Hugh DiMauro
June 3rd, 2003, 01:06 PM
This forum is fantastic. I feel the need to contribute three items.
1) I believe I have found a "frame like" mode on the Sony DCR TRV-20. You can use this "feature" if your Sony video camera has what is called "flash" mode (I think it's in the picture effect section). Stick your camera in "flash" mode and set it to the very first click. That's it. The frame stutters slightly in the same way film moves. I apologize if this idea has already been submitted.
2) A local filmmaker screened his digital 8 movie (shot with a Sony Handycam) at our local multiplex. I'm talking he projected it with the video source from the projection booth on a huge screen in a stadium sized theatre. It came out beautifully! Has anybody else tried this with equally amazing results? Read all about it at www.Steelspirit.com.
3) Finally, as an independent filmmaker, realizing all of the affordable tools at our fingertips, I have completely lost my burning desire to break into the Hollywood club. Working independently from the big boys allows more freedom, more creativity and more interesting projects. I believe that the movie going public is tiring of the big budget cookie cutters and yearns for more character driven, smaller, independent projects shot by enthusiastic peope like us in these forums. If, as a group, we banded together, along with our tools, equipment and collective know how, we could make and show our projects at our local movie houses just like the fella mentioned above. And I believe our digital projects will rival, and even surpass, anything Hollywood churns out.
Waddaya think?
1) I believe I have found a "frame like" mode on the Sony DCR TRV-20. You can use this "feature" if your Sony video camera has what is called "flash" mode (I think it's in the picture effect section). Stick your camera in "flash" mode and set it to the very first click. That's it. The frame stutters slightly in the same way film moves. I apologize if this idea has already been submitted.
2) A local filmmaker screened his digital 8 movie (shot with a Sony Handycam) at our local multiplex. I'm talking he projected it with the video source from the projection booth on a huge screen in a stadium sized theatre. It came out beautifully! Has anybody else tried this with equally amazing results? Read all about it at www.Steelspirit.com.
3) Finally, as an independent filmmaker, realizing all of the affordable tools at our fingertips, I have completely lost my burning desire to break into the Hollywood club. Working independently from the big boys allows more freedom, more creativity and more interesting projects. I believe that the movie going public is tiring of the big budget cookie cutters and yearns for more character driven, smaller, independent projects shot by enthusiastic peope like us in these forums. If, as a group, we banded together, along with our tools, equipment and collective know how, we could make and show our projects at our local movie houses just like the fella mentioned above. And I believe our digital projects will rival, and even surpass, anything Hollywood churns out.
Waddaya think?