Ryan Elder
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Well we were shooting at night which called for the aperture to be opened up more and have a more shallow DOF compared to say, outside in the daylight. So that is what I would be pulling focus for is situations like that, where I need to open the aperture more, for light.
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Okay thanks, but why not use a gimbal for some shots, what’s the big deal?
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Oh okay thanks, I never knew there was a follow focus for the Crane 2 cause everyone is using the plug in electronic focus device.
So for the price of the follow focus, is it actually worth betting compared to the electronic focus of the crane? By electronic focus, I mean the part of the crane where you turn the dial on the crane, and a wire plugs into the camera, and focuses the camera electronically, while you turn the focus wheel.
Is that electronic focus more or less reliable then the wireless follow focus?
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Okay thanks, but every time I have had DPs use autofocus, it always can’t keep up. The last shoot I did, several takes were not useable because of autofocus either being too slow, or not knowing what to focus on. For example, I had an actor stick his hand out, doing a ‘talk to the hand’ motion, but I wanted to keep focus on his face the whole time, but the camera keeps choosing to focus on his hand when he does that. Some takes I had to choose and live with them going out of focus on the wrong times.
So the camera is not smart enough to know what to have in focus, and what not to have in focus. The DP was using the Sony A7s I believe.
But I don’t want to have to choose my DPs based on how good their autofocus is. Isn’t there a better way, but still be able to use a gimbal or something like that?
Or is the autofocus actually that good on some camera, that you can actually program which actor you want to be in focus, and when?
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Okay thanks. What do you mean by ‘kill the wing’?
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I guess I feel that his movies look too much like what other people are doing at the time though. Like for example, right now his movies have a yellow tint to them. I feel that a lot of movies do nowadays and that possibly David Fincher started this and so many other filmmakers copied that.
In the 90s, Deakins movies, also looked very much like other 90s movies. So he is very good but I feel he is kind of a trend follower perhaps. But maybe this isn’t him doing it, and the directors want him to follow the trends as far as looks go, rather than not. Unless I am wrong?
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One movie of his that never gets enough credit I thought was 1984, which also looks really good!
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Okay thanks. It’s a documentary short film, and the producer’s want to profit from it and send it into film festivals.
Is there any kinds of archival type footage I could use that is free and don’t have to worry about that? Basically I don’t want to show people being interviewed only in the documentary cause they do pause and things like that, and I don’t want to have to jump cut all the time, and want throw some sort of alternate footage over their dialogue if possible.
As for music, we already have a composer working on it, so that part’s okay. But what about archival footage or some sort of b roll?
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Oh okay thanks, I thought that the TVs were just playing movies exported in 1920 x 802 for movies that were shot in 2.35:1.
Perhaps windows media player can sense the black bars and get rid of them and make a shape of just the movie then?
So if distributors want 1920 x1080 then, then I will have to come up with a math formula to calculate how much percent the black bars should be at. Is there a formula for calculating that percentage?
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Oh okay then thanks.
So is there any reason to export at 1920 x 1080 with black bars, rather than just export at 1920 x 872? I mean it was said that it is better for TVs right, but I play blu ray movies on my computer, and when I open them in windows media player, there are no black bars cause windows media player makes the shape of the movie aspect ratio. So it seems that blu rays don’t even have black bars, and are just exported at whatever aspect ratio the movie was shot and edited in, unless I am wrong?