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Well it's been lovely here in the sunny west country for the last four days but now, when i am just about to step outside to a shoot, it pisses it down! Bloody 'ell! Bugger! Me crumpets are soggy! etc... Any tips? I'm going out in 30 minutes anyway, taking plastic bags and an umbrella. I...

Hey IT, If you've got a minute you should check out my latest music video, subscribe if you like it, plenty of videos planned for this year! Link to the video. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=http://youtu.be/jFM45Q5s-bo It was all shot on a Canon 550D against a flat black curtain, using...

Hey IT, Got any lifesaving techniques for cutting a seemingly weak short film? heh... It was my first narrative short, it was all shot in a single day (due to lack of funding from my University). The footage and a terrible rushed cut have been sat on my harddrive for a good few months. I have...

Selling my Macbook Pro, it's 'buy it now' on ebay is £820 but i'm willing to budge a bit on that. http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Apple-Macbook-Pro-15-inch-2-53-GHz-Core-2-Duo-4GB-RAM-/150626813130?pt=UK_Computing_Apple_Laptops_ET&hash=item23120ec4ca#ht_2472wt_1348 Make me an offer.

http://www.lytro.com/ Check out this fancy new camera, it records a whole tonne of image data within its photographs. You can adjust the focus in post, try out the sample images - left click to pull focus, double click to zoom.

Hey IT, For a future music shoot i'm tasked with lighting the band members and keeping the background completely black. I could do this with a greenscreen but personally i'd rather do it the old fashioned way. The band want the backdrop completely black so we're planning on covering the studio...

Hey all, I'm currently working through some ideas for my first feature, it's all completely up in the air. Anyway, a brief one but i was looking for suggestions on why someone would have a vendetta again a place, as opposed to a person. It can be as zany as we like, i'm going for a surreal...

Hey Indie lovers, I am finally shooting my first proper short film in four weeks, this will be the first time i have filmed a serious narrative script with a substantial production crew. I have been working on post-production for the past 6 months. You may remember my thread about making a...

Hey Indietalk! So after many many hours editing it's finally up! This is my first music video, my band have just released our second album so i put together this to promote our track 'When the Dead Walk'. I'm pretty darn happy with the result! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wr2FtOvD544 Shot...

Hey IndieTakers! I'm in the process of editing my bands music video, the video is sourced from my 550D so i have converted it into an editing format with MPEG Streamclip. I have edited and graded 5 tracks of of different camera angles which have rendered and all is good! Problem being that...

Okay so for a future project i need to have the protagonist lead two other characters into a fallout shelter and lock the door behind them. The two extra characters are blindfolded, expecting a pleasant surprise from the protagonist. My question is how i would go about filming this on a low...

Not my video but definitely worth a watch! http://vimeo.com/14681630 great video with some amazing pyrotechnics, the second half is the behind the scenes - very interesting to an indie filmmaker!

Howdy fellow Indie Talkers! I have now started the final year of my degree course and have been asked to do a dissertation on a subject that is relevant to my future career. I'm really trying to jump on the bandwagon here, i want to direct those epic scripted sequences you see in the shooters...

Hey hey, i have been looking for a wide angle lens for my 550d, all i can find are cheap jap lenses tagged as 'for canon 500 550d 7d etc'. Not really sure where i'm going wrong, i'm sure it's some rookie mistake like i need to buy an adapter so i can use any slr lens. Any help would be great...

hey, this isn't new... but it's new to me. I almost shed a tear. http://vimeo.com/11932087 I hope this is the right sub-forum!

Hey all! This is my first upload to the www, i had a spare hour and wanted to test out my 550D in low light. This is a composition of some of the shots i got. It has a slight horror theme. Also includes my newly created production titles...

Hey all, Just put up a VERY basic website for my production company Twisted Tape. You can view it here: www.twistedtape.co.uk We are currently looking for UK based actors, a little more info on the site.

Hey all, I wanted something to diffuse my lights so they're not so harsh on my subject. In the last half hour i drove down to the local DIY store, picked up two long metal tube's, four brackets to fit either end of the tubes, 12 cup hooks, a cheap white shower curtain and two long planks of...

Hey and howdy, I have recently finished my new screenplay and am starting my pre-production. This isn't anything fancy, just a low budget short (30 mins) with a solid screenplay to back it up. Anyway more to the point, i would like to know what is the best process for planning camera shots? I...