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MarkG
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RE: Foreigners in the movie industry

I suspect you'll have trouble without a visa. As I understand it, it's easy for Hollywood to hire you if they decide you're going to be the next big s...

19 years ago
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RE: royalty free music where?

Music copyright is so tightly controlled by the musicians' organisations that there are really only two ways to get royalty-free music: a) find a musi...

19 years ago
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RE: Color Correction

You can, but the gamma curve of the TV and monitor are different, so you have to guess what it will look like on a TV and use the waveform display to ...

19 years ago
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RE: 10 Minutes - action/adventure short trailer!

As low-budget trailers go, it's pretty good. The acting is believable and the cinematography and audio is decent: it doesn't really tell me much about...

19 years ago
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RE: Starting Camera

The HD1 has a pretty poor reputation. The HC1 produces good pictures, but not in low light. I'm not sure about the others.

19 years ago
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RE: Shooting dialogs with one camera...

Yep. Never overlap dialog between actors unless you're sure you're not going to cut at that point. An experience movie actor will probably already ...

19 years ago
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RE: ExpressCamera.com???

Unfortunately, with cameras it's usually the case that if it seems too good to be true, it probably is.

19 years ago
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RE: ExpressCamera.com???

Never used them, but they have a rating of 0.97/10 on resellerratings.com:

19 years ago
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RE: New short film: "Wish"

It's better than a lot of low-budget shorts I've seen: the story basically makes sense though I'm not sure it quite explains enough, it feels a little...

19 years ago
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RE: ExpressCamera.com???

Are you sure you mean expresscamera.com and not expresscameras.com? expresscamera.com just seems to be a search site, whereas expresscameras.com exist...

19 years ago
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RE: Tips on Building a Set

quote:Its funny, but I found that by going super cheap and spending hours on one little corner, then just limiting the shots to that corner, thigns do...

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RE: Format to film HD documentary on

HD is always 16:9, and most documentaries are shot 16:9 these days (I think the BBC, for example, will no longer buy 4:3 documentaries in mose cases).

19 years ago
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RE: Film insurance

And for a real low budget shoot it could be 10% or more (e.g. $500-$1000 on $5-10k budget).

19 years ago
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RE: hdv and film festivals

No problem, but you might have to dub it to Digibeta or convert to DVD for the festival entry requirements.

19 years ago
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RE: Large DVD

Basically you need a double-layer DVD. Can your DVD writer write to them? Anything made in the last year or so should, but certainly mine won't.

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