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Casting Call: Actor Audition for Short Film Set in Baltimore, Towson
Aaron Steven of 4th Cinema Productions in Towson, MD sent in this CASTING CALL for Actor Auditions: Short Film set in Baltimore is casting one Caucasian male age range 28-35 for dramatic character study “Bear It Away”. Shooting in HD format April 7th-13th 2009. Non-Union preferred. Synopsis: A man who lost everything and Convert this post to pdf … Read entire article »
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RedRock, Letus35, and P+S Technik 35mm DOF Adapters, Ground Glass, and Lenses Explained
Some friends were asking questions about why their Nikon zoom lens was getting vignetting with their new 35mm DOF Adapter (a RedRock Micro35 M2 unit) and Panasonic HVX200 (actually its an HVX200a). First, we need to talk about frame sizes, for everyone to properly understand the playing field: The Academy 35mm frame (the standard 35mm Cinema frame) is 22mm×16mm; The Super-35mm/Silent-35mm frame is 24.89mm×18.66mm; Still photography 35mm (aka “135″)/Nikon FX frame is 24×36mm; and finally the Nikon DX frame is 23.7×15.5mm. Second, as you may have noticed above, there are two different Convert this post to pdf … Read entire article »
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Low End High Definition or High End Standard Definition?
A friend recently asked whether he should get a somewhat older Professional Sony Standard Definition camera (shoots DVCam) that was offered to him for under $1000. He wants to try to put some stuff on mainstream TV, etc. Below is my response: DVCam is basically a more robust version of minidv. You won’t need a capture card with it, since it uses firewire to ingest. TV programs like Survivorman and other reality based shows used DVcam and minidv a lot just two and three years ago. Now they have all seemed to switch over to at least HDV (as a bare minimum) since Convert this post to pdf … Read entire article »
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Lighting A Film Or High Definition Set: Discussing The Reasons
From time to time I talk to someone that claims to be a Director of Photography (cinematographer). But once I get into the conversation with them, it becomes apparent, rather quickly, that the person has no idea about the art and science of lighting a film set (or High Definition/video set). There seems to be no how or why in it for them – it’s just “put some light on the person talking and shoot.” Okay, let me stop here a second to say that I am not going to go into detail (today anyway) about 3 or 4 point lighting techniques (or really any lighting techniques). There are many good books out there that you can buy (and I do recommend buying and reading a few) that teach proper lighting, … Read entire article »
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