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- Sat Mar 31, 2007 10:29 pm
- Forum: Club and General Issues
- Topic: PUBLICITY
- Replies: 17
- Views: 18781
PUBLICITY
You'd think as movie makers we would be good at communication ... but ... How many clubs have a publicity officer who actively seeks coverage in the local newspaper, on local radio and tv, who contacts other organisations, schools and official bodies when there is something vaguely relevant to their...
- Fri Mar 23, 2007 12:23 pm
- Forum: Club and General Issues
- Topic: Another movie on IAConline in YouTube
- Replies: 11
- Views: 13321
Hi Terry I'd just been looking at the YouTube material before popping on here ... great stuff. I know Westcliff do a lot of mock adverts and so on which might go down very well ... When can we hope for another longer work of fiction from you? Your documentaries about the Hope school for disadvantage...
- Sat Mar 10, 2007 11:06 pm
- Forum: Club and General Issues
- Topic: Another movie on IAConline in YouTube
- Replies: 11
- Views: 13321
- Thu Mar 08, 2007 1:04 pm
- Forum: Equipment and Technical Issues
- Topic: Film competitions - Mini DV or DVD?
- Replies: 24
- Views: 31463
Yes, passing any digital signal through an S-Video socket will degrade it slightly. If you run that signal into a digital recorder of some kind the finished result will be a slightly-degraded-digital-copy. But the issue earlier in the thread was about copying DVD films onto MiniDV tape for use in aw...
- Wed Mar 07, 2007 9:46 am
- Forum: Equipment and Technical Issues
- Topic: Lighting
- Replies: 9
- Views: 11220
I asked a friend who makes a lot of videos of bands and his reply was: Good quality video, film or photography is simply not possible in low light. It is, however, possible to shoot in a well lit environment and make it appear that it was shot :- 1) In a dimly lit jazz club 2) At night 3) In a coal ...
- Mon Mar 05, 2007 11:54 pm
- Forum: Competitions, Festivals and The Art of Film
- Topic: Shocking !
- Replies: 28
- Views: 34528
- Sun Mar 04, 2007 11:58 pm
- Forum: Competitions, Festivals and The Art of Film
- Topic: Shocking !
- Replies: 28
- Views: 34528
A judge is not worthy of their post unless they are open minded to assess and reward: • the skill for the camera craft, • quality of the soundtrack, • creativeness, flow and structure of the edit, • a package that sparkles for viewing value. Reward must only go to craftsmanship, technique, art, cre...
- Sun Mar 04, 2007 9:18 pm
- Forum: Equipment and Technical Issues
- Topic: Film competitions - Mini DV or DVD?
- Replies: 24
- Views: 31463
Michael - thanks for the detailed notes on making perfect DVDs on a Mac system. Can anyone give similarly detailed notes for PC systems with program names and settings? It would be very much welcomed. Who suggested that copies of DVD's are degraded? Not so, they are identical and I use Titanium Toas...
- Sun Mar 04, 2007 6:48 pm
- Forum: Equipment and Technical Issues
- Topic: Film competitions - Mini DV or DVD?
- Replies: 24
- Views: 31463
Every competition manager I have spoken to in the last year has a tale of DVD problems. Some point-blank refuse to play in some machines, others stutter, while many play perfectly. For the next year or so at least I recommend sending Mini-DV tapes to any competition that can accept them. Very occasi...
- Thu Mar 01, 2007 11:08 pm
- Forum: Club and General Issues
- Topic: How can a comp judge be helpful?
- Replies: 44
- Views: 39111
None of my club went to sleep when I showed it to them (quite unusual - someone usually dozes off) Maybe that is one thing an outside judge really can help with ... telling you when the movie is too long or too slow ... even occasionally when a movie is too fast for people to follow. In my own atte...
- Wed Feb 28, 2007 5:12 pm
- Forum: Film Comments - a moderated forum
- Topic: Sound Buzz
- Replies: 2
- Views: 5841
Hi Ian First make sure the buzz really is on the tapes. I once spent ages mucking about with a soundtrack hum only to find that a fault in my computer kit was adding the buzz at that stage and the original tapes were fine! There are lots of sound editing programs which can help. My own favourite is ...
- Thu Feb 22, 2007 5:10 pm
- Forum: Equipment and Technical Issues
- Topic: Editing Software - What do you use?
- Replies: 28
- Views: 25616
One German film maker who has a large output on DVD swears by Ulead and he has used most systems on the market! Prompted by Ned's mention of his sound editing programs I want to mention the shareware program Goldwave which I use more often than Adobe's Audition because I am more familiar with it. BU...
- Thu Feb 22, 2007 12:01 pm
- Forum: Equipment and Technical Issues
- Topic: Editing Software - What do you use?
- Replies: 28
- Views: 25616
I too am an Adobe Premiere Pro user - in my case v1.5. It certainly has enormous power for all normal editing purposes. I have, but have not explored, Adobe After Effects, with the vague thought that I might someday need to use its power for special effects. I do a fair bit of subtitling and like th...
- Mon Feb 19, 2007 10:58 am
- Forum: Club and General Issues
- Topic: Travelling Abroad
- Replies: 5
- Views: 8354
I'll echo Ian's reassurance there. Take your camera as hand luggage so that you can protect it from the rough handling which other baggage often receives. The x-rays and other devices used on hand baggage are fairly low powered and if the officials are worried about something they can immediately as...
- Thu Feb 15, 2007 8:20 am
- Forum: Club and General Issues
- Topic: Introduction
- Replies: 2
- Views: 4802
Welcome aboard, Stephen. Give my regards to Billy Ellwood, Tony Cox and the crew at Newcastle. Nothing's perfect, not even IAC, but all in all it's pretty good. There are lots of people helping and encouraging each other. Is your nicname an indication of an interest in animation, a hint that you are...