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FocusPuller
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RE: How to use light in scary movies?

Use light to direct what you want the audience to look. Generally, where there is light there is safety. If you can see it, it's usually not scary. ...

20 years ago
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RE: Videogames..

Everything still has to be cleared, especially if you can see titles. I've been on shows that got in trouble for showing works of art that hadn't bee...

20 years ago
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RE: Continue college or start tech. school?

You are thinking about entering a very difficult business at a time of great volativity and instability. Things in this business are changing rapidly...

20 years ago
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RE: Film Techniques question

Usually when an actor is chewing on ice cubes, it's because the cameras are already reading the actor's breath. Usually you use that ice chewing thin...

20 years ago
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RE: Practical Underwater Effect

Build the set in a swimming pool, then add the water and actors. Or shoot a miniature of the set, fill that (you'll have to shoot at a higher speed t...

20 years ago
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RE: Bolex viewfinder magnification question

I found this at www.jkcamera.com. I can't verify its veracity. Most of available Rex-5's have 10x viewfinder. S/N 253.020 and up have 13x view. A...

20 years ago
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RE: From executive to director

You know, until you told me, I never guessed that you were making it all up. How many executives know how to spell the names of their companies reall...

20 years ago
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RE: Lighting at night.

Go outside at night and look around. What makes light at night different than light during the day? You need to motivate your light for it to be bel...

21 years ago
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RE: Anamorphic lens use with adapter ring...

All an anamorphic lens does is compress the image. It's gonna give you twice as much picture (assuming it's a 2x anamorph) as you would usually get, ...

21 years ago
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RE: is it worth it?

That's a big pile of cash, especially for a student. Over the course of your career, however, it's really not all that much. If you can get it, you ...

21 years ago
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RE: is it worth it?

I have no idea how much 7000 pounds is American, but if you can shoot 1/2 a dozen DV shorts with it, it's not small potatoes. Here's the deal: If yo...

21 years ago
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RE: super 35mm

Anamorphic involves (usually) adding an element to the front or rear of your standard lenses. This doubles the focal length and makes the lenses effe...

21 years ago
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RE: Female Film Makers

While that may be true, I question your tact. This was a thread about women in film.... "On a good gate, that's a wrap."

21 years ago
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RE: Camera Dolly

Some of them are, some aren't (noisy, that is). A wheelchair generally isn't noisy. Something we've been using a lot on a TV show I work on that doe...

21 years ago
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RE: Female Film Makers

Don't despair... when I first got into the biz (only 1991), there were few women on set. The exception, of course, was the Glam Squad. Only a few ye...

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