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Article Comment – Make a Feature Film with No Crew, No Budget, and a 14-Year-Old DSLR

Brilliant! Especially that you made time for rehearsals. I've done several no-budget films like this and getting the cast motivated to rehearse is almost always impossible and you can see the dismal results on screen.

3 months ago
Article Comment – Sony's New Alpha 1 Touches Down at Super Bowl LV

Which camera was used for the shots of Tom Brady on the field after the game?

2 years ago
Article Comment – Got $50? Then You Can Build This DIY Dolly

Verdad.

5 years ago
Article Comment – How to Eliminate Echoes When Recording Sound in a Big Empty Room

I liked the way that super-reverberant room sounded. I say if you're stuck with something like that, make it part of the emotional and creative arc of your film. Use it for the scene where the couple is fighting and they are saying the same thing but not listening to each other, or an actor doing one of those voice of God monologues, or a character alone with her thoughts and you hear her breathing. Or watch the Harbor Freight ads and buy a bunch of their moving blankets when they're on sale.

5 years ago
Boards Comment – Tisch or save our money and use for an actual movie?

That's an insane amount of money. No undergrad education is worth $300,000. With that kind of money laying around, I would send her to the best state college in your state and then spend the rest flying her to networking opportunities like film festivals, New York student productions, LA student productions, Vancouver productions... There's huge world of production outside of New York.
Or send her to live in California to attend a community college for 2 years and then transfer to UCLA.
It's true that going to NYU gives you access to all kinds of networks, but so will working at a Manhattan camera rental house. The question is whether your daughter is willing to drop any sense of shyness and network like a real professional because that's what it takes (plus talent). And think about this: a lot of kids change majors two or three times during college, are you prepared to spend $300,000 on a sociology degree?

6 years ago
Article Comment – 19 Iconic Filmmakers & the Focal Lengths & Lenses They Love to Use

Great article and vid.

6 years ago

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