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Thanks James. I didn't realise the FTO could organise attachments. I have been sending out emails and resumes' galore for the past little while. Sadly Steve has now retired (from the industry anyway) and I do not want to seem like i am stretching the friendship with Danny for asking for more attachment work. I will take your advise and contact the NSW FTO. I am also joining the ACS so they should also provide some news/contact info and i will keep sending out emails to DOP's producers and production companies. Cheers Jake Iesu

I too am looking for attachment work in the camera Dept. I have been an operator for a regional production house for 18 months and before that i attained my diploma in Screen. Looking for attachment or 2nd AC for feature, TVC or TV Drama production would be my preference. I have recently been working with Danny Ruhlmann ACS, and spent three years at film school under my mentor Stephen Dobson ACS. Any opportunity in NSW Australia would be greatly appreciated. Regards Jake Iesu jiesu@internode.on.net ps. Sorry for Hijacking your thread Matt, I thought it might be better to share a thread rather then spawning a flury of threads cluttering the Forums.

Anyone seen this film yet? http://www.cinematographerstyle.com/# QUOTE "Cinematographer Style is about the art of how and why films look the way they do. It is about the influence of style, technique and technology-the art and craft of filmmaking. Cinematographer Style is a feature documentary exploring the nuances of the universal art of visual story-telling. Director Jon Fauer, ASC visited with 110 cinematographers from 15 countries, who have worked in all sectors of the industry, including feature films, television, documentaries, commercials and music videos. Shot on 35mm film, the interviews were edited down to a 90-minute story" looks very interesting ive been looking for a place to buy it in Australia but i cant find it. It seems that people on PAL miss out on this one.

I really enjoy some of Darius Khondji's work mainly the beach, Delicatessen and Se7en. Janusz Kaminski's Saving private Ryan and Shindler's list. Christopher Doyle did a great job with Hero I also really like Deon Beebe and of course i can't exclude Conrad Hall i really started to appreciate his work after seing American Beauty. American beauty was a very powerful film for me i think that is what really got me interested in cinema in the first place. and while im at it some of those guys that work with David Attenbrough do amazing work also, i was blown away when i was watching a segment on ants on one of his doco's.

Maybe you dont trust your eyes? Michael Collier has got the idea zoom to focus then pull back to your desired frame Ive never shot on film myself only on digital and have never measured focus. On digital cameras particularly cheaper ones i trust my eyes more then i would trust the markings anyway. have a little faith and go by eye. Ive never had a soft shot using this technique. The only time my shots are soft is when im using one of those Horrible sony pd-170 focus rings and i cant find out which way i have to turn the thing to get my focus back it just keeps turning and turning damn useless thing if you ask me

Canada Australia and the Uk as far as im Aware have a nice deal going on between each other where you can get a wokring visa for 12 months i believe my cousin has come over from Canada to AUs on a 12 months working Visa and we also met alot in our travels around Aus that were doing the same thing. I think you have to be under 27 to be elidgable it would be worth looking into Canada is a great place im lucky enough to have dual citizenship. Try Talking to a canadian embassy if their is one close to you or im sure you could find more info somewhere on the net. I also hear Vancouver has quite a large film industry so your heading to the right spot. good luck and happy new year.

Hello all Wow long time since ive been on these forums Anyways in my current job i have been accumulating anual leave so that i can take time off to work on a feature in late March or April 07 some time as an Attatchment or something similar. Basically i have been working as a TVC cameraman in a regional production house in NSW Australia of late and after spending three years at film school i am looking for a new experience and a different pace and style of work. I tried a number of times to get a placement on a few features while i was in film school but due to Insurance Issues i wasn't able to get a placement within any of the camera departments i applied for and i thought that it should be easier now that i have been working as a camera op for close to a year. What i am looking for is an accomplished and experianced DP that i can learn from and work under for around 3 weeks while i can get the time off from work in March- April next year. Peferably on a feature but im more then keen to work on any larger scale size production. I am more then happy to work for nothing i do it because i am in love with the job. My current employment is great but the smale scale of the productions and the very minimilistic pre production is not what i want to do in my future and i have been hanging to get on the set of a feature since i first fell in love with film making. If your in NSW or Queensland all the better for me i have transportation so it wont be a problem. Thanks for your time Cheers

WOW. I hope you dont mind that im using some of your stills as my background on my PC. There is something about your cinematography that just draws me in. I cant stop looking at the beauty shots in particular. All i can say is WOW. Can't look at the films yet because im at work but looking forward to checking them out at home. Im very impressed mate. 1 question.. The girl in the subway or train staion tunnel or whatever. What did you use to get that green is it a tobaaco filter on the lens or some other filter? Or is that a white balance? Very Nice work. Have you done any features i would very much like to watch them if you have.

Yeah very nice work what was your budget for this if you dont mind me asking? I like the blowout you used in the top of frame for alot of the shots. The commercial link says this. "This is a private video. If you have been sent this video, please make sure you accept the sender's friend request."

What A fantastic idea! i can't Believe no one has thought of this earlier. I dont think a hell of alot of the pool table lighting i think it is a little over done. But the designers i like alot. No offence to the Cinematography. Just personal opinion. 10 points for the Concept though its fantastic. In regards to this topic i dont think there is ever a "RIGHT" or "WRONG" time to use a certain light. Well obviously if your lighting a golf course on wide in the middle of the night a Kino is not a wise idea. Basically what im trying to say is every lighting situation is different and the mise en scene or look of the scene is always different. Reading some books like the ones mentioned above is a great way to learn. Each of those lights has a specific purpose and each has different qualities. Some softer some harder some brighter. I imagine if you gave 10 cinematographers only the lights you mentioned and the same scene and sent them away you would get 10 different lighting set ups. It all depends on the way you light yourself. But you should most definetly do some reading..Very good way to get a grasp on lighting.. Lighting is a very hard thing to learn and in my oppinion impossible to master. Hope this shed some Light on the subject.

The only shot mentioned that i cant stand is the run and jump from explosion shot. All the other shots that are mentioned i can tolerate except maybe the stare at each other and scream thing. I think you can use any of these shots in their own context effectivly without it looking cliche.

If someone said to you that they are a film-maker would you then believe they were involved with the creation of the medium? Update: Last week we bought a copy of combustion. The premeire of NSW also came up to open the building that we have been in for the last two years¿ (the building opened in 1929 it makes no sence to me) Anyway he had a tour through the film school and he was actually a guest on a shoot that we were doing at the time. The outcome will hopefully be a nice juicy check in the mail to help build the school as the regional AFTVRS so depending on the amount that we get (if we get any im being optimistic) we will hopefully be buying a few film cameras. So their is still hope in the near future.

PMSL LOL well said Nate LoL

I find to make the soft focus i tend to do it in post using filters and colour correction but to do that you really need to exposure your footage say 1 stop higher then you normally would. Im surprised how much after it has been tweaked in post video can resemble the film look.

HAHAHAHA. Im a film student and all i plan for is work hahaha. I think that is a very wise choice David. As a matter of fact i will be teaching film before i start working in film. Ive been offored a job working in the school that im attending. The pay is 55$ AUS an hour starting at approx 7 hours a week which means i can put food on my plate while i build up my showreel. I think Nor Domingo to be in the film industry you really have to be Entrepreneurial you cant just sit back and let people come to you because it wont happen unless your a Conrad Hall or Andrew Lesnie ( i bet they even had to look for work most of the time) I agree with all those people who said you need to work on short films and build your reel up. Try and get into highly acclaimed film schools. I think the most important thing you have to do is let everyone who you are interviewed for work by Know how passionate you are be happy to work as an AC or 2nd AC say to them how great it would be to work on this project. and finally ask lots of questions to your DOP make him know how passionate you are. I think you will find if everyone is on your side and thinks you are a great person to work with they will help you get to your role as a DOP or whatever you want in the film industry. IF you help people then they will help you. With all that time you are being passionate, poop you might even forgot how crap being a second AC is.

J-Ro their is no need to press your eye into the eyepeice hard. most eyepeices have a focus on them so you can change the distance of the display from your eye some really nice cameras eyepeices you dont even need to put your eye against you can veiw them from a meter away if you adjust it correctly. If you cant adjust it, try rigging up a monitor for moves like that so that you can just watch the movements straight off the monitor.

LOL :D I started off by joining a film school. Check online to see if their is any film schools in you area. I strongly strongly strongly recomend the five C's of Cinematography by Joeseph V Mascelli. This book was written in the 20's (I THINK) but it is just as relevant today. It will teach you about the language and techniques used in film from the begining. Easy to understand but at the same time it is quite complex. Check it out it is highly recomended. Its available on amazon.com

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA if enough people put film down as their religion on the next census then it will be a religion who is the god though 70mm?

I completely agree with these two. Some of andrew lesnie's stuff comes to mind in the lord of the rings. Ie, looking into the marshes filled with corpses. When the elves do that sychronised swing at the orcs at the start of the felowship. My favourite in LOTR is when you see the orcs retreating from helms deep and the trees in the forest start movingto take out the running orcs. Clockwork orange when droogs start hiting the homeless guy in silohette. Alot of the stuff in Shindlers list. running through the maze in the shining. Excuse the spelling i woke up about 5 minutes ago.

HAHAHAHAHAHA Really it made him impotent? what a poor bastard. There you have it Matt stay away lol.

Well put Daniel J i completely agree. Get some work as a freelance photographer or doing ediiting for corporate promotional stuff just today some guy rocked up and asked if i could digitise some of this old footage he had from when he owned a meat processing plant. Im only getting 20$ an hour for it but thats 160$ a day. When i edit for people like that i ask 30$ and hour which is 240$ a day. That sort of money like 240$ a week is plenty to buy some film stock to put in my 300$ 1940's camera and mess around to make some nice footage i can actually put on my show reel not some drugged out pRon star giving some barmaid a hummer.

MiniDv is generally used by amature film makers but do not underestimate it. Some travel shows still use miniDv believe it or not. Their is plenty of Docos that are still using miniDv mainly because the cameras arnt as heavy or bulky as HD cameras. MiniDv still has relativly good quality. Actually come to think of it their is a fairly recent German feature film that used MiniDv i believe it was called "the edukators" not a bad film either. Its amazing how far a little bit of colour correction can go.

Yeah i will try to post some pics if i can find a way of transfering them from the macs we are using to my PC at home. For the actors comfort we did not take any stills only motion footage so i will have to go pick out some decent frames to export. Anyway the shoot is finished and i was happy with the end result concidering the limited amount of lights and equipment i had and also the fact it was my first atempt at lighting hair. but ill tell you one thing F*&$ me lighting hair takes alot of light. hehehe :D

Of course it is a film school i mean come on guys you cant be so naive to think just because we arnt shooting on film it means that we arnt learning film making. As Dominic has said their is alot more to film making then the medium. On the plus side we are working on getting a 35mm camera soon but as i have said previously we are a long distance from the closest processing place and having 65 students shooting day in and day out on film in a TAFE college is just not possible, Especially considering alot of the shoots that we are doing are multicam shoots. As far as i am aware to do a multicam shoot using film would mean that we need to purchase a new vision mixer as well as processing for the 4-7 cameras that we use. On the TAFE note what we are trying to do is establish the school in association with Tafe rather then another faculty of Tafe, so that we keep the prices down for students (which i feel is terribly important otherwise i wouldnt be becoming a filmmaker) and make us available for additional funding from other sources. If we were to be another faculty of Tafe then what would happen is any donations to the film school or any grants or any money in general would go directly to Tafe and be spread around all the faculties rather then just the film school. Do you understand the predicament we are in? Just because we arnt using film it doesnt mean that we are inferior filmakers to school that does use film. As a mater of fact i have been watching some of the UTS (university of Technology Sydney) short films who do use films and without being patriotic or egotystical at all i believe some of the shorts we are making far outdo the majority of their work. Doesnt the word school imply Learning? and we are learning about film so how is that false advertising? Film is not just a medium its an industry.

I was under the impression that catholic preists were very sexually active particularly toward young boys but thats another story. Matt808 im not much older then you and i have thought about using the pRon industry to make some quick money but in all honestly you would have to be damn crazy to think that it is going to contribute to your career as a film maker. One thing that has really has gotten on my nerves lately is everytime i say that i am a filmaker in conversation one little smart alec Fu*%wit will say what do you make porn? Now although not all people think like that there is definetly a high percentage of people that do. What that would suggest to me is because of my lack of experiance (due to my age) people assume that i must be making low level crap like pRon. So keeping that in mind people obviously dont take pRon makers serious and in most cases quite rightly so. If a producer is looking to employ an editor or DOP and notices that they have alot of pRon making experiance do you honestly think they will take you serious? This is provided they havent seen your show reel yet. Matt808 i strongly recomend someone who is being employed at your age at all defenetly shouldnt even look into the Pron industry. judging by your posts you have potential and you have your whole life ahead of you dont waste it on making a quick buck making degrading pRon. Has anyone ever seen a pRon film with good editing? Shitty disolves and pathetic wipes comes to mind. You have potential dont waste it!