Daniel D. Teoli Jr.

When actors and filmmakers have to come back years later to do commentaries are they paid a high sum to do it? Or a small honorarium? Or is it gratis so it can be part of the historical record?

http://freemusicarchive.org/genre/Old-Time__Historic/ Do you like it?

Does anyone make a heavy duty tabletop tripod suitable for mid size dslr? If not, what do you use?

Is this a decent budget mike for mounting on camera? https://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/1083442-REG/rode_rode_videomic_shotgun_mic_custom.html Hoping to spend under $100. Was also thinking of this one for stereo. https://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/1009303-REG/tascam_tm_2x_x_y_directional_stereo_condenser.html Don't know if it is worth going stereo or not. Mike will be used for interviews and a guy playing a guitar and singing at his home. Subject will be maybe 5 to 6 feet away most of the time. Should I be looking into wireless mikes for walking / talking shots or will the hot show mike be OK? Thanks

Museum of Sex in NYC has a show on the history of the stag film. https://hyperallergic.com/510521/stag-porn-history-museum-of-sex My archive has a huge collection of stags going back from 1919 to the 70's. But most of it is pre 1960's to 1930's. I may be working in NYC at Christmas, don't know. But hope to go to the show. I was there a while back for their Araki show. Here are some blog posts on MoSex and the Araki show. You will have to sift through the posts to find them, but they are all on one page. It gives you an idea of the Museum and layout. nsfw https://photographyshowarchive.art.blog/ If you can't get to the show, here are some samples of what they have in their installation. The French stags from the 1920's are the rarest of the rare when it comes to stags. Eveready Harton is the first animated stag film made. Read the history on it, fascinating. Again, you will have to sift through a few items to find the stags. The only thing rarer than early French stags were synched dialogue early stags. nsfw https://archive.org/search.php?query=stag film teoli 8mm stags had some interesting box art and illustrations. But the film IQ was usually pretty bad. strong nsfw https://danieldteolijrarchivalcollection.wordpress.com/2018/01/29/selection-from-8mm-artists-book/ 16mm had nothing for art. Here are some labels off the old stag films. https://archive.org/details/VintagePornographic16mmFilmLabelsD.D.TeoliJr.A.C. Reels and cans of stags, mixed in with non-stag material. https://archive.org/details/SmallGaugeFilmReelCanArchiveD.D.TeoliJr.A.C.1 I was lucky to get some oral history from an old guy in his 90's selling off his film collection. I bought most of his stags. He said he donated a lot of non-stag films to UCLA Film Archive. Here is how he acquired his stag films, when they were illegal, as told to me in relay by the agent disposing of his film collection: “I bought most of these films from a Camera Store in Tijuana, “Ramone Ramiez’s Camera Store” on the main drag and you had to ask for them. They would have a sheet of paper with the titles and you would choose from that list. Then they would go in the back room and put your package together with no titles on the can or sleeve in case the border police would check your bags. On average, I never paid more then 15.00 each in the late 1930 and 1940’s for a 400 foot reel.” (Quote was condensed for brevity) Another guy told me that lodges and fraternal orders used to have stag librarians that would be in charge of the groups stag film collection and show stags to the all male groups. I don't know if he was speculating or not. But seems plausible. All this history is being lost. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fraternal_order The reason I like to collect ancient stag films is…no copyright issues and usually affordable. Plus they are historical and fit in my interests of social documentaries. Finally, subject matter is agreeable. Even so, YouTube still bans me over content. So whether it is copyright or content, there are problems. Here are some of the categories that film collectors work in: Cartoons Underground Films Trailers Commercials Feature Films Silent Films Comedies Short Subject Documentaries School / Library / Educational Newsreels Stag / Porn Films Musical / Soundies TV Shows Home Movies

Has anyone compared the 2 lenses (AS vs DS) in actual shoots? Here is the specs for the new lens. CINE DS 35mm T1.5 Lens For Sony E-Mount The new Rokinon Cine DS 35mm T1.5 Cine Lens is one of Rokinon's newly introduced 2nd generation of cine lenses under its CINE DS line. The Rokinon Cine DS lineup has 3 primary advantages: 1) All of the gears are unified among all Rokinon Cine DS lenses. The focus and aperture gears are exactly aligned so that the user does not have to re-adjust his/her follow focus when swapping out lenses. 2) The new Cine DS lenses now feature dual focusing scales, one on each side. 3) All of the Cine DS lenses are tested to be color matched to provide the same color & contrast in video production. What interested me was the color contrast matching. Have you found this an issue with lens swaps when the lenses are from the same maker? I'm also interested in lens IQ. Is there a difference in sharpness between the 2 lenses? Thanks

Do you think the BM had more range than the Sony for heavy post work?

Very nice!

That is what I'm trying to figure out. Audio for small cams. I need to attach a external mike. Was also thinking of using a wireless mike for interviews / music. Still studying up options. Never had a need for great sound before. Have a project where I'm doing a doc on an old yodeler in his late 80's. He has a huge historic archive as well. Have to do something decent. Not much more time left for him.

Amazing collection! https://dustandgrooves.com/joe-bussard-frederick-ma/

Well, I didn't invent it, but you seldom see illustrated bios. Since it is kinda rare, it may stand out. When the topic is visual talents, we might as well 'show some off' is my thought. If they ask for a certain format, give them what they want. When I applied for a Guggenheim and Aaron Siskind Fellowship they asked for very specific limits on the size and type of bio they accepted. So I tried to oblige. Didn't get the fellowships, but learned something in the process. BTW, you filmmakers should be applying for Guggenheims if you have a decent body of work. It is free and the only thing that surpasses it is the MacArthur Genius.( but it is something you can't apply for.) Here is the 4 part series on my experience applying for a Guggenheim: Some links NSFW Part 1: The Quest for a Guggenheim – What Inspired Me / The Upcoming 4 Part Series / Notable Guggenheim Fellows in Photography https://danielteolijr.wordpress.com/2016/06/07/notable-guggenheim-fellowship-recipients-in-photography/ Part 2: The Quest for a Guggenheim – History, Application and Process Timeline https://danielteolijr.wordpress.com/2016/06/14/the-quest-for-a-guggenheim-history-application-and-the-process/ Part 3: The Quest for a Guggenheim – Submitting a Portfolio / An Example Portfolio that Failed to be Awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship. https://danielteolijr.wordpress.com/2016/06/21/the-quest-for-a-guggenheim-an-example-portfolio/ Part 4: The Quest for a Guggenheim – Budget, Notification, Rejection and Closing Remarks https://danielteolijr.wordpress.com/2016/06/29/the-quest-for-a-guggenheim-budget-notification-closing-details/ Good time to get going if you want to apply. You still have some time for 2019. Prestige, recognition and money. Plus it is free to apply...so why not? Even if your body of work is so-so, good experience and free...do it!

Thanks...excellent example!

That is a good idea. Never thought of photo storyboard for budget minded. You could also combine the 2 methods with photos of scenes with stick people drawn in. (I can't draw at all, hardly even stick people.)

No, didn't think of that. I heard the song by chance on a stream radio broadcast. Normally I do Google things like 'boomer's highball' or 'balling the jack.' But the bum phrase didn't mean much to me to look up. Kerouac said the person sang it, but I figured it was the same as if some said they heard me sing 'I wanna win the lotto.' Referring to a way of speaking, but not a real song. You have to try and figure things out even with Google as one source said a boomer is a drifter and another said a boomer is a new trainee. But looks like the source saying they are a trainee is gone, can't find it. If you have never heard On the Road audiobook, get the Matt Dillion version. Excellent! I got it from the library inter-library loan. That must have been something in the railroad (steam) era. I'd love to have been able to photo it.

https://www.shutterstock.com/video/elements/all How did they work out for you?

This brings up another possibility. Using HQ stills or a series of stills to illustrate your projects on your resume. I was an early adopter of using an illustrated bio. nsfw https://danielteolijr.wordpress.com/2015/06/19/biography-of-daniel-d-teoli-jr/ Personally I prefer looking at pictures or film clips than in reading words. You can have a book of text and still be a shitty camera man. But actual work IS the proof in the pudding. When you look at Bruce's frame do you need much more information? The lighting, shadow detail and comp? Could he say the same thing in a thousand words with no photo? Would 10,000 words do it? Nothing will replace visuals. My bio is kinda a mess. I changed the blog to a zine format and it wrecked the spacing and layout of the photos. But I got too many blogs to go back and fix thousands of photos. Plus I don't really care. I'm not looking for a job, I'm a museum photog and experimental filmmaker. I just work on my own, place my work with museums and institutions, on a donation basis. Plus I specialize in a few areas seldom other work in. So lots of wiggle room with my work. But if I had $$ to burn, I'd hire someone to make a nice looking bio instead of the free WordPress model. Here is a vita by Les Krims. He was an early mentor of mine from the 1970's. Beside museum grade photographer, he is a professor at a university in NY. It is an excellent example of an artist's resume / vita or CV combined with illustrations of the artist's work. nsfw https://archive.org/details/LesKrimsVita

Have you used storyboards for your films? Did it work out for you? How did you find the artist? Are there union storyboard artists for the big budget films to pick from? How much does it cost, on average, to get a big budget storyboard done? Does the director usually sit down with the artist and go panel by panel to make the storyboard? Or do they just give the artist the script and let them loose? Thanks

OP, shoot digital. Buy found films for .50 to a couple bucks each and project for your projector fix. If you get em cheap, other film collectors will buy them after you look though them. It is like sifting through trash to find a few gems. If you can't afford film then that is that. Don't be like one photog that said if they ever stop making film he will give up photography. Be flexible, do the best you can with the budget you got. Good luck!

Over the years I've gone over Kerouac's 'On the Road' many times. It puts me in the zone for working with my archive from that era which has a large collection of beat generation photography, films and ephemera and mimeo revolution / small press poetry. In 'On the Road' Kerouac makes reference to 'Hallelujah, I'm a Bum...bum again.' I never could figure out what he was talking about. Today the mystery was solved. 'Hallelujah, I'm a Bum' is a song. https://archive.org/details/hallelujahimabumyodelingdickbrooksd.d.teolijr.a.c.8.17.19 Photo by D.D. Teoli Jr. Skid Row, Los Angeles 1971

Kenny, dunno exactly. But I'd try to combine the 2. If you don't want to combine, then use a sample portion of the one that you don't want to combine if you think it will apply to the job with a link to the rest of the content. Good luck!

Mathew...how can you have 0 posts? Doesn't your OP post count for #1? You should have something in your contract about using samples of the finished work for your portfolio. I can see a client not wanting to give away full control for your use. But figure out some wording to get what you need. You touched on all good options...links or actual content on YT or Vimeo. Generally I like a sampler video that shows examples from many projects. Good luck and let us know how it works out!

That is true. Back in the day I did use a meter to get 'in the ballpark' when shooting film. Still, when on the street, you turn left or right and the exposure is different. You gotta take the shot and no time to adjust or get a reading, so you wing it sometimes.

Photo by Mike Gorman (Used under auspices of fair use.) People like to make fun of chimpers nowadays. I never use a meter for still work. 99.9% I just use the screen aka chimp. (The girl with her toes in is a common mimic of trans people trying to look like little girls. Noticed that tendency from making my film 'Genderqueer...a social documentary study of Instagram.') For 'Pinky at The Grove in L.A. (Candid) I first shot a test exposure, then walked away to evaluate the exposure. After making the adjustment in a few seconds I went back for a second helping and shot this as I walked by, from the hip....about 2.5 feet away from her, zone focused. Chimping and learning to shoot from the hip are two very important skills to develop if you like to do candid street work. Pinky is a single image HDR as well, with lots of post work. You wont get an image to look like this when you shoot into the sun unless you add some light or do lots of post. For candid street and doc work you have to make do with what you got, in the blink of an eye. That is the defining characteristic of greet doc photogs. They bring home the goods in whatever circumstances they find themselves in. I almost always shoot on manual as well. You can never shoot a shot like this on auto unless you do lots of adjusting with the exposure compensations. But why? Why not cut the bullshit and just shoot on manual? The kids nowadays like to brag that 'they shoot manual' like it is a big deal. Jeeeesus...manual is nothing special. It was how all cameras were before they came out with the program dial. Manual was how we ALL did it back in the 70's. And we had to pay big bucks to chimp with our polaroid backs back then too. Be grateful for being able to chimp...embrace it!

Yes, that is true. Different exposure were not made at the time of the scan. Looking forward to seeing samples of the output at your website comparing the no HDR, the 2 scan and 3 scan machines. You know the deal...a picture is worth more than...

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