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    Blending aerial & crane shots

    Say you want a blend these shots together so they appear seamless: Long aerial shot going over a landscape, then the camera slows and then looks down, and finally plunges down toward the distant subject; Crane shot takes over, going all the way down to eye level, turning horizontal near the...
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    "Real" people as Actors

    I'm curious about what it takes to train actors. Imagine you had to use "real" people and train them yourself. Say, you were limited to using only real rodeo stars for your rodeo film, real firefighters for your firefighter film, whatever. I know, it makes way more sense to use actors, but...
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    Digital much better for night shooting?

    I almost put this in Square's thread but I didn't want to hijack. I read a couple threads elsewhere about "film vs. digital" and among lots of discussion I didn't understand, I got the impression that digital cameras can shoot in far less light. Is that so? How much less are we talking here...
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    Put your storytelling tidbits here

    You know, short, quick "rules" or "rules of thumb" or techniques, or whatever concise info you want to give. Everything I know I learned from funny books, so I could be way off base, but I might as well toss out what little I "know." Upshots and down shots: the camera determines the psychology...
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    Set Making

    Not really asking this from an indy POV here, more of a "guy who doesn't know much about how movies are made to people who do know how movies are made" POV. How does set making work? If they're making a big interior from scratch, do they use scaffolding or what? Is it mostly plywood...
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