DTP_Dustin.K
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Hello good people,
This is my first post on these forums so I apologize if I posted this in the wrong section.
My name is Dustin, i'm 16 years old and i'm an aspiring filmmaker. Over the last years i've done a couple of short films and experimental things and i've showed them off to my friends but also to my teachers. My art teacher for example. He's really excited about what I do and how dedicated I am to becoming a filmmaker. He's always doing things for me like getting me in the school's talentshow in it's film category and giving me paper articles about films in general.
However recently he has taken it to the next step.. He came across a woman who organizes filmevents at my local cinema. It's a club for filmlovers who can watch movies that are not in the cinema for the public simply because they're not blockbusters.
So he told her about me and what I do. And so after a bit of talking she proposed to him that we should make a little short film as a "preshow" for one of those events.
I couldn't believe it at first and of course I said yes because this is a huge oppurtunity for me and my friends to make an awesome short film that will be screened in our local cinema with all those filmlovers watching it. What an honour!
But here's comes the problem. As you can tell by the title the fact that it'll be screened in a cinema might become a bit of a problem. I'm 16 years old, I started out at 14 so unfortunately I don't own a BMCC, FS100/700, C300 or Scarlet. I've got a Canon 600D. Now, I have seen Act of Valor so I know what a DSLR on steroids looks like on the big screens. But I don't really own cinema glass nor is my 600D converted to PL for that matter. This oppurtunity is so important to me that not doing it is not really an option. Just imagining our logo and my name on the big screen doubles my heartrate and fills my heart with excitement. So i'm left with 2 problems:
Video quality, is it something that can be forgiven with a good story or will it just be so bad that it won't do the story any good and bother the audience? A while ago in a town nearby a group of young filmmakers made a 007 fanfilm with a DV camera and it got screened in a cinema too but i'm not sure how big those screens are. The cinema i'm talking about has screens of roughly 15m (~50 ft) by 5m (~16,5 ft) and I believe they use 2K digital projectors. I do plan on renting a Canon 24-70mm f/2.8 L II lens for a couple of days so I at least have the best optical quality without breaking the bank on multiple prime lenses like a Zeiss set.
The package, I've done some research and today's digital cinema's work with DCP's. Digital Cinema Packages. I quickly found out that there's a way to make your own DCP's with 2K JPEG 2000's but it's VERY risky and it takes a LOT of time. And of course professional labs are no options for a 0-budget project.
So i'm hoping to get some tips in this topic regarding what I can do to get the absolute max out of my little DSLR and how I can best deliver my product to get the most out of it.
I also posted this on the Cinema5D forums but not all of you guys are on those forums so I figured i'd see what I can get here.
Best regards, Dustin.
This is my first post on these forums so I apologize if I posted this in the wrong section.
My name is Dustin, i'm 16 years old and i'm an aspiring filmmaker. Over the last years i've done a couple of short films and experimental things and i've showed them off to my friends but also to my teachers. My art teacher for example. He's really excited about what I do and how dedicated I am to becoming a filmmaker. He's always doing things for me like getting me in the school's talentshow in it's film category and giving me paper articles about films in general.
However recently he has taken it to the next step.. He came across a woman who organizes filmevents at my local cinema. It's a club for filmlovers who can watch movies that are not in the cinema for the public simply because they're not blockbusters.
So he told her about me and what I do. And so after a bit of talking she proposed to him that we should make a little short film as a "preshow" for one of those events.
I couldn't believe it at first and of course I said yes because this is a huge oppurtunity for me and my friends to make an awesome short film that will be screened in our local cinema with all those filmlovers watching it. What an honour!
But here's comes the problem. As you can tell by the title the fact that it'll be screened in a cinema might become a bit of a problem. I'm 16 years old, I started out at 14 so unfortunately I don't own a BMCC, FS100/700, C300 or Scarlet. I've got a Canon 600D. Now, I have seen Act of Valor so I know what a DSLR on steroids looks like on the big screens. But I don't really own cinema glass nor is my 600D converted to PL for that matter. This oppurtunity is so important to me that not doing it is not really an option. Just imagining our logo and my name on the big screen doubles my heartrate and fills my heart with excitement. So i'm left with 2 problems:
Video quality, is it something that can be forgiven with a good story or will it just be so bad that it won't do the story any good and bother the audience? A while ago in a town nearby a group of young filmmakers made a 007 fanfilm with a DV camera and it got screened in a cinema too but i'm not sure how big those screens are. The cinema i'm talking about has screens of roughly 15m (~50 ft) by 5m (~16,5 ft) and I believe they use 2K digital projectors. I do plan on renting a Canon 24-70mm f/2.8 L II lens for a couple of days so I at least have the best optical quality without breaking the bank on multiple prime lenses like a Zeiss set.
The package, I've done some research and today's digital cinema's work with DCP's. Digital Cinema Packages. I quickly found out that there's a way to make your own DCP's with 2K JPEG 2000's but it's VERY risky and it takes a LOT of time. And of course professional labs are no options for a 0-budget project.
So i'm hoping to get some tips in this topic regarding what I can do to get the absolute max out of my little DSLR and how I can best deliver my product to get the most out of it.
I also posted this on the Cinema5D forums but not all of you guys are on those forums so I figured i'd see what I can get here.
Best regards, Dustin.