Max Field

I remember shooting an interview with the t2i (anything it can do the t5i can do better) and after about 29 minutes things got iffy, either it'd overheat or split into multiple files (losing a frame or two in between). So over 5 minutes? Without a doubt can handle it no problem. 90 minutes? I'd look to a different camera.

Make sure your memory card is in check, one with statistics similar to this:

http://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/1185200-REG/sandisk_sdsdunc_064g_gn6in_ultra_sd_64gb_card_80mb_s.html

64 gigs will get you over 2 hours of 1080p h264 at 30 frames.

Anyone need a director for a kids and animal movie? Anyone? Hello?

 

R,

I do but we'd both go to jail afterwards.

Is this an LCD/LED or a CRT? That makes a huge difference in how it'll look on camera.

To be honest with you, I've been getting somewhat paranoid of that as well. I frequently meet people that approach me for advice because I'm the only one in their circle who knows certain things, then they proceed to get budgets and pay everyone (less qualified) but the guy who gave them the answers to their roadblocks.

I'm way better at preventing that letdown than I was a couple years ago, it's all about reading people well enough to see if they're legitimately grateful for your help.

I dont think anyone actually gives a flying $*!)# what an artist looks like if they are creating good works that are compelling and entertain. Why would you even be concerned what people think of how you look.

I would never put a talented person over a pretty one.

With that said, if I had to choose between 2 people of equal talents and work ethics, I'm taking the pretty one.

The world has always been shallow. If anything we've been pushing to become less shallow with stuff like "body positivity" movements telling morbidly obese people they should keep on rockin'.

I look like a diseased frog that's been blown up with compressed air, then allowed to deflate again, then left to putrify slightly.

Give us a pic.

Just do the Star Wars Trilogy Arcade game that was at every Hoyts theater in the early 2000's and you're good to go.

a third of the price of tron.

Whatever you do, do not claim "free advertising". That can get your in more trouble than what you started with.

All I can add to this is video games need to stop trying to be movies because it never comes off as "true cinema".

For a second I thought you were gonna say it melted the glass. Did you take a picture of the ordeal?

Yeah after reading the previous posts, could you link some scenes that display some of the jokes (or irony scenes)? Sometimes moments like that work for a trailer when you drop the music to help turn the segment into a punchline.

Also just curious, what cameras/lenses was this shot on?

The thread was called, "Best Directors You've Worked With."

 

Not supposed to be a crew bitch-o-mony and gripe-a-mony.

 

Maybe we should have a new thread, "Worst Crews You've Worked With," and ONLY credited directors can comment.

Or maybe coming across a "great" director, featuring the qualities Satsuki spoke of, is such a rarity that everyone took the flipside option that the OP suggested. Talent doesn't grow on trees.

Even if the director doesn't know what they're doing, they are still the director. You might disagree with them, but it's their call.

Yes but all actions a director performs (whether it be body of work or just the current set) go into the important role of commanding respect once the crew is in a position where those close calls need to be made. I don't mean that to be a special challenge because every person I've talked to who is truly knowledgeable and confident (which is what we've established a good director is) I've had no problem with conceding to.

Pulling rank as a first option comes off as cantankerous.

 

Well actually that's a valid explanation, someone has to make a final decision on a movie set. Imagine if the director had to come up with a list of reasons every time he makes a decision. The shoot day would be 38 hours long.

 

I highly doubt that people say to James Cameron.....oh we're not doing that unless you can give us a good explanation as to why.

 

Lot's of people struggle with the idea that the director may over rule something they want to do, but....it's my department, it's my vision, they will argue. Well sorry, but the director can make the drapes in the master bedroom green, just because his favourite colour is green.

 

R,

Cameron is a completely different thing to what I'm talking about. He and many other directors are proven products that you trust, I'm speaking of an environment that lacks this pre-established notion. No director has gone their entire early career without being questioned. When you're at a stage like that, "I'm the director" comes off as "I ran out of reasons I just don't know" instead of "I have this under control".

This reminds me that I need to graffiti my RED One MX to read as

"RED tube

Mysterium-SEX"

Also Youtube RED might be cool if it's one of those under the table "you can never get banned" agreements that Deviantart or Forumotion do.

With my primary workload having been with internet productions, I can sure as hell tell you the traits of a bad director. Guys who don't feel bad about taking frequent breaks, freak out when challenged by something or someone, lose their cool on making a decision/solving a problem (and I always end up being the one to bail them out), and never forget the wonderful "I'm the director!" when they don't have a good explanation to a choice affecting others working on the project.

Now that I think about it I don't think I've ever worked under a great director.

We've been over that. They don't want the replacement, they want the $50.

Ugh, dealing with that situation on eBay right now as well. Flee the country I'm on board with being mean to China now.

Would they accept the middle ground of you just buying a lens cap (probably way less than $50) and just giving it to them as a replacement?

There are some relatively cheap digital cameras like the iPhone 6 and Sony A7s that will shoot 120fps.

Jesus Christ the iPhone can shoot 120p?? Is there like a serious data catch to this?

Guys we're straight up being mean to China right now..

I knew he had good titles to his name but after a quick re-check of his IMDB page he had like... a lot of good titles to his name. Shawshank, Fargo, Big Lebowski, Beautiful Mind, Jarhead to name a few. What some could consider tragic about his career is being the Buffalo Bills of cinematographers. 13 career nominations in 21 years (at one point 2 in 1 year) and never pulled an Oscar home.

I've come to acknowledge that anyone with multiple well known titles to their name is great at what they do. To sum up potential debates like these, "who's a bit greater than the other!?"

What about changing the shutter speed to assist with the faster frame rate? Is it really still high quality if your DSLR cuts the recording resolution down to 720p?

Those are some questions to give more depth to your tutorial video.

We've talked about the Rode mic before and mine is very acceptable. It all comes down to the preamp quality on the camera at that point. So unless you've heard the mic raw through an excellent preamp, it's hard to tell how good it is. I've done that test as I have good preamp's, so I know the mic is good.

I'm sure it can get passable through a good pre, but just about any XLR mic can do that. I'm not sure if Mr. Thousand-Dollar-Budget will have good portable pres available to him.

To Macks comment about the built in audio, you'd be shocked how bad it is on most DSLR's. The 5DMKII and 7D I've worked with quite a bit, the fan noise was so loud, I couldn't use pluraleye's to sync the audio in post. The pocket actually has lousy built in mic's, they're really atrocious.

I guess I was going off of the newer Canon DSLR's that were designed after their camera caught on specifically for video. However I've heard the $100 RODE video mics and it's really difficult for me to see how something that's free could be worse lol.