by Joey Daoud | Dec 11, 2006 | Video Equipment, Video Production
Our F1s were shot with a Canon XL1, along with the rest of our weekend projects. It’s always been called a prosumer camera, and now we have a better idea as to why. >>Geek Speak Warning The main reason is a lack to set focus. The standard XL1 lens has auto-focus...
by Joey Daoud | Dec 10, 2006 | Coffee & Celluloid
…and I haven’t nearly posted all I wanted to about F1s. To the invisible reader: force all your emotion into asking questions in comments about what I should explain, Patrick Swayze style. We actually locked last week, I just never got around to posting...
by Joey Daoud | Dec 2, 2006 | Video Production
Just got back from a 15 hour day as Script Supervisor (I’m beginning to toss the anonymity to the wind). We were shooting in a food store while they were still open for business, so we had to work around the patrons, which wasn’t too bad. However, when one...
by Joey Daoud | Nov 30, 2006 | Video Production
Ask someone to picture how a movie set works and images of a Cecil B. DeMille type director with a paperboy hat and sweater vest shouting “lights…camera…action” through a megaphone will probably generate. Close, but not quite. A...
by Joey Daoud | Nov 16, 2006 | Coffee & Celluloid
A nice list of idea killers. Probably intended for business folk, but it all applies in the writer’s room. Though I guess laughter would be good if you’re writing a comedy. Berkun blog >> Idea killers: ways to stop ideas
