Louis

If anyone on this list lives in L.A., can you reccomend places to go to rent or buy decent lighting equipment, specifically filters. I'm in the market for some CTBs and some Minusgreen sleeves. The only place I have found is Mole-Richardson, and they don't seem to have filters (not on their website anyway). Thanks in advance.

that definitely answers part of it, but how would they make it look like the camera hit the ground? they'd have to boom down, and have the boom arm touch the ground at the end of the shot, and make it stop abuptly. can that all be done with a motorized head, and if so, wouldn't the motorized head be underneath the camera, and thus make it impossible for the camera to appear as if it is on the floor? i dunno, i probably sound ignorant right now.

i have a question for anyone willing to answer. there's a scene in punch drunk love where adam sandler's character falls to the ground on his side, and the camera mimicks his movement in a POV shot. basically, the camera starts facing forward normally, then it slowly rotates sideways and hits the ground. the movement is very smooth and it looks pretty great, and i was just wondering if anyone knows how a shot like that is done. it was clearly not done handheld, because the motion was very smooth, and it stops very abruptly when it hits the ground. any speculation is more than welcome as well.

Hello everyone. My name is Louis and this is my first topic here. I have a challenge that I'm having trouble with, and any feedback will definately be helpful. I have to shoot a scene in front of a dock in the middle of the night, so it will be night time and there will be very little in the way of available light. Shooting day for night is not possible, because it needs to appear empty, and night time is better for that. I'm gonna be using a fast film like the 500T from Kodak and shooting in color, and I am already aware of the fact that a high contrast between foreground and background light is the way to make night time look like night time, but I'm having trouble actually creating a lighting technique for the scene. One idea I had was to light actors from above with 5600k lights, and have little sprinkles of light in the background. Any other suggestions?