Blub06
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toke lahti, you might not be aware of this but your questions (and self conscious answers) have a harsh accusatory, gotcha quality which tells me that you are young. Do you want us to know that much about you?
Chris
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Keep in mind that over the last 8 years many many many broadcast and cable network shows have used the DV format. B camera thought the 200 might be, I anticipate it as the primary camera for the vast majority of uses.
Panasonic has really embraced the concept of gales of creative destruction, where you take the best of what you
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Don’t forget those moments when you must sacrifice a camera, on the one hand trash the Varicam on the other the 200, I’d go with the 200. Of course you would be crying when the Vericam hit the wall or the other car or what ever, with the 200 you would be laughing all the way to the edit room.
Chris
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The truth is $500,000 is nothing, you have to want to do this because you wont make any money. Most department heads will make around $250 per day no over time. Most small shoots like this one shoot for no more than 24 days, 6 days per week. To stretch it to 35 + 3 is insane, but who am I to judge, he he he. Most films like yours work out some kind of differed pay deal on top of the small daily/weekly pay. Pay me my rate which will be %80 differed, etc. You will never see a penny of the differed payment, you have to want to cut the project, that
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Wow, you have issues.
Is the director a former assistant director AD or an assistant to a director. An AD is much better than an assistant to. An AD will at least understand how a set works in an important way and is more likely to drive things forward as a director. You have no idea how important it is for a director to drive things forward on a long shooting schedule and not fall in love with a shot or a moment and take a day shooting what should take four hours. If its an assistant to a director, oh boy…
Indy films by their nature are kind of lucky that they are alive, to mention issues regarding cast members or crew members will not be appreciated, it will be seen as cutting at the thin treads that are keeping the film alive. Of course each film and each situation is its own world and maybe you can mention something so its a play it by ear kind of thing. But watch out if you stick your finger in a pie everyone else seems happy with, your job is to edit or shoot or do sound not to challenge the producers or directors likes or dislikes.
You will be cutting while they shoot, unless the director is a control freak and does not want any forward motion in that direction until he is finished with the distraction of shooting. I would schedule three months to bring the film to a final cut, if cutting while shooting, this does not include a final mix.
Your rate is far in excess of a union rate. I recognize that you are also charging for the equipment but even if you say that your rate will only be half of the total of $4,000 your rate is close to union and for a little film, that
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Backlight, and lots of it.
Chris
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You just hold on there buster. Our upset is real, you cant just cavalierly sluff it off as just so much crocodile tears.
I haven
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The nature of tech is that it evolves. You can wait for the next ipod, computer, car etc the next is always just around the corner. Did you know that HD will be supplanted by UHD (Ultra High Def)? They are already testing UHD, Sony has a system as do others its a 4k system. Should we all wait?
My inclination is to dive in. For $6,000 its a steal. No one is waiting for UHD when HD is just now breaking upon us. The 100/a/b are iterations one to the other. Those cameras were Panasonics first attempt as reaching that brand new market, the indi film people who were actually shooting video and wanted to do it at 24fps. As they learned, they (Panasonic) changed and improved the thing, a natural evolution kind of thing. The same will happen with the 200, the camera should be paid for several times over by the time the next one comes out.
I can only speak my mind.
Chris
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(he starts showing me all these “digital” channels that Cox is flogging and the signals from one network to the next are WILDLY different in resolution)
So this is the TRUTH! It dawned on me two years ago and has been confirmed several times since, many people simply don
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Of course that