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reminded me of Armagedon cinematography... Great work!

loved it

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thanks a lot, thats what I thought cos I saw behind the scenes of Inception.. Does it mean that Wally always uses mostly a single large soft light from a side? I found his interview here he talks how he likes playing on the darker sides of the lighting at the same time overexposes it in the camera... what you guys think?

guys, I had same kind of question in lighting category of the forum but no one replied... I understand what the OP is going for.. In Dark Knight/Inception if you look at the actors in most scenes it seems like they're naturally lit without any external lights cos there' always shadows on their faces so the look is extremely natural and gives you that feel.. to give you an idea what the OP is going for here are more examples: http://imgur.com/REdLc Dicaprio's face doesn't seem like it's lit http://imgur.com/K4Rjz Looks half lit http://imgur.com/E4J2F right part of the face is completely shadowed (natural light?) http://imgur.com/E11hd here left part of the face is completely shadowed... I'm biggest fan of Wally and also would like to know how all of this is done..

I wanted to ask lighting pros.. I've noticed that in Inception/Dark Knight in a lot of scenes natural light is being used or is it that the lighting is so little that it's not very noticeable? I love cinematography of the above movies.... How the lighting is done for them?

thanks so much for everyone's help!

how do writers sell their stuff? is there some kind of "classifieds" boards?

For how much writers sell their screen plays for features?

I was wondering what computers the professionals of the industry usually use when getting to the part of post production, editting, rendering etc.. Do they prefer Mac or PC? What technical specifications they're looking for as for processor, Video card, Memory etc thanks in advance!

guys, thanks so mcuh for the suggestions. I really appreciate your help! I gotta shoot more, recently I've been taking my camcorder anywhere I go so that I can shoot more things(streets, malls etc) and see what i can do with it, it helps to improve my operating. Tripod and dolly have to be included at my next shot, just started from scratch. Funny, but I read somewhere that Rodriguez when shooting his El Mariachi was using a chari (his friend was pushing him) instead of dolly, thats creative I guess. :)

Richard, I appreciate your and others help a lot and thats I started this thread :) 90% of my friends said its boring, story telling is bad, its not smooth from shot to shot, and all other things you mentioned. Its crap in a nutshel :)What I've noticed though during this first shot of mine is that it was real creative, ideas kept on jumping from nowhere which was really fun to observe, everyone in the crew was coming up with new ideas what do and how to do it. Yeah I had my camcorder on auto focus and didnt' play with manual focus. I was eager to at least start working on it and "break the ice" with my friends and just neighbours :P

thanks David! How do you seperate that fan noise if for instance you film in servers lab? Dont boom and lav record all that noise , or is the only way to simply cut actor's dialogue during the shot and the rerecord it in the studio?

guys , thanks so much for the suggestions, as you all said: practice, practice and practice again :) One more question: as Richard said its usually shot in 3 modes: from one actor's angle, another actor's angle and 3-d mode is to film them both in a conversation. What if you got 3 cameras, isn't it better to do 1 shot with all 3 modes? I'll definitely film in SP only from now. Wrote some articles on sound setting up(lav and boom), oh boy, never thought it was that complex. I've finnished editting the short movie that I am talking about today (frame work wasn't easy, but its "doable") . Any other tips how to save some on editting while filming? Let me know your ctitique on this my first short movie, I know its awkward, let me know what to improve there. Its actually a part of a feature that I'd like to film, but since I dont have enough experience , feature isn't something I wanna work on now, only if my friend who's professional operator would like sacrifice his free time and join me. Actors are russian native speakers so I didn't wanna make em talk in english, that'd be a mess so I put subtitles instead.So in this short movie, a girl who's desperate for work goes to the computer company to fill a position as a night shift servers support worker. there something happened with the guy who worked there before her, no one tells her what happened to him though. She'll have to figure out what was that, at the mean time the killer isn't resting and keep on doing his "job" systematically. I dont like putting my real name on youtube so we all took nicknames. Articles on sound said that first only dialogs should be recorded, since the action was in the servers lab, what are your suggestions to record that servers/fans noise?

guys, thanks so much it's clarified quite a few things for me... funny thing is that I was shooting in LP mode on my DV camera(to get more time footage) but just now browsed the forum and found that LP making problems with frame dropping out, so maybe it was one of the reasons the frames were "cut out" when the actors were talking. Looks like working in SP is more reliable. Richard, thanks a lot, got a question for you then: how to do "cover" those parts when an actor wasn't in the camera but started talking?

hi guys, I was trying to film a short movie today ( my first attempt ever) and it was REALLY bad of course even though I used to shoot events before(like regular ones you know birthdays, weddings etc) What I found was that I was "cutting" the actors in the process, ie I clicked on StandBy button way sooner than they stoppped their speach, maybe I was kinda nervous or something I dont know... I also have no clue how professionals operate with one camcorder when shooting dialogs between 2 people or even more than 2. I asked my actors to do it one step at a time so that I can switch to their faces but it turned out really bad, again because I was cutting them too soon. Any tips where online I can look for some tutorial on how to operate behind the camera, not looking for effects, but for some basics first what view to shoot, how to beter position myself and so on? thanks a lot in advance!

add more action, at least a few gun shots when they go to the elivator

Wade, great work! I was wondering what camera did you use?

Robert, it looks like that female with a gun wasn't decisive enough if she wants to kill a guy or not, she looks angry but has no guts to shoot, its clearly seen in a movie. It looks too red too

hi Ram, I'd love to see a video with higher quality, you squeezed this 4 min video into 8 MBs so its hard to say anything about it. By the way I'm also from Tel Aviv, you ever filmed a feature movie?

found it here http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0104815/technical I have no clue how analog editing is done, I guess I gotta go see it sometimes

Hi everyone, I've been exposed only to dv camcorders and editing software that edits mostly video that was captured from mini-dv tapes. I am curious what Robert Rodriguez was using when he filmed his first movie El Mariachi http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0104815/ (what camera and how did he edit it), I'm asking because we know he made it all by himself.

Eric, what are requirements to enter into Film Festival?

guys, is it only with Canon camcorders? I have my cable in my firewire port all the time, when I need to caputre I simply connect it to my mini DV camcorder(Samsung) when my computer is turned on and its working properly.