Relax. The biggest challenge that you have in operating that PD 150 is its lightness. Unlike big ole film cameras which are heavy and wear out the o...
Why buy when you can rent? There are many places with Super 8 cameras for rent. Check online and with local photo stores. Good luck.
Oops. I think you're right. As Rosannne Rosanadanna once said, "Never mind."
Good response. Concise. But perhaps I can elaborate. Being a film person, I'm a bit biased toward film, but I'll try to give as fair an explanatio...
If the rating thing is more important to you than the frontal nudity, then shoot two versions: one with and one without the offending member (so to s...
The reason that the "raw" footage in "Making the Video" looks better than the finished music video is because music videos are shot on film. Sure the...
Call Rochester and talk with customer service. You would not believe how helpful Kodak (assuming you're using Kodak) is, even to small filmmakers. T...
Go ahead... use em. Halogen lights tend to be somewhere around 3000 to 3200 Kelvin, the exact same color temp as studio tungsten lights (just avoid "...
Actually, the reflected light is a problem with all effects screens, and is one of the principle reasons for putting a lot of distance between your s...
Possibly, but selling Day-for-Night is a lot harder than lighting night-for-night. You need to really pay attention to what light does at night. You...
Here's a website that'll give you a quick rundown on fx backgrounds: As an aside, it used to be that bluescreen was used in features, and greenscreen ...
Negative film is cheaper than reversal film, but reversal film often appeals to beginning filmmakers because they don't need to make a print, and that...
What's happening when you use your editing software to slow down your recorded image is that you are destroying the "persistance of vision" trick that...
Here's a website I came across which was basic, yet informative: A good, simple book might be Blain Brown's "Motion Picture and Video Lighting".
Fast. Good. Cheap. You get any two. That's how Hollywood works. The soap operas choose Fast and Cheap. They shoot one show every day. Every day...