HBlack
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Alien versus Predator style volleyball? Where can I watch this?
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Alien versus Predator style volleyball? Where can I watch this?
mentatDUKE
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lol. HBlack, I thought I was the only one who had that immediately pop into their mind.
I don't think that word means what we think it means.
I don't think that word means what we think it means.
taormina
Hates to Rent
Soooooo busy these days.
Last minute requests are the order of the day. We are 98% cast, with only minor extras roles left uncast. I'm still missing one location: If any of the collective hive here has any contacts let me know.
I need a very low end coffee shop in Pasadena / Glendale for like 4 hours for a simple dialog scene with two actors. It could be a diner, but either way needs to have a "low rent" feel to it.
If anyone knows of one let me know and I'll call.
Other than that, the grip truck came back from the shop today, $1200 later. It was 100% preventative maintenance. I wanted to make sure it was dialed in before the big shoot. Every fluid was changed, and all kinds of filters. The mechanic was shocked at how well the truck ran and the shape it was in. U-Haul really does replace everything all the time. She runs like a top!!!!
The lens place bailed on us yesterday. Birns and Sawyer was willing to give my DP the rate of $1200 for two weeks on a set of superspeeds, which is a phenomenal number.
Yesterday, they phoned dave and said the lenses had been "damaged" and were no longer available. Sounds like they rented them out at a better price to me!
So we're on the hunt for another set of PLs.
Last minute requests are the order of the day. We are 98% cast, with only minor extras roles left uncast. I'm still missing one location: If any of the collective hive here has any contacts let me know.
I need a very low end coffee shop in Pasadena / Glendale for like 4 hours for a simple dialog scene with two actors. It could be a diner, but either way needs to have a "low rent" feel to it.
If anyone knows of one let me know and I'll call.
Other than that, the grip truck came back from the shop today, $1200 later. It was 100% preventative maintenance. I wanted to make sure it was dialed in before the big shoot. Every fluid was changed, and all kinds of filters. The mechanic was shocked at how well the truck ran and the shape it was in. U-Haul really does replace everything all the time. She runs like a top!!!!
The lens place bailed on us yesterday. Birns and Sawyer was willing to give my DP the rate of $1200 for two weeks on a set of superspeeds, which is a phenomenal number.
Yesterday, they phoned dave and said the lenses had been "damaged" and were no longer available. Sounds like they rented them out at a better price to me!
So we're on the hunt for another set of PLs.
Taormina,
I'll submit a list for the camera truck as soon as you bring me onto the show. Don't have a dedicated camera truck? We had one on our last show.
Let's see... label maker, label tape (all colors / sizes), spike tape (all colors), Kleen-slates with erasers, china markers, Stabilo white pencils, Sharp-Max, report tins for the whole camera dept., Clarity and Micros cloths, Rosco lens tissue (case), orange sticks (don't really need them on an HVX show, but what the hell?), Kershaw Blackouts for the whole camera crew, pencils, Sharpies (for lanyards), 1000' Velcro 3/4" (at least), more P-Touch tape, dulling spray...
It's late... I'll finish the list when we start principal.
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I'll submit a list for the camera truck as soon as you bring me onto the show. Don't have a dedicated camera truck? We had one on our last show.
Let's see... label maker, label tape (all colors / sizes), spike tape (all colors), Kleen-slates with erasers, china markers, Stabilo white pencils, Sharp-Max, report tins for the whole camera dept., Clarity and Micros cloths, Rosco lens tissue (case), orange sticks (don't really need them on an HVX show, but what the hell?), Kershaw Blackouts for the whole camera crew, pencils, Sharpies (for lanyards), 1000' Velcro 3/4" (at least), more P-Touch tape, dulling spray...
It's late... I'll finish the list when we start principal.
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Not an inch less on the Velcro. Not an inch! And, believe me, I know what an inch looks like.
Uh... or ten. Yeah, ten.
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Uh... or ten. Yeah, ten.
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taormina
Hates to Rent
T-Minus 7 days.
A quick snapshot of where we sit today:
- About 98% of roles cast save for the most minor of extras
- All locations except one found. Yes, this is abnormal. I've normally had my locations weeks in advance, but oh well.
- making lists, checking them twice, gonna find out who's.........forgotten ;-)
I hope to have all this done by Monday so I can spend a couple days focusing on the movie. Since we already had that debate about storyboards and shot lists, I won't rehash it, but I still like to grab the shoot schedule and mentally work through the scenes, imagining what I want based on the locations.
Going over to Tom's place this afternoon to have a quick meeting with the major cast members present in LA - Johnny, Candace, Tom, And Edoardo. The others are not local or are minor enough to worry about on set.
Is this a table read? No.
Table reads are great to have. They are a hybrid of rehearsal, without the locations. Ideally, I'd have a full read, but realistically, with this level of actor it's difficult to schedule everyone for a full day table read that doesn't pay. These people's time is very valuable and expensive.
I wanted to get the major people together for about an hour so they could go over the interactions of each other's characters. A quick analysis of how each character interacts with each other will identify any problems with the script or any better ideas they may have.
Example: Tom has a major interaction with Edoardo, a couple big confrontations. Better to flush them out at the table in 20 minutes than arrive on set and discover one or both has a problem with the lines or what I am looking for.
It's not so much that they won't like the line, but I've experienced times where the actor kept choking on a certain line, maybe a tongue twister or too wordy. Finding this out after take 4 wastes everyone's time. So we'll do as much as we can today.
On this tight of a schedule, we can't do a whole lot of rewriting on set. Better to sort out the big stuff beforehand.
Day players are far easier to deal with in this regard. I can handle those on set.
I'll snap a coupleof the photos of the session if I can.
A quick snapshot of where we sit today:
- About 98% of roles cast save for the most minor of extras
- All locations except one found. Yes, this is abnormal. I've normally had my locations weeks in advance, but oh well.
- making lists, checking them twice, gonna find out who's.........forgotten ;-)
I hope to have all this done by Monday so I can spend a couple days focusing on the movie. Since we already had that debate about storyboards and shot lists, I won't rehash it, but I still like to grab the shoot schedule and mentally work through the scenes, imagining what I want based on the locations.
Going over to Tom's place this afternoon to have a quick meeting with the major cast members present in LA - Johnny, Candace, Tom, And Edoardo. The others are not local or are minor enough to worry about on set.
Is this a table read? No.
Table reads are great to have. They are a hybrid of rehearsal, without the locations. Ideally, I'd have a full read, but realistically, with this level of actor it's difficult to schedule everyone for a full day table read that doesn't pay. These people's time is very valuable and expensive.
I wanted to get the major people together for about an hour so they could go over the interactions of each other's characters. A quick analysis of how each character interacts with each other will identify any problems with the script or any better ideas they may have.
Example: Tom has a major interaction with Edoardo, a couple big confrontations. Better to flush them out at the table in 20 minutes than arrive on set and discover one or both has a problem with the lines or what I am looking for.
It's not so much that they won't like the line, but I've experienced times where the actor kept choking on a certain line, maybe a tongue twister or too wordy. Finding this out after take 4 wastes everyone's time. So we'll do as much as we can today.
On this tight of a schedule, we can't do a whole lot of rewriting on set. Better to sort out the big stuff beforehand.
Day players are far easier to deal with in this regard. I can handle those on set.
I'll snap a coupleof the photos of the session if I can.
That's a really good point. I've noticed that I (as writer/director) sometimes get more out of rehearsals than the actors as it gives me a chance to adjust and change the cadence of the lines so that they flow naturally for the performers. This especially helps when I'm working with people who are not native speakers. I'm on a project with an Israeli actor now and I go over the lines with him to try to weed out the English sounds that simply don't exist in his language and that he would probably stumble over.
taormina
Hates to Rent
Well, the session went very well. A lot of great ideas bantered about.
Tom was a great host and it turned into more of a party at the end. One very interesting thing came of it. Johnny was the only one really given the liberty to amend his lines. He's the lead, and he does have to talk for 13 days straight. His idea was to try and internalize as much as he can, so he wanted to seriously truncate some of his dialog, taking the heads and tails
Some of this dialog that went missing affected the other character's dialog so we trimmed a little of that too.
The result was cutting 4 pages out of the script just doing this! And it's weird because most of his lines are still there, they are just a little shorter....not dramatically so. Even small changes can make big differences over 100 pages.
He's chosen to play the character more like Jean Reno in the Professional.....fewer words, more looks and action. I'm pretty happy with it.
Here are a few shots of the main cast.
Tom had tried on this red suit he will be wearing in one scene (no, not the T shirt...he just threw it on). He's graciously loaned us his $5000 Dolce and Gabbana suit for the film. Matter of fact, he's doing all his own wardrobe. A real trooper.
Tom was a great host and it turned into more of a party at the end. One very interesting thing came of it. Johnny was the only one really given the liberty to amend his lines. He's the lead, and he does have to talk for 13 days straight. His idea was to try and internalize as much as he can, so he wanted to seriously truncate some of his dialog, taking the heads and tails
Some of this dialog that went missing affected the other character's dialog so we trimmed a little of that too.
The result was cutting 4 pages out of the script just doing this! And it's weird because most of his lines are still there, they are just a little shorter....not dramatically so. Even small changes can make big differences over 100 pages.
He's chosen to play the character more like Jean Reno in the Professional.....fewer words, more looks and action. I'm pretty happy with it.
Here are a few shots of the main cast.
Tom had tried on this red suit he will be wearing in one scene (no, not the T shirt...he just threw it on). He's graciously loaned us his $5000 Dolce and Gabbana suit for the film. Matter of fact, he's doing all his own wardrobe. A real trooper.
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Mark Harris
Pain in the ass
No, it's not an issue in HD. It's an issue with DV itself, not really the DVX specifically. But the HVX is fine with it.
I've avoided the color all together myself, so I am no expert on it. It definitely is far less of an issue with HD than SD. I have heard of people complaining about it with HD though and I would look to see how the color is being resolved in your field monitor just to be on the safe side.
Thought I would mention it to be better safe than sorry, that is a pretty bright suit. No reason to worry too much about it though
Thought I would mention it to be better safe than sorry, that is a pretty bright suit. No reason to worry too much about it though
naveenmedia
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The red bleed shouldn't be a problem. The HVX picks up reds fine from what I've seen, and any minor problems that crop up can be adjusted by fudging the exact hue during the color grading process.
And it shouldn't be an issue on the DVD provided its being encoded by a professional DVD authoring shop using pro software, which I imagine a film of this budget will be.
And it shouldn't be an issue on the DVD provided its being encoded by a professional DVD authoring shop using pro software, which I imagine a film of this budget will be.
Ted Spencer
Veteran
Red *text* certainly looks terrible on anything NTSC that I've seen. It's just a blurry, off-register mess. Note that it's almost never used on anything you see on TV. Occasionally you'll see a commercial where they evidently didn't get the memo, and the red text is just out of control.
As far as Sizemore's suit is concerned I'd just do some lighting tests with it (Tom doesn't even need to be in it!) and see what you get. Maybe take it though a few CC steps as well to see if it gets problematic at that stage.
As far as Sizemore's suit is concerned I'd just do some lighting tests with it (Tom doesn't even need to be in it!) and see what you get. Maybe take it though a few CC steps as well to see if it gets problematic at that stage.
dougspice
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I've seen reds go blocky in HVX footage before. It doesn't seem to happen all the time, so I'm [not] sure exactly what triggers it, but the problem that occurs looks like a compression problem - something you can't fix in CC, in other words.
That said, it's not AWFUL... if you didn't have a trained eye, you might not notice. And like I said it doesn't happen all the time. I'll try to find an example if I can.
That said, it's not AWFUL... if you didn't have a trained eye, you might not notice. And like I said it doesn't happen all the time. I'll try to find an example if I can.
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