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*pour one out for the 8k that most of us wish we had to spend on our films...*

I'd take the time to link to a rimshot, but I'm terrified that you'd lambaste me for using one with glaring audio issues. :)

Wait a sec, she's worried about how bad day for night looks...so she wants to shoot on an iPhone instead? :huh:

It would seem they're saying that this is one option, so you really only need to eliminate, oh, about infinity others. Really in the end it will be your choice. There's a saying though, I think it's from Robert McKee: "Use your exposition as ammunition." This essentially boils down to what...

At this stage, and at that price point? DIY and/or china balls, too many kits at that price point are just junk compared to either just making it yourself or going with the ultimate in low-budget soft light solutions.

You're thinking about this the wrong way. There's not much to build suspense on as of yet as there are no stakes raised as of yet. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=watch?v=E8AXd1ayxrg Take the very opening shot of Orson Welles' "Touch of Evil". If they simply skipped the first moment, the bomb...

That probably depends a bit on dead for how long, and what you're basing your source material on. If, for example, you were to write a film on the life of Teddy Roosevelt, because some book you read called "Roughrider: The life of Theodore Roosevelt" was very cinematic and deserved to be...

When you're referring to practical effects, are you referring more to tricks of cinematography (Miniatures, facades, forced perspective, et al) or Make-up effects?

There's a lot you can tighten up on. A lot of the shots have a large amount of excess head and tail in my opinion. You could also probably trim about 3:30 out of the first four minutes as you're likely to lose a decent bit of audience as they wait for your hook. Technically you have a decent...

Gotta say, Sonny, every new damn post you make makes me gain even more respect for you. You really took the high road with a lot of crap piled on you.

I think the point that Alcove's eluding to is that if you do a truly clever justification, you can actually leverage this conflict into tension. Maybe the ripper CAN'T tell them? Why not? Maybe they're not sure if they SHOULD tell the? Why not? The audience seeing all the pieces of a puzzle...

If you batch process your footage into reasonable proxies, you could probably bring most of those files onto your HDD. Especially if you have some good notes from your script supervisor flagging your best takes.

I really dug those circle-dolly transformation shots when they were showing Roosevelt, Hitler,et al as young men from WWI and older ones in WWII. I think those really were hook shots, really developed visual interest. That having been said, the first conversational shot with Churchill felt a bit...

1) If you've already gotten a clear black and white, then just Luma matte that footage, it'll key out the white perfectly. 2) Personally I'd just lay the two layers atop one another. Just make sure that, if possible, you set your tracking markers up the same distance away as you want the...

This idea of a "true film" look is beyond nebulous. Are you saying all movies look the same? More to the point of the question, no. No you don't necessarily NEED a gigantic crew and all the best equipment to make a film look like "true film", not unless you're doing something incredibly...

You're gonna have a hell of a time doing that shot even with a long lens anyways if you don't have a damn good 1st AC to pull focus for you... There are other options, too. 1) Do it quickly in the cut 2) Do it off screen with sound and cut back in to the aftermath. 3) Composite it 4)...

Nice. Way to ignore the other 98% of the comment.

This series rests somewhere between fantasy and science fiction. As such, you can fill in whatever justifications the limits of your imagination can hold for whatever questions you'd have. Perhaps the propulsion design of the ship utilizes the wings as a form of separation, and them being...

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Dude, don't shift the entire wheel. Use a three-way corrector and just push a bit of cyan into the mids. That'll de-smurf you.