XiaoSu Han

i heard about the rule that 0.8xKVA = KW so off a 60kva genny, you should draw a maximum of 48kw as far as i know!

incredible! could you please tell us the effect of the jade and blue/grey filters? thanks

wow! very good low key lighting! i can't imagine how this wouldve looked in hd... film forever

thank you very much! your still looks very good, although it woould be a bit to high key for our purpose ;) but the pool looks exactly like i wanted it.. so i will go for something like this in our shot! maybe i can take a few stills as well and post them too after the shoot! thanks again

hi we are about to shoot a scene by the pool with about 100 asa i wanted to get the reflections of the water on the faces of the people plus i want to bring out the light blueish tone which the pool walls already have (a shot includes the pool=) we have been thinking about hydroflexe's underwater pars, but thinking again, if we arent shooting underwater at all, wouldnt usual hmis shot into the water be enough? if anyone's got experience with that, i'd love to read about it thanks in advance

i am sorry but could someone move this topic to the new filmmakers' board please? sorry i posted it wronglyn :(

Hi guys, I am going to shoot additional scenes for a feature, starting in a few weeks... and we shot a great portion already, but we did not have time for preproduction as i replaced two other "cinematographers" as their ego's clashed. well, that's not the point, the point is: we did not have time to break up(down? what's the correct phrase for that?) the scenes in single shots at all, we just went on location and talked about the scene and i chose a few shots (which turned out to be 50:50, some were good, some acceptable, but some very bad) so we are reshooting a few scenes and adding one or two, and wanted to have a really good preproduction and planning every single shot from every single scene we are shooting. so i just wanted to ask you guys as established professionals with one or another short and feature on your hands, what would you say is the best approach for breaking up a scene into shots? we used the master shot technique, sometimes using only 2 long and 2 close shots for a scene which is supposed to be 10 minutes on the screen, which gets boring, because the editor has just 4 shots to choose from and is taking up lots of time while shooting because the actors have to act everything from the beginning to the end all the time, including pickups, but they take away the possibility of fluid editing sometimes. so is there any rule of thumb (besides the ones i got from text books, including 180 degree rule and continuity style) to breaking up a scene into single shots which worked out for you? please share your experience with me, i am getting a bit desperate, since this project looks quite promising but i lack experience and self confidence in breaking the scenes up into cuttable shots. thanks to anyone who can provide me some stories about that topic and to everybody else who is contributing in this forum, because i've been lurking here for a few days already and already learned a whole lot. regards, xiaosu "xax" han edit: we are going to have a storyboard, but my self confidence isn't high enough so that i trust what we are doing, since it's a first time director too.