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Those were the days, my friend.

Who is protected by keeping father and son apart?

A reluctant sheriff is forced to confront his town's true source of crime. Hopefully my writing skills are better than my photoshop skills. Sheriff Badge courtesy of kelihope at stockexchange.

I got to see the spy-thriller Hanna at an advance screening last night. Overall, I think this movie had some great ideas and possibilities, but failed to fully realize them, primarily at the story level. It was very nicely shot, had a cool soundtrack from the Chemical Brothers. The story...

One from the edit suite. This is where it's at with the picture more or less locked, but nothing done with sound yet.

BTS/Production Stills. Photos courtesy Kathy McCann

CAST: Pascal Belanger as Alan Cornwall Jake Insley as Max Cornwall Esther Reich as Julie Cornwall E. Dantes as the Banker's Agent CREW Director: Mark Hollett Assistant Director: Dylan Thompson Director of Photography: Baddy Kahsay Boom Operator: Paul Belanger Make-up Artist...

The Banker's Agent

Cont'd, ran out of pictures Now we are almost there. This is where I stopped adjusting the lights and started testing some of the camera settings. The only one I'll put up here was upping the contrast. I feel I was 80-90% there. It's not perfect, I'd like to...

I was really inspired by Azmyth's thread on lighting cinematic, and really appreciated the insight from Perrone and others on that thread. With a shoot coming up this weekend, a new camera and light kit, and not enough experience putting together lighting setups, I figured it would be...

Now what do we have here.... aaaand Coincidence? I think not! MAH, charge up your lawyers and man the funny wigs. Time for a showdown! :Drogar-Love(DBG):

I shot an event on two cameras, both set to 60i. One was HD, one SD (4:3). Clips from both were placed on the timeline of an NTSC widescreen project. The SD clips were cropped to widescreen. HD clips were also cropped slightly. Minor colour correction applied, nothing else of significance...

I'm having trouble wrapping my head around the mechanics of recording wild lines at a location shoot. I understand the idea - recording extra takes in case you can't record sync sound like on a really wide frame, or as insurance against any problems that may have come up in the sync takes...

Yeah, it's easiest just to provide the wardrobe. I believe in the BC Performers Union contract, you can require actors to provide one wardrobe 'outfit,' but you must provide any additional wardrobe required. And if you do make them provide part of the wardrobe, you are responsible for any...