Timothy Sewell

It's a long time since I wrote a screenplay - and that was in the UK - but I was told that I shouldn't add camera movements per se (unless absolutely crucial to the story) as that was the province of the director/DoP. Obviously things may be different now/in the US industry and if you are also the director I expect it's entirely up to you!

Just half way through this show on Netflix. It's excellent and has a great doc-style look to it. Shot by Ulf Brantås - does anyone know what camera package was used?

Haze can add depth.

Thanks very much for the info David. It's a somewhat schlocky show, but it looks great! Given the endless fascination film and TV has with the presidency I'm quite surprised some enterprising soul hasn't set up a permanent stage for hire!

Possibly a slightly flippant question, but I figure if I can't get it answered here I won't anywhere. I've just finished watching the first season of Designated Survivor on Netflix, where I suppose Kiefer Sutherland is doing penance for torturing all those bad guys by playing POTUS as a European Social Democrat(!) - but it set me to wondering. We've had West Wing, House of Cards, Veep plus many different movies and other TV series focusing on the US presidency and every one has a virtually identical Oval Office/White House set. My question is - is there a long term WH set somewhere that all these different productions hire out, or does each of them build their own?

I loved the look of that movie.

This is your key to getting the video to play in different browsers. I forget which is which, but I seem to recall that Firefox isn't licensed for MP4 playback. Whatever - the absolutely key reason you should upload to a video streaming service like Vimeo or YouTube is that every time a user of your website views a video the crazy amounts of bandwidth usage will accrue to the video streamer, not your webhosting account (I'm assuming you don't have one of the 'unlimited bandwidth' accounts, which are nearly always not worth the money). PS. I'm a web/software developer of some 12 years standing.

Well I'm not in the position of the OP, in that I'm not yet trying to make any money out of cinematography (and may never do so) but I do have a consuming passion for the art of lighting and am happily devoting time and money to learning it. I come from a professional stills photography past, but continuous lighting for moving subjects is - as anyone here knows - a very different kettle of fish. Tungsten may or may not be on its way out as the default way to light for motion pictures - but there's little that one couldn't learn in terms of placement, ratio, colour and motivation etc from a good tungsten kit. Tungsten lights (smaller ones, anyway) also have the advantage of being widely available at very low prices without the inevitable compromises involved in 'affordable' LED.