August 2008
33 posts
boringloser:
This is from some audio library. It’s...
No More Greenscreen Paint at Mini-Bar Prices:
Rosco Chroma Key Green, the industry standard greenscreen paint, is priced at a ridiculous $65 per gallon, which means every time you want to go from white cyc to greenscreen on an average sized stage, it costs at least $500 just for the damn paint.
After considerable research and testing, I stumbled upon a marvelous little secret… Home Depot’s “Disney Color” paint by Behr...
Production Jargon
Meat-Prop
(def) A term used on set to describe background extras in films/tv. The meat prop is a valuable tool in the director’s arsenal. They are easy to come by and cheap. You can easily get away with purchasing a meat prop for fifty dollars.
“Your chances of getting raped in Hollywood are slim unless you go to the clubs...”
– .saraliz.
What is a C47?
The name “C47” may have come from an attempt to make it sound less mundane than a clothes-pin, or it may have come from the label on the bin used to store them in an early studio. More commonly believed is that the name “C47” came to be the designation that the clothes-pins were given when printed on studio budgets to trick budget managers into approving the request for...
“I just screwed over a good friend of mine, (pause, laugh) over the difference...”
– Editor
Shooting "Death Race" →
I wanted to get the cars to drive into the cameras at high speeds, so we built one of my favorite rigs. We built a rig that had a camera and was completely ringed with basketballs. So it was this big giant ball. We stick it in the middle of the road, and the cars would drive at it
…
We killed a lot of cameras in the making of the movie. But no people.
Full interview here.
Jack of all trades, master of none.
Tonight’s advice is to pick a job and stick with it. Don’t try and do too much in production. Find out what you like and stick to it. Otherwise you’ll just be that asshole on set that thinks they know everything but is just an asshole.
The "Abby Singer" shot
Abner E. “Abby” Singer worked as a production manager and assistant director in film between the 1950s and the 1980s. He is notorious for misleading his crew into thinking that the second-to-last shot of the day was actually the last shot. For this reason, the second-to-last shot of the day on a film set is now called an “Abby Singer.”
After this take kids we’ll...
Doing it wrong.
Here’s a gem from my alma matter:
There is also a National Career Services section that will provide you with fresh leads all throughout the country every thirty days.
Do you EDMC dipshits even understand how freelance works? You’re blessing us with leads once every thirty days? Choke on a fucking rock.
“I don’t have time to watch movies, I’m too busy making them…”
FremantleMedia N.A.'s Hole in the Wall is...
It’s the official day for watching things crash and burn.
Microsoft shopping for exclusive Zune content →
marco:
Microsoft: Hey, can you produce exclusive videos for our Zune owners? Hollywood: Maybe. How many people will we reach? Microsoft: Uh… look! Over there! Something shiny! [runs away]
I actually saw that exchange on the way to work. For some fucking reason, the Microsoft guy was wearing white pants. He tries too hard.
“Without a doubt, the business model of network television is suffering from...”
– ould a Little Indecency Save Network TV?
(via rickyv)
It’s surprising how taboo some topics “are” to people in America. The vast, vast majority of Americans wouldn’t care about a lot of things that we pretend to care about.
Production Wisdom
Be careful whose toes you step on today, because they might be attatched to the asshole you have to kiss tomorrow.
Supersecretdownlowhollywood Education:
NAT: Short for ‘natural’, used to specify a kind of sound. It’s raw, recorded sound without narration or dalouge.
NAT: Rain hitting the windows
Final Cut Studio goes to the Olympics →
To support that workflow in the Beijing studio, Televisa devised an integrated Apple Xsan network with 30 Mac Pros running Final Cut Studio and 50 Xserves connected via Fibre Channel using a QLogic 9200 Director-class switch, along with another 12 iMac editing stations connected over standard Ethernet. To hold all of the generated footage, Televisa’s network includes 200 terabytes of storage using...
“I need a glossary of terms… every time I see the word Chyron, I think of...”
– producer
Granddaddy of web video news shows Rocketboom was acquired by Sony Pictures Television for a seven figure guarantee plus a share of future revenues generated from the show.
Maybe there is some money to be had in this “internet content” thing.
Models - We are looking for sexy models for our advertising in both photo and motion picture. Tattoos and scars are welcome. Must be 18-40yrs to apply. Please submit resume and current photos of your face and body. There is no prior experience necessary.
Hollywood’s sense of standards is in a free-fall.
Do you have messy pantries? NATIONAL TV SHOW...
Is your pantry like the Bermuda Triangle… once things go in they never come out? Are you constantly wasting money because you cannot find things you bought? Are things spilling all over the place? Do you wish your pantry did not look like a tornado ran through it? If your pantry needs some serious help a NATIONAL TV SHOW is looking for you!
At first, I thought this listing would be about messy...
My family watches [Greatest American Dog] every week and we were all devastated when Tillman and Ron were kicked off. … He made this show!! Let’s boycot until they “BRING BACK TILLMAN”!!!! (source)
Yes. This is exactly how television works. Stop watching the show, and then they’ll go back and reshoot the entire show to fit your every desire.
Stupid internet.
Let's Do DaVinci
During the 16th century, Da Vinci conceptualized many inventions that now are considered hundreds of years ahead of their time. The master artist’s journals include blueprints of a helicopter, a tank, a calculator and the harvesting of solar power. Most of the designs have never been constructed — until now. “If Da Vinci had at his disposal the tools we have today, would the...