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The kodak website should have everything you could want to know about filmstocks. They give a very detailed but interesting explantation of different film stocks, and also have a multitude of other resources you might be interested in. The website provides far more than anyone could put as an...

Neither Letter box on camera, squeez on camera, and cropping in post is necessarily better than another. It varies from camera. On one camera, it may look better with on camera cropping than 4:3 then cropping in post. It all depends on the camera. Test it out.

It looks misshapen because you need to crop it. You must have recorded it in the squeeze mode, which stretches the picture, and requires you to crop it in post later.

Have you seen the movie Koyaanisqatsi? It uses a slow pan with time lapse, but they had to specially design one just for the film. Its probobly not practical for your budget to have a slow pan during a time lapse sequence. You can either have the slow pan (fluid head tri-pod), or you can have...

First off, this is probobly just a matter of mind vs matter, but what happens when you take a film at a certain ISO, but then rate it differently when shooting? All you're doing is pushing or pulling it right? How much can you you rate it off of its original ISO and still recieve good results...

I feel like the dialogue was too contrived. The plot is unclear to me since I was unable to read or follow the hackneyed story. This story just didn't hit home.

stay away from the polarizer, or you might make the water dissappear. I don't understand the physics behind it, but it elemenates reflection as you know, and in the past I have accidentally made the lake look empty, don't make that same mistake. It seems most practical to use a graduated ND...

I was first wondering what some different movies were that utilized high key lighting and low key lighting, since I am puzzled at the different effects achieved by each. I have never used a real 'lighting kit' or anything, just lights I could conjur in my own home, so just out of curiosity I...

In Eastwoods latest film for example (million dollar baby), in some of the night interior scenes, you can tell that the lights are very close to the subject because the shadows move with very slight movement, and the lighting was sort of unrealistic in that way, but also from where the light was...

21 Grams was not shot on DV. It was shot with a Moviecam SL and Zeiss Ultra Primes. They used Kodak Vision 250D 5246, 500T 5279, and 800T 5289. There are ultimately very few features shot on DV that actually make it. Blair Witch Project? For me at least though, until I fully get the hang of...

I've done a fair amount a research myself on Mini DV. If are looking for a high end DV camcorder, I would not go with the GS series. Its a very good camera for its price range, but I would still drop it in the consumer camera box. Now, it depends what you're shooting, how serious you are and all...

Okay, yeah,I was a little confused about that. Maybe there could be something that distinguishes those in the showcase from those in the contest. Thanks for the explanation.

It says how big the file is where you click to download and watch the film. Like for instance: y'a des jours comme ça is 57mb, and Here and There is 51mb.

For the 50mb contest, how are the ones that are over 50mb eligable? Just out of curiosity. It may have something to do with format things that I don't really understand. Thanks.

Well... There's no such thing as a neutral density lense, its called a neutral density filter. And it is possible to use both a wide angle lense and a neutral density filter. What you need to do, is see what filter size your built in lense takes: 28mm, 43, 49, 52, 55, 58, 62. Whatever, just look...

I just finished doing all of the camera work for one of my friends shorts-who directed. He didn't really direct though, so I took charge. Now, this would have been okay, but I didn't know what he wanted, and as it turned out he wasn't very articulate about what he wanted, and didn't really know...

how rigidly should storyboards be followed given that often when I am shooting some of the best shots I get I think up on location in the moment? With a story board doesn't that eliminate a lot of creativity? Is a shotlist apt? Because if you're on a schedule, it probobly doesn't account for...

Was it difficult for you to meet others that had a passion for filmmaking? How would you recommend meeting others that are dedicated to the buisness (with and without filmschool). Obviously filmschool helps you find others with the interest, but if you aren't in filmschool, or arent going...

Also, I was wondering. How do you get the most out of no-budget/low budget filmmaking? What can one do to make the best possible film with what they have? Thanks

I think its a great idea. Its original, but underdeveloped (which is why its just an idea at this point). If not to shoot, just for the experience you should write a script for it. As for the high school students playing the lawyer and homeless man, I think it would not work personally. It would...