MattHawkins Online - Film Making Forum

i couldn't get a film club going in my school. and right now, we have a huge a** studio with cyclorama curtains, a desk, lights, and a whole control booth, 3 jvc broadcast cameras w/ monitors on each and handle controls on rolling industrial tripods. the class is a joke and i won't take it. all they...

i just read this whole forum. WOW. absolutely rediculous. xn fact i think its the most outrageous thread i've ever seen out of the 15-20 forums i'm subscribed to! it went from a crappy video, to yelling and life threatening by a 13 year ald (who i would advise get some professional help) everyone tw...

looooks tight. great use of cranes and stabilizers. seems like insane thinking went into this. i mean, how many different routes are there? and you have to film a seperate story for each outcome and path you take. excited to see the final product.

do it. i wanna see something good.

yea, well thtas one thing you could work on. framing your shots, some closeups and some farther out. but idk, teres a couple. i think theres audio technica atr55 or something. and a azden sgm-x. look around. theres a few. as for boom. i made one and it works perfectly. got an extendable paint roller...

tho only thing an external mic will hepl w/ with those cameras is if you use it to boom overhead, so you can get the mic closer. otherwise its a waste of a 100 bucks or so. and even then, the crappy auto leveling and electronics in the camera don't let you use the expesive mic to anywhere near its f...

okay thats cool then. it would be funnier i think if you have them thinking their all cool, then you show some sweet moves that either you or someone else you can do. it should be cool.

the cg is just terrible. don't use it. its funny, the more i watch these kinds of films, the more i realize how dumb my videos used to be, so i know the boat your in. just start studying film, techniques and such, and start doing it from an artistic point of view. those are always the best. watch go...

i only saw one good trick. the other stuff made me not want to watch it, like not being able to clear the wake. if your going to involve a sport like that, get shots of tantrums, and whirlybirds and double up 720s or air ralleys. anything thats big and cool looking. so if you put more of that stuff ...

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i dono how this will sound, but try recording a passing car through a tube of some sort, like pvc, or a vaccum hose.

that was not very good. you need more knowledge. again, i don't mean to attack you, but after reading all your posts, what i see you as, is a 13 yeoar old know-it-all, who thinks he can out-do all these older people, yet when you make videos, they look like 13 year old videos that show no artistic a...

well. it was pretty much was very similar to the mirror in the matrix, but that doesnt mean it has to be exactly the same.... btw great render. the snap back looks wierd because it snaps, then suddenly the whole mirror is full of shock ripples. so maybe claen that up a bit if you use it in anything....

what are you smiling at?

i fink dat rhys is a bit of a hipocrit really Do you not have a proper keyboard? lol :D i don't have a proper keyboard! dvorak is the way to go. btw rhys. "i am acting my age, i'm 13" is a shitty excuse. your trying to act more mature than everyone on this forum, yet you say "i'm onl...

rhys. sometimes you need to not talk. you need to realize that your 13 or whatever. anyways. youngfilmmaker. i'd like to see what you can do. because i've got this script. its 30 pages long. 4 main characters. its a psycological thriller about a town that kids start getting murdered in, and nobody k...

Oh you mr fancy pants with ur mini 35! whaaa i want one (and am probably too incompetent to make one!) I'll probably end up buying an M2 (or cheaper mini 35 adapter) for the hvx200 i use. The Xl-2 is a great camera o' course, u'll get some great results. haha, actually i spent a total of maybe 15 b...

yea, actually. my boss (i work at the local tv place) just bought an xl-2 for community television. and so now i can use that for my upcoming project. which is going to be a horror short. i've watched soooooo many cheesy attempts, but then i saw one that was suppper well done on some other forum. so...

ok, i uploaded the new version, and some reason youtube screwed up the aspect ratio and made it really really crappy quality. but o well. i might fix it later wen i get my computer back. here's the link.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UUCm7eqevLQ

i thought it was boring. good camera work for the most part, fairly smooth shots. but this movie was just walking around, waaayyyy toooo long. you just wait and wait for something to happen, and then it just kinda happens in a half of a second. also, the trees repeating 3 times at the end was pretty...

yea, but the comical route is also a lazy way out. i hate how people on here just think, well i can't make a serious film, so i'll just make it cheesy/funny. i know half the films that try to be serious end up not being serious mostly becauese of the actors, but either way, i think you should go ser...

thanks for the great feedback! i'm going to do a re-edit and fix a few things and repost it.

a full body mounted steadicam. its based on the Cody Deagan plans off of homebuiltstabilizers.com. so i'm really excited, i just gotta finnish the backpack and get the most important connecting pice milled out. w/o it i can't even test it at all .

its alright, but i think you could have come up w/ better plans/design and made a sturdier one. its got way too much jiggle and needs to be much smoother to get rid of the "look i'm using a handycam" feel. when its super smooth, it gets the viewers mind off the camera, and on the content. ...

shot on canon xl-2 16:9 24p mode. (all manual iris and shutter speed focus, white balance, everything hahah) edited on adobe premiere pro 1.5 music from half life 2 it only took about 2 hrs to do the whole thing including editing, its nothing that great, i just was like, i need to do something w/ th...