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I mean.. what's happening on the screen isn't real so yeah lol. If we're speaking in terms of impressing GENERAL audiences I view Hacksaw Ridge as pacing itself much better than SPR with the spreading of war gore and emotion (bad or not). From a visual and technical perspective, sure SPR is better (Hacksaw was way synthetic), but it felt as if it was banking a little too firmly on the viewer caring about the characters, leading to less exciting scenes than the first 10 minutes. I feel big budget filmmaking needs to be the perfect blend of art and entertainment. Hacksaw's individual halves were not on par with SPR, but it blended them better leading to something that went by a lot quicker (minute for minute of course).

That 50mm sounds amazing, what is the close focus distance for it?

I thought it was a lot better than Saving Private Ryan. You take out the first 10 minutes of that film and no one holds it on the pedestal it's on today. Robin's point about "old-fashioned" rings very true, the movie felt like it would've fit in a lot more 20 years ago. My friend looked up the true story as well after watching and discovered the hero guy lived the rest of his life on disability without a major injury, which is really funny.

How'd we all feel about this one? Great screenplay and direction but visually felt a tad too after-effectsy. Also the whole time I couldn't help but feel that someone from Japan would find it an uncomfortable watch due to how dehumanized the opposing Japanese side felt. I guess that's good 'ol Melly Mel for ya.

While I have a bunch of black&white fans in one place; Do you feel any aspects or techniques in cinematography had been lost with the introduction of color? For example I once heard someone say horror movies are scarier in black and white but I never really dug for their reason.

I agree that Scary Movie is not the smartest of comedy, but what I'd ask is; if you write something with the intention of exhibiting that challenging wittiness, and every joke goes over the audience's head, are they stupid or is the writer trash? The majority of the time I don't get a laugh, it was because someone didn't get the joke, not because they got it but didn't find it funny. But regardless of that, wouldn't it still be up to the writer to make sure it isn't JUST for X or Y class of people?

Easily 12 Angry Men.

If the director is ALREADY deferring to others, it's only common courtesy that they should take your word on most things as the cinematographer volunteering services for free. Like the only thing you're really getting out of it is a portfolio piece, so you may as well make sure it'd be something you'd at least like to represent your talents. My statements there are only applicable to your situation of variables. Protocol for other freebies will be different depending on who you're working with.

One thing that can help is shooting stills in 4k and cropping to 2k for the finished product. Gives you a lot more breathing room when trying to block out equipment. Also you'll want to make sure your lenses have impressive close focus distance. Nothing more annoying than thinking you have a good shot, then realizing you need to re-work everything cause the lens won't pull back close enough.

CORRECTION: 12 to 15 year olds. I remember meeting kids who actually posted on imdb lol.

I forgot I made this thread. I'm at a point where I've completely separated verbal vulgarity from physical vulgarity (like George mentioned before). To remove curse words removes dialect so it's at a point where I feel cursing isn't trying to be a punchline, but just certain words are needed to make dialogue sound real. It has the potential of helping a joke too, but that's not the main reason I use it. I'm not six years old and think swearing started in 1997, but I've definitely noticed people born in the 70's and forward swear a lot more than people older than that. I made this discovery by watching "last day of high school" tapes on Youtube and noticed the kids in the late 80's early 90's blurted out far less sadistic things. A typical statement of a 1990 tape would be "piss off ya dumbass" or something oddly tamed like that. By the time I reached 1998, kids would start saying "I want to f***ing murder my math teacher and rape the whole school." Maybe Grunge was a bad thing after all.

Don't need any of this bundled, if it is a bigger item/international shipping, I will have to charge shipping. Lomo Foton PL zoom lens 37-140 T4.4 $1200 MKH 416 shoutgun mic (brand new) $900 AT4047 mic $520 AT4050 mic $480 Universal Audio Twinfinity 710 preamp $580 Audient ID14 interface $220 Always willing to haggle. If you're interested in anything here, I can provide additional info upon request. Either PM or reply here. Thanks for reading.

Give this section a try: http://www.cinematography.com/index.php?showforum=82

Arri fresnels a good place to start? They offer a lot for their used market price.

Yeah I've been saying that to a lot of the titles in here. More titles people will demand that you hate: She's All That (1999) Monkeybone (2001) The D Train (2015) Carbon Copy (1981) **Denzel's debut Class Act (1992)

Well one could argue if you shoot in 30 and go down to 21, you could manually select the frames of the slap and take the role of sort of a live action animator. Perhaps giving even more control. I've done it myself many times.

And by 23 do you mean 23.976? Cause I don't hear of 23 flat too often. If my first question is correct then I'm having trouble seeing the difference of 1 frame as well.

He might be referring to an editing software's automatic re-sampling, which can happen if the timeline's frame rate is different from the media's frame rate. This can be turned off to avoid "frame blending" or "ghost frames" etc. Not sure which software you use, but I personally only know how to fix it in Vegas Pro. I'm sure it's easy in any other multi-layer NLE too. So I would side with you, have two options instead of one.

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I'm in leaning on the "I'd doubt it side", but even if you could manage to make that happen, the thing would overheat too quickly. It can barely handle 1080p 8bit internal as it is.

Panasonic doesn't believe in us artists of the screen. So much so that they'll be single-handedly responsible for the next housing market crash, and they don't even trade in that industry.

You're in the spillover. I see this camera as a main sale to media college students. Or girls who want to Instagram REALLY nice pictures of their food. Or Dads who want to best the other dads on the block with the coolest home movie camera. 4k and high frame rates are much easier to explain to those consumers than highlight roll-off.

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?