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rjschwarz
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RE: Movies shot in natural light

I think the bulk of the French New Wave cinema from the 60s was shot using natural light. I'm not really overly aware of french New Wave cinema beyond...

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RE: SFX challenge

You can shoot the same grave from different angles and distances. It should work. You can either paint the graves onto the matte as greenscreen green ...

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RE: How Do You Motivate Your Actors?

Not that I recommend it but Oliver Stone used to manipulate his actors. Lie to them to get them angry before a scene that required anger. Of course if...

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RE: SFX challenge

Well Paradiso_Canto_31 should be easy enough. Small chunk of land, two actors, and a big greenscreen. I'd animate the flying folk the way they do in M...

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RE: Recording Sound

Generally you capture dialogue as it happens and capture a minute or a few minutes of 'area tone' to overlap on as the background and make things cons...

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RE: Passing through wall/floor effect

Another fun thing to do (got this from the Simpsons) is instead of just having black as you go through the walls, flash by a small hidden something in...

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RE: How Do You Motivate Your Actors?

YOur best bet with non-actors is to write the roles so that they are similar to the actors themselves. Most people can be themselves after a little bi...

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RE: making someone look older

When they shot Apocolypse Now Lawrance Fishburn was 14 or 15. There were also a number of folks who lied about their age to get into WW2. That coul...

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RE: grenade and tank round explosions

Another solution is to have a lot of the explosions happen off camera. Guys throwing a shovel-full of dirt into frame sold with sound should be effect...

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RE: Question on MacBook Pro, Boot Camp, and Sony Vegas

The way I understand it Bootcamp allows the system to dual boot. Once you have that option you can boot Windows XP as if it was a Dell. If you want to...

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RE: Help with building website for movie

Thanks for clearing that up. Sorry I don't know enough about chat rooms to actually answer your question but I'm kind of interested in the answer myse...

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RE: Sound Recording...

quote:Originally posted by Svelter What I often do is just shout Scene 1 Shot 1 Take 1 without the use of a clapper. Is there anything bad about that...

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RE: Sound Recording...

"My camera has an AV port. Does this mean I could hook a microphone with an AV connector up to my cam, to record audio?" You might try bringing you...

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RE: Help with building website for movie

Why? It sounds like you are trying to fake interest in your movie with bots. If nobody knows to find the chatroom in the first place they won't be the...

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RE: Sound Recording...

What does a slate do. (1) It provides a bunch of info on the scene so that you can find things easily in editing. Scene number, take number, that sort...

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