Wondering about Contact Lense Prices.

Solomon Cloud · Post by **Solomon Cloud** » Thu Feb 05, 2004 4:15 am

I said before about my character with no eye's and have decided to go the Contact Lense route to black out my eyes.

Plus I will still have vision, so yah.

I found this site that looks very good and they have made lenses for various movies and commercials, but they seem kinda pricey.

Still I want the eye part of my character to be the most detailed as that is his identity.

tell me if these are good prices
http://www.9mmsfx.com/lenses.html

thanks and all!

BrownCowStudios · Post by **BrownCowStudios** » Thu Feb 05, 2004 4:18 am

Woah! Those do seem a bit pricey. Although, I don't exactly know what specialized contact lenses run for these days, let alone regular contact lenses.

Grant · Post by **Grant** » Thu Feb 05, 2004 4:35 am

very nice and if you can afford them then do it

Epsilon · Post by **Epsilon** » Thu Feb 05, 2004 7:03 am

I wear contact ocassionally. Those fancy ones tend to be cheaper than actual prescription lenses. You can get them for about $25 a pair from an optometrist.

Solomon Cloud · Post by **Solomon Cloud** » Thu Feb 05, 2004 6:04 pm

well I need this lense to cover my entire eye, so do those cost more or what?

BenjaminLevin · Post by **BenjaminLevin** » Thu Feb 05, 2004 6:29 pm

One thing you could try to do is digitally black out your eyes. That's what they did for Agent Sands in Once Upon A Time In Mexico and I thought it worked out ok.

El Brenty · Post by **El Brenty** » Thu Feb 05, 2004 6:36 pm

Over here, some tattoo shops also sell specialist contact lenses, probably for amateur film-makers and S&M weirdos I guess. I believe they're not that expensive, but I'm afraid I can't give an exact price.

Solomon Cloud · Post by **Solomon Cloud** » Fri Feb 06, 2004 6:32 am

thanks for the info.

here are some answers and replies to comments made.

1. yes this character is going to be used in other movies. 9 to be exact, these are called chapters each ranging from 1-2 hours and length and are expected to be all finished in 10 years. (if we work fast). And he is pretty much the main character throughout the epic.

2. I would like to know exactly how they did it in OUATM but don't know if I can devote that much time to it for an hour long video, were the character is shown quite a few times (actually most of the time). I also like to take a more physical aproach. the only real effects we are going to use are things such as muzzle flashes and keying a green screen out for blowing up model cars and houses. I like the style made by Sam Raimi with such ideas as Ram-O-cam and the likes.

well I gotta get some sleep and goto whatever I do everyday. Work my a** off planning budgets and making money at a very bad wage.

U.S.Amateurfilmaker · Post by **U.S.Amateurfilmaker** » Fri Feb 06, 2004 7:57 am

You would actually consder paying $200 for 1 pair?! You're insane!

Epsilon · Post by **Epsilon** » Fri Feb 06, 2004 8:04 am

Nono... the big ones are $300, the normal ones are $200. Those you can get for $25 but I have seen them for less. I cannot imagine the larger lenses costing more than $50/pair. Anything much more than that is quite insane, indeed.

Themovieman44 · Post by **Themovieman44** » Fri Feb 06, 2004 6:23 pm

9 films WOW, thats cool. Are these gonna be your only projects???

Solomon Cloud · Post by **Solomon Cloud** » Sat Feb 07, 2004 6:05 pm

Themovieman44 wrote:9 films WOW, thats cool. Are these gonna be your only projects???

nah i have alot of other projects but this one is kinda my vision.
I tend to write scripts alot more then I actually film. So I have a huge bank of different stories I would like to tell. (and hopefully I can make some of the ones that would cost more then my cars).

but yah, I really think this certain 9 film epic style thing could really be noticed by the higher ups in independent film.

Themovieman44 · Post by **Themovieman44** » Sat Feb 07, 2004 8:15 pm

Well it sorta to me sounds like something if it is any good, that you might be able to propose to HBO as a mini series. That would be awesome if you could get HBO's funding.....