I just want to address Mark G's point: "Give them a reason to stay in a dangerous situation." There is an amazing and simple solution to this problem,...
I think it would be easier and faster to do this gag in-camera rather than futzing with it in post. Use a large room, large enough to a) get the camer...
That's what I would do-- those high-powered flashlights off a bounce of some kind, or through diffusion.
To mask the frame in post, simply apply your "black bars" to the top and bottom of the frame. I'm not an editor myself and I don't know the programs, ...
Don't forget your audio post too-- krioni there mentioned heavy breathing. But also keep in mind the actual sound of the wind blowing in hard behind h...
I don't know anything specifically about this camera, but I know how I would shoot for widescreen on a prosumer video camera... Just frame your sho...
I like the idea of bounced light for this too-- and the hard-light (meaning the lamp is shining directly through the window into the kitchen, rather t...
Another important thing to remember about your framerate is that if you want to have synchronized sound in your film, you must shoot at 24fps. Not ...
The usual way you'd do this is to cut to something else, right? Some other scene taking place at the same time, then when you cut back to your digger ...
Where do you live? Anywhere near a hardware or building supply store? Pick up some plain-old styrofoam for your bounce board. In the film industry we ...
This also could be an exposure problem-- how is your camera compensating for exposure as the sun goes down and light level drops? Is it doing somethin...
Where do you live? They can't be that hard to find-- call around. Home decorating stores. Check on the Web, you might be able to mail-order them. They...
The short answer: back-light. You schedule your shot so that you are pointing the camera towards the sun, with the sun low on the horizon-- obviously ...
Yeah, china balls... here here. This is a great, professional way to go for the kind of setup you have (group around a table), and ironically also clo...
I have a suggestion-- we used it on an ultra-low-budget thriller shot in Vermont a bunch of years ago. For our pursposes it worked pretty well. PVC...