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- Sun Jul 15, 2007 6:45 pm
- Forum: Members Films
- Topic: Women Fight Compilation
- Replies: 12
- Views: 16186
Define a point in movie making in general... entertainment? Killing some time? If that is your limited, childish view of filmmaking then you shouldn't be a filmmaker. Film is about communicating through people via a unique medium, creating art, making something that is culturally significant, portr...
- Wed Jul 11, 2007 5:18 am
- Forum: General Film Making Stuff
- Topic: Digital effects or real effects
- Replies: 49
- Views: 241653
RE: Digital effects or real effects
You're right, digital does have its place, I use it when absolutely necessary (i.e., spaceships, alien monsters, etc.) but for gore, stunts, pyrotechnics, etc., real-time effects are beautiful.
- Mon Jul 09, 2007 8:03 pm
- Forum: Directing & Acting
- Topic: Your style
- Replies: 24
- Views: 227225
RE: Your style
Shooting wise, I like heavy contrast and cooloer colors and shoot it many times for optimum editing choices. Editing, I like to blend shots that establish environment with closeups in the way that best acquaints the audience with the character. With actors, I like to get them to be spontaneous and h...
- Mon Jul 02, 2007 10:57 pm
- Forum: Members Films
- Topic: Timmy's life an animation.
- Replies: 5
- Views: 6410
RE: Timmy
Cut off your fingers, that was the most revolting piece of garbage I have ever encountered.
- Tue Jun 19, 2007 1:13 am
- Forum: Directing & Acting
- Topic: Directing
- Replies: 32
- Views: 65552
RE: Directing
It is important that directors know writing and have a great deal of say in the writing process, so that the vision the director has for the film applies everywhere and links everything together.
- Sat Jun 16, 2007 6:06 pm
- Forum: Members Films
- Topic: No-Budget Pirate Movie
- Replies: 81
- Views: 97614
- Sat Jun 16, 2007 3:43 pm
- Forum: Members Films
- Topic: No-Budget Pirate Movie
- Replies: 81
- Views: 97614
- Fri Jun 15, 2007 10:33 pm
- Forum: General Film Making Stuff
- Topic: Forum movies
- Replies: 18
- Views: 37234
RE: Re: RE: Forum movies
Filmmaking is about a lot more than cool stunts and special effects, it's about understanding plot and character, about good visual and auditory aesthetic, and so on. These things tike time to master.
- Thu Jun 14, 2007 5:52 am
- Forum: Special Effects
- Topic: Making a star wars clip
- Replies: 9
- Views: 8078
RE: Making a star wars clip
Good lighting that doesn't make the film look like it was shot in someone's dim basement. Shot from multiple angles w/ dynamic editing. Good sound, fuzz-free dialogue. If you are trying to make a serious, non-spoofy SW clip, then avoid having people make long dramatic monologues laden with Force ref...
- Thu Jun 14, 2007 5:46 am
- Forum: Directing & Acting
- Topic: Waiting...
- Replies: 16
- Views: 41462
RE: Waiting...
I used to have this problem when working with close friends as cast and crew, because they just weren't motivated and would screw around all the time, but now that they've seen finished examples of our work they've gotten much more dedicated. The problem comes when I bring other people I'm not so cl...
- Tue Jun 12, 2007 8:55 pm
- Forum: Cinematography
- Topic: Long Takes
- Replies: 9
- Views: 19511
- Mon Jun 11, 2007 11:30 pm
- Forum: Directing & Acting
- Topic: First Post on Should A Director do his Own Cinematography
- Replies: 9
- Views: 17452
RE: First Post on Should A Director do his Own Cinematograph
I agree with Kentertainment. The director is the fellow with the big vision of how the entire film should be, and if he wants to have direct control over cinematography, he ought to. I do my own cinematography but that doesn't mean other people don't help operate the camera and get it all ready, whi...
- Wed Jun 06, 2007 4:20 am
- Forum: Members Films
- Topic: Fallen are Silent Trailer
- Replies: 10
- Views: 10827
RE: Re: RE: Fallen are Silent Trailer
Yes, if you're new at it, definitely start with short films. Otherwise, because a feature takes so long to make and you're constantly getting better, you end up with a movie where some scenes are really good and others really aren't.
- Mon Jun 04, 2007 2:58 pm
- Forum: Special Effects
- Topic: Recording at night
- Replies: 19
- Views: 41470
Altering the color of the light present can help. Recently I shot a scene that was supposed to take place in a bedroom with no lights on. So I turned off the bedroom lights and turned on the lights in all the surrounding rooms, as well as put a lamp in the corner. This would have normally looked ver...
- Fri May 25, 2007 12:04 am
- Forum: General Film Making Stuff
- Topic: Idea for a Film...need feedback/ideas!
- Replies: 9
- Views: 9210
RE: Idea for a Film...need feedback/ideas!
Here's another idea... Like what really happened sometimes in the first Civil War, two brothers are split to opposite sides of the war. When the confederates from Virgina enter West Virginia, the brother on the US side is sent into the confederate camp to steal plans or something. After successfully...
- Mon May 21, 2007 1:52 am
- Forum: Scripts
- Topic: EXPERIMENTAL Script Idea for School....
- Replies: 7
- Views: 15667
RE: EXPERIMENTAL Script Idea for School....
No problem! I hope it works out for you.
- Sun May 20, 2007 10:11 pm
- Forum: Scripts
- Topic: EXPERIMENTAL Script Idea for School....
- Replies: 7
- Views: 15667
RE: EXPERIMENTAL Script Idea for School....
First of all, anything involving a mentally ill individual must be handled realistically and tactfully. But anyway, perhaps during the initial part of the film, the experimental part is frenzied and fragmented, and suggests characters attempting to do harmful things. But then the film moves away fro...
- Mon May 14, 2007 2:13 am
- Forum: Video Editing
- Topic: What editor do you use?
- Replies: 21
- Views: 56539
RE: What editor do you use?
ulead video studio 9...$100
- Sat May 12, 2007 3:22 am
- Forum: Stunts, Physical Effects & Props
- Topic: Breakaway Chair
- Replies: 11
- Views: 15162
RE: Breakaway Chair
I've heard good things about balsa wood for this type of thing, but don't know from experience. Cardboard might be good if it was enforced enough so it didn't bend and crease on impact. If so, then you'd cut the pieces up beforehand and glue them back together in the shape of a chair, probably paint...
- Sat May 12, 2007 3:05 am
- Forum: Members Films
- Topic: German Music Video
- Replies: 3
- Views: 5295
RE: German Music Video
bit shaky, maybe get a tripod for some of the shots... I've seen more shakiness from some other films on here (and from some primetime TV dramas). The handheld-ness in many spots was more a stylistic choice to make the video feel more spontaneous. It did get winder than I anticipated, but still...
- Sat May 12, 2007 12:31 am
- Forum: Members Films
- Topic: German Music Video
- Replies: 3
- Views: 5295
German Music Video
This link is to a site with a video my friend and I made for an online contest for high school German students. It won first place. My friend (the fella in the video who plays the guitar) wrote and recorded the song and I made the video. For some reason the website people changed the aspect ratio, b...
- Wed May 09, 2007 9:06 pm
- Forum: Video Editing
- Topic: Editing Weapon of Choice
- Replies: 33
- Views: 320824
- Wed May 02, 2007 9:00 pm
- Forum: Soundtracks
- Topic: Do any of you composers...
- Replies: 3
- Views: 11460
RE: Do any of you composers...
I have done some MIDI scoring already, some of which I am pleased with, esp. anything involving organs or more electronically oriented sounds. But in this specific case, yes, I have tried MIDI, but I could not get the sound I wanted. Then again, my tools might not be the greatest. I guess I need to ...
- Tue May 01, 2007 10:04 pm
- Forum: Soundtracks
- Topic: Do any of you composers...
- Replies: 3
- Views: 11460
Do any of you composers...
Do any of you composers out there use actual stringed instruments--not guitar, but violin, cello, etc.--in your recordings? How about brass? It seems that everyone uses synthesizers/MIDI, but in my experience that is so limiting. For the score I'm working on I really need a driving, percussive strin...
- Tue May 01, 2007 9:48 pm
- Forum: General Film Making Stuff
- Topic: Non violent film fest
- Replies: 21
- Views: 39307