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Rex Orwell

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  1. Freya's right. But the high quality images will come to the rest of us soon enough anyways, in fact more so.
  2. No go on, I'd be interested. Apologies for the spelling error, but the format isn't even on my radar.
  3. Blue Ray will never dominate. Thank god. Ultimately you'll be buying film on keys and any money poured into Blue Ray now is only good for filling your attic.
  4. http://ie.linkedin.com/pub/malcolm-adams/26/259/ab6
  5. The internet is truly a wonderful thing. I'm not sure what your individual tastes are. If you want to overlay major artist's music over your film it's going to cause you problems. My advice would be to source music you like from unsigned artists and approach them directly. I'll be honest often the best music is unsigned. Ambience and minimal would be fruitful. I'm fortunate in that I have a background within music and so obtaining music that would suit my personal taste rights-free wouldn't be a problem, but this is always dependant on the mood or the circumstance of the film in terms of what I would want to use. If I wanted to use Philip Glass I'd have difficulties. I remember being a fan of Dustin O'Halloran quite early on in his career and he was an approachable guy I communicated with him a handful of times. I would have foreseen no major problems asking him directly a few years ago if he would allow me to use his music for film. He's a bit more tied-in now. For the musician it can often mean more exposure and help further their own career. Often people frown at file sharing because it’s easy to get caught up in the misconception that record companies and copyright are there to protect the artist. Almost a decade ago I ran a blog that supplied visitors with links to download full albums in MP3 and underneath links for outlets through which to purchase wax (vinyl). You’d be surprised by the notoriety of some of the actual artists approaching me directly thanking me for uploading their music so that others could download it for free, I certainly was. The site is still visited and I've forgotten the admin passwords so can't administrate or post not that I have the time, but it's on upwards of 4,000,000 views. Incidentally from what I can gather from some 'Youtube Partners' who achieve in excess of 100,000 views, those views equate to pennies / cents, possibly a small number of dollars. I have videos (unrelated to filmmaking) upwards of 50,000 views and have been approached by Youtube to become partner, but I've read about the difficulties and disappointments people have had and have ignored their approaches (usually I get an automated email every 5,000 or 10,000 views). In addition one of the requirements is that you allow for there to be advertisement banners at the foot of your film.
  6. I really like the look of this guys film but after 20-odd minutes of searching around online looking for somewhere hosting files I can download I give up. Seems such a shame that people don't utilise the ability to have thousands of people view their work, instead of only dozens at screenings.
  7. Only time I go to a cinema is when I'm dancing with a new woman. Maybe I was a bit cruel with 28. No more than 40 though. It all just seemed like a bit of a gimmick to me. The dates in the film interested me more than anything else.
  8. I actually think British films in a great place now. There's a lot of work to do, but there are some excellent people coming up. When you say "I hate to think what it'll be like in ten years" well yeah, but surely that's reflective of how much more miserable a place 'Great' Britain will be on the whole in ten years. However, things are happening. Attitudes are changing, and they don't really want that to be the case. In short, people are getting tired of it all. Look at what I talked about regarding the real reason Megaupload was taken down in the thread about SOPA and PIPA. We're starting to pull on the chains more. I guess what I'm saying is positive change is up to us, we shouldn't be relying on people with malign sudo-agendas to make the film industry better, because they're bought and paid for and their interests aren't with the struggling filmmaker. "David Cameron gave a few people a chance but they're manifestly taking Britain into the relegation zone. It's time To give the real talent a chance to give Britain jobs, hope, inspiration, prosperity and security." Well then possibly yes, if thats the case then it should tell you something. The idea is to destroy the above listed. Britain has been under attack from the inside for decades. The easiest way for people to get a handle on it all is to start thinking along the lines of - World War II never ended, it just got more sophisticated. Its more complicated than that but that's a good starting point to adapt through. In the UK the war is fought on the psychological and economic battlefields and so there are no Kalashnikov and AR15s being fired but make no mistake that there's a war going on. Anyway it was good to see that someone recognised John Hemming's work emphasising child stealing by the state (just one of the many permutations of the war I highlight).
  9. Ha. On Martha Marcy May Marlene - there's some really clever stuff done in this film. The way they switch between present and memory through her replaying actions similar to her past experiences is something I've never seen done before. Very original. It reminds me a little of Winter's Bone but the story is much more energetic and the ending is exactly what I'd look to achieve myself, in it being an open hole forcing the viewer to imagine what may or may not have happened next. Trully excellent filmmaking... I didn't touch my phone once.
  10. I rated the above (Martha Marcy May Marlene) 94% on first view. Although it might deserve more. I just watched The Artist... and rated it 28%. Although it might end up with less. It's always a bad sign when I start texting people during a film.
  11. I'd like to see it can you upload to Youtube or a file host or torrent site please? Everythings pretty tight on this machine so I don't know, but I can never view anything on Vimeo.
  12. I like the film very much. First view I enjoyed it. But I've found that I've watched it IRO twenty times in the past fortnight. Probably the last film I was able to watch over and over like that was Archipelago and it's a big deal. I'm probably not finished with it either. It's beautiful, well acted etc etc, but I can't help feeling that this film serves a purpose at this point in time. What I think it does is reaffirm the delusion in the minds of its audience about the state of play regarding the nature of intelligence work at the moment which is vastly different and much more diluted now in 2012. The most positive line in my opinion was given to Kathy Burke when she said "At least that was a real war. English men could be proud then" pertaining to the pointless and imaginary set of circumstances created to build the then 'bogeyman' perception amongst the general populous that Russia and 'communism' were a threat. We have had new bogeymen crafted for our imaginations now, but I thought this acknowledgement was a good and important one. I'm grateful for the information in the header-post regarding cam specifics.
  13. I appreciate the method, and I do it I guess. I've got films running 24 hours a day when I'm at home and sometimes it gets muted as a matter of course. But taking it a stage further and pausing on each scene will allow you to get a lot more out of just the visual side of film. Then work it in your mind, try and understand why they've made the choices they have or try and work out how I would have improved a particular shot (in accordance with my own aesthetic preferences and obsessions) and have the time to do that (I've been doing it now for the past 15 mins for instance while I've been on the phone)
  14. Relationships can trigger horrific chains of events Brian I wouldn't worry about it, for another year, then go East. Valentine's Day was so last year. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WbgOcmbiNR0 PS - "There's something wrong with that" - Nothing wrong with it at all.
  15. Just some titles that I'm amazed weren't mentioned anywhere in this thread. 1. Bir zamanlar Anadolu'da / Once Upon a Time in Anatolia 2. Elena 3.Pina 4. Montevideo, Bog te video: Prica prva / Montevideo, Taste of a Dream 5. This Must Be The Place (possibly)
  16. "potential pedophiles taking pictures of kids at a public event" See how they've poisoned our minds? The perverse nature of desire within the mind of the child abuser is on the one hand promoted, nurtured and encouraged by mainstream media very subtly indeed, and on the other used as a tool openly and indiscriminately to instil a continual and escalating state of fear in the minds of the rest of us. The war trully is a psychological one.
  17. I couldn't possibly comment I haven't watched television in 13 years.
  18. As usual Vimeo wouldn't play this for me, I've no idea why people use it. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vldY0uyuB2c
  19. There are malign forces and agendas at work, because this stuff serves a purpose, but it was said best here :
  20. I do get the picture aye. You ought to be a mod pal you had a word? Keep me right though yeah?
  21. Good post. Negative change is promoted though, not positive. My stance - The day I pay money for a data file that can be wiped from the face of existence should a wrong button be pressed then I must be earning far too much money and so deserve to be robbed for being so stupid. I've constantly got in the region of 6 feature films downloading from torrent sites. I've got a massive physical library of thousands of DVDs, but the days of me taking a punt on a film having never seen it are long gone, it's about refinement now and it's a privilege to get a place on my wall, earn it. In the past decade I've downloaded so much music in better rip-quality than you'd get on iTunes or other download sites for free, that I'd have to have iTunes on constantly for five years just to listen to everything. In terms of any media, all they're going to do is keep playing with the formats so that you have to keep going out and replacing your old format with the new, ad infinitum, until you die. The reason these bills exist is because they think they're losing money. They're not interested in you or the artist; it's their own pockets they'd prefer to line more. Megaupload was important in more reasons than people realise. It was about to launch a new site that artists would upload their music to directly. The artist would divide the cost of that download with Mupload something like 90% to 10% in favour of the artist. In comparison to what they get currently after the giant media corporations have robbed the respective art form this is a massive step forward. This was about to revolutionise not just the music industry, but the world. They couldn't allow it. Which is why they raided this guys house in New Zealand and took all his Cadillac off him. They're desperate to try and rally public and industry support for these bills so that they can protect their cash cow - our art. There is a whole bunch of disgusting people clinging desperately to their bloated and protected methods of cashing in on everything we do. Just imagine how much more income you'd generate as a filmmaker or cinematographer if you were able to get a cut of 95% of the cost, each time a film was downloaded. The people in this thread in favour of these bills could unwittingly be destroying the industry and their own futures. Adapt or die.
  22. Sorry mate I should've asked you first. I won't post anymore.
  23. Darren Connor interviews Director Peter Mullan, casting director Lenny Mullan and stills photographer Graeme Robertson at the Robert Burns Film Theatre on Saturday 26 February 2011. Filmed by Alec Barclay. Just an additional note of interest, the interviewer Darren Connor collapsed and died as he competed in the 50-mile Lockerbie Loop cycle charity event shortly after this interview in summer 2011. In Four parts :
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