I think Mark wa saying that despite the fact that it can interchange lenses he has not yet seen anyone put a different lense on the beast. RJSchwar...
In most cases the camera used to shoot the minDV footage has a Firewire port that can be connected directly to your PC Firewire card. Usually a specia...
Charles Band of Full Movie does a lot of shooting in Eastern Europe. I don't know about the budgets but he seems to be the modern Roger Corman. He has...
I don't have a link but I do remember a bit of advice from Loyd Kaufman of Troma studios. When you get clearance for a scene shot in a public place ma...
CGI is what you make of it. If you can turn twenty guys into an entire D Day invasion with planes above and additional ships I think you've improve...
Painting the screen green (or blue) is another option if its a junky set. Makes for easier post-production overlays. Thrift store might have a cheap t...
Question, if you had a repeating loop of chroma-key green on the screen would it still have the horiontal line? RJSchwarz San Diego, CA
Post seems the hard way but DV doesn't always capture black the way we'd like it. Compensating for the compensation. RJSchwarz San Diego, CA
Nearly every city has some kind of film board that gives out permits. They'll most likely have insurance as a requirement to get the permit and can te...
You might get more response if you found a way to get it to display in proper format. It's difficult to read things that don't display right, especial...
I wouldn't worry to much about the weather then. Unless its extreme where you are shooting nobody will notice or care. Bleach bypass was used in Pr...
What/when/where is your WW2 scenerio. The weather was different in Stalingrad than it was on Okinawa or North Africa. Bleach bypass is a nice look,...
Awknowledge their fears are real and do what you can to make them feel safer. Tell them to bring a friend, or two, to the audition. People often fe...
My good friend is a musician so he'll be doing the soundtrack on my movie. In fact three of his songs helped inspire the tone/theme of the movie. H...
I had a similar scene and one of my actors thought it might help if he called in and did the lines with the actor on camera. Not only did it help with...