Comments on: Have at it, you vultures.

By: basset

basset — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 02:32:43 +0000

that’s exactly what I was doing, JC… Final Cut Pro HD 4 on a 2004 G5 with 10.3.9, cut audio on Soundtrack, fiddle around with still pictures in Photoshop Elements (my needs are small there), everything worked fine and stable.

then I got that damn iPod for Christmas. requires 10.4 so I said what the hell, upgraded to Leopard and bought some more memory while I was at it.

gonna repartition the drive Wed. night so it’ll still start up in 10.3.9 and I can have Photoshop and Studio Pro back. assuming I can find them, along with the original system disk, or cruise eBay for cheap out of date versions.

By: nancy

nancy — Mon, 24 Mar 2008 16:51:03 +0000

I know, darlin’. I’m just funnin’ ya.

By: John

John — Mon, 24 Mar 2008 16:45:11 +0000

Nancy,

It is obvious that your five minute film has 100s of man-hours invested in it. The production quality is apparent. I merely asked because I want to know what the filmmakers’ thinking process is, especially during the time critical shooting of a scene. Details like these make me appreciate truly magnificent films. I watched “The Third Man” yesterday morning (my Netflix movie of the week) so I have been spoiled.

By: brian stouder

brian stouder — Mon, 24 Mar 2008 16:13:46 +0000

I held one of them, and yet, I didn’t insist on a credit;

I think that makes you a ‘gaffer’ or a ‘best boy’, or some such

By: nancy

nancy — Mon, 24 Mar 2008 15:58:21 +0000

Well, we definitely talked about his shiny head. We decided to leave it alone because we thought it fit the scene — he was in a kitchen with an overhead light, and that’s the sort of thing overhead lights do. Eventually we thought it was a mistake we could live with.

As for the sneakin-through-the-doorway shot, that was a pain in the ass from the get-go — the camera operator on his belly, the camera propped up with a stack of paperbacks, etc. No one mentioned the aperture adjustment, so THANKS A LOT, JOHN, for giving me another flaw to focus on. What I remember about that was the light on his face, which was accomplished with two hand-held flashlights. I held one of them, and yet, I didn’t insist on a credit; there is no end to my generosity.

By: John

John — Mon, 24 Mar 2008 15:41:40 +0000

Nancy,

Now that you have had a day to bask in the glow of the accolades, can you address the lighting issue at 33 seconds in? It appears the camera was left on auto-adjustment and opened up as Swifty entered the door. But the light from the fixture floods the frame. Did the filming crew have a discussion about this or was it discovered in post-production?

Also, Swifty’s head was shining pretty bright during the phone conversation. Was there a discussion about applying more (or some) pancake makeup?

By: jcburns

jcburns — Mon, 24 Mar 2008 15:19:45 +0000

The need to have the “latest and greatest” is a compelling one, and I’ve certainly succumbed to it, but with any product (Apple, Adobe) one oughta take a breath before plunking down a credit card merely because it’s new. If you run Mac OS 10.3 (2003) you can run Final Cut Pro HD (the predecessor to Studio) and Adobe After Effects 6.5 and Photoshop 7 and frankly, there’s nothing you can’t do with that trio in terms of creating television—DV to HD—that requires an upgrade. That’s all I was sayin’.
Absolutely the newer stuff has nuances and workflows that may be more efficient or faster (color correction, all the stuff that Aperture offers) but I’m hard-pressed to say any of that is must-have…and when you have older hardware, especially stuff that doesn’t have fancy new graphics-card processing, the newer OS can be a pain to slog through…when on even a low-end new machine, it flies.
Tradeoffs.

By: nancy

nancy — Mon, 24 Mar 2008 14:54:48 +0000

Spike Jonze’s shorts/commercials/music videos are so good, it almost makes me forget he was the inspiration for Giovanni Ribisi’s neglectful husband in “Lost in Translation.” Of course, if my wife had been Sofia Coppola’s character in that movie, I’d have neglected her, too.

The Gap ad is fabulous. Never ran. It scared the company, or so I’ve heard.

By: Connie

Connie — Mon, 24 Mar 2008 14:30:23 +0000

Loved the movie, but Mitzi’s hair looked awfully nice for someone who just got out of bed.

In other news, I am more appalled every day at the things men are willing to say about women, most particularly Hillary and Heather Mills (see disgusting woman hating comment about Mills above).

By: brian stouder

brian stouder — Mon, 24 Mar 2008 12:51:34 +0000

loved the movie; it caught Chloe’s attention, too, and stopped her in her tracks - so, in addition to appealing to us Friends of nn.c, we have independent confirmation that it has real hooks.

Harl lost me at the bakery when it comes to OJ/inappropriate behavior in front of children, but I agree with him on Mac versus Windows. I’m firmly in the Heaven’s Gates sect