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There are lots of books about lighting - try your school library. The good thing about a book is that there will be diagrams, photos and examples. Try The 5 C's of Cinematography and search on 'cinematography' in general.

. Typically the stockings go behind the lens. Either with a little rubber band keeper, or glued on with nail polish. How steady is your hand. Use black stockings for best contrast, but white and other colors give good effects, too. I suspect that most people now use the post route, but...

Lots of filters. If you can afford to rent a matte box and some filters you might want to try: diffusion, fog, double fog (adds low contrast), pro-mist, black pro-mist (retains the most 'punch' usually), etc. All of these can be had in 4x4 size from a rental house. Many of the filters will...

The only way to shoot 'black and white' on a digital camera is to desaturate the image. This looks like crap because all you've done is remove the color information, which is not the way b&w film works. An example - on most b&w stocks red renders very dark, but if you just desaturate a color...

Typically on a 'real' movie you'd use a hood mount and a hostess tray. A hood mount is a bar that rides above the hood and provides mounting positions for lights and camera(s), a hostess tray is clamped to the doors - if shots are tight they use arms to slide down inside the window well and...

Anyone with a 'name' is going to be SAG (Screen Actors Guild). You may want to read the material here: http://www.sagindie.org/resources/contracts

Agreed that most shorts will NOT be watched, but if it's something clever enough or interesting enough, YouTube can work. Note the length on these, though; 17 minutes may be stretching it for anyone under 30. "Merci" dir. Christine Rabette (also known as "Bodhisattva in Metro") has probably...

I haven't watched your re-cut, but if you did it overnight you did it too fast.

And before you shoot anything, after you have, say, five scripts, see if you can find a local acting group or acting class and have them do a script read-through, or "table read". It will give you a sense of how the dialog and characters work (won't help much with visuals) before you start...

I hate post slo-mo. Twixtor, if you have to do it.

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The problem with blogging (tweeting, facebooking, etc-ing) during the production process is that the finished product is so far out. Unless you have some method for cranking out a few scenes in near- finished form DURING the shoot, the reader is just going to have to imagine what's going on...

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I'm not sure where the 10" number came from. If from my post, I was just giving a notional example, and the 10 was feet, not inches. The actual depth of field can be calculated on that web page I mentioned earlier. You need to know your lens size, the aperture, the sensor size (APS-C I think)...

Everything goes in cycles. The great thing about all those old films is that they'll still be around for the next cycle of filmmakers who are bored with whatever it was that was cool before. Unless, of course, the general ADD just gets worse.

re "So the 1.4 doesn't loose focus easily..." Yes, at lower f/stops DOF is shallower. The upshot is that it's easy for the subject to move forward or back, even a little, and move out of focus. It's up to you to maintain focus (that's what a 1st AC does). But if you stop down a bit - to a...

Do you have an experienced 1st AD you can go to for advice (even if you can't have them on a production)? For inexperienced filmmakers I tell them that, if they only have a little money, spend it first to find an experienced AD. And then listen to what they say.

Also - I neglected to check which part of the forum I was in before my first reply on this topic. I replied expecting you to have some experience, but only this morning realized this was the Newbies section. I'm not normally that grumpy. That being said - why, as a newbie, did you feel the...

The 'grain' (noise) is coming from cranking the gain on the camera up too high. What sort of ISO are setting the camera to? Some cameras (Canon 1D, Sony FS-100) handle radically increased gain better than others. Determine at what gain/ISO setting you start to get too much noise in the blacks...

re focus. That is due to selective depth-of-field (DOF). You can't just buy a lens to get that effect - in fact the most significant factor in most cases is the sensor size. DOF is has four factors: focal length of the lens aperture of the lens (f/stop) focal plane (where is the camera...