Electrogram Yourself
If you make genre movies you should sign up for Bill Cunningham's Electrogram. Sign up at the side-bar on his site.Bill's writing a movie for us. It better be ready soon as we'll be ready to shoot in June/July. Oof. That means I need to get an air conditioner.I'm totally ...
Flythrough Test
Here is an untextured test flythrough of the city of Tara 6. This was made so the actors would have some idea what they're seeing when on the spaceship set with a bluescreen out the window. On my PC monitor the image is a bit dark. The gamma is right ...
Cat Videos
You -- yes you -- don't watch enough cat videos. And kung-fu porn (which unfortunately I cannot embed.) Do I need to mention that it's not safe for work? ;-)The cat videos are watchable anywhere though. Watch them, study them. There will be a quiz.
Know your limitations
This version of Klimpt's The Kiss is from.A review of the Letus Nikon mount. I got this mount. It seems to work pretty well. Although I can focus past infinity with these, I believe that does not indicate any backfocus issues and I should be fine. The flare seems to ...
Golden Rhapsody
Rule of 3rds vs. golden mean. Yet interestingly:"A statistical study on 565 works of art of different great painters, performed in 1999, found that these artists had not used the golden ratio in the size of their canvases. The study concluded that the average ratio of the two sides of ...
Max Decisions
OK, so I've decided that we're going to shoot with the Panasonic HVX and the Letus Extreme adapter (this will be movie #3 or #4 with the HVX and a Letus adapter). No jellycam, no weird stair stepping or compression. I want the movie to have blues and greens in ...
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Via Bill, monetizing web content.I so don't agree with writing in post or multi-camera shoots. Multi-camera is great for making TV shows. Writing in post is great for making bad movies.And although Nikon is talking about manual control for their upcoming cameras, my fear is that we should just shoot ...
What Am I Doing?
I have been fighting vicious viruses on my PC and a meltdown on our Mac where it's just refusing to make DVD's. I think I've solved both. We'll see.******************You know, I realized that I have absolutely no idea what I'm doing. In a week we're going to shoot Clonehunter and ...
Keep Going Past the Gorilla
Just... keep going past the gorilla. It becomes... just brilliant (how many times in life do you get to say that?)
Research
Mitchell has been doing research today. Which is good, because I want to shoot the spaceship interiors of Clonehunter with a Nikon D90 because I want the interior lights built into the set to blow out more. I don't want to light the set(s) in Forked River at all. I ...