MattHawkins Online - Film Making Forum

Leni Reifenstahl did alot of filming for the Fuhrer- when shooting for a film documenting the life of Jews in the ghettos, what she found herself filming were corpses and people dieing. their aim was to show German people that Jews were slobs and did nothing rather it showed people suffering under t...

Super Chicken, i know your in my area-Sydney...where abouts do you find good sized toy guns. i am really shocked that they've pulled these things from toys r us etc. What next? Pogo sticks?

And lose resolution by cropping in post? No thanks...

As Ornsack said, 90% loose quality anyway- i don’t think you own a hollywood quality camera do you? Besides, it’s better to do it in post because you may change your mind

I have never been a fan of Adobe- i much prefer Ulead's Media Studio Pro- the complete editing package

just a note- if your going to use 16:9 dont use the camera function rather do it in ur editing software because you may change your mind after its shot- ive had this problem.

lol- thats what i was thinking Grant- What could be worse...no toy guns? shayze!

what are they like?

Accept it or not, you can still serve a pretty hefty fine for doing it.

Epsilon, i wrote that "i CAN understand and ACCEPT the environmental hazards" meaning, i dont use said method anymore- hope that cleared it up for you

Nor can i- i was looking forward to it too -

I downloaded alot of footage from http://www.detonationfilms.com - i dont see why you would have a problem d/ling it too?

Once again, OZ kills the fun , ebay.au doesnt allow gun selling/buying

i took your advice Grant, and got down to Go-Lo, found the 2buck guns, they are a beaut!

Yeah true, but i would enjoy it a lot more if i had a cast of people who loved it as much as i do- i think your lucky in that respect Grant, you have a group of mates who all love what they do- most of us are not that fortunate

Most of us here have one thing in common- we love to make short films- what reeeeeally sux is that we are all so spread out around the world...

Ornsack, regarding slowing down motion to half, ive found that if i slow it down to 50 then export it THEN slow it down half again i still get smooth slow motion- just a tip i picked up see if it works for you

what about cgi? a similar method looked good in Chemical Ali with the brelly

Re-ping pong smoke bomb- i did that a few years back- i put about 5 balls in a fairly large piece of foil then rapped it up leaving a tube like hole at the top for the smoke to come out- it smoked for a good minute-

but, i can understand and accept the environmental hazards this has..

I prefer the large potatoes- one thing though if you make it out of PVC don’t overdue it in one go- shoot 5 or 6 times then let it cool- a mate of mines exploded on him with hot plastic flying right into his leg- sadly he lost both his eyebrows...

i think thats the majority of us Grant...

Why dont you drip it down from above- if its one drop i really dont think anyone will notice its from above- you could film him standing there- then include the moment just before the blood hits his head- join those together see what you get

I tried ordering from the store Grant suggested- im from oz btw- and i couldn’t because in my state [NSW] any replica guns are band UNLESS you pay an $800/5year performers license. Dam these times of uncertainty!

What about your comp specs- whats your memory like?