Richard Herd
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[Bill Davis] “My advice is to re-think your clips storage. Put all the clips on their own drive and re-link them to your timeline clips in big batches”
Something similar can be done after-the-fact using “Media Manager.”
File > Media Manager…
(There’s details to wade through, but they’re self-explanatory.)
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Depends what school one attends. After I graduated film school, I followed the auteur theory. Other graduates are working full time in the biz.
If you’re in LA and not cranking out narratives, my question is: Why not make that IMDB profile a mile long?
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Wow, that’s a great idea!
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[Dennis Size] “It needs to be free of shadows and evenly washed …think driver’s license “portraiture” lighting.”
Ain’t that a mug shot?
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Consider forming an LLC and getting a “hobbyist” business license.
The LLC will limit your liability, and a hobbyist business license will regulate your sales to somewhere around $5,000/year (depending on the local municipal code).
With those two things, you are not a business threat to an employer.
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Let me preface: My wife teaches at University of Reno, Nevada (where they have a similar program–as do almost all Universities, especially Div 1). Last summer she taught a distance learning class where the on-campus a/v department video’d her class and streamed it to a campus in Las Vegas. Later, she presented a paper on her experiences with distance learning, to the Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association. Much of the paper dealt with the technology and how limiting it is, for a teacher. I can imagine the horror having these same people on a budget committee.
My thinking is you need to avoid technology discussions altogether, because, from a certain point of view, video is a black box of magic that doesn’t produce the promised results. Heck, my wife–love her a lot–and her colleagues can’t even see the difference between SD and HD. The technology argument is a moot argument. That is, you won’t convince them.
How will you convince them? In my opinion, you need to rely on the artistic side. Think “film school” and “film studies” applied to the University’s PR.
More importantly: Is there anyway for you to find out how many enrollment videos you sent out last year and to correlate that to student enrollment? From there, you can count costs and measure enrollment (ie tuition/fees).
In my opinion, you also should be very careful with counting costs because at $1500/minute, for a 10 minute video is $15,000, which if you compare to the yearly salary plus employment burden ain’t such a bad deal–especially when Universities are cutting key services to students, like the math lab, the writing center, library services.
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[Brendan Coots] “It sucks short term to lower prices, but virtually every business in the world feels the need to at some point or another just to keep their doors open.”
Truer words have never been spoken. There are proven ways to do this. They’re called promotions (a.k.a coupons).
Marketing 101:
— Product
— Price
— Promotion
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“When style is exaggerated and obvious, the work becomes nothing but pure nostalgia.” — Albert Camus
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In my opinion, the filmmaker crossed the lines because this is a gun fight. It’s supposed to be a complicated and confusing game of “chess” between equal combatants. The filmmaker wanted the audience to feel/experience what the gunfighters are feeling/experiencing.
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Ain’t gonna happen. The HVX200 needs 100 lx (about 10 fc) just to get to minimum. MINIMUM!
However, you can try this: boos the gain all the way, and open the shutter angle all the way. For this, you’ll definitely want to use a tripod.