Cooter Davis wrote:
Ok just watched it, and here are a few suggestions....
The Pros
1. Love the footage through the video camera.
The Cons
1. Ditch the animated blood splatter. If you want blood splatter go buy some blood
at your local party city, where ever (food coloring and water) film a green screen and splatter
some on your camera lens. Overlay it onto your footage using adobe. Not to hard.
Fair enough. I shall experiment...
2. Lighting......Since your filming at night, use an off camera light to highlight your actors.
This takes A LOT of experimenting and testing to get it right. Without it, your film looks like
its being filmed through an orange lens.
A good example of what I am talking about is in Alien. The film is dark but yet you can see the
actors clearly.
I was using a 4 D Cell maglite for parts, but it became too cumbersome for anything mobile. The actual shots will have more suitable lighting.
3. Why would a locked security container be kept outside for someone so easily to take?
We never had the ability to film the container being retrieved. The story is that the container should never have been at that facility in the first place. So although it wont be as easy as seen, it will be relatively easy for the PMC operatives to steal the case out from under the Company
4. This is a personal quirk of mine, but snipers don't use silencers. I don't care what you see on
T.V. They use High Velocity Rifle rounds that explode out of a barrel. If you want some stealth kill
use some silenced low caliber pistol action.
Watch this video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SdHUDn9zseg
Notice how loud it is even with a silencer? I don't understand why hollywood seems to think
a suppressor will turn a high caliber weapon into a bb gun......
I wasnt sure what to do. The 416 didnt have a silencer, but when I experimented with a loud rifle shot, it just didnt seem to gel. Ill keep experimenting.
The Pros
1. Love the footage through the video camera.
The Cons
1. Ditch the animated blood splatter. If you want blood splatter go buy some blood
at your local party city, where ever (food coloring and water) film a green screen and splatter
some on your camera lens. Overlay it onto your footage using adobe. Not to hard.
Fair enough. I shall experiment...
2. Lighting......Since your filming at night, use an off camera light to highlight your actors.
This takes A LOT of experimenting and testing to get it right. Without it, your film looks like
its being filmed through an orange lens.
A good example of what I am talking about is in Alien. The film is dark but yet you can see the
actors clearly.
I was using a 4 D Cell maglite for parts, but it became too cumbersome for anything mobile. The actual shots will have more suitable lighting.
3. Why would a locked security container be kept outside for someone so easily to take?
We never had the ability to film the container being retrieved. The story is that the container should never have been at that facility in the first place. So although it wont be as easy as seen, it will be relatively easy for the PMC operatives to steal the case out from under the Company
4. This is a personal quirk of mine, but snipers don't use silencers. I don't care what you see on
T.V. They use High Velocity Rifle rounds that explode out of a barrel. If you want some stealth kill
use some silenced low caliber pistol action.
Watch this video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SdHUDn9zseg
Notice how loud it is even with a silencer? I don't understand why hollywood seems to think
a suppressor will turn a high caliber weapon into a bb gun......
I wasnt sure what to do. The 416 didnt have a silencer, but when I experimented with a loud rifle shot, it just didnt seem to gel. Ill keep experimenting.
Thanks a lot for taking the time to watch it and giving me some feedback. Tis much appreciated
