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Onebaldman, thanks for the reply. I closed my company. At first, it was a great way to learn and meet people, but a lot of it consisted of corporate stuff, which got boring after a couple of years. Now with the economy in such rough shape, it looks like the safe bet (teaching) was the lucky...

In about 2010 I was working on a novel about a filmmaker. I didn't know much about the nuts and bolts of filmmaking so I was doing a lot of research and somehow found my way to the Indietalk forums where I soon became intrigued enough with filmmaking that I abandoned my novel and bought a video...

Hi, Dreadylocks. Yeah, the shot I fretted over in the park I'm happy with. The office was a bit dark, though. We needed some more lights, I think. I rented a Sennheiser ME66 or 67, I think it was, from a local film collective for $30 for the weekend, including boom, zeppelin-thingy and...

Thanks. I'll check it out some time. Yeah, I'm pretty happy with the actors. I mean, I couldn't pay them, but they were willing to rehearse 3 or 4 times and they responded to direction pretty well. A long shot, but did you happen to go to a little Festival in (near?) Chicago a couple of weeks...

Yes, I wrote it. I've only seen Albee's "Who's Afraid V.W?" I like him.

Thanks, Buddy. Yeah, the font's on the chopping block. I was fed up with tinkering with the title, but I will change it soon.

So weeks and weeks ago, I said I'd share some footage. Life got very busy right after we finished shooting. I never put up a clip, but I've finally pieced it all together. I have a few little things to work on, but I think it's mostly done: http://www.vimeo.com/15580168 The password is "price"...

I would have thought 15 degrees per hour: 360 degrees/24 hours? What am I missing?

Knightly, good point. I've never tried it with lights, but I will. I like the effect.

LastSunset, that looks cool, and yeah, very similar to my scene. I'm no expert, but my thinking was to avoid the shadows--or to either stay in complete shadow or complete sun. If you're on the edge of a shadow you will see it move across the face of the actors. Also, just to make shooting go...

Thanks. Yes, we started shooting at about 9ish. The sun was behind at the time. Of course, you never realize how fast the damn sun moves until you try shooting outdoors. We had to shift the reflectors quite often to keep up with the sun. I think we finished at 11:30, when the sun was more...

I haven't had a chance to upload any clips, but here are a few set photos. You can see our little set-up: http://www.flickr.com/photos/faintscrawl/sets/72157624617438037/with/4899477193/

We did the scene today. I'll try to post a few clips when I get a chance. I already looked at them. They look 'okay'. We couldn't bounce quite enough light and stay out of the frame. It was always a compromise--over-expose shoulders and hair or under-expose faces. We had a white shower curtain...

Lots of good advice. Thanks. Yeah, taking mood into consideration is a good point. The mood is complex. It's a serious conversation treated with gentle irony. I like morning and evening light, but the park will be MUCH quieter in the morning (which reminds of my other issue--lav or shotgun...

Hi, I got some helpful advice here on lighting before I shot my last short (which was also my first). This time I'm going to be shooting mostly outside on a park bench in the morning and I'm wondering whether to have the morning sun lighting their faces or shoot toward the sun and let it light...

In the email updates I get for this thread, there was no spoiler effect over Zensteve's explanation so I didn't really get to experience the full effect of the punchline. Still, it was informative.

Thanks a lot for the suggestions. We still haven't decided, but there will probably be a 'digital' and a 'post-' in there somewhere. My credit is not the most important thing on our minds, but sometimes when our eyes get tired we take a break and chew on this.

Hi, So I'm helping out a filmmaker by doing some "editing" work for him and he wants to give me credit, but we don't know what for. I'm not exactly editing because the film was shot on super8 and he edited it the old fashioned way and then had it transferred to digital files. Now that it's...

This was JUST the question I was going to ask. Google searches suggested it was legal to do this. Glad the opinion here confirms it. I'm heading to Craigslist to post an ad for a cellist who can play some classical music for my next short. For my last short I found a young jazz musician who...

Thanks. That's what I thought, but someone had told me it was better to overlap 2 to 6 frames so that it's not quite so jumpy. I like the simple cut ... something "zen" about it.