Production 7D movie 'Another night in Beijing'

Barry_Green said:
Those days will come back. Bannings will continue until morale improves. :evil:
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HAHAHA!!! I should sig that.

cjwolff said:
The guy at 1:23 looks like the type of guy I'd get into a bar fight with.
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Coupled with your avatar... dude... eat some chocolate or something. :)
 
mico said:
And to you Johnny Cola I say in the spring/summer of 2009 I went through a very similar thing with my mother and when I was brought to my knees because of the situation your posts always made laugh and think when I needed it and I truly hope you get what you need.
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Wow man I am so sorry.
And I am deeply humbled by your kind words.


Also I forgot to mention Barry Green and The DVX Book, a HUGE resource for a wide eyed artist looking to learn a new craft. Thank you.
 
Sorry to hear about ur mum Johnny, my mum is gonna live forever just to **** me!

I've been at film school 4 weeks now and I haven't learnt anything that I didn't already learn here in the last 9 months, and dvxuser hasn't cost me 40 grand.
 
Well here's hoping your mom will give you s**t forever!:beer:

And sorry about the film school thing. 40 grand wow. BUT... depending on your luck, the contacts/relationships you make can end up being worth millions!
 
Johnny Cola said:
Well here's hoping your mom will give you s**t forever!:beer:

And sorry about the film school thing. 40 grand wow. BUT... depending on your luck, the contacts/relationships you make can end up being worth millions!
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you can count on it

yeah the dude that runs the school used to be the dude that handed out all the funding $$$ so it should be 40 grand well spent and they have a RED should I feel the need which I don't at present. I didn't expect to learn much for the first 6 months given my dvxschooling.
 
dvxuser is a good place to keep up with fast changing and newly introduced camera technology and gear. Back in the old days when I went to film school (oh no grandpa!) all you had to edit on were steenbecks, moviolas, and the only options were kodak or fuji, so it wasn't so much about technology - you just concentrated on writing and making good movies.

So I hope that's what you get for your 40K, a workshop environment to practice the craft of moviemaking. I don't think you can learn that so well on this board, at least not unless you hook up with other filmmakers and do learn from each other in the real world.

I hope it's not 40K a year!

squig said:
you can count on it

yeah the dude that runs the school used to be the dude that handed out all the funding $$$ so it should be 40 grand well spent and they have a RED should I feel the need which I don't at present. I didn't expect to learn much for the first 6 months given my dvxschooling.
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omg 40 grand... I've learned my lesson when it comes to film schools - their really only good for the paper work side you can learn everything for free online and through books
 
sorry to bring this up again, but it may have more impact when a sane and respected member says it: the image doesn't look very cinematic. like the gh1 and unlike the 5d and d90, this camera seems to produce more "video like" images. in this case it could very well be due to overexposure though, in low light the "correct" exposure is usually one stop under or so to get good looking skin tones.
 
mattsand said:
sorry to bring this up again, but it may have more impact when a sane and respected member says it: the image doesn't look very cinematic. like the gh1 and unlike the 5d and d90, this camera seems to produce more "video like" images. in this case it could very well be due to overexposure though, in low light the "correct" exposure is usually one stop under or so to get good looking skin tones.
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who's the sane and respected member you speak of?

it's 40 grand for 2 years but we have a system here where the govt pays upfront and you pay the govt back a bit every year.
 
also, who said that critisism has to be constructive? we're judging the image quality of a new camera here, not helping the person behind it boost their ego and/or learn, right? and when did a nice friendly atmosphere become more important than the free flow of opinions and real honest debate? do we want to learn and become smarter, more creative, or do we want to stay where we are as long as we don't feel any resistance. i do realize that i'm pretty extreme on one side of that spectrum and that not everyone is the same, but come on.
 
I don't think anyone means it has to be a "nice, friendly atmosphere", without any room for honest debate. I think opinions should be stated, but there is a tactful way of doing so. And why shouldn't critiscm be constructive? You think that we move on and get better because some tool on a forum tells us that our work sucks? That doesn't make me want to get better, it just makes me want to punch said member in the face.

However, if the member said "your work sucks BECAUSE..." and gives me a reason and shows me where I can improve, then I have absolutely no problem with that.

You can judge the image quality of a camera, but why don't you wait to call it video-like when it actually is trying to be used in a cinematic way? I don't think this was meant to be a movie, like others have stated. Maybe OP's mistake was calling it a 'movie' and everyone assuming it had to be cinematic.

Kegan
 
I agree with Matt. Especially using Dan's other street and Guardian videos he did with the 5d and D90 as comparison.
 
I thought some of the shots looked very cinematic. But surely this is subjective. I think the typical cinematic look has more to do with lighting, composition and continuity than anything else. Maybe overall it doesn't look typically hollywood cinematic. Some great footage though and definately evidence of the 7Ds potential.
 
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