Yeah, true, NBK has a lot of interesting stuff... a friend who knew one of the producers once described it as the world's most expensive art movie, wh...
Well, 'Citizen Kane', for a start... they put an awful lot of effort into the lighting and camera work. More recently, David Fincher usually seems ...
Check the sellers on sites like www.resellerratings.com; the scam sites are usually pretty obvious from the ratings there.
Yeah, I would suggest buying one camera for your own use and rent some more for the day to record different angles. Then you can always shoot inserts ...
Premiere used to be cheap and fairly intuitive to use, but I haven't used the more recent 'Premiere Pro' versions.
quote:Originally posted by Joe999 It might become more about quality of presentation in the storyboarding which would have more use perhaps for pitch...
That should be easy to do with particle effects; you probably don't even need much of a fly model, unless you're seeing closeups.
If I remember correctly, most of the birds in the wide shots in 'The Birds' were just painted onto the negative; so there's a long tradition of faking...
Cutaways sound like a good plan; if they're shot against sky, grass or whatever they could be dropped in anywhere without the audience knowing they we...
Wish I had a system like that, my 3GHz P4 is starting to struggle with HD compositing :).
It does pretty much anything you might want, but there is a large learning curve; I've used it for a number of movies but haven't used more than a sma...
I haven't looked for a while, but I think the cheapest HD camera you can shoot anything decent on is around 1000 pounds. I've seen footage from a chea...
BTW, Google found a thread about backlighting rain on cinematography.net where a lot of professional cinematographers hang out:
In that case, the rain was outside the window at night and the light was on the left of the screen, hidden by the window frame. As you say, the idea i...
I was just watching a TV show where part of the episode was shot in the rain, and it was quite clear that they were backlighting it; so that's one dat...