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If you're referring to the NT-2A, it's a multi-pattern, large diaphram microphone. I own the NT-1A that I use in my project studio for recording vocals and voice-over. I would not even consider putting it on the end of a boom pole. Here's the issues: 1. Although it's a selectable pattern...

Yea! Another person using Sonar for post audio.

From a stickly business perspective, the only way to know if this works is to perform a feasibility study, a market analysis, and create a business plan with projected financials (cash flows) (based on the feasibility study and market analysis) for 1 year, 5 years, and 10 years. Take a college...

Use a slate for each and every shot. Have the slate marked properly and ensure that it is in the camera frame and in focus. Roll camera, roll sound. Have the person slating the shot call the shot by reading the info from the slate. Now the first few seconds of the camera roll contain the...

If there is any value to this person's name I would solicite permission from his survivors and/or family.

I bought the 60D with the kit lens and am very pleased. I also bought an adapter and Super Takumar 55mm f1.8 off ebay for a total of $40.00 The 55 makes a really nice close-up lens and at f1.8 provides a very nice shallow DOF with fairly dreamlike bokeh for a 5 blade aperture. Be warned, you'll...

I have yet to hear a lav that has the same sound in regards to depth and fullness of a boom. The lav is a mixed bag. Yes, you can get it close to the talent on wide shots where you can't get a boom close enough. However, because of positioning as well as trying to get a more open sound, most...

That's why one of the first things I do is stripe the dialog, cutting clips and dropping them into a dx stem with each actor getting their own track. I only drop dialog here and feather the head and tail of the clip. The door slam (if it's the one I decide to use) goes into the fx stem...

It's either decibel, or DaBoom. Here's a wiki link with alot of science mumbo jumbo. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decibel In it's proper form, it's used as an expression of gain ratio. Less in not always bad, and more is not always good. In most uses in audio for film or video, it is used to...

You could even go wireless by having the actors have their cell phones in their pocket on speakerphone, and then, in a quiet closet, just tape your microphone to another cell phone, put that phone on speakerphone, and record the cellphone speaker into a H4.....WAIT!!!, the H4 has built in mics...

I can't tell you how many people I know in filmmaking got the bug after doing a 48. It's like taking either the blue pill or the red pill. Here in Atlanta there is no "acceptance" criteria. You pay, you submit by the deadline, you're in.

Most of the skills needed for DSLR videography are the same skills used in all photography. Learning the relationship between apeture and depth of field (and since we dealing with a manditory shutter speed), the use of ND filters to correct exposure, composition, and above all, lighting are...

Find a DP and a sound person who want to go to South America and cover their expenses + a little pocket money and let them worry about the techical while you get your plan and script together.

I like Surveyor. Helps me quickly determine approx. distances for framing, light placement, etc.

I don't know about the "professionals" you've worked with, but my wife is a professional make-up artist has long since abandoned DIY blood recipes for blood work for film. She typically carries 3 to 4 different blood formulations (arterial blood, blood gel, thick blood, and ICU flowing blood)...

We have used a tree branch with some leaves attached, and shook it slowly in from of a light source with a patched together amber/red gel.

Not that it really matters, but most of the editors I know working for the larger studios cut using AVID on fairly high end workstations.

If the script is written well, then all the information the director needs is already there. Most directors I know who are good at what they do collaborate with their DP over how to get the shot. That's why you choose your director wisely. And why the director is usually the one to choose the...

Regarding the legality: Copyright violations are prosecuted under section 2319 of title 18 of the U.S. code and is considered a ciminal act. What makes it difficult to prosecute is the owner has to provide a victim impact statement (typically identifying a monetary value of the damage incurred...

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