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If you have some money to spare, try finding a local vacuum-form shop - we're using the one in Pinewood Film Studios for our feature and a 7' x 5' panel costs £13 + VAT - we're ordering a whole bunch of 'em :) http://www.hoopershomes.com/bracketmedia/vacformshop/index.htm This stuff looks...

We're currently looking for investment in our film Arkham Sanitarium - you can see more about us and the film here: Survivor Films

MegaPixels is a moot point when it comes to video comparisons for the T2i/5d/VG10 - all of them output still images way in excess of 1080p - all of them are throwing away pixels to create a 1080p image - the only difference in quality will be down to how they do that - sadly, none of these...

Tungsten is lightbulbs, fluorescent is tube lighting - brightness can be measured in Kelvin or as a temperature - fluorescent tubes are cool to the touch whereas tungsten bulbs get hot - the temperature of the light affects the colour of the light emitted - because of the ways our eyes work...

Green and Blue are most commonly used for ChromaKeying - why? 'Cause keying those colours out doesn't interfere with fleshtones - after all, you don't want to key out your background and lose a big chunk of your talent's face :)

Nice one CF! I'm meeting up with a girl group on Sunday to discuss the music for my film - they're (hopefully) going to provide three vocal tracks (1930's, 1950's, contemporary) and 6 instrumental pieces - they're going to be singing in a scene in the film too (1930's night club). AntiHero...

Because detail is being thrown away before you've even got the footage into your editing software. Consumer solutions typically use aggressive compression to reduce file sizes - if you want to display your material on a big screen, the less compression in the source footage the better - heavily...

Hey Gonzo - good for you! Nice to see old dogs like us can learn new tricks (I'm 41 and started this crazy adventure 2 years ago :))

Have you looked at Cinemek's Storyboard Composer? All the features of that please plus a sketching interface and the ability to import audio :)

Just watched the first one - great footage! Now make the film - I wanna see it!

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I wish! I'm adapting Lovecraft at the moment and it's hard - very hard - so hard in fact that in my opinion, nobody's done a satisfactory job of it so far (that's why we're having a go). The truth is, books are very different beasts to film - they follow their own rules that don't necessarily...

CG VFX Artist for the past 16 years - currently freelancing for an architectural visualisation company - my background certainly helps with post-production :)

We're shooting four 20-30 minute films, each with a different cast - hence the split in the rehearsals - when it's all assembled it'll make a 110 minute feature :)

I've got one on pre-order. Whilst the moire is a cause for concern, that really is a worst-case scenario. The 'Beautiful Bali' Sony footage looks good though and I like the camcorder form-factor. Supposedly the HDMI out is uncompressed which means you can pipe it to a Black Magic or NanoFlash...

Yep - a 12 day shoot is certainly doable - the key (as always) is in the planning. We're doing something similar on our feature but it's broken up over 18 days: 3 days on 2 off 3 on 2 off 4 on 2 off 2 on Plus 3 days for recording V/O The off days will be used for set modifications/redressing...

Another vote here for mandy.com - I've used them in the past and gotten good results - actors pay to put their resumes on there so productions get to use it for free - got over 100 responses to my last casting call.

Well firstly, copyright exists in most (all?) original written material (even this post :)) so there's potential copyright issues - secondly, things like logos (for example, the way Google writes 'Google') are frequently trademarks (registered or otherwise) and you need permission to reproduce...

Nope - that's like making your own Batman movie and trying to sell it without the rights. If you're interested in adapting Stephen King you could take a look at the 'Dollar Babies' scheme he runs.

Yeah - I'm thinking it'll run something like this: Buy some standard house lamps (plug-in types) and mount them/wire them up to look like wall lamps - they'll be hooked up to a dimmer and plugged into regular extension leads. The set interior will be isolated from the rest of the stage with...