Jason Maeda

Philip-Lorca DiCorsa

my tips: cut out half the reel, anything that doesn't look super pro. start with the girl putting her pants on (sex sells). i would change the music. resize the placeholder you have for your quicktime reel, to allow for the player that is currently being cropped (vertically). just my thoughts...some really nice shots you should be proud of your work. jk :ph34r:

tim fantastic post, thanks. jk :ph34r:

get a fifty dollar super 8 camera. buy a cheap super 8 projector. shoot kodachrome. jk :ph34r:

macro setting, yes. also, although everything will be in focus to the minimum distance, be careful of seeing the actual edge of the lens (or lens shade). depending on where you have the focus ring set, you may see it in frame. jk :ph34r:

""Its a film about love and not a film about boxing."" it isn't about either of those things. never listen to directors talk about their own work! :blink: i really liked this film. clint doesn't chase desperately after oscars he just gets them. this film succeeds with two important groups: the mindless, hollywood movie-mill "i cried so hard when he called her his 'blood'" types and the more artistically aware "it was fascinating how he called her his 'blood'" set, to which most believe they belong but few actually do. jk :ph34r: not to say i wasn't crying, but then i never claimed to be artistically aware!

i wouldn't say "replicated" exactly...how about "approximated"? aaron check out "julien donkey-boy" by harmony korine you're gonna love it. also check out "farenhiet 451" by truffaut. these films look nothing like each other but they both are lovely and could also both be described by some of the words you're using. jk :ph34r:

i know this doesn't answer the question you're asking, but the trick with stills is to find the right exposure for a strobe to freeze the subject, without destroying whatever painting technique you then apply. also if you're shooting people make them keep their eyes open through the entire exposure or you-know-what happens, so bring eyedrops. a low level strobe freezing the subject is an important tool for shooting in any long exposure situation. on camera flash is great for this, just be sure to go really low with the output. jk :ph34r:

beyond the normal beurocratic nightmares common to big businesses like kodak, i've had nothing but good experiences with my super-8 needs, including some very generous hand-outs from steve garfinkle in nyc. also, i don't see any senior technical advisors from fuji answering all sorts of impossible questions like our own john pytlak does (on and off of this forum). actually, the more i write, the more i realize how helpful kodak has been to my career as an artist. now if they could just point me towards a reasonably priced spirit with a super-8 gate... jk :ph34r:

i have no idea what that means, but i can't believe my grammar is that bad! jk :ph34r:

what methods are available for a gaffer to provide the dp with light that not only strobes intentionally, but has an adjustable amount of strobing for tweaking on set, without changing the frame rate? i suppose shutter angle may be the answer, but is it previewable by video tap? I'm interested in this technique using both kinos, and hmi's. jk :ph34r:

sam youre not going to believe this but i think i was in that theater as well! i wish i could remember when but a couple years ago i saw lancelot du lac with maybe five people tops in the theater. film anthology maybe? jk :ph34r:

j.m., disagreeing with a policy like affirmative action which chooses to cheapen the legitimacy of the very people it pretends to help, while at the same time discriminating against qualified peers, does not qualify one as an "axe grinder". I know it's hard to see the evil in things when they hide behind the guise of righteousness, but as shakespeare wrote "one may smile, and smile, and be a villain". he's no henry rollins of course but it was the best i could do off the top of my head. :) if you're car busts a flat you don't pop the other tires to make it balanced, do you? jk

"stick to as many close ups as possible. Like DV, Super 8 isn't that good for wide shots, great in CUs." Zaefod, I don't find this to be true. While it's such a nice change to go to a long focal length and escape from the infinite depth of field I'm used to, I find myself slapping my wide-angle adapter on constantly. In fact, it lives on the lens unless I don't want it so if I see a shot I can whip out my camera and pull the trigger without having to focus (or sometimes view)...a helpful advantage in NYC. I guess that's more of a shooting technique without regard for quality, but again I haven't noticed anything wrong with my wide shots...actually I suspect they are sharper. JK :ph34r:

how about if someone wants to hire a woman to shoot their film let them hire a woman? i have to admit i am opposed to any kind of discriminatory hiring practices including affirmative action, but if an employer feels more comfortable with a certain race or sex, and can make a reasonable argument defending the preference, then i see no reason to go crazy with accusations. if one is going on location in a violent area dominated by a single race, you may want to have someone of that race on the crew. if you're shooting a woman giving birth, maybe you would prefer to have female ac's. the problems arise when people are rejected based on imagined limitations or general prejudice, such as female grips being to weak or french ac's being lazy or something. people, of course, always have the option (at least in america and most other nations represented by members of this forum) to take litigious action should they feel descriminated against, and the possibility of this action should in turn act as a deterrent against prejudicial hiring practices by employers. jk :ph34r: p.s. i wish we could avoid "yelling" at each other. p.p.s. phil you are usually pretty funny, but some of your best material has appeared on this thread! "what is this "sun"?" just killed me.

any antonioni film from the 60's or 70's jk :ph34r:

annie hall...manhattan... blade runner jk :ph34r:

ok, for starters hitler would be 116 years old. yikes. back to filmmaking. i wonder if the shooting was disrupted by interest groups? i mean, there are obviously some volitile subjects being explored in this film, and it certainly was greeted by the full spectrum of reactions when it opened. as a filmmaker i usually work alone or with just a sound man, and when i have been part of a crew, it's been on pretty small stuff...nothing that would draw attention to itself. have any of you who work on bigger productions experienced problems due to sensitive subject matter? jk :ph34r:

circling the actors sitting at a table. shafts of light. jk :ph34r:

i've rigged it a bunch of times, it does make a beautiful light but its not perfect for ceiling rigging...better to be hung off of stands or i suppose a crane (but i wouldn't know anything about that stuff). slapping some tubes up with a china silk and duvetine cutters would be just as good under the circumstances. jk :ph34r:

yousef if i can help your friend by handing out cards let me know. i come in contact with hundreds of people every day, all key players in the fashion photography business. i think many of them would be very receptive... feel free to contact me (dont email me...i never have time to check it) jason kollias 917-304-6606

update: i just opened the voice and saw an ad announcing the theatrical release of this film in new york (which i assume means L.A. as well). again, highly recommended. jk :ph34r:

update: i just opened the voice and saw an ad announcing the theatrical release of this film in new york (which i assume means L.A. as well). again, highly recommended. jk :ph34r:

p.s. note the "mistake" in the second painting to which i have provided links in my previous post: the nails are through the hands and not the wrists. during the long process of dying when crusified, the nails rip through the hands and the person falls, but they don't rip through the wrists. when these details are brought to light, one understands why the accusations of "unnecessary violence" can be dismissed. jk :ph34r:

http://www.wga.hu/frames-e.html?/html/t/ti...s/11alvise.html http://www.thehollandsentinel.net/images/0...passion0327.jpg the passion of christ is not an idea invented by mel gibson or his father, it is an important part of the story of the life of god's son. from the perspective of a wealthy modern man with no true faith, any film that seeks to confront its audience with the horror of christ's murder will always be met with hostility. this says more about the offended party than it does about mel gibson. this part of the bible has been committed to paintings for centuries. there is nothing strange about a film doimg the same thing...unless i am mistaken in thinking that film is art. all arguments about the film i have heard regarding anti-semitism or overt-fundamentalism have been either childishly simplistic or arrogant. jk :ph34r: