Max Field

I've wondered on the other end, how do you keep clientele around when your info is out there for free and cops could bust your operation at any moment?

You're acting like their target market even knows what those things are... Or was that the joke?

That might be one of the only camera test videos I've seen where the content itself is actually interesting.

I've had issues with it since I joined a year ago. The most annoying thing I found with it was it caps how many times you can search for a thread in X amount of seconds? I don't see how searching quickly hurts anything. Especially if you enter a typo by mistake, and then have to wait 30 seconds to search the correct thing.

I'm broke; is my answer.

When you say "wider" are you talking 35mm or more 18mm? I find myself doing 35 a ton for convos.

That's also very true. One of the reason's I'm asking if he got paid. If you show up, get no money, and also get no creative/reel satisfaction, then what is the point? lol.

Yeah was about to say that. You're rarely going to find someone who actually runs their role well in film school. It IS film school after all, not "film masters club hangout". If I see a director deferring as much as the person in your story, I immediately lose faith in whatever the project is. Not to say the director needs to ALWAYS have a concrete plan stuck to 100%, but deferring nearly every time is too limp-wristed. At that point there is no real vision being carried out. They wrote a script and are going about it as "oh this would be a fun home movie to shoot". Unfortunately yeah you don't have final say, but a lack of on paper position is where verbal manipulation comes in to play. The ability to articulate/persuade your points will come in handy, especially when that person is looking for answers rather than enforcing their own. If you don't mind my asking; was this a paid gig?

Don't forget your fish eye lens I thought the micro 4k was an amazing steal but then saw it could only output rec709.

I mean, my post was implying that if one could not get their hands on film.

Do you just prefer to use super35 sensors in "cropped mode"?

So is anyone actually buying this? Seems too good to be true.

I've been seeing singles pop up on eBay left and right. For a minimum of $1900 used http://www.ebay.com/itm/132001649949?_trksid=p2060353.m1438.l2649&ssPageName=STRK%3AMEBIDX%3AIT

Thing like that are exclusively written to be bad, I doubt anyone here would post it.

Agree with avoiding a super long-term agreement. You're doing pretty well without a manager to get work on a Gucci Mane video. Is there any way you can talk the guy down from 20%? Every time I talk to my peers about cuts they always view 20% as a tad too high. Also; work the guy doesn't bring you also getting taxed by him is ridiculous. What if you sign the deal, he never brings you a thing, and then you're giving him free money for a year?

Not all of us have $10k to spend. More of us have $2K to spend. This deal interested me: http://www.ebay.com/itm/112275630962?_trksid=p2055119.m1438.l2649&ssPageName=STRK%3AMEBIDX%3AIT Roughly about $1600 per prime. Great deal for fast PL primes with great close focus. Have any of you ever thrown money into a pot to get one prime out of a set for a certain purpose? Either for resale or personal use? I might be looking for guys to hop on this with me if I can get the seller low enough. Thanks.

That really does sound like it would've been a bigger hit 20 years later from original release.

Not sure how much this comes up for any of you, but I hear it constantly. When working out the detail of a shot/edit/grade, trying to perfect it, and either a co-worker/boss says "forget about it no one's going to notice anyway"-- how do you feel about that mentality? Assuming there's a sufficient amount of time on the project for said perfection. Would like to hear the sides you take and why, thanks.

If you choose to go with video to LOOK like 16mm, multiple people here have told me the Blackmagic Pocket is the most cost effective option for that general look. If you're looking for additional grain, Davinci Resolve has some nice plug-ins that could solidify what you're going for. Another option to explore is the Bolex D16, however I fear it could be overpriced for what it's promising.

Necro-threading cause I just watched Mike Myer's The Cat in the Hat and saw it had a 3.8 on IMDB. It struck me as insanely odd because the general feeling of humor felt 20 years ahead of its time, lots of non sequitur transitions could've come right out of the Adult Swim network. Word for word saying "Clowns with hepatitis" in a film for 8 year olds blows my mind. I give it a 5.5.

I mean, yeah I guess. I just feel like for every TMZ "actor freakout" there's a "director freakout" or "grip freakout" somewhere out there. One could say "there's no famous grips" but the public seems to take in freakouts regardless of the individual's status. Not every fight video on YouTube features celebrities after all.

Playing the secondary role of a live speaker/comedian is helpful in engaging co-workers. Not everyone can do that but I've simply seen it help.

Everyone seems to be reaching similar conclusions but I'm legitimately trying to think of a director who's gone off the deep end on set, lost in power, etc. I've heard plenty of actors do it, but no behind the camera people at all, at least not publicized.

One could argue light to heavy narcissistic tendencies are required to make it in competitive fields. Creating an ego for yourself may not be the best thing on set, but creating an ego for the work culture you wish to articulate and establish while allowing others to join in could be beneficial for crew morale.