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reyrePmadA

reyrePmadA

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Hello! I need some help with everything. I'm new to this sort of stuff.

I am very happy! I've just received the DVX100B and ordered the DVX book! (The book is still in the mail.) Anyways, I honestly have NO experience with any camera like this. I understand most of what everything does, but I'm having trouble getting it all started and learning exactly how to use all of it.

Now here's where I need help: I would like to shoot a movie that mostly takes place in the woods with stuff happening in and outside at night time. What should I do about lighting? Should I be using a specific lens on the camera? I have no special lenses or anything. All I've got is what came on the camera. Is there something I should buy?

I really have just started using all this equipment and would like your advice.
Any links on helping sites for Final Cut Pro would be useful too. I have just been given FCP and I am so used to just using iMovie. Anyways, thanks for all the help. You guys are great!
 
Congrats on your new DVX100B and your interest in film. You understand that your questions are general and amount to an education in film making, right? Not that you're asking bad questions - you're not. It's just that much of this differs depending upon the actual film you want to make.

My advice is to go shoot some tape and have fun! Shoot at different times of day, with different settings and go ahead and speak outloud what your doing so later one when you see a shot that seems to have everything right you can just listen to yourself saying what settings you used. Then go out and shoot some more with those settings. Then shoot some more. You can take a one-on-one class in FCP at the Apple store near you. Bring some of your own footage and that can be used during the training.
 
Try shooting during the day and then taking that footage into FCP and messing with it...you'd be suprised how you can make it look.

If you're going to try this method, MAKE SURE you don't film the sky, otherwise it won't look like night time at all. Instead go for close ups and high angle shots (hold the camera up high and look down).

like the previous poster said, the best way to learn is to go out and shoot. good luck:happy:
 
TheComo said:
Search and Lurk around DVXuser, great source
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Agreed (for once) :happy:

I'd also recommend going to your local Home Depot and picking up some cheap halogen work lights to get you started playing with light. Get at least three.

-brown
 
Also, is very important that you should buy the UV protector filter before using the camera.:beer:
 
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