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Speaking of high budget, on location movies. The ones that come from the mainstream hollywood butter churn. How much of the location dialog is actually ADR'd later? Not looking for an exact ratio but a best guess will do nicely.

You all remember spinner. Well she sent me an e-mail asking my help in asking for your help. First of all she misses everyone here at IT. Second of all she needs a little advice. She's been offered a job as camera operator with a local production company and they've asked her for her 'rates'...

Tis the season and since quite a few of us are waiting for word on our scripts, I thought I'd go ahead ask... What gift (doesn't have to be Christmas) do you remember being: A. Something you didn't ask for and B. You were very happy to recieve it? I'll start. I was 10. There was a gift...

I've been having 'conversations' with a friend of mine and I just want to clarify a few things. If anything so I don't pass on bad advice. I think I remember reading (in the myriad of books I've read on writing scripts) that in the action, you never tell the emotion of a character... DAVIE is...

October 16th's New Yorker has an article in it called "The Formula" by Malcolm Gladwell. The log line is "What if you built a machine to predict hit movies?". Later in the article it becomes clear that all they need is a copy of the script in order to do it. I can't/won't give you the whole...

From "Without a Box," got this in my e-mail. I must say I'm rather stunned. I was thinking Ohio would be 3rd for some reason.

It's not much but it does it's job when I send people to it. http://allknightproductions.com Comments and critiques welcome.

Interesting article in this months Script magazine. Just wondering how you all feel. Every protagonist is either Rocky Balboa or James Bond. Figure out which one, then focus on it and keep it as the main 'spine' of your story. The rest will take care of itself. The article says a lot more than...

A comedy (I hope). We did this for the DVi message board's DV Challenge #6. The theme was 'The Sun'. I hope you enjoy it. Please understand that I am a budding director and I would really appricate tough constructive criticism. Thanks for any help you care to offer...

Started seeing this today. I shot some day for night tests with a PD 150 and the whole tape is fine. After dinner I was shooting some interior stuff with new tape and I get this... http://allknightproductions.com/clips/what_the.wmv Tried four clean tapes and they all do it so I'm thinking it's...

As an exercise, I have come to understand the pure joy of writing a silent film. No dialog. What about the other end of the spectrum? Is there some trick to keeping an all dialog scene interesting? Immediately my mind starts to wander to different shots of two people doing different things...

I have been asked to critique a script and during the back and forth banter it became clear that the script I critiqued was part one of a three part series of movies this guy wants to write. He's written this one, it's feature length, parts two and three are going to be the same length (all on...

I am very aware that super 8 and 16 mm film looks a LOT better than DV or even HD. But DV certainly won't transfer to the big screen very well and HD may look decent, it's far from wonderful. So my question is film processing. How much does it cost on average? How much to turn it digital so I...

No Strings Attached I'm a writer by trade. I've been through many fiction writing workshops so feel free to critique as hard as you want. :cool: Production notes: Yes we did use a seperate sound system but only half of it came out so I kept the camera mic sound. HUGE mistake on my part...

Just wondering if ne1's going. Harold Ramis. :cool:

I'm going to disagree with this because I think, no matter how many people you have in your shot, crossing the line of action will only confuse your viewers more. Unless you show a player moving to a new position with a master shot, player moves or camera moves or both move, then you MUST...

This may sound silly but I want to make my digital video camera heavier. :yes: It's true. A video guy I know told me to put a ten pound weight on my camera to help steady it, make it act like a bigger (read that as more expensive) camera. Do they make weights that you can screw into the bottom...

Can you make a serious mockumentary* about anything scary in the woods (vampire, wolfman, some crazy guy killing family pets) without people saying, "Oh that's so Blair Witch."? *I know it's an oxymoron so tell it walking :rolleyes:

I'm trying to open up, expand, experiment with cinematography. Something new, something good and I have an idea but I'm not sure it will it work without actually spending the time and money 'doing' it. So, being one of those cheap Dutch people, I'm asking to see if anybody has done something...

I need to cover some boring parts of a round of golf and I want to liven up the space between important dialog with '70's songs clips. Top 40 stuff. Like a ball rolling too fast toward the water would get a short clip of Player's "Baby Come Back" song. My question is, I like the idea of doing...