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Justin Hayward

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  1. Years ago when I worked at a commercial production company here in Chicago, we shot everything at 30fps for television broadcast. Then we switched to digital when the red got popular and still tried to shoot at 30fps, but it made the image look more like video than film. Kind of the issue people have shooting and projecting movies at 48fps. It makes me wonder what people that have a problem with HFR would think of shooting and projecting film at 48fps.
  2. Maybe he liked your ideas better than his? I like all of it... look books, mood boards... pretty much anything I can do to walk on the set feeling as comfortable as possible. I also don't feel experienced enough to walk on a set and work off inspiration alone, which I do think some directors are capable of. I always storyboard. If I can't afford to hire someone, I'll do them myself. I can draw good enough to get the point across. I actually get very anxious if I feel unprepared, so it's kinda healthier for me to do the homework. Plus I love sitting in a coffee shop and dreaming up ideas without 30 people waiting for me to tell them what to do. This is totally true and I've seen it a number of times... the low angle shot that's so low you would have to dig four feet into the street to get it.
  3. He's gotta run folks, please no more questions until he's available for the next briefing. :P :D
  4. It's funny, I used to care if the crew thought I knew what I was doing, but I got over it.
  5. On the flip side, the director should understand the entire crew thinks they're a moron that doesn't deserve the job. :P
  6. I just get so nervous when there's a big job. I try my absolute best and I hold myself to the highest standard, but when people wander off and smoke a cigarette when we're in the middle of it.... I'm annoyed.
  7. If something got screwed up on set and I found out whoever did it was high? I might lose my temper. I think with smoking people just have to keep in mind they're not working a normal job where taking a smoke break doesn't really matter. I should have mentioned this, but I'm also talking more about working on a sound stage where people have to walk a short distance to get outside to smoke. If I'm in the middle of working on something and the camera battery dies, it's really annoying to have to track down the guy to change the battery if they're smoking. If they're in the bathroom, fine. But, if you're going to smoke, make sure you know you won't possibly be needed in the next ten minutes or so. That's all.
  8. All good points. It's not that I mind people smoking. Smoke all day if there's nothing on set for you to do. Just pay attention to when you're supposed to be working. I haven't seen the other stuff you mentioned. But maybe I'm oblivious. Any drug use on the clock seems crazy to me. Edit: I remember an old PA telling me he would get drunk and high when he would put down lay out board, then one time he put lay out board all the way up the wall without even noticing. And I remember hearing the story of a PA showing up drunk to pick up the camera truck. He got it stuck on some train tracks and they lost a day, but he never worked again.
  9. I don't smoke, but I don't mind smokers or cigarette smoke. It just doesn't bother me. Although, one of my biggest pet peeves on set is when I need someone to do their job that second, but nobody can find them cause they're off somewhere smoking. If it happens twice I'll likely not hire them again (or make sure whoever hired them doesn't hire them again). I mean, I get that there's downtime for every department on set and I've worked with some people I never knew smoked until I smelled it on them. So, if they can do it, then there's no excuse for anyone else, right?
  10. Sure, but those kinds of fall outs are not over the very simple and basic disagreements presented in this thread.
  11. Make sure you have plenty of working room around your sets. If they want an exterior set to be "sunlit", you'll need a large source pretty far away so there's no fall off. And do your best to keep lights out of the way of animators. They spend a very long time with their arms digging around the set. If you can, try to hang all your lighting. Nothing worse for you than an animator bumping a light stand.
  12. Everything from this thread is drowned out from hearing you use "then" in the right context. Thank you. :P
  13. Yeah right... When it's 2am, 5 degrees below zero with wind gusts up to 30 mph and you're shooting on a bridge, suddenly that office job doesn't seem so bad. :P
  14. I've found this to be one of the hardest things about DP work, catering to people's taste that you don't share. When you get popular enough, you can pick and choose your jobs. But, until then... edit: ...one of the most frustrating things...
  15. I usually stay by set with my DP, away from the agency and client, so I shut of their monitors until I have something to look at. ;) I joke... but I really do that. The risk is getting a testy creative that wanders over to my monitor. That's when I have their monitors turned back on and tell them I have something specific for them to look at on their monitors, which are bigger, but crappier. It's a game. I've learned to play it. :lol: I hope no agency people visit this forum. :D
  16. The growling shark movie. :) Being shocked that there was a 90's Tony Scott movie I've never heard of, I went ahead and rented this based on your recco. Beautiful, long lens, 90's, Tony Scott at his best. Looked great on the projector too. It must have been restored, because it felt really clean and sharp. What a crazy movie. As I was watching it I could totally see why Tony Scott was so excited about "True Romance". Then I found out "Revenge" was one of Quentin Tarantino's favorite films and one of the reasons he was so excited for Tony Scott to direct "True Romance". Anyway, thanks for the heads up. That movie was nuts.
  17. Also it was from the writer and director of "Basic Instinct" which was known at the time for pushing boundaries in a blockbuster thriller. I don't think the actual content of the film brought about the controversy, but all the outside elements.
  18. I think the controversy came from it being a wide release "blockbuster" about strippers starring a girl from the cheesiest, squeaky clean, teenager, television show ever made.
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