Recent content by curtinparloe

Well I liked it, but some of the criticisms I've read I agree with. There's so much swearing in the sequence with the tramp that I just got bored (it picked up later on). I understand your response about people in the real situation remembering just the swearing, and you were depicting reality...

There are colour isolation options in Premiere. The main issue I can see with the colour image is the hue of the blanket and the skin (there's a lot of red there). That may cause issues in the colour masking later, so you might have to draw a mask around the blood itself (which means AE). It's...

I wasn't bashing, if you thought I was then I apologise. My point is that I feel shallow DoF is overdone in Hollywood (as a lazy indicator for the audience), which inevitably leads to it being expected from indies. I say, why not take advantage of the deep focus available? That's where attention...

I reckon that people tend to think that "shallow DOF=film look" because a lot of Hollywood films in recent years have used a shallow DOF to specifically guide the audience. Obviously control of the focus is important in film, but it should be noted that Kubrick's The Killing and Welles' Citizen...