Roger Corman was an engineer. According to his book he felt the engineering background helped him solve problems in a different way, often a more prac...
Buy two worklights at a hardware store worth $50ish. Bright Halogen ones. Make a reflector (tin foil and cardboard) and a bounce board (white posterbo...
I don't remember a tiger tank in Band of Brothers. Not saying it wasn't there, I just don't remember it. I do remember two Tigers in Saving Private...
Kman's idea would work very nicely in a bunch of scenerio's I can think of. Perhaps if you told us more about the exact scene we could tell you more i...
Personally I would suggest a Mac Mini over an iMac primarily because it is cheaper if you already have a monitor, and you can upgrade the monitor late...
The main advantage is you can pu the camera anywhere you want to without worrying about hving other cameras and camerecrews and boom mics in the shot....
Spaceballs was sued by George Lukas and Mel Brooks won. Parody is fair game. I would suggest, however, that you don't do what Mel Brooks did in Spaceb...
quote:The actors will be overlapping by the way This is the hard part. I think you ahve to put the camera on a tripod and shoot the two characters ...
"Confidence doesn't breed out of emptiness. One needs to have acquired, inherited, learned or experienced something that can work in our favor in orde...
I could be wrong, I don't have much experience with PAs but I was under the impression was basically "Do what you're told! Do it now, the way I told y...
The question is, since everyone does it, do you really want to do the same trick? I would suggest finding a way to twist the trick instead. For exa...
In Fellowship, near the beginning, they use the technique to have Frodo sit next to Gandalf in his cart. The bench twisted so that Frodo was actually ...
If you try for realism it means you're dumping the idea of dinosaurs (which appear in three of hte five movies you list). Without dinosaurs you don't ...
I'm still not sure I understand the question either. Nearly everything uses a single camera outside of sitcoms and award shows and I think the main...