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Sunday, April 26, 2009 - 6:00 PM - Tampa Indie Film Log for Filmmaker C. A. Passinault
Take Two
Alright. I now have enough
cash to invest in an HD camera and then some. It’s just that my
computers can’t edit the HD footage.
The issue that I had with my computers before, with hard drives full of
pictures, has been solved. I invested in a large hard drive, and I am
moving all of the files to it. In a few days, I will wipe that computer
and redo it, preparing it for editing work. I’m also buying a huge
hard drive to archive footage.
I’ll be doing experimental films in May. I’ll have a boom,
and everything else that I’ll need to shoot Reverence and the other
shorts. I’ll be in position to tackle Reverence in the fall. For
my first indie film projects, I’ll probably do some nature documentaries.
I’ll take my gear on long hikes and make some interesting short
films out of it. I have an extensive knowledge of plants, animals, and
nature, in general, so it should come naturally.
The catch is that I am going to buy the camera that I already had and
took back. I’ll be buying the 480P standard resolution camera, again.
Obviously, it won’t be the exact same camera that I had before,
but I did love it (maybe I can get this one in black, instead of the silver
that I had). I did footage tests, and the footage from this type of camera
is excellent (see the test footage on the Tampa Bay Film Youtube channel
if you’d like to see for yourself). I even did some footage tests
at night for a scene in The Point, and the results were impressive.
I may even invest in a nice tripod, too, which I’d be able to use
with my other cameras (oddly, I’ve never used tripods with my photography
cameras on location. I shoot as well as I do without such things, but
it would be useful for things such as landscape photography and long exposures-
for filmmaking, you do need a tripod, or at least a monopod). Oh, and
I will be building a steadycam mount, too.
At any rate, my computer, once redone, can easily edit the footage, and
storage of the video files is no longer an issue. With my film portfolio-building
strategy, this set up is all that I need, and it is still feasible to
do feature films with a standard definition camera- it’s just that
I’m going to miss the 24p that the high definition camera would
have had.
I have two screenplays for short films which are almost done. I have an
army of actors and others waiting to help out. I have even more projects
on the way, too. It looks like when I am not doing photography, business,
and web sites, that I will be working on indie films. These are good times.
I especially look forward to what can be accomplished with the bare minimum
in equipment.
I’ll be using my filmmaking gear for other projects, too, and not
just indie films. Keep an eye on my resource sites this summer, and you’ll
find out what some of those projects are.
Gotta run. I have to buy a book on Premier tomorrow and finish working
on this computer. After I set things up, I have a lot of editing to practice.
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