Steve K. opened this issue on Jul 24, 2015 · 4 posts
Steve K. posted Fri, 24 July 2015 at 7:44 PM
The 48 Hour Film contest is coming up here in Houston, so I dusted off some of my movie making books for a refresher. One that I like is:
Cinematic Storytelling: The 100 Most Powerful Film Conventions Every Filmmaker Must Know
http://tinyurl.com/pkm2q5t
$16 at Amazon and well worth it IMHO. The excerpt Amazon gives is not the best section, I think. For my purposes, I like the chapter on "Camera Motion". The idea is to tell the story visually, with little or no dialogue (always good for a 2 day contest, no voice acting & lip syncing), and also I try to avoid characters walking around, just more animation to do. Moving the camera is pretty easy in Carrara, probably much easier than for the live action folks. I mean, crane shots with no crane ... or drone ...
headwax. posted Sat, 25 July 2015 at 3:52 AM
thanks for that :) no drones, i like that.!
DUDU.car posted Sat, 25 July 2015 at 12:35 PM
I make real movies since I was 25 years old (60 next month) and a drone is a dream for a filmmaker.
When I see the evolution from argentic to numeric, from SD to HD and now these drones, I think I was born to early !
Steve K. posted Sun, 26 July 2015 at 5:37 PM
DUDU -
"Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic."
P.S. A friend just got his new Canon Powershot SX60 HS, with 65x zoom ... and WiFi ... and ...