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Dude I wanna go but I CANT!!!!
Of all bloody nights!
I have already promised to be somewhere else that particular night, any chance you could make it the 5th just for me?Haven’t heard of that site before but it looks coshure enough, some nice bits and pieces on there too!
The Cork Film Centre is pleased to announce our ever popular Short Film Making and Documentary Making courses start the end of January.
Introduction to Short Film Making – 10 week evening course (including two weekends) starting Thurs 28th Jan 7-10pm. A very practical hands on approach, lots of fun and actually making short films. Suitable for beginners but more experienced people also welcome. Cost €295, deposit of €150 to secure your place payable to the Film Centre. To book call 087 7911316.
Introduction to Documentary Film Making – 10 week evening course (including two weekends) starting Tues 26th Jan 7-10pm. A very practical hands on approach, learn lots in a relaxed friendly environment. Suitable for beginners but more experienced people also welcome. Cost €295, deposit €150 to secure your place payable to the Film Centre. To book call 087 7911316.
These always sell out quickly so early booking is advisable.
Yes I too have been blessed with the spectacle of 3D Avatar, It is an amazingly beautiful film to look at, the story is well told although not thee most original plot-line (Dances with Wolves, A Man called Horse, Pocahontas to name a few), but still a welcome addition to the getting in with the enemy story.
The 3D element is really quite astonishing as are the actual graphics themselves, In fact the Naa’vi people are so beautifully created that the real Humans lacked detail!
I’m really looking forward to this new line up of 3D films made with Motion Capture, Its an exiting time in Cinema…
1. No Country for old men
2. Shaun of the dead
3. Memento
4. The Dark Knight
5. Oldboy
6. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
7. Kill Bill
8. District 9
9. Lord Of the Rings
10. Wall EThanks to everyone who could make it on such short notice, and a special thanks to all the filmmakers
Below is a list of the films screened and their corresponding directors or print contacts,
1. Enemies (trailer) – myself or Sean Breathnach
2. Park Attack – Martin Condon & Alan Riordon
3. Car Park – Gemma (the stub online) or Fiona (aka Teatowel)
4. Kissing Racheal – Jason Keane
5. The Wrong Turn – Donnagh McCarthy Morrogh – Stormlight productions
6. The Tunnel – Paddy O’Shea
7. Breakfast – Eoin Ó HAnnracháin
8. Weekend Warriors – myself
9. Let Mr Blue Sky in – myself, Paraic, Adrian, AmyThanks to everyone who could make it on such short notice, and a special thanks to all the filmmakers
Below is a list of the films screened and their corresponding directors or print contacts,
1. Enemies (trailer) – myself or Sean Breathnach
2. Park Attack – Martin Condon & Alan Riordon
3. Car Park – Gemma (the stub online) or Fiona (aka Teatowel)
4. Kissing Racheal – Jason Keane
5. The Wrong Turn – Donnagh McCarthy Morrogh – Stormlight productions
6. The Tunnel – Paddy O’Shea
7. Breakfast – Eoin Ó HAnnracháin
8. Weekend Warriors – myself
9. Let Mr Blue Sky in – myself, Paraic, Adrian, AmyHe He, well done Bob!
Ill throw something together before the year is out and stick it up here, there should be a few similarities! LOL
What is your budget?
My advice is to stay away from a pure consumer camera as you will very quickly realise you spend the best part of 6-800 euro on a piece of crap that you could have saved and waited to put on a slightly better camera. I would stick with iMovie for the tiime being as its a great way to learn basic editing and latter down the road you could always upgrade to final cut when you feel a bit more confident or restricted in iMovie, but if you buy a cheap camera you are pretty much stuck with it.
Also If your gonna be shooting a lot of concerts and stuff indoors those consumer camera are really really bad in low light, your gonna want something that will hold up under those low light situatiions.
Canon ESO 7d (€2,000):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2cFS83r3c3U
I could recommend a DSLR, you can get a really nice Digital SLR camera for about 2k that will shoot full progressive HD and they are extremely good in low light, but there are a lot of technical requirements in understanding how they work in post, ie. converting codecs, recording your sound seperately and syncing it up, and a good knowledge of aperture and shutter speed, lenses etc… If you are already into photography then you may be able to figure it out quite easily but i think the post, technical, may still be a bit of a struggle for anyone starting out, especially seeing as your only using imovie to edit. (ie the footage you get from the camera cannot be edited until you convertit to a different video format…)SONY HVR-HD1000E (€1,500)
http://www.pixmania.ie/ie/uk/822889/art … igh-d.html
Cheapest prosumer camera, limited in low light, not a lot of controls, basic sound in jack, but a good starting point, its designed to look like a pro camera, so you won’t look like an amateur when you ask for an interview or if shooting say a wedding people will feel they are dealling with a pro.It looks heavy but it basically full of air, very light. Good Hd image but again low light does look a bit grainy, basically down to the small sensor size of the camera.
PANASONIC AG-HMC41EU (€2,500):
http://www.pixmania.ie/ie/uk/3989256/ar … nitio.html
Great all round camera, tapeless, uses memory cards, sound in, sound out, HD, looks great, good in low light, and very reasonably priced.Anything above this price range won’t see you wrong, but do be aware of the Sony Fx7 as it has no input for an external mic of any kind, so your stuck with the onboard sound.
Hope this helps?
Dan
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