Posted by nobody special on 02/05/06 04:29

Sorry to be late to the party, funny joke about them gray rats.

You can make a suitable temporary softlight by shining work lights thru
some white diffusing cloth like tulle or organza., or (if you're
careful) plastic shower curtains. Good tip from martin aboutt he
polarizing filter: you can get one at a local camera store: take your
camcorder to the store to make sure it will fit before you buy it. It
sits in a rotating housing and you twist it until the objectionable
reflection is minimized.

Listen to the pros, and don't shoo this with the PAL camera unless you
feel like repeating the whole thing later with a proper NTSC camera.
UCLA is home to one of the biggest film making schools in the USA, you
can throw a gobo arm in any direction and hit three film makers easy.
If you can't find help just outside your door, you are NOT trying.

As far as the media, I think you probably have rules about checking in
with the university officials first anyway, they are funny about things
like that. Their Public information department will already have all
the answers about where to send out tapes and in what format the
stations want it. Unless it's a bloody murder or soemthing liek the
zapruder film, DV mini tapes do not cut it with TV stations. They will
want NTSC betacamSP, DVCpro, DVcam, or digital betacam. This means you
will have to at some point interface with a media department person to
get your master tape converted to the proper distribution format. Why
you seem to be fighting this so hard, I don't know. you got good
advice, you should follow it.

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