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It makes me sad that people can't seem to dream up interesting space battles that are more realistic. Spice it up?? You've got relative velocities between ships of thousands of miles per hour! Forget lasers, just toss a cloud of ball-bearings out the hatch. :) Once you get away from "dogfights...

Another reaaaally important note: prime lenses will give you FAR less edge distortion (barrel/pincushion) than a zoom lens set to the same FOV. I tested this out directly with my 24-70mm set to 35mm and 50mm and compared to the primes I have. I was actually pretty surprised just how much more...

The real cost is in the lenses. Put your money there, as better lenses + cheaper camera is a FAR better combination than cheaper lenses + expensive camera.

Most people never even try (including myself -- I'm a total hobbyist). I'd say go for it. And if you fail? So what? You tried something most people would never consider tackling.

Oh man, I remember getting that kind of treatment back in 2005. :) Here's something actually constructive: The Photographer's Eye is a fantastic book on the art of photography composition. Want to get past all the "Only use the rule-of-thirds!" people and starting shooting interesting photos...

For me, I usually get random inspiration out of the blue in the form of a few scattered scenes. As I think about those scenes, the gaps in-between just sort of... crystallize into place and once I have enough plot points I can start writing and just fill in the details. I've also had luck with...

To be fair, you probably could open up a studio with a T3i. Today's low-end DSLR's have pretty amazing quality, and even the best camera isn't going make a bad photographer a good photographer. Personal rant: The general public has no taste and I've seen successful studios in Seattle run by...

It's not a lack of subtext, it was just a travesty of story, dialog, and music scoring, which I covered in my review. :) Seriously, I could write better dialog in my sleep. (These same problems are also present in the LOTR trilogy, just not as severe.)

I just looked up those Samyang cine lenses and they look pretty sweet (especially the geared focus and aperture rings). I might have to purchase one for myself. (I already have the geared-focus Zeiss 18mm, 35mm, and 50mm lenses, but those don't have manual aperture control.) Keep in mind that...

Just one lens? Yikes. :) If you're stuck with a single lens then you'll want a zoom lens to give you a range (unless you really want the challenge of being stuck with a single FOV). The downside to zooms is that they don't let in as much light as primes. if you're shooting indoors you're going...

I tend to find "normal" lenses... kinda boring for most shots. You'll get more dynamic-looking framing if you have a wide-angle and a telephoto, using the normal only when necessary. The 600D is a crop-factor camera, so I'd recommend having an 18, 50, and 75/80 as your base primes (if you can...

You also have to take into consideration the size of your sensor. A 35mm lens on a crop-factor camera or standard 35mm movie camera will not look the same as on a 35mm full-frame sensor or vistavision negative (35mm film run sideways instead of vertical). You'll definitely want more than just a...

Indietalk rules apparently state that I have to actually post my review instead of simply linking to it, so I'm having to replace the link with the actual text: Okay, let’s get the technical stuff out of the way. The new high-frame-rate 3D technology is very interesting, but it’s obvious that...

If you don't mind a bit of sci-fi, I wrote a 19-pager for a film student here some time back but I don't think he ever used it. It is specifically written for super-low budgets. I offer this script to anyone free of charge, so long as I get listed as the screenwriter, so if it appeals to you...

At least they managed not to muck up conservation of momentum.

I so badly want people to get away from the "dogfights in space" structure. THINGS IN SPACE DO NOT WORK THAT WAY. mumble grumble wheresthehardscifi grumble mumble...

Looks interesting, although the preview is a little to much guns-'n-running for my tastes.

A good starter book: Music Theory for Computer Musicians

I'm still waiting for someone to do a realistic space battle scene. Space is very much not an atmosphere and very much not an ocean. A real space battle will be fought very differently and it would be pretty awesome to have one realistically depicted. Atomic Rockets has a tremendous amount of...

Flight of the Chicken (circa 1999) Shot on VHSC, digitized via Iomega Buzz, edited with a version of Adobe Premiere so old it only had two video tracks -- A-Roll and B-Roll. Music composed in a DOS program called Voyetra Sequencer Gold, sending MIDI commands to an Emu ProteusFX via SoundBlaster...