Seth Slavin

Good thinking. Knowing me I probably would have forgot the obvious. Thanks.

Oh yeah and I've got a paintball mask for my head. It's the rest of my body I am worried about. Heh.

You kind of got me thinking. A shoebox or any smaller sized box will probably work it just needs to be fitted properly. I think I was putting too much thought into this. Thanks for the response.

I will be filming College Paintball Championships this weekend for a paintball documentary. I'm looking for ideas to protect the camera as I will be on field with the players. If you don't have experience with paintball, needless to say I WILL be shot, possibly the camera as well. When playing speedball (close quarter combat with blow up bunkers as opposed to woods play) players shoot at anything that moves and these guys are good. Basically what I was thinking was possibly a leather enclosure for the case with foam padding placed around it topped with a molded plastic exoskeleton. A piece of 100% clear plastic will be placed in front of the lens. I'm not sure how well this will work however and am looking for additional ideas. Any input would be helpful (mounting, adhesives, a wonder product of some kind.)

Just a little trivial piece of information I remember reading on the web. Sin City is one of 4 movies shot entirely on green/blue screen. The other three are: Immortel (French) - http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0314063/ Casshern (Japanese) - http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0405821/ Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow (American) I listed them in order from least to worst as well (in my opinion.) If you haven't seen Immortel or Casshern you should check them out. I really liked Immortel although some of the character animation is, to put it bluntly, bad. And Casshern is quite lengthy with the old "technology breeds war" theme, as well as a few open ended plot points, but it has a few great action sequences that use some interesting special effects that definately make it worth the watch.

Yeah. Hah, whats up Chris? But yeah I wasn't going to use a full 85B. I said 1/2 CTO. And I don't really want to use HMI's because I was going to experiment with mixing color temperatures. I'm not interested in rendering either the tungsten or daylight light sources white, I want to have a mixture of light blue and orange. But utilizing the window and lighting for a sunset could be pretty cool.

I will be conducting a quick 7 hour shoot with a 9 person crew nine days from now. This is for a class I am taking which has an emphasis on learning crew positions rather than the final outcome of the film. Because of this I want to experiment with the lighting. It is a short 2min30sec scene taken from a larger script I have written. It's a two character scene, basic outline is that a man's protege in a crime Syndicate has now come to see his extermination because the Mentor has let his REAL son get away with something treacherous to the Syndicate. The protege who was LIKE a son now has to carry out the Syndicate's orders to see his Mentor's end. Its quite cliched taken out of context but that's beside the point. It will be shot in a studio with a large window (with curtain's.) There will just be a table with some simple blocking around it (walking to the window, and around the table.) Ok well there is the setup. I am looking for some neat lighting ideas to fit the script. Here was my idea so far (please correct me if anything I say or assume is incorrect.) Shoot Tungsten balanced film. Use a partial CTO (1/2?) camera filter to get a cool blue from the window which will be lighting the Master, whereas the Protege (who will be the murderer) will be lit a little warmer. The last shot is going to be the Protege strangling the Mentor(CU-just their faces) and I think the different color temperatures will look good. Also would it be easier to shoot Daylight balanced film and CTB filter the camera or does it not result in the same cool blue? The scene is quite dialogue heavy so it will be 20 second takes or so I would think. We're required to shoot one 400' roll, no more, no less. Since I have the crew and the time I want to make this a good learning experience, and the bad thing about college education is that I can't just sit down with my professor and say "ok here's what I have planned, how would you do it? Do you think this would look good?" because we're of course...being graded (that and my professor knows more about booming than lighting.) I'd really appreciate any feedback; both to my ideas so far and also how any of you more experienced DP's would light this scene. If anyone would really like to help me out I have the script and shotlist which would of course make it easier to understand the scene.