Chris Keth

I suspect "House of Flying Daggers" might be similar but I ahven't seen anything of it but the trailer. I thought the best part of Hero was the drastic, stylistic art direction. I loved how the colors shifted throughout. Really beautiful film.

Why don't you use the one you ahve and rent another? Sure it'll up the cost some but if they want it done enough...

Why would a show do it any different way? That seems to be the most efficient and logical(which = cost efficient for producers) way to do it. :huh:

That's the one. The example I was told was that when it was first noticed/studied that (I assume) Mr. Purkinje noticed one very early morning that red flowers in his garden seemed muted while the blue ones seemer brighter.

Do they find the better existing prints and clean them up and stuff like that, I guess? It's the only way I've found some films so I'll pay it, I was just curious as to why. If there's good reason they're more expensive and they're worth it, then fine. I'm kind of a sucker for good looking movies.:P :D

I was at Bestbuy the other day looking to get "7 Samurai" and I found a "Criterion Collection" copy of it, but it's $40! Anyone know why it's so expensive? All the other Criterion Collection DVDs were expensive, too. I'm a poor student, $40 for one movie is a lot, especially when I can save for a while longer and get the Kurosawa collection (4 movies, I believe) for $80.

My Dad got me a Krasnogorsk-3 kit and the Crossroads Guitar Festival DVD (I play guitar, also) My girlfriend got me the 40th anniversary DVD of Lawrence of Arabia and a beautiful leatherbound journal. Her Mom got me the 2 disc DVD of Citizen Kane. From various other people I got a bottle of aftershave, the American Cinematographers Manual, some cool 3D wooden puzzles, and about $200 :D .

That sounds really nice. You wouldn't happen to have a still where you used this, would you?

Absolutely, one light can be really beautiful. The thing I've done that I like best was a closeup I lit with two lights and a reflector. I had a doubled sheet of unbleached muslin hung over a c-stand arm (about the size of a 4x frame) about 3 feet from the actor, about 50 to 55 degrees right of straight on to her face. Then I found the place where I had to put a 600 watt fresnel and a reflector to get a very slight, soft rim on the left side. I used a little maglight (one of the ones that takes one AAA) taped to the front of the lens so it'd reflect in both eyes but not show up as a source of light. I was pretty happy with that. I like this topic a lot. I'm still very inexperienced, so I like to hear what other more experienced people have done successfully.

Cool, thanks. The manual threading doesn't bother me one bit, so I'll steer away from the automatic things.

Boy, Annie, you don't think you're being a little harsh? Not everybody in every generation can be described by everyone else in that generation. I routinely see people in my classes who produce work that is interesting and it's not just eye candy. Some has great suspense, some drama. They're not perfect but they are students after all. Hell, I'm toying with the idea of emulating the old styles and making a silent film for my one-quarter project this spring. Not everyone's out to kill film. Look on the bright side a little bit. :D :P

I think he's wondering why a film that is nearly an hour isn't a long film and why it doesn't require much. Why don't you approach each project like it's the most important thing to you right then? DOn't shrug it off like it's nothing. Sure it's fun (I love doing it too) but take it seriously and do the best work you can do. ...and I apologize if I put words into your mouth, Michael. :unsure:

MMk, PAL would help that out a little bit. Of course DV Cam isn't going to look like 35mm. That's not everyone's claim. It can look pretty good, though. The arguments, I think, are usually based in budget comparisons and whether 35mm is "worth it" to low budget filmmakers. They tend to argue that the image quality is more than worth it for what you pay to buy or rent a DV Camera compared to paying for the services of a 35mm camera (and the extra crew that shooting film entails) I don't think anyone really believes that DV can equal 35mm. I think people argue that it's a 'more bang for your buck' format for indy filmmakers.

I was looking around on ebay and found that there are lots and lots of older 16mm projectors that sell for very low amounts. What are some of the better brands/models? I was thinking of perhaps buying one so I could shoot some silent stuff and project it at home.

I think you're right here. You could probably have a fairly awful lens and it wouldn't matter. It only has to give a 720 x 480 pixel image, which as thing go is pretty poor quality.

Presumably it was behind-ish the camera if it was bouncing off of a card below the camera.

Tangents happen. I don't think that's any reason to prevent someone from giving helpful input if there's already 3 pages of other input (helpful or otherwise).

Finish learning how to write in the English language, then come back and pose a question I can understand. :blink:

I'd say that's good incentive. The last thing I did I had to watch out for errant basketballs and players flying at me. :blink:

Ultimately: yeah, you're probably right. But that answer doesn't help him avoid the visual stuff that makes some TV look crappy.

That may have acted as propaganda but I bet it wasn't intentional. That was and is the norm here. It'd be a signal to the audience to have anything but a normal-looking mix of food in the fridge.

Hot isn't it? I love the drastic color shifts throughout the different iterations/versions of the story. Really cool idea.

Well, film is displayed in frames, that is whole images. 24 of those full images are displayed per second to create lifelike motion. Interlace video is an invention of the 40s that allows pictures to be transmitted as electrical signals in a linear pattern. What happens is that every other line of an image is scanned onto a TV (this half-vertical-resolution image is called a field) by a cathode ray tube. Immediately following that, the remaining lines are scanned in to make a full image. That is done 30 times per second for American video (30 frames or 60 fields). Here's a link to a site a professor of mine is working on. It explains video very well, though the entire site is not finished yet: http://www.rit.edu/~vidtools/

I recently bought a Minolta spotmeter and I have no clue as to the accuracy of the calibration. What is the best way I could check it and correct it if it needs it?

I thought the convention of blue moonlight was based on the Purkinje effect...?