General Questions

[Ki-Ki]

I thought I would post them here since some of them are more relevant and belong here, also theres just simply alot more people visiting here..normally.

1/ When you are going to shoot a scene. That involves the camera looking at a moniter of some sort. Eg: Comptuer screen, or television. How do you stop the lines from coming through on the screen.

2/ One of the rules for the Drama Fest entry is that the footage is filmed on either a DVX or HVX..something. I assume this is all the time. Though what if a difficult shot was required where say it needed to be somehow on a helicopter that was not a DVX or HVABC whatever. And then say if you could not get a chopper to do the shot.
Would a 4ft remote control plane with cameras mounted on it at 100ft going 30mph across landscape. Be breaking the rules of only using a DVX? Obviously because I do not want to mount a £2500 camera onto a remote control plane in them conditions.

3/ With the exception of some websites mentioned in another thread. Is there a general place where you can hire a Visual/Special effects team of some sort. Also some place where writers are looking to write scripts. Just wondering.

4/ I believe there is no rule on only one entry apparnetly. So it is possible to enter 2 films? Just wanted to be sure. Again.

Thats mainly it. :beer:

[VersuS]

1. Shutter speed

2. I guess you could ask Jarred by PM since it's a special case but not sure, probably you can since you can always use stock footage as well as long as it is about 5% of your movie.

4. Yes you can always do that, I did it last time and....who knows....maybe...this time

[Mark Johnson]

1/ When you are going to shoot a scene. That involves the camera looking at a moniter of some sort. Eg: Comptuer screen, or television. How do you stop the lines from coming through on the screen.


It depends upon the monitor or screen you are shooting. The drifting frame break you often see is a result of a different scan rate between the monitor and the camera shutter speed. There are a number of ways to adjust the scan rate to eliminate the frame break, however, if you can use a non-raster scan monitor you can shoot without that problem.


2/ One of the rules for the Drama Fest entry is that the footage is filmed on either a DVX or HVX..something. I assume this is all the time. Though what if a difficult shot was required where say it needed to be somehow on a helicopter that was not a DVX or HVABC whatever. And then say if you could not get a chopper to do the shot.
Would a 4ft remote control plane with cameras mounted on it at 100ft going 30mph across landscape. Be breaking the rules of only using a DVX? Obviously because I do not want to mount a £2500 camera onto a remote control plane in them conditions.

We had this come up in Horrorfest. If the substantial part of your film is shot on a qualifying camera, no problem. I used a little mini-DV mounted on an RC car to be a "snake-eye's view cam" and it was considered merely an effect - just as your shot would be.


3/ With the exception of some websites mentioned in another thread. Is there a general place where you can hire a Visual/Special effects team of some sort. Also some place where writers are looking to write scripts. Just wondering.

You can find people willing to help if you go to some of the FX-based forums and post a polite description of the FX you need and explain you are doing a film for a festival submission. One of the biggest is www.CGTalk.com. You can also PM me and tell me what FX you are needing and I can try to help you find who you need.


4/ I believe there is no rule on only one entry apparnetly. So it is possible to enter 2 films? Just wanted to be sure. Again.

Yes, several people have entered more than one film.

[Ki-Ki]

Thanks for the feedback, been a great start to the day!

- Went to get his train -