Recent content by Jeff77789

So I got the new GH4 with the Lumix 20mm f1.7 pancake lens and i don't seem to understand how to pull focus with this setup. the lens focus ring is "focus by wire" and from ~5ft to infinity is a relatively small turn on the focus ring but from 5in to 5ft is a couple full turns of the focus...

Hello, I am new (no surprise there) and i am trying to wrap my head around manually focusing everything that i shoot since i have no experience shooting video with dslr cameras what i am most concerned about is something like a moving shot (kind of like a Lip Dub video perhaps, see grand rapid...

well they are not going to be dancing during the entire time during those songs. it's mainly just people talking with people dancing in the background what i have is a handful of subscenes, so when i record, there will be ambient noise of people talking and whatnot. when it switches subscenes...

Thanks for all the help guys!

well there are a couple reasons as to why i want a multi-cam setup there will be music playing in the background so if i do a single cam setup, there will have to be multiple shots and the music will be hard to edit out the actors are not that experienced and i want them to have a natural...

For dialogue scenes in a movie do they typically use multi-camera setups or single-camera setups? i would think they use multi-camera because then the dialogue could flow more naturally and it would be faster to film with less editing. what do you guys do?

Music copyright. I am still wondering about how to film this exactly because there is going to be a lot of dialogue and if I cut out all the music, there will be just 10 minutes of solid silence in real life while i record all the dialogue from all the actors, not including all the retakes this...

thanks for all the help guys! like i said, i haven't really had very much experience filming dance scenes. Hopefully the people dancing in the background will be out of focus enough so that it's not noticable if they are dancing off to the beat. for my short film people won't actually be...

Hello! I know I'm new here but I was wondering how you guys film and edit your dance scenes. What I am making for my short film is a dance or ballroom scene where there are just background people dancing while the main actors are in focus talking. The thing is, if I have music in the...