Lars Zemskih

In the very first shot I noticed that you can see she is wearing underwear, might want to cut that.

I heard it was also edited on Adobe Premiere. I mean, what? why?

Andrei Zvyagintsev, His first film "The Return" won Gold Lion at Venice. It is great. His new film I just saw at a film festival "The Banishment" I found really really great. There is no doubt there is heavy Tarkovsky influence especially in his second film, however it is more of a homage to him. Plus you have to be really really talented to pull of being compared to him I think.

http://www.hdforindies.com/2007/02/panason...23-inch-p2.html -3 CCDs, 2/3" each -upgraded (sounds like pixelshift) version of SDX900 (which is a 16:9 SD camera) -interchangeable B4 mount lenses -variable frame rates from 12-60fps -available in May -$14,000, including viewfinder (but no lens I'd imagine?) -P2 based, 4 P2 slots -16GB P2 cards will ship in May, price TBA, 32GB by year end -1080i60, 50i, 30p, 25p, 24p, 720p60/50/30/25/24 -4 XLR audio inputs -8 gamma modes, CA compensation function

They shot "Rush Hour 3" in Paris =). Is it really that bad? I am thinking of moving to Paris. Wes Anderson lives in Paris, I heard.

Panavision have cool Panavision caps.

Cool! Good luck with it! It is still a great camera that you can do lot of things with.

Thank you! :)

I agree it could have been tighter, but I was trying also for the first and second part to have sharp contrast, so we see a change of pace in editing. Thank you for you advice though.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=DBXRd69h48U Great band called Arms and the Boy. Excuse the youtube quality.

the very first two shots reminded me of "Brick", is it the same school? Or do US school look so much similar to each other?

I would say DVX is a better choice here, XL1 is an older camera, one that is off the market, where as DVX is still selling. XL1 lenses are good, but with every step you'll loose features like image stabilization. DVX doesn't have any audio recording problems as far as I know (been using it for over 2 years) in any frame rate. Good article can be found here: http://dvxuser.com/articles/shoot3/ It compares Sony fx1 vs. XL2 vs. HVX. It might be a little biased since it is dvxuser.com, but still pretty true I think. But my opinion XL1 is too old of a minidv camera imho.

In most of Eastern Europe and some European countries you can't buy 8mm film, and if you get it somehow, there are no facilities to process it here. Usually.

Even though I agree with what most people say pro-film here, somehow his answers seemed very backward to me, like arguments somebody would make afraid of trying new things and developing new ways of doing things.

I agree with you, and for a long time I've been telling people that we should stop trying to emulate film, but rather find a different aesthetic in it. Thus just think of it as two different tools. The only thing that threw me off was RED. But based from what people responded here and the other forums it doesn't seem to be the case, it seems to be still a different camera, than a film one. And not making everyone forget film straight away.

I am actually signed at the moment to a small production company as a director. I've directed several moderately budgeted commercials. However, we are HVX200 based company, that is why I've said previously that I've shot on digital extensively and think that film will be of course a good thing to learn for me. There is of course always a cinematographer and gaffer. I am extremely passionate about cinematography, that is why I am taking a break from my job to study, it is a filmmaking program, not specific to a field. And please don't get me wrong about loving cameras and film. I would love to know everything there is about a film camera or any camera, when I see a 35mm camera I just can't stop looking at it and all I want to do is be close to it and move my hands through it's lens (ok, this is getting creepy). It is merely a question of choosing a film school, as it is a pretty important choice, plus a pretty expensive one, so the questions are only in that context there. I agree with most of you now and very certain that it would be a good school and the right choice, no need to assume my level of passion or how trendy I try to be. The thing that I actually happened is that I was on the set of Wanted sometime ago and I saw they were shooting on Red, and I was like, wait a minute. So I am just a by product of this general Red camera confusion. Thank you for making these things clear to me.

I agree with you, however it is Red that threw everything out of balance for me and make me confused. I think if it is going to widespread (i especially imagine in the commercials shoots because of its somewhat cartoonish looks), the won't wait for someone to be learning on it while doing a project for them, I'm sure a lot of production companies will look for someone who knows how to make digital look the best. High- tech stuff sure, could be learned, but with these kind of Super HD cameras, there is a lot to learn, starting form setting it up to post-production workflow that I think needs to be taught. I guess the problem is that right now I am one of the biggest transitions in film industry, no matter what people say.

Well, that answers my question then, that film is nowhere near being obsolete. Coolio. However, the other problem is the school insisting so much on educating on film rather than digital. To my opinion it has to be more and more balanced nowadays and school need to have special classes like: lighting for digital and stuff.

By the way, how easy is it to rent Red at the moment in UK?

I understand it is an endless discussion and the one that has been over all possible filmmaking forums. But my question I guess should have been more precise. I want to know what people think about studying it. I guess you learn the principles of lenses, color, lights and everything on film. The problem is that Digital is just different, it needs special care in lighting it and it just has all these different attributes appose to film. But an even more specific question would be about the industry itself: Do you think Film will still be commercially used for a long time? Talking about feature films and commercials. Or after Red becomes more available just in the budget interests film will be ditched? Maybe I can make the school buy a Red camera.

All of this makes me smile. When will people realize that we don't need to compare Digital to Film. We should find a special aesthetic in Digital that is very unique and just because it doesn't look like film, doesn't make it bad. It is just different and people who will continue to try to make digital exactly as film will fail.

I am about to go to a filmschool that insists and make it their philosophy that pretty much everything is shot on Film. Most of the time it is 35mm shoots and only two shoots or something on digital. So I would like to know your opinion. How much longer do you think film will last? Is it even worth to study the format anymore. I mean looking at the camera like Red One (who some say looks even better than film and has really low noise ratio in raw form) it is pretty uncertain. This camera makes me nervous, it is so cheap that it won't that long till my neighbor can shoot 35mm 4k footage for his sons' birthday =) I've shot a lot of stuff digitally though, so it would be good for me to study on film, but I'm just not sure if I'll be studying something that is slowly dying. What do you think? Do you think film is here for another 10 years or so? Longer? Film Forever? Thank you

I am about to go to a filmschool that insists and make it their philosophy that pretty much everything is shot on Film. Most of the time it is 35mm shoots and only two shoots or something on digital. So I would like to know your opinion. How much longer do you think film will last? Is it even worth to study the format anymore. I mean looking at the camera like Red One (who some say looks even better than film and has really low noise ratio in raw form) it is pretty uncertain. This camera makes me nervous, it is so cheap that it won't that long till my neighbor can shoot 35mm 4k footage for his sons' birthday =) I've shot a lot of stuff digitally though, so it would be good for me to study on film, but I'm just not sure if I'll be studying something that is slowly dying. What do you think? Do you think film is here for another 10 years or so? Longer? Film Forever? Thank you