Rob Belics

Never, EVER, look into the tomato can.

If he's good at film then he'll be good with lighting. Being good at lighting is the battle though he'll have to adjust for video.

There are tons of writing websites out there, this is a cinematography forum.

Do they use that jiggly news camera technique anywhere? :D

FWIW, along the environmental issues, people seem to forget the process of making the integrated circuits, CCDs, etc. on the electronics end. The chemicals used for this manufacturing process are much more corrosive and damaging than anything on the film side and there are large quantities that must be cleaned up before being disposed.

The best picture, of course, is a CRT so that is the standard to achieve. Right now, DLP projectors are the best at coming close to the CRT for an image.

Hey, this is the same guy that posted about the UFO in NYC a while ago.

Nope. Point blank said knowing how to draw "isn't important anymore".

I'm not kidding. I just saw a commercial on television for a school that teaches you to be an artist for production companies, ad agencies, magazines, etc. My favorite line was "Don't know how to draw? Don't worry! That's not important anymore!" Now, they don't explain how they get around that technicality but I'm assuming they teach you Photoshop/Illustrator/etc. Even then, who says you don't need to know how to draw? They show this girl walking around a studio for all the glitz and glamour angles. "Wouldn't you like to work in a place like this?"

RGB Color Lab

You might get LESS respect by trying to cover it up. Instead, don't hide from it and try to enlist the 'help' of other older personnel. "Hey, I'm just a babe in arms here so I appreciate any help you more experienced guys can give me" might be a good ice breaker. (Though you wouldn't want to give the impression you have no experience or knowledge). So, yeah, being well prepared would go a long way to showing you know what you're doing but listening to the others, as well as asking them for advice, would gain you some respect. I remember my first job on a set of the top production company in town. I walked into a room behind one guy who was asking where "that kid" went. I was already nervous as hell.

You'll like this.

Unless you have a coupon.

I've played with both. Quick, iirc, was very amateurish and clunky making it practically useless. FrameForge was more sophisticated but why use it? You can draw with a pencil stick figures quicker and easier than wasting time learning another software package. The lens feature is handy for perspective viewing but an experienced DP can help with that. I can see someone wanting this stuff because they aren't artists and can't draw but I only see it as a stumbling block for the creative process. You can't free flow draw a series of frames quickly when an idea strikes you. Like I said, stick figures and boxes would probably serve better than wasting time with these things but I've only played with them a little and didn't go beyond that.

There are still idiots out there that shake those popcorn buckets while eating. After all these years you would think they would know better.

In an article posted elsewhere he also said he was ready to kick it off the truck,too.

I don't know how many locally produced spots done on vidjo for TV that have the most horrible looking, green tinted, gray, washed out food. They are, otherwise, nicely done considering they may have been produced cheap or free but God, the food looks horrible. And I don't know how they do it or why they accept it.

Bob Costas lives in my neighborhood. Well, not MY neighborhood, but he eats at my wife's restaurant.

I, too, have heard that story but don't recall anything beyond that.

Erol, Your full name makes me want to say "Klaatu borada nikto" and I don't know why.

A very interesting art book that is also a quick, easy read is "The Simple Secret to Better Painting" by Greg Albert. Throughout the book he says the secret is never having two intervals the same. By that he means, as you go across the scene, you can go from, say, light to dark but the next interval shouldn't go back to dark but, perhaps, mid-tone. Placement in the scene can go from 1/3 but the next placement should be 1/2. Colors should be earth tones to cool to something else as you scan the scene. I'm not describing it as well as he does, of course, but it's an interesting concept.

When are auditions held for the pilots? I hear January is when it starts.

You can still buy liquid emulsion for glass plates, too.

You may have seen the new copy protection scheme. Could it have been a trio of dots? These dots would help track which theatre showed the film if they showed up on a bootleg copy.

In fact, Kodak has introduced new professional 35mm color and black and white films within the past several months.