtle, but bold (kind of like Star Wars, Superman, etc...) I really took time to pay attention to the music since I've seen the movie more than once...

Stephen, To make it simple, go to a post where they are not quoting anyone. In the upper right corner, click on the quote button. Now their entire message will be one single quote on your note. Just click preview at that point to see the effect. Back in the editor for your note, You will notice...

I have to agree with Baz about Jerry Goldsmith. Like John Williams, he started writing in the early 50's and is still going strong with an incredible range. My favorite score of Goldsmith's is his score for "Rudy" - especially the main theme and the piece behind the football game at the end...

Shaw, You read my mind... Will do my best to get a recording online... Thanks for asking. Regards, Hutch

An Invitation... I mentioned in the first page of this thread my recent opportunity to compose a piece for symphony and have it performed locally. Well, the 4 minute romantic piece, entitled "Patty's Song", is finished, has been rehearsed, and will be presented in concert on April 15, 2004 by...

Baz, I'm sure that what you describe does happen, but not in this case. I can say that objectively because there is one thing that Horner did, that I hate! In fact, although I place Horner in my top tier of favorite composers, I still credit one of his efforts as literally the worst thing I...

Stephen, Great call on "The Natural" - it was a real winner. I particularly like the work of James Horner. My criticism of him would be that he tends to plagarize his own music. None the less, I like his style. I also like Danny Elfman's stuff a great deal. I'm a hopeless romantic, and his...

The dvx100 has a built in ND filter that works wonderfully. Beyond that, I picked up a CP and a Tiffen Black ProMist 1/2 yesterday. Took it out for a test stroll today (inside and outside) and was delighted with the results. Despite the loss of the f-stop with the promist (no problem for what I...

Film, Once again, incredible information. Thanks! I had already pretty much made up my mind that I'm NOT going to buy the adapter for a 35mm lens - at least not in the near future. Further experimetation with the camera and filters has convinced me that I can get quite a bit more out of the...

Film, Thanks again for the great response. And yes, it did help. Believe it or not, I just had a very profound revelation brought about by reading your note. Ironically, my daughter took up still photography at the end of last year. And, I had forgotten that she too had gone outside to take a...

First off, thanks so much, to all of you, for taking your valuable time to share some great information with me. Please allow me to take this discussion further. I spent the whole evening yesterday, with my DVX100, shooting behind my house. In 24p mode, I used every apeture setting in...

Please allow me to clarify Clive. Simply put, I don't want the background to look as close as the foreground. I want to see some depth and not something that resembles 2 dimensional. Make sense? Regards, Hutch