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Clever. Your arm will really appreciate an air compressor eventually.

AC = Assistant Cameraman, or camera assistant - your version of Google may be out-of-date. The AC is the person who. on a film of any size at all, focuses the camera. Trying to focus by eye is a black art and not many people can do it - you say as much yourself. The AC takes marks off the...

As I said, the matte box is (now) a lens shade - it keeps light from hitting the lens (or, more importantly, the filters in front of the lens. If the matte box doesn't do the the job the grips have to.... or should, anyway. The goal is to have no reflections in the lens at all - this is AC...

I see. I've used lights like this, and they can work pretty well. These ARE fluorescents - the fairly new kind of high-speed, color-corrected fluos. The high-speed part means that you generally won't see flicker from them, as you can with standard fluorescents (and, for general use, they are...

My advice would be to go with the 1.4 lens (though maybe shooting a bit more open) and take the time to let your AC get marks and rehearse. Don't have an AC? For this sort of thing, you should, and someone with a bit of experience (not just a friend on the set). I'm assuming that you're...

Any idea why it's 'better'? I'd noticed the Tascam, but the side-facing mics put me off. That would be fine for basic 'everywhere' ambience, but it seems like it'd yield a poor stereo image if the sound was within ten feet of the instrument. I don't know - just asking; the X-Y configuration...

Of course that means you have to have a sound guy. It's a good thing, but you won't be able to one-man-band. And finding someone to do sound well is tough. I once saw some film students shooting in a perfectly cubic cinderblock room. Actors were in one corner, super-cool sound dude was...

The purpose of a matte box is as a lens shade, not to actually cut into the image (though that may have been the original purpose). Use the hard mattes (the screwed-on or clipped-on pieces) in the aspect ratio you are shooting in. On an Arri matte box the snap-on hard mattes are labeled with...

Kodalith Those title were probably produced using Kodalith or a similar graphic arts film, and then backlit through a red filter. Litho films produce(d) an extreme black and white negative - just jet black or clear, no grays. The process would have been: create title cards with black print...

1. What DSLR do you use for filmmaking? 2. How long have you used it for? 3. What are the advantages of DSLR filmmaking? 4. What are the disadvantages? 5. How do you overcome said disadvantages? 6. What equipment (lenses, support, etc.) to do use along with the DSLR? 7. How many films have you...

Here's the trailer for a short film noir called "Web of Lies". The 40-second trailer itself was an experiment to see if I could create a compelling trailer for a film without giving away the whole plot -- though the film itself is only ten minutes long. Comments appreciated. "Web of Lies"...

Make sure the fluo is marked 'daylight' or 'cool white' or '5600' or something - they are very close to daylight in color. BUT - how are your two lamps daylight? Most traditional film lights are tungsten and warm (3200°K) by their nature. Are these fluorescent or LED maybe? Or are the bulbs...

Interesting how so many of the replies weren't answers at all. I've seen this elsewhere - someone asks a question about BR and gets alot of stuff about how physical media is dead, blah, blah... This is an old thread now. But because I just burned a number of Blu-ray disks of a short for film...

My name is Nelson Goforth. I've been working in film and video for over 20 years, mostly as a grip and electrician. I've worked on over 40 features (as Gaffer on several indies), MOWs, series and of course lots of commercials and industrials (resume at http://www.earthnet.net/~ngoforth/film)...

The missing element is, as John Johnson mentioned, ND filters. These are used a lot in film production because most film cameras don't allow (easy) access to the shutter - it's 1/48 sec (at 24fps) and that's it. The tools for adjusting exposure were: ISO (getting a different stock), aperture...