Never used an MKE300. I think it's one of the mikes that's often used for wedding videos and the like, in which case it will at least give better soun...
I guess the two things you need are a camera and a reasonable mike: you can probably get away with using the camera mike for practice, but eventually ...
Unfortunately mixers are fairly expensive. A lot of people use SQN mixers which seem to go for a couple of thousand pounds upwards, the only mixer I'v...
Well, at least for the Senheisser mikes, you can buy complete suspension units with covers that screw onto a boom pole. I'm not sure whether you ca...
On films you normally use fixed lenses because the image is better: there's less glass in the way to reduce light, introduce image artifacts and cause...
I wouldn't use the 24fps mode on the Z1: the camera can really only shoot at 30fps (60 fields per second) or 25fps (50 fields per second), the 24 is f...
Digibeta cameras have better lenses, have a better contrast range if they're set up right, have twice the color samples of any DV camera, and record 1...
Aren't there also restrictions like having to hire SAG actors? I remember Lloyd Kaufman saying he had to quit the DGA to continue making Troma movies ...
Also, don't forget access to toilets: you need somewhere to get rid of all that food and coffee too :).
Depends a lot on what kind of a stabbing you want to do, but you can easily fake it with a choice of shots. For example, two guys arguing. Shot ...
Never done 5.1 sound, I'm afraid :(.
We've often had someone cook up a big pot of pasta and sauce: that doesn't cost much and isn't hard to make. Or brought in rolls, cheese, sliced ham a...
The line is from one actor to the other, not across the location between them. In your picture it would be vertical rather than horizontal.
Generally speaking, if you're shooting a scene where, say, two people are talking to each other, you imagine a line between them and then keep the cam...
I draw stick figures in rectangles. That's all you really need unless you're planning to show them to investors to try to get them to fund the movie.