MattHawkins Online - Film Making Forum

If your actors are well enough prepared, you can shoot several takes with the same camera from various angles and easily edit them.

Why do you have a link to your own site on the links page? It's a little rhetorical.

It doesn't matter to me as long as I can watch the media I want to. I upload all my material on my own servers.

Ever been under a Browning .50 caliber machinegun while it was firing? That's my new favorite for the mean time.

My strobe light is officially broken. Is there a way i could use its shell to project the light (and color it)? Again, a strobe light is not meant to project light constantly. So, unless the shell is made of metal, it may very possibly melt and become a safety hazard. Is that a chance you're willin...

Looks okay to me.

A good first step would be to spend a day or two at a bookstore and READ There is a lot, lot of media out there. You don't even have to buy the books (unless you want to), just dedicate time to reading books. This step will quickly teach you all the basic terminologies and theories in the world of f...

Honestly, it looks heavily photoshopped.

Why does the logo have to be a full feature in itself? It doesn't need to be more than a couple seconds long or have fancy special effects... the worst of it is: some of your intros are better than the movie!!

Ornsack, I loved that 48 hours movie. It made no sense, but made me laugh. Kudos.

Squids are fun to eat. Putting them on Sonny surely would have made this a comedy!

Hey, I own a FX1. It is a great, little camera. The only thing that separates it from a prosumer line is the fact it is missing XLR inputs. But if you are recording audio seperately, it doesn't matter anyway. The coloring and correction options are outstanding. The low light capture is remarkable, m...

Just expand the frame so that the sides fit the 16x9 aspect.

Perhaps I ought to toss in you don't want to simply use any colored plastic to throw on a light. Lighting gels are designed to withstand high temperatures. Using something from the kitchen like seran wrap or gift-wrapping supplies will melt and may even catch on fire. Then you've got a problem. You ...

Well no offence but i definately think 10k $ is a joke for photo retouching (thought it depends how many images she got done. - and other issues as well relating to the final graphic, and the level of detail they were working on etc. Photo retouching is a skilled technique, but one I believe very m...

Personally, it looked like an underexposed daylight scene. :P The first shot worked, but every one after that didn't work for me. The problem is the location has a lot of sunlight shadows. Day for night is tricky in th sense you need to trick the viewer. There is more to the effect than simply darke...

Haha! That was funny.

Model Gun Company is a BAD choice for the amatuer filmmaker. You will end up with very expensive, nice looking guns, that sound and look like cr** when fired. They aren't designed for functionality. You would be far better off buying a real gun and blank adapting it. Probably cheaper, too. You can f...

Studying only gets you so far. What is the point in having knowledge if you aren't applying it to something? Experience cannot be learned from reading. Period.

The reason it has a narrow depth of field is because they had to use a BIG lens to capture that much light. They probably had to find a film with the lowest ISO they could get their hands on, that doesn't have an excessively grainy appearance. Even with the DVX, you will not be able to get quite eno...

If you have money to burn, why not?

You won't find a higher end camera for less than a thousand dollars, or at least one that offers manual functions. For now, focus on the creative aspect of your projects. Keep saving your cash until you have about twice that, then get yourself a real decent piece of equipment!

It is typically a small gunpowder charge, electronically detonated. Squibs are a simple concept, but generally dangerous. Lethal if inexperienced. This is why technitions are hired to install such explosives.

What happened to the NaziSentry?

Did you know DV captures footage compressed... it is tricky finding the best rendering outputs sometimes. Remember, true uncompressed is approximately 1 MegaByte per frame.

Snort crushed salt and see what happens to you.