Ryan Elder
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It’s just a short film that some other actors I know wanted me to direct, and I wanted more projects to do. Since everyone is volunteering, I didn’t want everyone to have to get up so early on their day off, but I suppose I could have.
However, when the sun rises, you only have like an hour of shoot time before it changes. I tried the whole shooting during dawn or dusk before, and you only have like an hour. If I want to shoot a scene that might take 8 hours, I then have to be reduced to one, that really limits my shoot time.
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Oh okay, but are you saying that depth of field will help reduce shaking on a long lens with a gimbal, or what are you saying?
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Okay thanks. But would the jib look as controlled in the movement as a dolly or a slider since is a jib moves a lot more freely though, if that makes sense?
What about the slow and controlled movement of this scene, for example?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UfcemNhlqyA
During the push ins to the faces especially, would the jib still be a good tool for the job, or does it move too freely and wouldn’t look right, or look as controlled?
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A lot of people say they like the slider cause it’s cheaper and easier, but wouldn’t there be a lot of situations where a filmmaker would desire moving more than three feet though?
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Okay thanks. I can afford to get the gear for the shots, I just want to get the correct gear, but need to know what gear is best and what is correct.
The slider and dolly both have their ups and downs, so just not sure, but I can afford one of them.
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Okay thanks, but what if in two days the sun is so bright, that I can’t expose for the skin to be correct? This happened on a shoot before where I had no ND filters and the sun was so bright that I couldn’t get the exposure down enough for the skin to be correct, and it was still overexposed, even at the camera’s lowest setting, without an ND filter.
What then?
As far as getting fabric to hang over the actor goes, that only works if the actor is standing still. This scene involves the actor having to do a lot walking and running, so he will run past the fabric in no time though. So I am not sure if it will work though.
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But how would a jib work for those moves though? Wouldn’t it not have enough range, if I get small enough to fit into most locations?
Plus if I wanted to push into someone’s face, would the jib looked controlled enough for that type of movement?
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Especially since once the skin is overexposed to a certain level, it can’t be brought back down after.
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Okay thanks, but we are just shooting outside, and I wasn’t able to get all the equipment I wanted. I don’t have a bounce, or ND gels or anything that can help compensate.
As for letting the sky blow out, and replacing it in post, what I do about people’s skin being too bright though?
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As for zooming out, what if I want to dolly in on someone’s face with a 85mm cause it looks better? I don’t to be limited to wide lenses only, if the wheelchair does that, then perhaps it’s not for me, if I can’t go as high as 85mm even.