IAC DISCUSSION FORUMS

Dads Army- brilliantly funny and frighteningly true! Thank god the enemy never got to our soil- we'd have been done for! But anyways, I don't set out a plan for when or where a film might be seen or shown. The movie in it's own right is the focus of attention. Ideas come from all around, possibly a ...

Lip Sync is relatively easy to do, providing the actor can do it.

Which brings me back to the subject of local actors so I'm the only one who's ever done lip-syncing in Caithness.

Oh Peter, Peter, Peter. It's all too serious. I'm an actor, director and writer. I have first hand eperience acting on stage and screen and waiting is no problem for me. I know people do get nervous- very nervous and can't all be like me, able to stand silent in a post office que. Working on both si...

The best way to learn the craft of movies is on-the-job learning. If you are doing it whilst receiving an explanation of the process then you will take it in far better than just having discussion on it's own. I think I covered it here. On the job learning and yes if the camera bloke doesn't know ho...

This morning I was amazed by the number of legs in my bed, so I lept up, grabbed a box and removed the spider. I wouldn't say equipment is expensive atol. You can get expensive equipment but judging by the amount of stuff surrounding me at the moment well. Film Thurso is a poor group but have gather...

This is not unique among clubs, in amateur dramatics everyone wants to be an actor / starlet in their own spotlight. It's across the board. My club has camera people and writers but getting an actor (see tufts of hair on floor). There is no shortage of actors in Thurso, just they all want instant fa...

My god, how do I follow on from here? Well we like to teach as we work with a fundimental approach- don't panic about technical stuff, it just isn't complicated. I have seen in other forum far worse cases of folk constantly talking aout making "test" films. What the heck's that all about. ...

It seems to me, and I'm not a man of outspoken opinion, that we have the perfectionist scenario going on here. In my local area the there is this bloke (not me, no really not me) and he is a self professed perfectionist. It always has to be right, no techy glitches or faults of any kind before durin...

I fully agree about the showmanship. Part of the problem is cost. Curtain racks require maintainance but overall the diffrence it makes to the show is worth it. Not all managers would see that in this profit era. If I were running a cinema I would most certainly be looking to make it profitable but ...

Whilst running around the Playhouse Cinema, Perth, (large town) yesterday I suddenly thought about what was about to happen in cinema when the projectionist mentioned that they are soon to get a digital projector. This consideration was further enhanced by taking a look at the old Picture House in T...

Stickey emulsion, Ah yes. We came into a collection of hours and hours of mag units from a private collection which had been stored in a farm shed that had slowly collapsed over a number of years. Whilst the tapes will play it was painful to watch them run as the emulsion stuck to the backside of th...

This thread is like my local newspaper (?) in which most news isn't news. It's just a carefully written free advert! It's time we charged by the column inch!

We do tell people about film. One of our young members buys the occasional cartridge of 64T and he's only 20 years old. He has used K40 and has the same opinion- better resolution and better value for money. We haven't stopped promoting film to our members we've just stopped using film because we ha...

:shock: Er, um, like, what? Is no-one getting this down? Super 8 shoots up to double the cost knocking my group and many others out of film all together and then it is suggested that we try 16mm- FOUR TIMES THE COST before we even think about processing. I am agast! Look guys it's like this- if anyo...

We've used all manner of super 8mm including negative stock on limited work but the fact remains the cost of any other super 8 usage is double that of K40. The only thing nearest was the Quartzchrome from Russia which we love but we don't want to make everything in black and white. The grainy image ...