The biggest tip would be: plan everything as well as you can beforehand. Go through the script and make it as good as you can, check the locations so ...
Talking of capture, it also prevented me from using batch capture on my PC. Whenever the camera was in fast-forward/rewind mode it reverted to SP time...
It happens pretty often, actually: few ideas are really that original. A few years back I was writing a horror movie set in WWI, and then 'Deathwatch'...
To be honest, I'd record sound on the camera if at all possible. With DV it's easy, because the sound and picture are both stored digitally so with a ...
I tried co-writing with other writers, but it never really worked: the problem was that it was hard to find someone who wanted to write the same story...
Well, most of 'Blair Witch' was shot on Hi8 and that made a few hundred million dollars, so anything is possible if you have good PR behind it :). ...
You'll need to either: 1. Get an analogue capture card. 2. Borrow a Digital-8 camera and capture by Firewire. 3. Copy the footage to DV and captu...
I'd say, don't ever record in Long Play mode if you're taping anything serious. If you're lucky it will play back on your camera OK, but it's unlikely...
There are 80-minute DV tapes from Panasonic, but I've been warned against using them. So I've no idea whether they really work OK or not :).
I've done this before, making the entire shot black and white other than the blood on a dead body. Premiere, at least, has a simple filter which lets ...
quote:I agree steadycam is generally overused But being overused isn't the problem: the real problem is that unless you think it through very caref...
On the other hand, you might want to read David Mamet's comments on Steadicams :). A shot like that is doable, but you really need to think it thro...
I don't know about America, but in the UK I believe the composer is the only person who'll always make money if a movie is distributed: they have vari...
Well, the traditional 'I've no idea how to shoot this dialog scene' method is to shoot a wide shot, shoot a mid-shot on each of the actors and then sh...
I wouldn't think that there'd be any real benefit other than that 3CCD cameras also tend to have higher picture resolutions than 1CCD. All the DV c...