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A few years ago I assisted for a DP who had a sticker on his camera case that read "Polas Kill Rainbows." Best technobabble quote of all time, imo. Turns out someone on a previous crew made that for him after he said that on set one day.

Yeah, I think there is a lot of value in that path. It's interesting reading about some of guys like Gordon Willis and his contemporaries - the ones who did come up through the apprentice system were being a little bit rebellious against the previous norms of lighting/camera-work in the films...

Interesting, so far fewer films than I actually thought. Julian-Donkey Boy is fascinating, not one of my favorite movies or anything, but something about Harmony Korine's stuff I find interesting in a sociological way. Besides, how can you watch Werner Herzog drink Robitussin out of a...

Actually, someone may have beaten you to it: http://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/06/business/media/solving-equation-of-a-hit-film-script-with-data.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0 Moneyball for Screenplays, basically. :lol: Seriously. It would be like if we said that all Aussie films are all too much...

Okay, you guys are probably tired of me posting Therapy?, but given the job I just got hired to do, this title is quite appropriate. Also, that break-down in the last minute of the song is some of the best snowboarding music of all time. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YYjvFphTsJQ @Josh - Too...

Nicely put. I think part of the push-back you are getting is that this site is very, very, very low budget centric. Most of the folks who come here are 1st time film-makers, and many of the old-guard here are indie/DIY/self-distribution gurus of many years of experience with several...

h44. If you want to produce a "tech thriller" for less than $50K you are going to have to dial back on the action, like a lot. Like think about how the script would work if it was a tense burn/build-up to a single large action set piece. That's about the most bang/buck you would get out of...

Sizzle Reel/Vanity Reel - all your pretty, pretty shots, awesome compositions, and baller lighting/vfx stuff. 60 seconds or less. Narrative Reel - Included edited scenes. People want to know how your work fits together in the narrative, if you can keep lighting consistent from one to the...

If you are able, you should really start with something more in-depth, like this: http://www.amazon.com/Color-Correction-Handbook-Professional-Techniques/dp/0321713117/ref=wl_it_dp_o_pC_nS_nC?ie=UTF8&colid=NSQYFGYEIMFX&coliid=IGXXI6EEG7JKT Alexis has both figuratively and literally "written...

Damn guy. If you have that kind of budget don't waste it on a gadget. If you do want to spend that kind of coin on a tripod and fluid head, then at least get a Sachtler or Cartoni. Used O'Connor (newer than Wheat's) might even be possible if you are patient. I got my O'Connor 515 for ~$800...

Has anyone seen anything from the global shutter camera?

Being able to dial in that pola without spinning your grad? Priceless. ;)

Actually finding this conversation really interesting, but I am leaving in a few days for a really huge job and will be gone for a while, so I don't want to derail. Just want to drop a quick reply here though. I don't agree that it is necessary to prefer a "foreign original" to a "domestic...

Wait really? I thought he was the guy who wrote the whole ruleset? Is he not the Dancer In The Dark guy? Am I confusing him with someone else, or just attributing that ruleset to more films than it technically applied to?

H44. I quoted the whole post above because it is really, really good advice. I emphasized the most important item that is very, very, key. I also set in bold a really good idea on how to solve the "i need to show something finished" problem.

*sigh* I could swear I have answered this exact question before, maybe someone else asked it, but I could have sworn you did. :lol: No matter. You are 100% wrong. She is correct. Iris pulls are done all the time. I've put motors on Focus, Zoom, and Iris on cameras that were mounted on...

FWIW: I'm not 100% against these remakes wholesale. I just think that films are, ideally, greater than the sum of their parts and I wish that more distributors would give foreign films a fair shake in the larger markets here in the US. The Host played pretty well given it's limited...

Simple. Because a translator (their influence not being denied) does not claim authorship of the title, and the title is marketed under the original author's name. A director (more often than not) claims authorship of the film, and it is marketed under their name. It would be like stripping...

IMO: It's more like choosing to dislike a band because their "big breakout hit single" is just a cover of some song from 10+ years ago. Also, I think the fact that the original still exists makes the "recent remake" more akin to someone re-writing a recent novel than it is to re-adapting a...

Awesome. More people should check out his films. His DP, Siu-keung Cheng, is one of the great unsung heros of the craft. Hmm. I should perhaps watch some of his later work. His early stuff where he was too full of his "dogma95" nonsense was not my cup of tea at the time. I wonder if I...