MattHawkins Online - Film Making Forum

Good crits, I actually agree on just about all of it. Although I must admit that it didnt occur to me that someone would find the accents out of place. I guess the actors were just going by what they heard on "Braveheart". I notice you didnt mention that you could see the freeway in severa...

The guy who plays the king knows the guy with the castle. The guy who owns the castle was building a big cinder brick wall, and he had some bricks left over so he built a castle. or at least thats how the story goes. how he had so many blocks left over i dont know...

Heres a movie I made with some friends this last summer, please go ahead crit and comment and tear it to pieces. (although please remember that it is supposed to be absured) Synopsis: A band of Vikings go to war. Sort of. Linky: http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-5980162967489337218&hl=en

is that what that sound is? a teletype device? (you know, like the sound fom hunt for the red october and all those movies with the little digital read outs at teh bottom left)

i like "Directions" or "A Lack of Color".

isnt all the 'stars and boulevards' bit the title of the new augustana album or somthing?

very nice. do you have to arrange all the shots to keep the moutains out of frame?

premiere is pretty similer to vegas. although, in my experience, not as reliable and not as quick (editing work flow and such.) but the downside of vegas is that almost no professionals use it. :/ right now i'm in a jam cause its hard for me to get editing work with local tv stations and advertising...

for the faded border bit you can also throw a bump map effect on it and take off all the setting except the spot light. very handy. (note: this works in vegas not sure about it in premiere)

it is very common in the us forces for soldiers to buy their own stuff. here in san diego (a big military hot spot) theres a whole slew of stores devoted to selling the soldiers gear thats better than the cr** the government gives them, everything from weapons to cots to night vision to camelbacks. ...

also, 3D Studio Max Bible is considered one of the best if not the best literature to learn from. See if your local library has it. whats the purpose of the forum if you cant ask questions and you cant help people? he asked a question hoping that more informed people would be able to point him in th...

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good luck with that, Max is not to be under estimated, it is very complex and you'll hav to go at it for a year or so before you get anything worth showing to anyone

Epsilon is right, the PD170 (or 150) is just like the VX2100 except with a few extra pro stuff on it. such as: DVCAM support, Metal body instead of plastic, Iris and gain are seperate controls, black and white viewfinder, XLR connections, independent audio channel controls (left and right), Time cod...

I think the PD150 is a generation older than the VX2100. sounds like a good deal though, i love my VX2100. i got it about 4-5 months ago and havnt regretted once. the cameras are sharp and have awsome low light performance. also lots of manual controls. plus it gives you credibility just to have a c...

pirate and ninja movies?? well slap my chickens, i just made movies on those very subjects. they're titled: Pirates!!:The Motion Picture and Ninjas!!:The Motion Picture. soon to follow is Vikings!!:The Motion Picture. Then i'm put those all together in a boxed directors cut package. :) i like war mo...

let me guess. it looked cool, and your parents credit card was ready.


thats ok, i always wished that would have happened to me

let me guess. it looked cool, and your parents credit card was ready.


thats ok, i always wished that would have happened to me

yes. to all questions stated.

video cards are mostly for rendering 3D objects and enviorments. the ram on the cards is for storing textures to apply to the 3D objects. (used in gaming and rendering the viewports in 3D modeling) as far as video-editing though, the video card is barely used. in fact, video editing specific compute...

or have the guy move really slow and then speed it up?

heres an interesting read titled "Films Not Dead, Damn It!" http://www.salon.com/ent/movies/feature/2003/07/03/cinematographers/ it should shed some light on why not everyone is flocking to the HD format. i seem to remember from the special features on "Open Water" that it was fl...

head over to maxforums.org excellent forum.

check out these articles http://www.hatrack.com/writingclass/index.shtml ("Naming Characters" and "More on Naming Characters") they are very informative. They are written by Orson Scott Card who wrote the popular sci-fi series "Ender's Game"

you have noise cancelling headphones so that you can hear exactly what the microphone is picking up and not hear any other noises. as far as sound cards check creative. they got a audigy2 that goes in the PCMCIA slot. there are also USB devices from turtle beach and m-audio. how is it that you can o...

Check out local thrift stores. my local "AmVets" always has a supply of BDUs for a fraction of the regular cost. you can get brand new ones or some scuffed up ones for even cheaper.

have you guys seen that Hewlett Packard commercial where the guy is sitting in his office and he holds a paper frame in front of his face, and then when he moves the paper, the snap shot of his head at that moment stays in the frame. And then to make things more copmlicated, he picks up a piece of p...