Toby L Edwards

0h yes, I made sure the back of my DVD box says in bold white type. "35mm to HDSR, 5.1 surround sound." For the very reasons you bring up. R, It should be a Law that the Originating format is listed!! Movies have been made on FILM for well over a hundred years. To now shoot them on Video and not make that Clear on the Cover or back is like false advertisement. It feels like I have been cheated out of my money and robbed. Trying to return it to the store after opening it is like pulling teeth. Toby

Richard' Thanks. That's good to hear. I know I avoid even renting Movies that were Digitally acquired. It's a chore now. I have to research every new DVD I want to rent or Buy and I buy way more often than rent. I don't think Red will change anything. It still looks very Digital Video to me even more so than HD. Just my opinion. Thanks again and I hope this does well for you. Toby

Richard' Thanks for all the great info. Congrats on your achievement. I really liked the trailer. I look forward to seeing the complete Film. Do you think you had an edge over all the DV stuff because you shot on FILM? I think with something that is supposed to be scary it has to be believable and that is very hard to do with Digital. Thanks Toby

Stephen' Wow this looks amazing. Highly stylized, I've been waiting to see how the Vivid160 looks. Thanks for all the great info on you lighting set ups. Those colors are amazing. Will you be able to post any video clips? I would love to see this stock move. How does it compare to 100D in your opinion? Toby

I would think a Bolex 16mm would be a good choice. Or a Bell & Howell 70 series is another good choice at the very low end, around $50.00 to $ 250.00 for a small kit. This is a good cheap way to get started with FILM. Toby

This looks fantastic. Very nice. Toby

Jason' This stuff looks amazing. Nothing better than some nice gritty low key B/W Film. Thank you very much for such a detailed descriptions of your set ups. I really like the shot of the lead(guy) sitting on the car. Did you use the 85B or the Red25 for that shot? Toby

This was one of the best Films of the year. The Cinematography was just fantastic. I really liked the blocking through what looked to be period style glass windows using the window frames for composition. Very nice. Toby

Thanks for the link. Excellent news!!!!!!!!! Toby

Matthew' I bought a Konvas 2M kit for like $1,500.00 the kit included the following. 22mm,28mm,50mm,75mm Lomo lenses. Two 200' and two 400' mags and 15eps motor and control unit. All in hard shell cases. It's a grate little camera. Toby

What an excellent post. Why would you get hanged, drawn and quartered for speaking the truth? Toby

Hi all. for the new guy or student filmmaker out there reading this thread. For me, if I'm going from Film to MiniDV for my transfer, like for Super 8 for example. I always go BEST LIGHT. With MiniDV you can't adjust the look to much before the image breaks down. If you go uncompressed to Disk you have a lot more info and you can Grade the image to your liking. I learned this the hard way $3,000.00 + of 16mm to Mini DV that looked like crap except for one shot here or there that looked great. In reality the transfer was quite flat and I could have corrected the look at a higher quality Master format. The confusing thing for me at the time was the Work Print of the same Neg looked fantastic. I started using a different Lab and that also provided me better results. just my opinion at the very low end of one light vs. Supervised or Best light transfer. Toby

Tyler' Take a look at your favorite Movies and even Prime time TV shows. Most if not all are probably shot on film. Or even better just go to the Movies this weekend. look at the picture on the screen look closely and you will see that beautiful Film grain dancing on the screen. It brings everything on screen to life. Video is computer generated and very still with no life. It makes all the difference . While your looking notice how the saturated colors just pop. Video has no pop. Video resolution has increased over the last few years to a point that some people think it's close enough to film resolution and that's the "end game" for them. The true test is just looking at the screen. There you will find the truth. Not the hype. Toby

Wow, those grabs look amazing. I just love B/W Film. I'm anxious to see the Quicktime clip. Thanks for all the great info. I really like the composition in the second frame. Toby

Joseph' There is a pretty good article in the latest "Student Filmmaker Magazine" on do it yourself Gelatin prosthetic appliances. I think there was a pretty good Behind The Scenes of the the Zombie make up on DAWN OF THE DEAD. It's probably my favorite Zombie movie. The Cinematography is excellent. And if memory serves I believe there are adds at the back of AMERICAN CINEMATOGRAPHY MAGAZINE for make up classes. Might be worth a look. Toby

Mark You can use what ever Film Stock that you want. It depends on how much light you have and at what frame rate your shooting. Check your meter at different Film speeds. 500 is the fastest Kodak stock(I think) and depending on what your shooting you might need to use 500 ASA. You can also Push process and gain a stop or two, but you will increase the noticeable grain and contrast when you do. I love grainy contrasty images so if that's what you want, it just depends on what you want to do. I'm not familiar with your Camera so I can't comment on that. I'm not an expert by any means so this is just my opinion only. Toby

Joseph' You should check out IN MY IMAGE by Scot McPhie. There is a really nice shot using Fore ground miniatures on Super 8 Film. The greater depth of field of supper 8 makes it a nice choice for this type of work. Go to the link below. I'm sure if you contact Scot he will be very helpful. He post here often as is a really nice guy. His link is below. There was also a GREAT article in SUPER 8 TODAY magazine a few months back on fore ground miniatures. The link for that is below as well. Hope that helps http://www.mango-a-gogo.com/inmyimage/image.htm http://www.super8today.com/ Toby

Nick' Matt You are booth correct. I use a program called Commotion Pro. I think the Production Bundle of AE has this feature all well. You basically draw a line around elements that you want to isolate and create a Mask for. This is a good way to Key something out if you cant pull a green, blue key or a Luma key. Donny' You could use this technique to achieve the effect you mentioned. You start by shooting the the seen of the people walking by the camera. Make sure the camera is locked down.( on a Tripod and not moving) You then shoot you actor say standing on his hands. Now when the two clips are captured into your editing system. You speed the first one up so the people are moving faster than normal. On the second shot you rotoscope the actor only and create a Key. Now when the rotoscoped clip is placed on top of the first clip, it will appear as if everyone is there at the same time. Because the camera is locked down the back rounds will line up creating hopefully a seamless match. Toby

If I were going to do this shot I would shoot two Plates. One of the back round and one of the main subject and composite the two. Not sure what your shooting but most likely you will need to rotoscope the forground action to composite into the back round. There is a good example of this effect at Rarevision.com Toby

Wow' Those are some nice looking stills. I will have to put this on my list of movies to look out for. Excellent work. Toby

I personally would rate the film at 320asa on my meter, so I don't have to remember to make a 3/4 stop adjustment to compensate for the 85 filter for every reading. Not sure about the camera report sheet though. I don't think it makes a difference because the film is properly exposed and your processing normally. Toby

Please delete this thread. If there was any "really good" footage comming from Red One it surly would have been posted here or at Reduser by now. Evertthing els is just words. on and on and on. Don't tell me how great it is, just show me. Please I want to see it. Toby

Not sure why I like this so much. hahahah Guess I just love 16mm. Toby

Justin' I thought it was pretty good. It could make a very visually exciting film. I would like to recommend a book I read recently. TEACH YOURSELF SCREENWRITING by Ray Frensham it's like $15.00 Toby

Ya, that's why we always hear "can you make it look like a Soap Opera" It's quite the opposite. It's more like "I'm going to shoot Video and try to grade it to look like FILM!" Toby