MattHawkins Online - Film Making Forum

I use an un-parallel broken tripod, home made steadicam, digital camera, and the most pathetic thing, I stuck a $40 microphone in a tube for my sound.

The only problem is they only have relativley new stuff. Blockbuster though has way too high prices on their new stuff. I saw the shining there for $29.99 there, and I saw it for $17.99 at best buy.

I just went there last night ang got 28 days later for $16, and then got half of any other used one so I got Cabin Fever. I haven't tried 28 days later yet, but cabin fever worked fine.

The problem is he does not move, the blood jusst drips. I am going to let it roll off, but the problem is finding a good angle where you can clearly see it drop all the way down.

but is the vx1000 good for a starting camera? By what means doo you mean a starting camera? If this is your first camera, then I wouldn't spend a large ammount of money. But if it is your start into making films for festivals, sale, or the rest of it, then I would suggest buying a better camera. Af...

I don't know much about it. Right now im using cinelook for a bit of colour correction, however it takes an extremley long time to render. Im sure there is something better out there. As for picture correction, I don't think it makes the overall quality better, just a crisper, better looking picture...

From a cut on his face, probably above the eye.

The blockbuster around here has buy one used get the second half price, or maybe free, im not sure. Im going to start buying there since dvds are so expensive. Sometimes there is a $10 bin in best buy, where I have seen donnie darko, and some other stuff. Best Buy isn't bad either, they have most Ku...

What the hell ever happened to the rest of the planet of the apes remake. I saw it on tv the other day and it ended like there was going to be another part.

Im still struggling on how I am going to do this. What has to happen is that a guy is standing perfectly still and a drop of blood comes off his face. I want to be able to see the drop fairly good, and it would be nice if it dropped off all in one shot, like a close up. I was considering doing some ...

s***! I thought it said 1990's, but my choices are still the same. To pick 5 is even hard because I respect almost every filmmaker, for making a film. If I had to pick 15 I would pick 1. Steven Spielberg 2. Danny Boyle 3. Quentin Tarantino 4. Robert Rodriguez 5. James Cameron 6. Ridley Scott 7. Stan...

Yeah I have two different monitors, one is white, and one is grey. I would have liked two of the same, but since I got it for free I don't really care, It dosen't look that stupid either.

If worst comes to worst I will use copyrighted stuff, or just play the music backwards

5. Danny Boyle. For being the first to hit it big with mini dv.
4. Cameron. For new technology
3. Rodriguez. For el mariachi.
2. Tarantino. For a new type of film.
1. Spielberg. for dreamworks, jurrasic park,schindlers list, etc.

I tried what raptor said, but there was no luck. So I just uninstalled it then installed it again, and it worked. Now though I have extra effects and all that other stuff that dosent install manually that I have to delete. But at least it's working.

Yeah im writing one right now, but just for something to do. I don't intend to shoot it, but maybe in the possible future, mainly because the problem is I need older people in it. It's like 30 pages or so and like a quarter into it. I thought a standard script was only 90 pages.

Ok Ive got a problem with premiere 6.5. When I go to capture the screen is grey. Its not the camera or firewire because I can capture fine in other programs. Also when I import stuff and put it on the timeline I get no video, just audio. Can anyone help?

Im not sure if anyone can, but this would be a lot easier. Im doing a short film that should end up about 15 min or less. Its not quite a horror, or a thriller. Almost a clockwork orange type stuff would be good.

Ok thanks for the help

Ok, I just got a new maxtor 120 gig drive, that I want to use. I connected it with both the slave cables, and took out the little pin at the back. I turned on the computer and it recognized it and everything, but im not sure how to format it. If anyone could give me some step by step help, it would ...

jvc gr-dv500. It was on sale for $950 canadian.

Sounds good. It sounds like one of those films where it seems like a fantasy but then they realize life cant work in a fantasy world. I find it strange why people strive to be perfect. They waste much of their life away trying to get a 95% average by doing huge projects, studying extremely long, and...

Usually my friends won't even act, so for a film Im doing right now, Im trying to bribe them with little things like money. I don't think most peopel realize it's not just some dumb little video. Also the problem is that I can't write stuff with like 25 year olds and old guys, I have to keep it fair...

first off go to file, and import, then go to file. Pick your file and it should be in the program. At the start screen I don't know what you would pick for PAL, but I usually put my stuff to VHS, and I pick the main one, it should already be highlighted, it's like a dv type with 12 bit or 16 bit sou...

it dosen't really teach anything, basically it just inspires. It is a much better book that all those other bullshit ones. Im in chapters because i have a $40 gift certificate. I see these huge books, like easily over 1000 pages that teach you how to do low budget. After scrolling through it, all th...