u/MadJack_24

Greetings fellow camera nerds,

Does anyone here have any tips, tricks, or resources of shaping and defusing tungsten lights for cinema?

I decided to buy some tungsten lights for my starter kit as they’re professional lights and you can get them for a good price.

I recently bought an Arri 150 w/scrims and I have the opportunity to buy some Arri 1k open face lights from the same buyer (it also comes with a chimera softbox)

I used tungsten lights back in school, but we never really delved into making the lighting look good, so any tips on how to shape them properly would be much appreciated.

Thanks in advance for your help!

P.S: if you know of any lighting/cinematography books that delve into using tungsten lights that would be a tremendous as well.

Greetings all,

Bit of an oddball question, but here it goes:

For about a year now, I’ve been working on an independent short documentary that I both shot and recorded sound for.

Everything has been going great and I am close to picture lock.

However, when I was matching the volume on my tracks in my NLE, I noticed that the L/R mix tracks had a lot more presence/high end compared to the ISO tracks for my Boom & Lav.

It’s not the biggest deal in the world, but I’m curious why this is the case, especially since I would rather use my ISO tracks than the mix tracks (which I feel sound better because of their extra presence).

Not to mention the fact that I do work as a Indie sound mixer and I don’t want this to crop up on a bigger production.

If you guys have any advice or tips on this, I’d love to hear them.

Thanks in advance for your help!

Greetings all,

Im an emerging mixer, and im looking at purchasing my first set of timecode boxes.

How many boxes should an emerging mixer have?

Could I get away with purchasing a single box, jam it from my mixer, then give it to camera? Or should I just buy 2 (one for my mixer, and one for camera)?

Extra question: does a denecke slate need its own Timecode box? Or can you jam it then leave it until it’s time to re-jam?

Thanks in advance!

P.S: forgive the amateur question, a separate conversation in this Reddit made me wonder how many I needed.

What advice would you give for coming up with a poster for your short documentary?

I’ve been crafting some rough ideas for my short doc centred around a theatre company, and I’m at abit of a loss.

Feel free to post your ideas or designs in the comments.

Thanks In advance!

Hello friends,

I’m nearing completion on my short documentary and I’m beginning to think about writing the credits for the project.

I conceived the idea, shot most of the movie while recording the dialogue as well, and edited it.

The only other crew I have/had are:

- two guys who each ran camera for only one day

- sound person who ran sound on 3 separate days and is going to do the sound mix/editing

- colourist

How do you go about crediting yourself and others when you did most of the work?

For example: I don’t particularly want to give myself a producer credit but in some ways I was the producer. I’m also not about to call myself the DP either.

I wanna make sure everyone who helped gets the credit they deserve, and the idea of having my name all over the credits sounds egotistical and cringy.

Any insight or tips you guys have are invaluable so thanks in advance.