Alan Lloyd
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It’s called “crowdsourcing” and it is spec work.
Someone pays for spec work. Mostly the people who do it for free in the hopes of getting chosen.
Don’t do this. Discourage it. It undercuts every one of us who is working at making a living.
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I worked on the one-hour “Real Meaning of Halloween” special for a local puppet show known as Transylvania TV that the producers funded with a Kickstarter page.
Fun show that actually got more than they asked for. One hint I can offer is to give people some sort of spiff for donating. Something associated with the show they can’t get any other place is good. We had the top donors come in to watch a day of production and gave out metric buttloads of little goodies to most of the other donors. Then all donors were credited and invited to the preview screenings.
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[Michael Kammes] “Aside from “sloppy editing” (yes I’m stealing thunder from whoever was going to make that comment) has anyone come up with a ‘term’ to describe this? Jump Cut – to me – doesn’t seem to adequately explain this particular (*cough*) motif.”
Annoying works for me.
It was OK – to a point – when Godard used it in the original Breathless, but it shows an utter lack of respect for a viewer to me when I see it now.
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Do you have Soundbooth installed? There’s a spectrum analyzer in there, and it can tell you/show you if there’s been anything of a boost in the low frequencies. It also has up to a 30-band EQ if you need to clean that up.
Have you by chance changed your speaker setup/settings outside CS4?
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During a day, the sun not only rises and sets, it moves laterally and the color temp changes (orange/blue/orange) with the angle and passage through the atmosphere.
You’ve set yourself quite a challenge if you’re going to do it solo.
I’d try a setup with five to seven lights, orient and wedge them accordingly, then put them on programmable dimmers. Hope your budget allows for something like that.
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Path names within projects will also be an interesting open question on transfer.
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The black drapes will look good with strong color breakup on them from side-lights.
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[Scott Sheriff] “Students should be taught not only how to light, but how to do it safely. Even if you can avoid hot lights issue by using fluorescent fixtures, there are still plenty of other safety concerns. Media/film students really need to have experience in how to handle hot lights, since they are still the dominant light in the industry. If there isn’t anyone at the school with practical lighting experience, it might be a good idea to go to a lighting workshop, or hire someone to come in for a day and go over the basics.”
True, true, true.
Especially the safety part. Back when I was a staffer, I got an intro to a guy who had been a gaffer in the British film industry. (As an aside, there, to refer to yourself as a gaffer means you have been specifically hired by a director to light a feature. Just being a “lighting guy” isn’t quite enough.)
I requested that our lead guy find some budget bucks and had him come in and give us a half-day workshop with the focus being on safety, as we seemed to have intermittent bouts of broken instruments, falling stands, and whatnot happening, though thankfully no fires or injuries.
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As Mark S. says above, it’s a standoff.
For my part, I’d seriously question working with this person again. Not a “team player” from what I read in your post.
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It’s difficult to say without seeing examples, though there is a possibility. Lay the image over itself. In the effects settings, set the “blend mode” of the top one to “screen” and mess with the opacity setting to see if that works.
There are other possible ways of opening up a shot, though again, it’s not easy to say without seeing some of it. A framegrab, perhaps?