Mario Jimenez

hello hello!! Well hopefully by the end of the year and after pursuing dozens of people both at work and without... We´ll be making a little short film!!! Now i know ill be using one of those Mini Dv cams like XL2 or PD 170s BUT i´d like to build a little jib arm (tis already designed and all.. in a couple months ill post sketches n pix) but if any of you would happen to know the weight of said cameras with matteboxes and such!!! just to know the requirements of wood and stuff (hey its gonna be real preety and hopefulle, have a lifespan of like 3-4 years) BUT im not able to fnd the weight of the durn things !!!! im thinking like around 20#s but hell it could be overkill... thanx for the nfo AND the help, and hopefully ill be back later with some nice situational reports and preguntas!!! :lol:

hell why bother, one of the two movies ive worked on has its own website so i can check the credits there and my firends too!!! LOL, long live the almighty Word of the Net!!!!

try usign 1" alumminum slates, for 4x4 frames and add alumm pipes welded all to make them c-standable, they work great and are very light

well, for starters, methinks that you could on the cheap side, build your own fluorescent systems from electronic ballasts (with kino tubes, for color correction)2 footers, 4 footers, even 10 banks, plus, some 8 or more 50 watt pars(like the ones that they use in clothing stores, the ones embedded in the ceilings?) that you can put in little cans that have yokes and even gel holders!!!! that will give you very much movility and quantity of lights that you can use, look also into par cans and the such, even garden 500w flood lights, you can always make doors for them and though they r not so controllable in a little studio they will have the punch you r looking for, yes, china lights, and change the existing fluor ballasts for FF electronic ones, and get them color corrected tubes. also it would be a good idea to eliminate the office suspended ceiling so that you will have room to work on, just on the "studio" area, and leave the alumminum rigging to hang stuff from, or change it to sturdier aluminum pipes or something, hahaha, isnt it fun to make things??!!! forget bout "film" lights nowadays you can for small things get same/better stuff without the brand name, unless they are arri PAR HMIs... only get a good electrical distro system, one really thought out

well try this!!! a coupla years ago I was working on a little commercial... we were workin outside in sunlight and had a 6x6 silk on a high stand, u know, regular CU light shadow fixer, actually a high roller, well for some reason no one sandbagged and put the breaks on the thing after moving it out of the way, well just then a little breeze comes on... Haha you never guess the speed a high roller with a verticall silk sail can attain!!!! thank God it was near noon and people were not in the hot, sunny place, for their safety and for our embarrasement for chasing the runaway monster took some time and ended only after the breeze died!!

Well the thing is this.... under water you can only use a hermetically sealed lamp head because the current will NOT go thru the bulb fixture since water is a much better conductor than the bulb (hence NO HMI striking and NO tungsten wire resistance) so what you would be doing is just feeding current to the pool, and god forbid an actor is in there when you strike an HMI, for the striking voltage comes up to several thousand volts (to create the arc that will heat the gas in the little globe), but yes a couple of good units would be 4ks PAR hmis good output+ manuverability plus!!!

Striken UNDER water??? well i kno that you can use arrisuns under rain IF they were turned on and the ballast is nice and dry, but to strike one under water??? haha seems a good idea just to test it, to get a 575k bulb on a lamp JUST to see what would happen to the head and maybe drop some fishes in the pool, to see what happens to them as well :P. and a couple of prayers as well!

was it even better than "Beyond Thunder Dome"???? :P

oi!!!! tis an art!!! the tools are always the same!!! or.... would you prefer the cheesy panoramic of the family/group of escapees walkin thru (crossing frame/or..pan to follow) a landscape??? yes they are all too much used, but hell they are the tools to have!!! same as painting, same brushes, same strokes, ya just mix em differently!!!

ok ive just got to ask, yes I was looking also at konvas 35 cameras on ebay hehehe, but 7M? that the new model out? not even on commiecam did I find it, still.... compared to an ARRI if anyone has used both, would you recommend the Konvas 35 mil? as yes a cheap alternative to regular priced cameras, and say PL mount adaptation meybe, thing that im looking for in commiekam but havent found (will try later though) just maybe if yiou could help me with some feedback on how konvas keeps steady and handling if you can thanks!!! PS. AHA!!! found the PL mod muhahahaha!!!! zoyuski rodina!!!!

Hi all i am a newbie in this from Panama yes Panam in Central America, as for what ive been reading here its amazing to know some lil bit about how the industry goes over there in its core...yes we are "3rd world workforce", as some of you kindly noted but there is a running film/vid industry here mainly on the Commercial biz, and we have often wondered if there is necessary or really important to have a Union, i think from our PoV that it is only for having protection-job recognition for Out of Town gigs, but then what is the use of having one if it only works a couple times a year? What are Unions / what do they do in this industry, if you could shed some light on the subject and its repercutions, it would be really helpful, thanks!