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Here we go again.
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On 5/23/2021 at 10:11 AM, Wendy Sanders McDonlad said:
But what is the standard Hollywood way?
Mommy and Daddy make a couple phone calls and immediately get you on professional film sets in positions higher than a PA. Or immediately get you jobs/commissions with corporations with money to spend. Classic nepotism.
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7 hours ago, Wendy Sanders McDonlad said:
If the eyes and praise are from those teenagers on the couch, it'd be pointless to me. My goal is to move forward, not to hear from other people's congrats... :'''(
Then those teenagers grow up to have disposable income and operate as a reliable executive produce base sort of entity. Getting together $1000 for a short becomes relatively easy without spending your own money. Unless you have the family connections in your first 20 years, you're not moving up the ladder in a standard hollywood way. They don't care about your quality, they just want to see you drive sales.
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If you can't get your short on a silver screen to physically legitimize it, don't waste your submission money. If you don't have any insider connections for people you can pitch to, your best bet for gaining traction as a filmmaker is bringing people on board with larger online fanbases than you so they can link and drive traffic to your work once they're in it.
Reality is, you can make something frightfully mediocre, but if influencers are attached then people will give it mostly positive attention.
This is coming from one of the only millennials on this forum who built up productions from nothing.. Additionally, a forum poster here who's gotten multiple distribution deals said festival discovery is like expecting to win the lottery. Sorry it's not exactly what you're looking for, but I'm sick and tired of pretentious fest organizers profiting off this illusion that industry bigwigs attend their no-name festivals.
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My friend said the only good part of the movie was when some girl got her face bashed into a pulp on the mantle or something. Anyone else agree with this take? I haven't seen the film.
I think Tarantino is phenomenal at the style he goes for but he can seem overrated, by no fault of his own, the fact the market really doesn't embrace auteurs anymore so he's one of 4 guys left to prop up yearly.
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All I see is a do not enter circle... Anyone else?
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I guess it's usually option 3 for me... thought I have contrasty tastes. On cameras with only 9 stops of DR I find myself always exposing to keep highlights safe, then proceeding to crush the shadows even more in post. But my work might be garbage and ugly so who knows.
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49 minutes ago, Christopher Santucci said:
Gotta use that histogram, Max.
I correct the exposure on it and it just doesn't have the pop I want. Film technically blows out too, I just want digital to look better when it clips.
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asking price? How many available?
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Tried shooting RAW on my 5D Mark ii and a 1k with a strong purple gel was really clipping some color channels. The talent was over 8 feet away from the source too. This was pretty much raw off the sensor
Are all the DSLRs still like this? Are there advancements in still digital photos that someone could recommend me? I'm really bummed out my stuff came out like this.
I know film would immediately correct the issue, but a lot of times I can't get access to labs in a timely manner.
Thanks to any who can point out a good camera (preferably Canon)
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Is the Venice a global shutter? It's weird cause I was shooting a CRT TV with a 5D and was trying to get the scanlines to show up and it was kinda tricky lol.
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11 hours ago, Lance Lucero said:
Thanks! I'm trying to convince new film/movie makers as well that super 8 an 16mm is more cost effective than people think... It's hard fighting the HD invasion...
How much was all the film to shoot your short?
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Asking $1200 OBO + shipping
Recently serviced by Convergent Design. OLED screen is brand new, as well as the video input chips.
Everything photographed is included.
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Was trying to find a nice comparison thread on REDcode, comparing it with the other compression methods out there for camera recording.
The one thing I really like about RED is they give you a nice little calculator to see how much storage you need, though the redcode part of it leaves me in a guessing game:
https://www.red.com/recording-timeI see the compression can go all the way down to 20:1 but is that just a garbage unusable image? At least better than H264? What redcode could compare to 4444XQ ProRes for example? I see people saying 6:1 is ideal but that really chews through the cards.
Thanks for any input from REDveterans!
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Just now, Tyler Purcell said:
The enthusiasm is palpable, the cost drives people away.
And with our economy on the verge of collapse, you're implicitly saying film is gone for good? I appreciate the look of it in high saturation circumstances but motion picture film is way too expensive for enough people to care about bringing it back.
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7 minutes ago, Tyler Purcell said:
Have you asked anyone?
I've taught 1 on 1 workshops to over a hundred 30-unders regarding basic cinematography tech. Anything outside of a DSLR scares away about 85% of them (even C-stands upset them, dude). Nowadays kids filmmaking (usually just youtubers or tiktokers) are trying to do it cheap and fast, there was no phase of their life where they were forced to use film so they don't really romanticize it.
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19 hours ago, Tyler Purcell said:
I mean young people are the future and many more of them are interested in this subject than older people.
Young person here: they don't care about film. They barely care about lighting their god damn shots
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Did you guys really let this thread get to 2 pages?
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We're closer to digital figuring out how to solve ugly RGB clipping than we are to film becoming convenient and affordable.
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4 hours ago, Robert Houllahan said:
It is very good piece of kit for the money and he is in New Jersey so Michael could probably go check it out in person.
I looked them up and it turns out I've driven right by this place a dozen times lol.
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46 minutes ago, Tyler Purcell said:
- Mix $1000 (will be done when we have the final score)
Let me know if you need a guy for that mix ?
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I have a fully working classic I'm selling, other than that I'm not much help to you.. I'm local to you though.
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42 minutes ago, Satsuki Murashige said:
Freelance camera folk without small children like me (and probably lots of other people here). ?
I'm sure if I made an effort I could pull that 4 hours off but it just gets to a point where you feel guilty.
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8 hours ago, Dom Jaeger said:
Have you never streamed half a season of a show in one sitting?
....What adult has that much time on their hands for pure leisure?
The potential consequences of "Leaving Neverland"
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I just released a video game which needed a content disclaimer and a bunch of revisions to get published to Steam... and it really seems who gets cancelled for what comes down to how much people liked you before your hot button incident got outed. Likening it more to comedians who get cancelled for jokes as opposed to outright assaulting someone.
Kwame Brown has recently blown up Youtube, preaching a concept of the "go along get along gang". He'll bring up all sorts of things (literal rape charges for one) from the pasts of prominent figures well ingratiated with this current iteration of liberal media and wonders why they haven't been cancelled too.