Believe it or not, you've got to light a dark room. The hardest part about filming in a dark room is convincing the audience it's dark, because they ...
A Steadicam is a very simple principle that is very complex in execution. When Garret Brown came up with his concept of Steadicam, handheld photograp...
Gain is just a way of making the camera more sensitive to light, similar to pushing film. It has side effects though. It can result in a noisier ima...
I'm assuming you're talking flat art. The most extravagant way is to get an animation stand, or something like one. This is a stand which holds the...
By the way, that $200-250 is per day, and though it might seem like a lot, when you're first starting off, you might work one or two days a month, if ...
Actually, that's not altogether true. PA's in LA, on a commercial or on a typical "Hollywood" movie with one of the larger studios earn somewhere aro...
I'm going to give you a basic answer and if you already understand this, then forgive me, but people misunderstand this all the time. The filters for...
Glad I could help. I'm a 1st AC in LA and answering questions like yours has shown me that I picked up more than I realized while standing around a "g...
Storyboarding is used on all big features and it doesn't block creativity. It just forces you to be creative earlier (and when a crew is not standing...
Set this up with a viewfinder and an accomplice, and you'll see how easy this is. First of all, if he used a real mirror, then he wasn't right on axi...
The bars are not a part of your movie. When you show a 16:9 film on a "normal" television screen (which is 4:3, or 4 fields wide by 3 fields tall), t...
...although I do agree about the digibeta.
Actually, I disagree. If you don't learn how to shoot on film on a project, when are you going to learn? It's too expensive to just muck around in t...
Go here: There's no laundry list, but there is some explanation of the code.
The reason that your colors are washed out is due the huge difference in light levels between what is mostly outside at night (black sky, dark shadow...