MattHawkins Online - Film Making Forum

ok i got 2 space guys on dunes in UK, i want it to make it look like there on another planet. I was thinking about putting a red filter over the camera so everything looks red and it looks like there on mars. Should i do tht or should i shoot it normal and put the change the colour with ease after??...

With a XL1 would you use a light meter??

How do I know if its over exposed or under?
would it tell me on the camera display?

alright mate

i play paintball an u can pick up new chemical warfare uniforms there like £5. but there woodland colour. check ebay and if u want some an your from UK tex me.

cheers guys i would have saids thanks months ago but i wiped my harddrive and couldnt rememeber the site, now im back as nigel666 !!!!!

Are you still looking for sketches or you finished this project???

omg you guys :shakeass:

just a thought i was watchin fourth of july just now about tom cruise in vitenam and they had a helicopter go behind a building then expold so they didnt have to expold the real thing. You could have it look like your drving the car into something and cut away to somthing else but you hear the blowi...

hay santi

just readin a book about magic bullet it look amazing for DV it add tht film look.
heres the website http://www.redgiantsoftware.com/mbfored ... tml#matrix
just wondering if you can do any of this they aint got any green screen but they say its hard an you look like you like a challage

im like i have a script and i can fund it (ultra low budget)

but im like i dont want to mess people about, what happens if it doesnt do anything not even aloud on a film festival then ive buggered it up.

so foxwood where do u get your crew

you can watch movies an jot down good scenes i.e. copy. at the end of the day everythings been done before. you could buy a alarm clock an wake yourself up tht way you remeber your dreams. i.e. james camoran had a dream off that they made terminator watch loads of movies read loads of comics, i dont...

how do you guys go ahead an start

ive wrote a script but i just cant deside wether to just go for it or not.

Ill post some pic of some drawing i done and what the stories about.

I just wondered how you guys get out there and do it??

Ive read i should feed DAT output directly into cannon and record at 16bit 48kHz

Is this so you get better sound

my question is if your recording thought the XL1 anyway whats the point in having a DAT???

i hear about XL1s beeing a fantastic cam which it is, but i never hear about anyother only like the PD 150 i think.
is XL1 the best?
for digital tht is.

Hi i seen all the famous directors have relesed shorts as there very first progects.

I.E. James camoran 12 in short Xenogenesis.
John Carpenter Revenge of the Colossal Beasts (1962)

ANyone know where you can buy or view these/?? shorts.

very nice site

Syras wrote:also helps to set your white balance to compensate for the colour temperature of halogens - as santi said, it will make everything look orange

how do i do tht??

do i need to take light readings?
buy a light reader

oh yeah there like domes made of metal so you can but a high watt bulb in. yeah i know. cheers guys

I just thought it u used 500watt it would light the room up like the sun.

hologans?? is tht the type of bulb?

hi just wondering

if i shoot xl1s

does it need extra lighting

i was going to but some dome lamps an soft gels but if i have a 250watt bulb behind an actor want it just light up the whole room an make anything too bright

i was just wondering how long would say a 5minuate scene of a predator?
I seen one person do light sabres an they said you had to draw the neon cell by cell and it could take hours an hours for a minuate clip.

I still think its cool.

cheers guys, i now films expencive but i read they wont show your work on festivals inless its film.

lol thanks man, I was thinking not predator but poltigises. LOL
I was also thinkin he could get strange phone calls of someone needing help, and when the film get closer to the horror its him whos been making the phone calls to LOL

thanks for your help im writting a script an got 30pages but now im struggling expand looking for ideas.. my script is about a shuttle tht comes back from space crew are all dead but the mission was complete. A organiszm is on borad a deadly virus tht turns people into creatures/zombies. A lad wakes...

Well, I see that I'm back right in time :D KJD, take a look here: http://sfx.histo.pl/eng/tutorials.html (You don't need a greenscreen) I've also discovered how to make this effect just like they did it in the movie (red suit etc.) but it will take some time before I make a tut. I have a lot o work...

Anyone shot on 16mm ?? I read about buying a xs1 an goin out an shootin stuff an then I read alot sayin do it by 16mm cos its better, ppl with take you serously. I have no expreiance with 16mm all I know is what i read out off robert redregas book (el marich) Is it that simple? Buy a 16mm cam an sho...