James Lee

Wow this is great, thanks for this. I've read some cinematography books but they're sometimes very academic and hard to follow (and sometimes a bit lacking in photos of examples, possibly because of copyright issues and costs). I find it much easier to read your analyses and perspective on specific scenes with clear examples.

I completely agree. It's always the audience because that's where the money is. Blame the people, not the TV networks.

hah.. congrats, Australia is still far, far behind.

But man, reliving those old shows, it's nostalgic and so incredibly silly.

They've shipped to all those who placed an order at the event on Nov 3. They've just started shipping a few hundred now to the other orders placed by phone and via their website.

"I find it interesting that Ryan Koo of Nofilmschool recently pre-ordered the new Scarlet-X for $10k, and once all the accessories and SSD cards are accounted for it will cost upwards of $20k. Before his successful Kickstarter campaign Koo was a DSLR shooter and he still is an aspiring filmmaker, and I wish him the best of luck. Of course he can invest how he sees fit but isn’t the generously donated $120k better spent on the actual film? Hell knows why he felt he needed it. It is like a guitarist joining a band and immediately feeling the need to splash $10k on a guitar and $4k on an amp before writing songs and jamming with his band members." I don't really agree with this analogy from the article. Musicians who are serious about their music and their art will gravitate towards better instruments with which helps them hone their sound and help them in their artistic direction. Can you imagine Wynton Marsalis using a student trumpet? Or Art Blakey using a student drum set? There comes a point when an entry-level or student instrument will do more to hinder your development, if nothing else.

hah, I never realised that before.

Hi everyone, I completed a one year graduate diploma at film school last year, majoring in documentary, it was mainly focused on film-making as a director, with some classes on the technical side of camera work, lighting and location sound recording etc. Having completed the course though, I've been trying to learn more about film-making from a cinematography point of view. Anyway, the documentary Born Into Brothels is one of my all time favourite documentaries, and it still is. I remember watching it a number of times before I started film school, absorbing the editing, the director's/editor's narrative decisions. At present I'm researching to purchase a prosumer camera so I was in this frame of mind when I watched it again last night. For the first time I realised how grainy the images are! I don't really have a problem with it but I was wondering if this was something forum members here noticed immediately and whether you knew what kind of equipment was used to film it (I haven't contacted the film-makers). If you were the cinematographer in a documentary like BIB, how might you have approached the filming process, and would your decisions change if you were working with an HD camera? - James.