MattHawkins Online - Film Making Forum

I don't know about the inferno movie, but I know it was used in a movie called "The Soldier" that came out in 1982. It was indeed an assasination device in that flick - the killer filled the lightbulb with gasoline mixed with liquid soap to make a poor-man's napalm.

Just to answer your "are these pieces of music copyrighted?" question... Copyright law states that as soon as an original work is put down in some sort of format, it is by definition copyrighted. So any music that's been put to tape, or disc, or written on paper is copyrighted. Also our mo...

I think they probably mean that you can use either a fogger or a hazer to dump smoke on the paintball field. You can rent Roscoe foggers from theatre rental houses, and there's tons of theatre in Chicago. If you feel like owning a fogger, I've seen light duty ones in mall stores like Spencer gifts f...

I'm not sure what icon you mean. A nightvision plug-in for Premiere would be the same kind of thing that Twabi2 is talking about - turning the footage blue or green in post. This really is the way that many night shots are created in Hollywood movies. In "Point Break" there's a night surfi...

Oog, don't bypass the resistors completely. LED's need to have some current limiting or they'll fry. With one led, you could try swapping out for a resistor with a smaller value, and see if it gets brighter or burns out. Then you could switch them all if you wanted to squeeze it for the most juice p...

Damn dude, I hope you're getting a CD burner to back up your work (or better yet, DVD burner). Don't trust your hard drive! It may not happen for many years, but eventually some hard drives crash, and it sucks to lose that much work. I'll get off my soapbox now. But take it from one who knows, backu...

You should be able to goose up the power of the spotlight, whether the individual elements are incandescent or led's. Having no idea what the inside of your spotlight looks like electrically, I don't have a clue how to tell you to do it. You got a friend that knows a bit about electronics? The bigge...

Like pricewatch.com is

http://www.pricescan.com/

I like pricescan a bit better. Same idea though.

Yes the Firewire card is PCMCIA and does slide in the modem slot. Here's a couple of places to get more info - and you can buy pieces from them if you choose. http://www.adaptec.com/ under "Consumer Products" click Firewire also http://www.westerndigital.com/ do a search for "Firewire...

Here you go http://www.maxmax.com/aIRProducts.htm "cheap" means different things to different people, not sure if these are all in your price range here's how I found it - go to www.google.com - search for "infrared lights" Your drama teacher should know the correct numbers for p...

Here's a pic and description of the cord he's talking about

Y-Adapter stereo cable

Yes, getting a dedicated IR light is a great investment. Home made ways do take some experimentation. If you are working with gel filters, you need to have the colors be the primary colors exactly - I probably didn't stress that enough. If you don't know a whole bunch about stage and film lighting, ...

Since you're getting into the DVD burning game, you might want to know of these cats

http://www.allmediaoutlet.com/index.html

cheapest source of blank CD's and DVD's I know of. I've been very happy with their stuff.

Just in case you didn't know this and don't already have a night-vision camera... Almost all of our camcorders are capable of picking up infrared light. If you want to check it, just point a TV remote at your camera and look in the viewfinder as you press a button - you'll see the led flash. So the ...

Totally do it for real. This doesn't solve your flesh problem, but you might try filling up a water balloon (or two) with blood and heaving it into a piece of chicken wire fence about 5 feet from your subject. I must admit I haven't tried this exactly, but from extensive water balloon research, a-he...

Woo..... it doesn't get any better than that. Well done lad.

Check out Archie McPhee's http://www.mcphee.com/ in the "Costume" section under "Fashion" I saw a couple of lab items. Here's where I got a bodybag for $7 when I needed one. There's a "Brain Gelatin Mold", is that useful? Unfortunately the other place, American Science ...

This may help you find out more about your conflicts. In the "Run" box in your Start menu, type "msconfig" (without the quotes). Go to the Startup tab and you will find all the cr** that Windows is starting for you when you boot up. You can uncheck programs that are starting auto...

I used to use an external SCSI drive with my laptop and I was never happy with its streaming and reliability. I switched to a Firewire and have been much, much happier. And it was way cheaper than the SCSI. I don't know if your Dell has a Firewire port, my Compaq didn't. A pcmcia Firewire card was a...

However, back to your original problem and how you were trying to solve it - with Motion in Premiere. The default surround color is white, but if you click in the "Fill" box in the lower left corner of the Motion screen, you can change the RGB levels to 0,0,0 (instead of 255,255,255 for wh...

I was just reading an article about DVDx, and then went online and saw your post. So it's not my personal experience, but they do talk (a bit) about settings they used on DVDx in their tests. Though the article is mostly about DVD copying/burning, there's a section on VCD and SVCD creation and some ...

I can't remember who said this, may have been James Cameron, but I'm not sure. Anyway, it was a big Hollywood director or producer... He said that in order for people to think a sequel is as good as the original movie, it (the sequel) has to be twice as good as the original. Raised expectations and ...

I'm not saying this is a fantastic resource, but you might find some general info that will help you out - decent glossary, decent links.

http://www.moviecodec.com

[Edited on 29-5-2003 by Matt]

Yeah, he dropped forward...it didn't even occur to me that you'd think he'd dropped backward. My oversight. It's supposed to look like he's diving over the drummer and the drum platform. We have other footage of him landing *splat* on his stomach in front of the drum platform. I'm just now (11 years...

If you record sound onto a separate device, you might want to go real old school and use a clapboard so it'll be easier to sync up at edit time (or you can just clap your hands at the top of a shot). You can indeed import .wav files into Premiere.

[Edited on 24-5-2003 by Chris]