[Konvas] buying a 2-perf camera. finally! or renting one forthemoment

[Camak, Lael (US - MGTTS)]

Hello all,
 
I love this from HW.  He is EXACTLY correct, and I try to always live by
that (except I also add #6 Don't shoot with children or animals to that
list).  Amazingly, my first film shoot for me at the helm broke ALL FIVE
rules!  Which means that I was the only one stupid enough to take the
job.  There IS a GOD and he certainly came through for me on that shoot.
Everything worked. Here below is all I was up against:
 
Full Aperature anamorphic (no one shoots that format)
2 weeks of Night shoots in Europe with HMIs (AND I was shooting 29.97fps
on 50 HZ lights / elec.)
Camera rented in Amsterdam (never seen until we showed up)
Anamorphic Lenses rented from Clairmont (in LA)
Locations changed at last minute
A third of my crew members I'd never laid eyes on until the Genny / Grip
truck showed up
Had to telecine an Anamorphic Full Aperature 35mm to two screens - a
Left 4:3 and a Right 4:3 with correct overlap for projection from two
laser disc players
Don't get me started on audio problems and Video assist
and the anamorphic desqueezer didn't show for the camera
 
It wasn't me that pulled it off.  God stepped up and saved my career.
 
Lael 
(still humbled by my own incompetencies)
 
HW wrote: 
Never shoot two "new" items at once.

A new camera.

A new location.

A new format.

A new post process.

A new crew.

Pick one, but never two at once.




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