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Yea that would be a pretty good monitor I think for your uses or any of the monitors I posted earlier should be good. Check some online reviews before you buy just to see what others say as it may narrow the selection down a bit. But as long as you calibrate correctly they will all do pretty...

I don't personally have one but we got a lot of them at work (older matte ones) they are pretty good and last along time if you calibrate and profile them. Dont get a new glossy cinema display though I hear they are not very good for working with colour, also glossy is pretty rubbish unless its...

Well you will want to defo get a good IPS panel not a TN panel as IPS has a much better contrast ratio. Best makes for colour critical viewing usually are NEC, HP and Dell. Personally at home i have a dell U2311 which is nice, gave it a rough calibrate and looks pretty good, good viewing angles...

Thought this was pretty amusing, called 'My Life in FCP', check it out: http://vimeo.com/26353727

Hey I specialise in VFX and would suggest both... practical then enhance the costume/prop with VFX where/if needed. Using latex/makeup etc like you suggest can look static and poor if its clearly a guy in a suit. VFX could aid selling the costume approach by hiding more, displacing the costume...

Well FCP7 will be fine I think as i doubt your going to be working with anything to heavy at all in your first year. If you want something to be a bit of a beast, i would suggest getting a student CS5 production suite (£350 tops) get After effects, Photoshop, flash etc good package for uni and...

Hey this was cool, again the cinematography was great, story was pretty good. I felt that the main actors were not right for the parts (age) they were playing and this made it a bit more difficult for me get into it for me. But overall great job, sure the next thing you do will be something to...

Yea watched this short awhile ago and its great :). Dead simple idea (however very targeted at people like us) I thought the grading was way over the top however. Other than that loved it.

Nick is correct, Uni is basically a time to build a portfolio and doing by doing this you gain some experience, also you could learn something as well in lectures but don't get your hopes up :P Also the route Nick describes is the route I attempted to take... Uni > NTFS > Money & Glory. However...

Bournemouth is pretty well established uni for media. Personally I did my media degree at a college and am doing good. Just don't go for an 'artistic' based degree (as i know some who have) and go for a more 'technical/practical' degree as they are far more useful once you have graduated.

No I have never seen it, only the Christopher Nolan Insomnia :P. I looked it up and yea its got a similar concept, but short answer, no we were not inspired by it lol. Also thanks for all the positive comments and constructive criticism, really appreciate it. Its interesting to see some people...

I agree with Gonzo, get a zoom that can do well for most situations then move to primes when u got the $$. First prime i would suggest if you want to start with a prime is a 50mm 1.8 or 1.4 (1.4 a lot more but better build quality and good glass)

Yea we wanted it to be a bit more 'organic' and not just stuck to the head completely but most of the time it just had to be like that otherwise it looked odd or sometimes for narrative reasons. Such as we didn't want people to miss the orbs. Thanks for the feedback, glad you liked the plot :)

Hey just finished a 2:09 short intended for the Virgin Media Shorts contest and would appreciate any feedback here or on the comments boards. The synopsis is: "A man finds some glasses which gives him the ability to see something very unusual. But what does it all mean?" You can find it on...

Just watched it, thought it was cool. I liked the beginning news stuff and the punch in the face. I think it would have much more impact if we got the sense the 2 characters had a long history which would result in us feeling some sympathy for their impending doom. But yea its cool and...

Depends what your goals are if its advanced compositing then Nuke is the go to program, if its motion graphics, vfx, simple compositing etc or your starting out and trying this stuff out After Effects is prob the best as its got a fairly easy learning curve compared to Nuke which is aimed at a...

Well you can do this a few ways but first things first you will want to convert the AVCHD footage to something a bit more edit friendly but retain quality (TIFF or ANIMATION or something else you prefer). CS5 can edit native AVCHD and H.264 but as far as im aware CS4 cant. I would set my...

Hey, not bad. Like others have said the grading was over the top as its so bright and your influence feels basically like Andrew Kramer tutorials = a short. This is fine, we have all done it. You also did some nice effects with the angel wings, particles etc keep it in that direction and move...

Choose Quicktime then choose either of these codecs: Less compression/Higher Disk space: Animation More Comression/Less Disk space: jpeg 2000/photo jpeg You can vary the quality of these codecs but they should be good quality and good compression. Keep in mind a 1080p Quicktime - Animation...