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Looks like the FS200 is a regular tiny standard-def camera. What's really going to get you is the small resolution. Standard-definition (720x480) doesn't look that great on today's larger screens. You also might run into compression artifacting issues during color grading (or...

Autofocus is rather useless in movie-making. Seriously, if you're shooting films, you're going to be using manual focus. Camera selection should be determined on basic shooting features (manual audio control? bitrate? low-light/grain performance?), and which lenses the camera takes. Lenses are...

Oh hey, this looks promising: a 3D splitter rig for shooting 3D with a single DSLR. Edit: I'm a moron -- I totally failed to see the second DSLR at the top of the rig. Still cool, but doubles the required camera equipment. I stil want one. :)

Yay! I'm curious to hear what you think of my characters in that one.

An indie filmmaker is more likely to go with an all-in-one solution. Sure, they're more limited, but that lets the filmmaker focus on the other aspects of learning 3D filmmaking.

I'm in Seattle, and while I'm not a professional, I'm not too shabby at it either. What genre are you looking at?

I just got a 3D TV (they were on sale and I got some 3D blu-rays for christmas) and I can say with full confidence that 3D movies are not going away. I've seen several now where the 3D was done correctly, enhancing shots (instead of just being used as a gimmick) and generally just being...

Scorer, I've PM'd you a link to that screenplay fragment. There's still a few remnants of non-showable description lines scattered throughout, but most of them have been fixed up.

The characters were fairly generic. There was the still-criminal-informant guy, the stereotypical detective-interrogator guy, and a handful of stock mob guys. Thing is, for this script that actually works. If it was feature-length you'd definitely want to work on making them unique, but for 40...

If you want to see an example of how I personally think description sections should be designed, ask and I'll send you a fragment of a screenplay I'm writing where the characters' body language and attitude/mental-state is a huge part of their character. (This is the screenplay where I figured...

The description sections is something I had to practice at as well. For example, instead of saying, "CHARACTER feels uncomfortable", describe how that character behaves when he/she feels uncomfortable. This is how you build unique characters. You don't have to describe every little detail, just...

Okay, so, not too shabby, and a decent ending. The biggest problem are all of the description sections that go into unshowable detail: That second sentence should not be there. Only write what can be shown on the screen. There's a lot of these scattered throughout, so remove them and replace...

I do objective script critiques, and my general areas of writing are fantasy and sci-fi so you won't have to worry about me ripping you off. (I do have a mobster/informant scene at the beginning of one of my screenplays, but A) I'm happy with what I've already written, and B) the overall plot...

It really depends on your use case. I'm a stills photographer as well, so the 5D MkIII was a natural choice for me since I get to shoot video using my existing lens collection. :) A dedicated video camera will be much less hassle to use if you're only ever going to shoot video with it, and you...

Keep in mind that 35mm film movies are shot with the film running vertically through the camera, giving a frame size closer to crop-factor cameras and is smaller than the frame shot by 35mm film stills cameras and full-frame DSLRs. So what does this impact? If the field-of-view 35mm lens on a...

I've never even seen 1280x1080 before. Shouldn't that be 1280x720? Or 1920x1080?

I just got my first 3D tv yesterday, and would love to play around with 3D video. I just have no way to actually shoot 3D video. Someday, though...

Scammy scam scam. Avoid at all costs.

If you're going to shoot at 50p and downsample to 25p, make sure to set your shutter speed to 1/50th of a second so you get the same kind of motion blur you'd get when shooting 25p. Then when downsampling, just drop every other frame.

I need to learn more about 60-24fps conversions with modern technology. I only know what's theoretically possible, but not how you'd actually do it: If you just downsample 60fps to 24fps, the motion blur won't look right. It will have that overly-crisp look you can see in sports footage or...