MattHawkins Online - Film Making Forum

one more thing. The other thing that was killing me as a viewer was the sword fighting. Use the web to look up a few basic stances. I know you're using a broadsword, but try looking up some fencing positions, and possible rehearse a bit more so you execute the moves faster while remaining safe.

I watched the film and it seems like you put some effort into it. The thing i would avoid if i were you are the longass walking shots. Like five times in a row it cuts from the guy walking here, to walking there, to walking towards us, then away from us. It was fine at the beginning cuz you were est...

the "three pronged circular plug" that you're talking about is called an XLR plug. It is used by professionals because it carries a much better signal than stereo jacks (the ones ud see on headphones or your electric guitar). Try to get your hands on a mixer, you'll be able to adjust the v...

people have to start being specific. American posts on a British website. CT bullet seems to be talking about a different football than the rest of you. football=soccer

I like the script, but watch out for a few things. You might p*** off a few people if you mix up australians and austrians, two different countries, two different continents.

Waaait up... your profile does not say what city or country you are from. Lucky for everyone i'm perceptive, because i noticed that the people who have responded to this are from a few different countries and there could be a mix up. Are you talking about soccer/footey or about "american footba...

i like it. All you need is the right people acting to pull it off. The acting will make or break it but its a clever script. I like the full speed ahead part. gl with the filming

the problem with building that one is that the cd has to move, and because it's moving you can never achive perfect focus, it might be near perfect, but never perfect. The cd is the focusing screen, and the frosted side must be a certain focal length from the lens but since it's always moving, the m...

oh yah, nice clip btw adam, it looks pretty neat, i just might borrow that photoshop keyhole.

as for the dilating pupils, there's a legal drug that is used by optometrists to check for glaucoma and test your eye's light sensitivity. It pretty much jams open your pupils, but takes about 30 seconds to go into effect. It's perfectly legal and safe, so im guessing the actors took a few drops and...

ive seen them at street price for around 2 grand, it seems like a handy camera. Let me know how the low-light and the audio options are, im looking into getting another camera, and those are things ive had trouble with in the past.

www.marlathemovie.com that should work. There's a downloadable brochure on how they made theirs. The slr wont exactly be rendered useless, but it would be a pain in the a** to keep attaching it and putting certain parts back on. The thing is, you dont need a working camera, you're using the slr for ...

despin, is there a required format for that competition, or just encode it divx and let them do the rest?

they used software to create frames in between to fill the gap OR they used a higher frame rate (film cameras can shoot at just about any frame rate, but it's expensive to shoot at high frame rates, but looks nice) I saw a clip of a guy shooting a bullet into a pane of glass where a mile of film was...

well, in terms of computer generated effects, a lot depends on the programs you have. What editor are you using? As far as "special effects" and "tricks of the trade" you have to be a bit more specific in terms of what you want to know, because it's a wide topic. Im not one to us...

Why would anyone post questions for the sake of posting questions? It's to see what you can do with 15 seconds of screen time. If you think about it, the most universally known footage tends to be commercials rather than films, which are usually anywhere from 10 to 40 seconds. You should be able to ...

i wasnt suggesting a pure cut, im saying a cross dissolve, because a monitor has a certain feel to it because you can see the pixels on the screen, it gives a grainy sort of look, but that was kind of on a backburner in my mind. As for the green screen, the problem is that it would be the pure foota...

This isn't a question for my next movie, but rather a question out of curiosity. I have seen in a few films recently where the camera dollies or zooms into a television screen or computer monitor (let's say a security camera monitor, for example's sake) and there is a transition between the actual f...

Here's a link about digital film making, it mentions briefly lighting your scene with a blue filter about halfway down and has a few handy tips. It wont solve your problem, but along with any one of the filters that browncow mentioned in his posts, it should help for a more realistic effect. good lu...

if you email me, i might be able to find a video from training with a clip of the neck snap, or maybe you've already solved your problem.

I did an 8 month stunt course in which i did swordplay training with one of the top stunt coordinators for a theatre version of the three musketeers. One of the more interesting moves we learned in hand to hand was the neck snap. on stage, it cant be used in a combat scene, only in stealth, but sinc...

wildabeast has a point, ive seen open water, and im pretty sure it was shot on an xl1 or an xl2, and it is immediately noticeable. someone said earlier in this thread that their pd170 is better than film. thats a load of cr@p, it is possible to mimic, but with a prosumer camera, it will never look e...

your best bet would be to slow it to 50% with the no fields setting on, like you said, and to turn on frame blending, and then experiment with the following. I've seen footage where a clip was slowed down and pasted twice, because it was interlaced footage, and then you put them on separate video tr...

your friend's xl-2 would still be recording at 24 fps, and the 1/1500 per second is the rate at which the frame refreshes. in short, if you have a really slow shutter speed, like, 1/4 of a second, then shutter stays open for 1/4 of a second, meaning that one frame will contain the information of 1/4...

for main titles and credits, learn to use the titler in premiere pro, its an awesome feature. As for subtitles throughout the movie, they'd be a pain in the a$$ to do (especially if ur doing nething longer than 10 minutes with a fair amount of dialogue). When you're done editing your film and you ha...