Monthly Archive for August, 2005

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Digital filmmaking: cheaper movies

Published on August 4, 2005 in digital cinema and movie. 2 Comments

“Shooting on 35-mm film costs about a dollar a foot,” Bob Harvey, Panavision senior vice president of sales, told Wired News. “A thousand feet for a thousand dollars adds up to about 11 minutes of footage. But about an hour of footage on a Genesis 24P HD, for instance, costs under a hundred dollars.”
from Wired

Kwon estimated that shooting digitally shaved about $150K off the production’s up-front costs such as film stock, dailies, and film-to-tape transfer for off-line, non-linear editing.
from digitalmedia.oreilly.com

And then there’s this movie, shot with the same prosumer camcorder that I have, the Canon XL1s, and blown up to 35mm film from miniDV (720 x 480):
28 Days Later…
Budget: 9 million* Gross (USA): 43.5 million (8/24)
from oreillynet.com

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Guitar fretboard generator: name that fret

Published on August 3, 2005 in music. 0 Comments


Just added a new on-line tool to the FORRET TOOLS collection:
the guitar fretboard generator, that allows one to quickly see which frets on which strings are which notes. I needed it because I started playing my 5-string bass again and I get all stressed out when someone asks me to quickly play that G# on the 4th string (6th fret, actually).

I also included some examples of alternative tuning (e.g. the open G tuning used a lot in blues music or the Stones’ “Brown Sugar”). If you ever wanted to know what a bluegrass banjo tuning looks like (D-B-G-D-G)…