Dimitrios Koukas

Very nice, A new great stock for blow-ups!! Dimitrios Koukas

He-he, I ve got one revere 8mm, a collector's item.With a spool 16mm negative. Dimitrios Koukas

No u can't do this..CCD's don't have the ''comet'' effect of the old tubes. I believe it will not represent it like this. Dimitrios Koukas

The only difference is that they have a native 16:9 CCD, wich is better than the ones that use 4:3 letterboxed to give you the 16:9 aspect. I guess better resolution for the 16:9 CCD. Dimitrios Koukas

Or, he can simulate this with some lights falling on the foam core and switching randomly on and off, It is a nice idea to use a ''cooler'' light to simulate the projector's lamp colour temperature. As for the backlight, just use a fresnel or similar light. even a parcan can do the job, how narrow or wide it will be it depends of the distance of subject to camera. Like mr Pytlak said a bit of smoke will help a lot. Dimitrios Koukas

Ok, I will not get into details, I will just answer simple. knee level up means details in the highlights. Knee level down means no details in the highlights. Be carefull for what you are doing, it affects the midtones too, wich will make the faces look like they have plaster on their faces. All has to do with how u have lighted one scene, and what contrast ratio/ lighting ratio's you are using. If you see knee on a vectorscope, it does exactly the same as an audio compressor to the signal. Compresses the signal overall. So it doesn't affect only the highlights.I affects everything that it's in this signal. I would suggest to just adjust it with a grey scale normal exposed, and then just reduce some master pedestal (black level). Dimitrios Koukas

Is it going to be black and white? If it isn't use this method.Before the shooting, or when u re doing the lighting, take the colour out of the monitor. Then go to the camera settings and ''crash'' the blacks a little bit.(reduce some of the mid tones near black in total black) It's like you working in a zonal system. Try to have both highlights and dark black areas in your shots.Use minimum light and overexpose a litle for the highlights but keep the blacks low. That's a suggestion. Dimitrios Koukas

Does it have to be black and white? Can't u just shoot with a SONY M3 tube camera? It's colour ok by u can take it out in post. It sucks! so, I guess u will be fine with the results. Dimitrios Koukas

Very nice site, It looked to me more like an advert for the gyro mount than for a site that has tips. Dimitrios Koukas

Well... I remembered once a director that she wanted me to see thru her viewfinder, and she was hoolding it there 'till i put my eye to see it too, but as u can all understand it was moved everytime, so we never had a refference, I believe a digital stilll camera is the best, for previwing and also display to others what you want, or how is it going to be. Dimitrios Koukas

Eric, There are many helicopters flying out there with a sliding door, wich means there is no use of removing this door. For the other types, it's supposed to remove the door, but only in the shooting area.This is because helicopters with the door out have to fly in a ''slow flight'' configuration and that's about 60-80 KTS wich it's a pain if you have a long route. Also with the door removed you have tremendous amounts of noise in the cabin, that makes the trip a pain also. SO a chopper with a sliding door is prefered. There many things that can affect an aerial shoot.First is turbulence that comes from heat waves that going up in the atmoshpere.Something that is very common on a hot day.Second thing is a Pilot that have done this before. Pilots that haven't done it before are just going to fly the helicopter there, wich has no use for the shooting itself. You need to brief the pilot for what you want.Wich means that we are talking for an out of budget story. Bungee ropes can make the camera hop and hop and bang left and right in turbulence wich makes this dangerous. If you are going hanheld, I would suggest something similar to cinesaddle, and the operator just hold the camera while the pilot does the ''pointing at'' the area u want to be filmed. The operator should use extra safety belts and also a safety rig for the camera that has to rig it in the chopper too. If you have a non experienced pilot u have horrible results.With an open door the ball must be in the center all the time, unless you want to see yourself doing a stunt. One good thing to do is give him an lcd monitor, sometimes it helps for experienced pilots. I did a car following with a video camera hanheld in telephoto on a highway, I didn't left the area till I was sure I have some seconds of footage good, wich means that we done this about 6 times. Refuelling is also a case for the chopper, u have limited time going somewhere not near a refuelling station or a moving refuelling station would be a good idea''ground vechicle support''. As for the stedicam is ok but it needs a specialised bracket arm to hook the stedi's arm. If you have the lens less than one feet near the door then u re screwed, cause of the air that might hit the lens, and make the steadi, uncontrolable. Dimitrios Koukas

Greg, Are u going hanheld, or you re planning to use any special equipment? What is the duration of the shots you want? 1/2 minute? some seconds or 4-5 minutes? Dimitrios Koukas

Hello, Try to use all the manual fixtures of the camera, like iris and white balance, (if it has any), also disable the auto-gain feature if you can.It ads a lot of grain when lights are low. Dimitrios Koukas

Something that I forgot to tell u is tilt the perspex about 10-15 degrees towards the floor, or the ceilling, (depends on what your lights are). Dimitrios Koukas

Sorry, I ve missed that bit.Good Luck! Dimitrios Koukas

Rob, If it is for tv use only I would go the traditional way and did ''almost'' whatever I wanted in the telecine. Check if there is DaVinci available, or Pandora. Dimtrios Koukas

Use some cinefoil to cut away unwanted light that falls onto the objects.this can be done either on the light or away from it.If you have enough space and can get away from the light's heat, then u can just use some black carton.Or streched black cloth.Do not put them near the fixture by any means. Dimitrios Koukas

Well, like someone else said in this posts, it worked fine, there are too many people discussing about it and also for the brand. That's in a way commercial success. Many advertising companies have this strategy, like the moto ''do not buy our product'' wich works sometimes the opposite way. Dimitrios Koukas

Even that I haven't seen the advert , I do believe that u wouldn't like such critic for any work that in the future u might do, or allready have done? Dimitrios Koukas

Hello, I ve found another one, only 4K cinepar with flood crystal +1/4 CTO, coming thru one window. As u can all noticed, exposure is for the shadows. Shampoo commercial. Dimitrios Koukas

I am working in the advertising eleven years now and I would definately suggest this if it's for tv, but I am not going to if it is for theaters. DI is in a really good track and it's allready established, but for me it can't compare with a contact print. Dimitrios Koukas

The only problem with 2 perfs or 3 is that they have to pass an IN/IP stage. I would easily used this system only if I knew that it can be done without this, wich is impossible. All the theaters are running standard 4-perfs. Dimitrios Koukas

Hello Lorena, Try to have a ''spine'' of ideas and what needs to be shoot so this ideas will get stronger with the image. Sometimes u can have the material first and then add some voice over comments or super imposes of texts after. You have a target, wich is good, and what u need is a schedule of what u should film, and it doesn't matter in what order.You can put things in order in the editing. Just collect the material you want, either by news footage or by new footage that u will shoot and then put them together after. Good luck. Dimitrios Koukas

Hello, If there is only change of fps, I suggest that there is going to be no problem, unless u want double exposures, wich the aaton still has no problem to deal with. Dimitrios Koukas