IAC DISCUSSION FORUMS

We're just 'film makers' aren't we? Can't be more descriptive than that, and I don't speak Latin or Greek. Quite right, Michael. I didn't mean to sound as if I were airing knowledge just trying to make a point, which you have done even better, that we do not need new words just because the distribu...

"Lots of marvellous people did lots of good things, but in a bumbling British way." Maybe that's what's good about the IAC? Not a lot of officious wannabees telling us what to do but kind-hearted folk being a valuable source of information, contacts, etc. Did I see 'semi-professional' in t...

Glad to see this query as we shall soon be looking for one. The throw and screen size needed are important for any query such as this so I'll put in that our maximum screen size is just over two metres wide but the projector's brightness would need to be adjustable for less and the maximum throw wou...

Thanks, both Dave and Michael. The animation article is good movie-making as well isn't it? Variation of shots and camera angle etc. The point about landscape films is valid, of course. The old advice for apparently sharp pictures - "get in close" - not applying so much in HD, I suppose. T...

Thanks for that, Chris. I thought that the circuitry would be similar to that use for radio microphones with a choice of bands available, though I have left mine on the one I found easiest to understand and it has never let me down. Our situation is different too. Although we would use the system in...

Michael or another who has been in the amateur field a long time but has a better memory than I have remind us of the name of the guy who made plasticine animation films, long before W&G. Of all the amateur films I've seen over the years, not really that many compared with some of you, his are t...

Is anyone using wireless loudspeakers with their projectors?
I guess the advantage of not having speaker cables to trip over/gaffer-tape down is that you need a mains lead to the speaker/amp setup that you can trip over/ etc.
Peter.

Our Sony (8 years old) has buttons with which you access saved settings. I set 'User 1' to widescreen and 'user 2' to 4:3. I have labelled user 3 as 'old films', I've forgotten why, but I think it's because the way I copy them they sometimes have too much contrast on the other settings. When we chan...

Hear, Hear, Dave. And strange as it may seem we do have an HD set and we do watch Downton Abbey but in SD because we record it on our HDD recorder the disc in which is already half full because we don't get round to watching all we record so we are now recording in SD. I sometimes switch the TV to t...

Thinking about this further last night I realised it's Video/S-video all over again, isn't it? I helped some young folk make their film for Duke of Edinburgh once and asked the teacher if she wanted it on VHS or S-VHS. It was made on digital but it must have been before DVDs were commonplace. What's...

Since I started this thread may I comment that no one has addressed my query, namely that so few 'punters' seem to have obtained BD players to use with their darn great HD screens! Odd when you consider the improvement over DVD's and the fact that BD players upscale (to some extent) DVD's. Living i...

Thanks for the compliment, Michael. Main reason we ( and I wouldn't want to go on my own) don't go to the cinema is because my wife has for many years been troubled by vestibular hyperacusis. Result - she would be screaming in pain. Also she cannot go to church weddings, funerals, even. Fortunately ...

Tom asks - Do you ever go to the cinema.
Answer not for many decades. Last time was probably the super huge screen (have forgotten what it's called) at the Film Museum & it's not in my league!
Thanks for all your replies.
Peter.

Thanks for your interest, Michael. I'll try to explain what I think lies behind my unhappiness with 16:9. I tend to make films where the proportion of landscape to portrait is much lower than some people's. My main interest is in people doing things that I find interesting. People stand upright. I m...

As I've said before, Tom, I don't like and don't feel happy with 16:9 but it seems OK as far as I can tell. You were right, of course, about the solution to the fluctuating exposure. I should revise from the instructions more often but actually I'm not sure that I really understood them in the first...