MattHawkins Online - Film Making Forum

Hey, city varsity in Cape Town? some of my girlfriends friends go there, I will try to find out their names... What is it like? I was looking at it for a post army degree as im thinking of emigrating there.

Have3 read the screenplay and looks very promising. "a steel helmet really protect a body from a grenade? My first thought when I read this was that the helmet would be ripped into several large pieces of shrapnel as the grenade exploded. Bullets can puncture a steel helmet, so theoretically, a...

managed to get 4 flashes from epsilons footage, with his permission, anyone who wants them PM me...

Do you actually ned to show them in the air? If not then just get a cheap old army parachute from an army surplus store, and get your actor to jump off a stepladder or tall tree with an army rucksack and ropes/cord attached to the parachute which then lands on him before he gathers it up etc. If you...

Ok I agree with the second one, I turned up the speakers and It gave me a shock! *I cant think of any director directly, but I have no sense for style unless I see the two films next to each other. They did however remind me of the Trailer style of film *In the second one, the music was very immpres...

Thats crazy, but opens the ultimate paradox... if you kill yourself you cant then go back in time to kill yourself so you would still be alive, but if you were still alive then you could go back and kill yourself. Things seem so clear at 1am after an essay on Machiavelli... It is excellent, It gets ...

The way they did it on War of the worlds was similar to how maj Barnes describes. I think it would be cool to mix in with the 'smoke/ash' some footage of wire wool burning to make that blade look - consumed by an inner fire... The burning flecks in blade can also be done by burning shisha/nagila cha...

A) "Scrat's Gone Nutty" - Freaking Hilarious! - so true i will repeat!
B) Dawn of the Dead (1979) Alexander Nevsky Alien (and Aliens)
C) Spielburg, Romero
D) Peter Sellers, Sigorney weaver
I think about choosing a piece that has made me truly think, but went for enjoyment instead

Make sure you get the focus right on the buildings in the forground, even slight blurs will mark it as a model. It is also worth setting each block of buildings in eg. a city, as different plates and then giving them a progressivly faded look. (By blocks I mean foreground, tyhen midground, then back...

Sorry, it was a stupid question without seeing the sequence. The shots are part of a long sequence entering renaissance bristol, where the camera goes towards the city. Will post the rest of the sequence and more info on the film over the next week.

anyone?

Finally got round to starting proper pre-production on the film, getting costumes ready now. below are two screenshots from one scene, its about 2 seconds long and just shows you attacked bristol, but im thinking of replacing it with model work, what do people think? http://images3.pictiger.com/thum...

I like it. I dont forgive you for the pointless insults to other peoples work, but at least I now know you have skills to back up your critisism

be hard to do, but a moving mask? spend hours turning the backgroung green in photoshop when exported as a .flm ... or set up infront of a green screen with a treadmill? Its a way to do it, although dont know how easily with tricks...

Speaking as a race that would not exist had the germans won the second world war, I feel I must disagree in the heaviest sense. The Germans treated the estonians only slightly better than the Russians did and had the Nazis won the war, the Estonians would have been for the chop quite soon, The Nazis...

aaronv2, do you enjoy being stupidly sarcastic without being constructive or is it just a chor for you? every post from you I have read tonight was OTT on the critisism, without being constructive. Grow Up. Wildstorm, liked the effect and like the work iv seen from you, keep it up!

That would be pretty tempting, when will filming start? I f you have a need for 19 year old people standing at the back or as dead people (I can fail to move better thatn anyone I know, must be the pre-essay laziness). In terms of the soviet uniforms, they went through so many different patterns pre...

A site by the daughter of a Ukrainian nuclear physist, travelling into the 'dead zone' around Chernobyl and filming and taking photos of what she saw, possibility of amazing stock footage for $25! I have to say im quite interested. http://www.angelfire.com/extreme4/kiddofspeed/ (it is not the fraud ...

Im 19, not really the TA, OTC,officer training corps at uni, going (hopefully) to sandhurst in 2008 to go on to the Royal Armoured Corp, 2nd RTR. I may be going in may for a week of 'rioting' against the current sandhurst cadets (William and Harry included) for their civilian disturbance control tra...

delta_echo are you national guard or something? Im Brit army TA and we are always told never to keep a round chambered unless we are actually set for a firefight. possibly because we are still in basic training at the moment though

cberryottaway@hotmail.com when I go back home to visit from Uni I will give it a go as well.

That sounds ace, if it works then could you send the blood file as a stock footage. Im looking on doing a similar thing with greenscreening blood and gore.

Just trying to figure out how to make cheap indoor sets of B&W houses, and thought of this: White 'wattle and Daub' - even squares/triangles of cardboard covered with a couple of layers of watered down polyfilla (the powder you use to fill cracks) and then spraypaint white before rubbing either ...

On my last training wekend, I got hit on the hand and on the cheek about 1/2 inch below my eye with a shell casing from an SA80. I wasnt happy about that much but it wasnt as bad as I had expected.

Can we please not get into this argument again. All powers had an important part to play in the war. Now for the Personal, Patriotic, Emotional side: England was one of the six main superpowers in WW2: USA, USSR, Nazi Germany, England, Italy and Japan (in no particular order) and was considered by a...