Todd Terry
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Lookin’ good!…
…and now you have another trick up your sleeve for next time.
T2
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Todd Terry
Creative Director
Fantastic Plastic Entertainment, Inc.
fantasticplastic.com
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[Kim Huston] “extra paperwork where they need to see old tax returns though?”
Maybe, it just depends on the landlord. But it is what it is, you know.
There is not much getting around it… you are not an employee, you are self employed. In the present setup, the producers or production companies that you work for are not your employers… as a freelancer, they are your clients.
Unless you can get one of these companies to actually legally “put you on the payroll,” listing yourself as “self employed” is really the only option.
T2
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Todd Terry
Creative Director
Fantastic Plastic Entertainment, Inc.
fantasticplastic.com
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My pleasure….
Yes, Jack, those in that example are all trombone shots.
Some are short, some (such as the “Jaws” one) involve extremely long dollys and radical focal-length changes.
I’ll have to say, I didn’t remember the one from “Goodfellas” at all, and I’ve seen that movie numerous times. Just shows how a compelling story can suck you in and and make you unaware of the technicalities that are happening around you.
T2
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Todd Terry
Creative Director
Fantastic Plastic Entertainment, Inc.
fantasticplastic.com
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I will just caution to be be very careful and read the policies that you wish to purchase very carefully….
Our insurance has always been with the same company… it’s all the usual stuff, damage: theft, fire, vehicles, and a couple of million bucks worth of liability…
However in the early days here I also had a special rider just for damage to photographic equipment. Once when I had a claim (one of the very few times that I had a claim, in fact) because something had been dropped or damanged, the agent quickly pointed out that the fine print in the photographic rider excluded any loss on any claim that included or contained any kind of “glass breakage” whatsoever… if there was any glass breakage the entire claim was not paid, even if that wasn’t the primary damage. Ergo, fairly useless in the photographic world. This is a well-known and nationally-respected company (well, not resepected by me, anymore). We quickly dropped that and went with different coverage.
Just gotta be careful….
T2
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Todd Terry
Creative Director
Fantastic Plastic Entertainment, Inc.
fantasticplastic.com
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I couldn’t get the video to load and I’m not totally sure from your description, but what I think you might be talking about is known as a “trombone” shot…
It is created by dollying the camera in while the lens zooms out (or conversely, by dollying out while the lens zooms in), so that the subject stays the same screen size but the perspective of the background radically shifts throughout the move. Very cool and creepy. Seen in a few Hitchcock movies (most notably in Vertigo). Best used very sparingly (maybe once in movie).
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Todd Terry
Creative Director
Fantastic Plastic Entertainment, Inc.
fantasticplastic.com
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Yes Wes….
Good guess, that’s exactly the way it is done.
There are plenty of professional scrim products made just for that, but your screen-door material will do pretty much the same thing (at a fraction of the cost, too).
Just a couple of things to watch out for….
You probably don’t want to just drape it over light stands, the preferable way would be to stretch it tight rather than drape it. Any folds, wrinkles, or just non-tight parts will give it away. The usual way to do it would be to stretch it in a frame.
Make sure the scrim is in the shade… if you put it far back enough so that it is in the sun and light hits the scrim itself it won’t work. If you have to put the scrim in the sun, flag it.
Make sure you have a reasonable distance between your talent and the scrim… the scrim must be out of focus for the gag to work.
Good luck!
T2
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Todd Terry
Creative Director
Fantastic Plastic Entertainment, Inc.
fantasticplastic.com
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[Don Greening] “Don’t ever use manual exposure…”
Hey Don… don’t you mean don’t ever use AUTO exposure? My advice would be to always use manual exposure.
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Todd Terry
Creative Director
Fantastic Plastic Entertainment, Inc.
fantasticplastic.com
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Well the DSR-390 is not what most people would consider a “smaller camera”… it’s not a 2/3″ camera but it is 1/2” in a full-size body. Not having used one, I don’t know what the tweakability of it is, but I would imagine there are a lot of adjustible parameters that would allow you to paint reasonably well… at least that’s the case with most cameras in that particular range.
T2
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Todd Terry
Creative Director
Fantastic Plastic Entertainment, Inc.
fantasticplastic.com
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Just depends on the camera… some are very tweakable, some hardly at all. The big question is, exactly what camera are we talking about?
For example I normally shoot with a Canon XLH1, and it has (if memory serves) 23 different adjustible parameters, so it is quite “paintable.” Other cameras I have, less so… and one or two, not at all. Just depends, your mileage may vary.
If not, you can cut contrast (to a degree) with filtration.
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Todd Terry
Creative Director
Fantastic Plastic Entertainment, Inc.
fantasticplastic.com
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Thanks Michael…
Come to think of it, I think I have an 8×8 1/2 silent grid packed away that I haven’t used in ages… I completely forgot about it because I almost only use 6x frames now, I can’t even remember the last time I used an 8x. I’m not sure that’s what I want (so it didn’t come to mind) but it’s sure worth digging it out to see if it gives me the look I’m after. If so, I’ll buy a 6x (or convince my better half to haul out the sewing machine and cut that one down).
Thanks!
T2
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Todd Terry
Creative Director
Fantastic Plastic Entertainment, Inc.
fantasticplastic.com