I have some questions about film making
1. When can I buy the empty film reels and what would be the cost of that. If I want to produce a 2 hour length movie, could anybody tell me how many feet reel I need.
2. What brand of cameras are excellent in quality and where can I buy them
Please give me website URLs for buying film making equipment.
Jay
Jay
Jay
Can somebody tell me what all we need for pre-production, production, shooting, post-production, editing, and movie prints and where can I buy the equipment related to this.
Jay
Jay
Wow, Jay.
First - welcome to the boards.
Second - what you are asking is something that is covered in
hundreds of books and not easily listed on message boards.
It's impossible to list all you will need for every aspect of a
movie. Because each production has different needs. It's easy to
say you will need a camera and a mic and lights and your basic
grip equipment. But many movies have been made with just a camera
and a mic. And some productions need a dolly, a jib, caterers, a
huge ocean liner that will sink and spaceships. I'm sure you can
see that listing all you will need depends on what you will need.
But I don't want to just blow you off. This is a very helpful
community of people who are willing to help. So here are a few
answers to get you started on you research.
1. You can buy empty film reels from any lab. I don't know the
cost so you will have to make the calls and ask. Try DuArt,
Colorlab, Cineric and FotoKem. 35mm film runs at 90 ft. per
minute. It's typical to shoot 20 times the running length. Some
get away with much less and many use even more. I'm not good at
math, so I'll let you compute the numbers.
2. Most movies you see are shot with Panavision cameras. These are
rental only - they don't sell. Arriflex sells cameras and they
are also used a lot to shoot commercial, feature films.
Type any of those names into Google to get the URL's. Check out
http://www.filmmaking.net/ for links to equipment and software
and books.
If you have more specific question, you'll get answers. The really
broad ones like listing all you will need are just too time
consuming. It would take me hours to list everything needed in
all stages of making a movie.
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Thanks Joseph.
Can you give me some URLs where I can find information about pre-production, production, post-production, sound mixing etc.
Jay
Jay
What is the difference between shooting on film and digital. Is it better to go for film shooting and digital film.
Jay
Jay
Shooting on film is... well, shooting on actual film. Shooting digital means using digital cameras in place of film. Consumer cameras are digital.
Real movies use film. Film is a lot more expensive, generally requires a larger crew, and takes a lot of experience.
Digital is a lot cheaper. No processing before editing, just dump it on the computer. You'll most likely want to shoot digital.
So Collateral, Grindhouse, Star Wars the Phantom Menace, Zodiac, Sin City, Miami Vice, 300, Spy Kids, and Once Upon a Time in Mexico are not real movies?
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Originally posted by andyc52042
...Real movies use film...
Whoops. Sorry, I worded that wrong. Professional, Hollywood movies were traditionally shot on film. Since the industry is shifting to digital, though, more and more movies are being shot digitally. Sorry, Joe. 'Real movies' was referring to the major productions before digital began replacing film. But yes, to answer your question, all of the movies you listed are 'real movies.'
I would go so far as to say the movies mentioned, although they are digital, are not what most filmmakers think of when they say digital. A better example would be 28 Days later that used a camera inferior to what many no-budget filmmakers use today rather than a super expensive camera that only well established professional could afford.
Still the point was well made.
RJSchwarz
San Diego, CA
RJSchwarz
OK no problem. Beers are on me!
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Originally posted by andyc52042
Whoops. Sorry, I worded that wrong. Professional, Hollywood movies were traditionally shot on film. Since the industry is shifting to digital, though, more and more movies are being shot digitally. Sorry, Joe. 'Real movies' was referring to the major productions before digital began replacing film. But yes, to answer your question, all of the movies you listed are 'real movies.'
It is indeed intimidating to sort by price HIGH to low when looking at digital camcorders at sayt B&H Photovideo. I used to think a $5000 camcorder was expensive, but there are digital camcorders going for $100,000 and more (George Lucas will you please buy me one?)
The RED camera is looking real interesting. Except by the time I can afford it I would have to sell my first born to afford the huge hard drives to store the data for such massive resolution footage!
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Originally posted by rjschwarz
I would go so far as to say the movies mentioned, although they are digital, are not what most filmmakers think of when they say digital. A better example would be 28 Days later that used a camera inferior to what many no-budget filmmakers use today rather than a super expensive camera that only well established professional could afford.
Still the point was well made.
