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I don't use them because I'm DANGEROUS

rhys wrote:Way to bring up dead threads! WHO CARES!

Erm, this thread has been active for two months...?

I don't mind reusing, I just like keeping stuff for the memories. I have one hour of Chemical Ali outtakes (would you believe I shot the whole film on one tape?), 5 hours of Jesus 2 footage and 7 hours of Naughty Soldiers footage that's always good to sit through for a laugh

How much was that?

It's about the spec I use and it's pretty much all good!

I've never understood actors who go "I'll do nudity if it's vital to the story", because I've yet to see it be vital to a story!

Saying that, Jessica Alba made this very point recently explaning her 'no nudity' clause in her contract. I shed a good 7 tears.

I have an old light meter from the 80's that my dad handed down to me.

Barely use it. Probably should. It's no biggy when shooting on DV though.

Watched bits of it. Couldn't work out if it was deadly serious or a genius p***!

I think that sums up the thread to be honest!

This has to be one of the most MIND NUMBING threads ever seen in a film forum! How many DV tapes do you have - oooh oooh! let me run and check so i can reply!!! Baaaah humbug! Next we'll see a thread like - ooh what colour is your camera strap ! Yeah this thread started as a shitty show off thread ...

I know Couldn't afford to keep it alive. The money has gone in to film making itself, with website attention focused on www.myspace.com/guksack and www.youtube.com/ornsack

It'll be back soon though

Thanks for noticing it!

I meant DV is $5 an hour by the price you stated. So I'd say it was perfect for a filmmaker on a budget!

I don't get the first one. He appears to have a flying desk!

Second one would benefit from a tripod


All in all, pretty bog standard video filters being put to not much use. Looking forward to seeing you advance with this though!

puje wrote:I made a sex scene in a commercial once.
A gay sex scene. And to make it worse, it was between me and my brother

Now that is taking one for the team! I applaud you!

ornsack, im glad you know that, alot of people dont know that the dinosuars in jurassic 1 were mechanical ones and some cgi but a huge majority of real time ones I think in total there's just 3 minutes of CGI in the first film. CGI is used for the full body shots and everything else is puppets. The...

kene555 wrote:For me, its waaay to expensive - $20 for 4, I think! Quite high for a filmmaker on a budget. As it is, I have used miniDV only since last November, and I have about 5 or 7...

In film stock terms, $5 an hour is fantastic

Sorry, I couldn't read your post because my keyboard has made me blind.

Jperson wrote:A black keyboard is very bad for your vision

Stopped reading from this point on! Jesus f*** christ!!

Nice to see all these newbies! Welcome! Plus even the most advanced CGI looks dated even after only a couple of years I think this is a major problem at the moment. I think people are making it too advanced and putting too much detail in to things. If you watch the first Jurassic Park and then watch...

Giz a kiss, Brent!

I'd love to see pooing and peeing become a major part of films. You have to do...it's very important, some major moments of your life are shaped on the bog etc. I don't watch it so can't really comment, but aparrently they're starting to add this in to the tv show '24' because people were wondering...

Usually wait til I get to 10 years in to a relationship and then ask to spice things up in the bedroom with a video camera

But seriously, as a home movie maker it's awkward enough filming with people who aren't actors anyway so god knows why someone would want to do a sex scene in their home movie

An interesting article this month in Studio monthly.... Comparing quality of image ( technical ) with quality of the porduction ( script, acting, plot etc. ) The bottom line is that formats don't really matter what does matter is- Content - if the subject isn't interesting even an IMAX production i...

10 I do record over for 5 passes for news stories I shoot, but after 5 passes into the trash with them. Give them to me! A lot of my tapes are discarded ones I've 'aquired' through a friend who works at a certain local television network. Is 5 passes all a tape is capable of before they start to me...

I don't think they look any better, if anything, I find the white plastic look off-putting Ha ha! That reminds me of something my dad said. He's a complete technophobe and doesn't know anything about computers. We were in a computer shop recently and he said "Why are they still making computer...

I don't really want to see someone cough/hiccup/etc in real life to be honest! Plus people tend to never put anything on screen that isn't important. The only time I've ever really seen a conversation that doesn't relate to the plot is the whole McDonalds talk in Pulp Fiction, but even that was char...