Stephen Williams
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I have not posted here for ages, however it's 10 years ago today I received the camera & it still gets used. It's never needed a service, just upgrades. I did change the internal timecode last year myself.
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Red One MX or Sony F5 for greenscreen?
Stephen Williams replied to Mark Kenfield's topic in Visual Effects Cinematography
I did some tests with Epic Dragon / Alexa / F55 all superb for green screen. We were shooting tungsten 400 ISO 5 to 1 compression on a Epic, Arri raw. -
I would be very surprised if you have a 2709 in 2 perf, unless it was used as an optical printer at some point.
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A new 3 perf movement is about 30,000 euros.
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Cooke 18-100mm rear filter question
Stephen Williams replied to George A's topic in Lenses & Lens Accessories
The 20-100 has a slot for gelatine filters. -
Chromakeying through window
Stephen Williams replied to Karl Reynolds's topic in Visual Effects Cinematography
It's quite doable, you can even see it's through a window if thats what you want. 20 years ago with an optical printer we could lift waster & smoke from a blue screen. With all this new tech, people stat getting worried :D -
Low budget film making can kill
Stephen Williams replied to Maxim Ford's topic in General Discussion
You are very pro unions, can you tell me if you had a full crew for your stock footage shooting? I suspect you just shot on your own or with 1 assistant as you could get away with it :D -
Aaton LTR 54 Purchase Advise & Servicing in Europe
Stephen Williams replied to Alexander Boyd's topic in Aaton
When was the last major service? It could cost as much as the camera....... -
Many people do, they trade on momentum, i.e. buy when the market is rising & sell when the market is falling.
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I get video not available
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You have $16 million canadian dollars...
Stephen Williams replied to Freya Black's topic in Business Practices & Producing
I assume the real answer is make the film for 3 million & pocket 13 million :D -
Max says their output is very good :D, where is he now?
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Making The Shining
Stephen Williams replied to Tim Tyler's topic in In Production / Behind the Scenes
Boxes, another great documentary. http://vimeo.com/78314194 -
Funnily enough recently several clients have asked to only pay half price because it's only for the internet, my response is thats fine if I can retain the copyright for all other uses :D each time there has been some major back tracking & further negotiation. Luckily I am not the mug I used to be.
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How do the images look at HD, good or soft?
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My first boss was an Commercial Artist & Art director, he was colour blind. His first job in the film industry was mixing paint :D he could see shades & the base colour was written on the bottle so was not an issue.
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Freelance Living Wage
Stephen Williams replied to Maxim Ford's topic in Business Practices & Producing
http://www.linkedin.com/pub/jan-von-krogh/8/39a/675 The only person I ever saw on linked in with 0 connections. -
Freelance Living Wage
Stephen Williams replied to Maxim Ford's topic in Business Practices & Producing
This is such a brilliant thread I would pin it if it was in the General forum where I have mod privileges. This really is the thread of 2013, very happy Max joined the forum -
WTB: Looking for a Cooke 20-100
Stephen Williams replied to Clayton Burkhart's topic in Cine Marketplace
I have one that got fully serviced in the UK & has not been used since other than tested. I am not sure of current market value, send me a PM if you want to go further. It's currently in Zurich but could be sent from France. -
Freelance Living Wage
Stephen Williams replied to Maxim Ford's topic in Business Practices & Producing
I guess he pays his taxes & pays his crew, thats a good start as the higher his profit, the higher percentage gets given to the government to help pay for the poor people who don't pay anything. If everyone was poor, the poor would be very much worse off. -
Freelance Living Wage
Stephen Williams replied to Maxim Ford's topic in Business Practices & Producing
You mean all the crew members except Max, his 5-10k will go to a charity for the poor :D -
(WTB) Moviecam 35mm camera
Stephen Williams replied to Aaron Michael Rich's topic in Cine Marketplace
Visual Products sold one yesterday on eBay for $3050 http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Moviecam-an-Arriflex-Arri-Company-Compact-Camera-Package-35mm-Sync-Sound-/261336739131 -
I would have thought if a producer gave an intern a chance it was good for the intern to get some experience. It worked like that in the late 1970's in London, which is how I started in the business.
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And a DOP's fund, to be fair to everyone we need a Producers fund :D running away
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Phil, The producer is not earning anything per hour for 3 years, if they then make a huge profit you cannot possibly pretend they had any idea how much they could draw out of the bank to live on. It's a 3 year investment that paid off. What about people who mined bit coins ? Someone even bought a 2 pizza's for 10,000 bit coins a couple of years ago, if the person held onto those bit coins is he suddenly abusive ?