[William Mims]

When I started this thread it was based on decades of ‘Hollywood’ experience in film, and later in the nineties, trying to get video to look more like film. It never worked. It was not about d.o.f., it was about how video captures light. For example, shooting a street lamp at night was a dead give away that it was video, not film. In those days major distributors would have nothing to do with a video shot feature. Snobs or just the fact the technology was just not there yet, I don’t know. My original question in this thread was about how to set the EX3’s settings so that when the finished project is transferred to film for projection in a theater it looks normal. (Normal meaning the audience does not know the difference)
Those settings involve three-two pull down, how the blacks look in the background, etc. I do not have time, nor living in Wisconsin instead of L.A. am I able to shoot tests, run to the film lab and screen the results to see if I’ve got it right. Since Public Enemies was shot in Wisconsin, I hope I run across info on what settings they used so that inter-cutting EX1 with the rest of their footage was seamless. I think this forum is made up of shooters, editors, producers and therefore has a collective mass of knowledge. For that reason, your input is valuable. You know what works and what doesn’t.
The media outlets today are amazing. Not like the eighties when I tried to ‘break into’ Hollywood. Now you can sell your project to a huge number of outlets. The stuff I have seen on Sundance Channel for example, would never have sold in the past. There is a monster that Hollywood can no longer feed with their bloated film production costs, now with equipment like the EX3 and others, we can get our ideas out there to be seen.
What am I saying? I’m saying dust off that script you wrote and start shooting! You just may surprise yourself with what you can do with that idea in the back of your head that you thought would make a good movie. Guess what? It will, so do it. In the meantime let’s share info anywhere we can find it so we build a set of rules on all the settings needed to insure those fat snobs in major studios can’t see the difference between our video and their $150K Arri 35mm film camera’s product.
Shakesphere said: The play is the thing… That means it’s not the equipment you use, it’s the story you tell that is important to your audience.

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[William Mims]

Thanks guys.

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