Dominik Muench

yep i got the film 3 days before the shoot from fuji. nope, didnt have the time for film and camera tests :/ i got a digibeta tape and then a transfer from digibeta to miniDv...thats the only format the editor could accept easily. as far as i know the editor is using after effects for all the effects stuff yes.

hi canney, thanks for the help. reshoot is not an option, the production was absolute low budget.

damn :/ guess i was too much in "shooting with digital" mode, im usually pretty scared of overexposure, guess thats why i went for the highlights. oh boy :/ i go n hide for a month n hit myself with the lightmeter carry strap. at least i have to tell something in the "Memorable Blunders" section at the last ASC Magazine page when they come to interview me :)

hi filip, you might be right, that sort of metering in those particular circumstances really might have been wrong, i guess i relied too much on the wide exposure latitude, call me a T grain victim :/

well, i usually meter into the direction of the lens, plus the side where the light is coming from and then find a ballance between those readings. i often expose for highlights thats right, but usually i stay half a stop or so under the "highlight" reading.

stephen: no the camera was an arri srI. telecine was on a davinci HD system. john: no particular lighting for the clip but some ambient and practical lighting, it was actually quite bright around the "lit" stage areas, thats why im so surprised that these areas went so black.

Hi guys, last week i shot a music video on pretty short notice and preproduction in an old industrial bulding. filmstock was Fuji Eterna 500T. normal processing. two days ago when we had telecine i had the worst day of my "career" so far, the footage looked pretty bad in my opinion, very dark and absolutely NO detail in darker image areas even though there was light there. lenses were zeiss super speeds and i mostly shot betwen F 1,4 - F 2,2 here are some screenshots of the footage: http://www.hereticarts.com/1.jpg http://www.hereticarts.com/2.jpg http://www.hereticarts.com/3.jpg http://www.hereticarts.com/4.jpg especially in image 2-4 you can see that everything around the actress is pitch black, even though there should have been enough light to get some detail in the negative. could there have something happened during the development or did i just screw up big time lighting wise ?

australia and new zealand have both DVD Region 4, standard framerate is 25fps, video standard is PAL. good luck with the kiwis, the country is beautiful and the people are really nice, but the industry is very small from what ive heard.

most importantly, its not so much your degree but your skills that get you jobs :) i dont know what your course included exactly, but if you are good with photoshop and things like that, maybe you can do cgi stuff...background plates, rotoscoping, working with masks, doing single frame retouching, stuff like that. get yourself after effects, which is a good program to learn such stuff n see how you go.

i just killed the bulb of a 5K arri frezzy this weekend, 125? replacement costs ....ouch :(

wow a wedding shot on film, thats awesome, i wish people around here had the money for that, then i would do wedding films too :) good luck with it, if i ever get married i get one of you guys to shoot it on imax :)

oh thats a mobile number ? didnt know that, well his name is woting cai, just tell him that i gave you his number, my name is dominik from germany, he knows me from australia, he should be able to help you then :)

youre right, unfortunately i used up the two weeks trial last year, a friend of mine wanted to try it and we ran it over my credit card number but i never used the service in those two weeks :/ and nwo i cant sing up again obviously, thats why i ask. so the adresses are quite usefull and you get in contact with the right people ? or are they just like: paramount pictures 12345 Hollywood ?

hi guys, sorry i know there has been a thread some time ago, but i cant find it anymore :/ im thinking of signing up there to find some company contacts in asia and maybe to get in touch with some cinematographers, through their representatives. is anyone member there and does it hold what is promised ? 12,95$ month i squite a bit of money. thanks.

try contacting bejing filmschool, i heard they have an excellent cinematography program :) also, a friend of mine is a cinematography instructor here: China Academy of Art +86 13735519717 www.cinematographers.com/members/wocai

not anymore, at least not full time, im in germany at the moment, why do you ask ?....got a job ? :)

Done and Done :) when do we start ?

i allready had the look to shoot one of ym favourite bands www.endofgreen.de and this weekend im going to shoot for another favourite band: www.bloodflowerz.de and apart form that hmm maybe DimmuBorgir or Old Mans Child :)

thanks for all the help guys. olex: will come back to your offer if i get to shoot there some day :)

each beam ??? holy moly thats a lot to measure :) thanks for the info. u mean the scene in alien where they use the laser to scan the spaceship ?

Hi guys, i was at the cinema yesterday (hostel - what a waste of time) and before the feature they played a laser show, that made me wonder, how would you meter such a situation, a lasershow in a pitch black room ? also, is there a chance of getting flares ? the laserbeams are usually veeery directional, but will they still make the lesn flare when they hit it ?

awesome, thanks.

xcuse my offtopic question, but was that the australian movie somersault ?

matter of taste i guess. the concept was that all those people in the laundromat are kind of connected through the black goo and their weird fantasies or jobs.

yes, the bigger the f or t number, the smaller the physical "hole" in the lens, and therefore the less light gets through, resulting in more depth of field.