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This is like bending my brain. A lens that reverses common perspective physics is an interesting piece for 25k.

Yeah seamless whip pans were used a few times to give Birdman its "shot in one take" illusion.

I've seen forums that've had their UI destroyed by dozens of endless quote chains.

Posting here is a bit polarizing for me. I've been on forums that encourage verbal harassment lol. Much more important to be civil on places like this dealing with actual crafts and not the Simpsons Forums or whatever.

Anyone who thinks this movie will be anything short of passable is a bit too cynical. WB knows what they're doing. Not saying this will be great, but the formula for stuff like this has been figured out years ago. Look at Marvel, I personally find the newest hero movies boring as hell, but that doesn't make them anything less than 6/10. You can't trick the modern day masses with objectively bad movies.

Sorry. I always assume everyone is looking to purchase for some reason lol.

RED One can shoot 120fps at 2k. From what I've seen it's not bad in low light, also getting cheaper and cheaper as the months go by.

This is a great educational piece, production on point. With that said, I need to buy you some new sneakers.

Thanks for the heads up

Needed to get any opinions at all on this vintage zoom lens, been shopping around. To anyone who's even used it just once, how does it handle and how did you like the image it produced? Thank you. pic for context:

This was the most British thing I've ever read.

I love the future. $5500 will be killing the current competition.

Great comedy potential there. Especially if you've met enough freaks on the internet for the proper inspiration. Just went over to a friends house who had a half-full jar of peanut butter on his carpet for 3 months.

So far I've done looping with an MKH-416, AT4050, and a TLM-103. Other than the U87ai, anyone have a mic they always rely on for ADR for its native sound? Please don't say your H4n.

Are you speaking in terms of foley sounds or sci-fi/explosion stuff? I've accumulated thousands and thousands of sounds via recording and meeting sound engineers with their own sources. If you want I could add you on Skype and give you some via file transfer.

They need that Quidditch textbook she wrote adapted into a sports movie with a He Got Game/Invincible vibe.

Agreed. A community where this is a gigantic problem would be the voice over community.

To your last point, if you have the innate X-factor director's talent or have a gift for learning, working under people better than you is the absolute best way to improve. You gotta know which questions to ask and be strategic on finding a setting where you'll get answers. I've had a few guys here and there work under myself in exchange for the "intern education experience" when it comes to things like screenwriting or scene composition. While I am in the middle of working on a project, I rarely get questions, which is depressing because the greatest thing you can get out of an internship is answers. Now if it's super quick run-and-gun type productions, yeah probably not a good time for questions, but if you are offering your time and talent for free, the least you are entitled to is some knowledge during a slow moment. I've probably already gone on too long without knowing whether you're primarily videography or filmmaking, but on a "higher creative level" or whatever people want to call it, you need to not only work under people who know more than you. Make day to day friends who know more than you about literally anything that could go back into the production of a movie. Don't limit yourself to just what's in KC, get all over the internet. Try to get a sociable network on Skype, find an underground Youtube channel with impressive technique you'd like to know more about. Forums like these are incredible for objective answers (what's this do, how does this work), but when you get into looking for talk on technique, it's a matter of the work culture you've surrounded yourself with. If you haven't been able to tell by now, I've never been a fan on relying on books/courses for education (not saying they don't help, just not for me most of the time). The information's out there and you need to treat it like the results of a cancer biopsy.

Yeah Sony FZ is Sony FZ. Just like an EF mount is the same on every Canon body (unless It's mirrorless or an EF-S). Do you need the electronics to still communicate with your camera? If not, you can get something just as good for a fraction of the price from Fotodiox

Wouldn't it be 4K because of the magnitude of the project? IPs this big usually get IMAX releases like the last Harry Potters.

Alright. Thanks for the info!

Rolling shutter just improves the more sophisticated the CMOS sensor is, right? Also if the crop is what's giving me the depth I like, would you recommend whatever cropped counterpart there is of the a7s?

So I've raised myself on Canon DSLR video for years. A few months ago, I got a hold of my first video camera with a Super35 CMOS sensor (F3) rather than one originally designed for stills. When I started taking shots with the same lights, lenses, and techniques, the F3 had a totally different visual feel to it. The frame exploded with depth in contrast to my DSLRs which now feel flat. Also motion registered with a lot more silk than before. I guess what I'm wondering is, is that just the natural property of a Super35 sensor over a full frame still sensor? Or was it just because I was so used to cameras much cheaper, meaning the sensor's form factor isn't as important? Was considering an A7s, but don't want another static image like the DSLR I already have. Thanks for your input, whatever it may be.

Another fun thread. By some unlikely encounter, you're given 10 million to produce a feature and the rights to one album to score it. What is that album? Any genre, any popularity.

Tons of green usually gives me a horror movie vibe, like The Ring. But usually slightly de-saturated with hints of blue, so yeah yellow in the mix is a slight throw-off. I could see the look really working in a forest set horror movie or something. Maybe an urban setting during a disease outbreak, yellow-green seems to give a nauseous feeling. Have not seen this, but I'd assume the boat rocks around quite a bit, could be going for a sea-sickness vibe.