arnarfjodur

Are you a PRO or amateur?
Oh, and also. If you think that what camera you use has anything to do with being pro or not pro - you are not pro! :)

Comment by arnarfjodur December 2013 permalink
Are you a PRO or amateur?
I work freelance in the creative industry, this is my business: http://www.eastofmoon.com/. Not everything I get paid for has to do with film, perhaps 50% of my income comes from there. Not all of my film work has to do with shooting, either - I&#…

Comment by arnarfjodur December 2013 permalink
Cheap quad core MTK 6589 based phones with fullhd screens
@Vitaliy_Kiselev Our relationship with technology goes way beyond what is logical from a utilitarian point of view :)

Comment by arnarfjodur December 2013 permalink
What do you want to see in our deals?
Graduated ND 4x4 - preferably something that someone has tested and is cheap but not shit :)

Comment by arnarfjodur November 2013 permalink
First feature film:- Should everyone get profit share?
@kellar42 Yes sure, this was just meant as a general proving a point figure. As you say, scaling it down is one way. But I have not seen that work often. Let's imagine you have only an average 3 actors and 3 extras on each day (Some day that wi…

Comment by arnarfjodur November 2013 permalink
First feature film:- Should everyone get profit share?
Regarding payment or not of crew/cast: I don't think there is anything inherently wrong with making something out of voluntary work. There are plenty of things that happen in society on a voluntary basis - just people coming together to do some…

Comment by arnarfjodur November 2013 permalink
LinkedIn: is it any good for your profession?
+1 linkedin feels awkward for freelancers. Seems tailor made for corporate types climbing the ladders of big organizations. I've had an account for a long time and have many connections, but its never had any impact, professional or otherwise.…

Comment by arnarfjodur October 2013 permalink
Working cameramen producers prod managers editors onliners sound etc
I'm sorry, but what are you actually asking? Your question sounds very clever but I just don't understand exactly what you are talking about. Are you asking how many people are employed in the film industry? Or how many people had to "…

Comment by arnarfjodur September 2013 permalink
Disappear: short film on hacked GH1
Unfortunately, we did not put much effort into sending the film to festivals, but by some coincidence, the film was selected to a film festival in Yakutsk, in the Sakha republic in Siberia, Russia. It was quite fun to know of the film being screened…

Comment by arnarfjodur August 2013 permalink
Why Do All Hollywood Movies Lose Money?
This sort of gymnastics is of course not limited to Hollywood. A subsidiary company forwarding the profits to mother-company is a typical way of not paying any taxes in the place it operates, since the daughter company is "not making any money&…

Comment by arnarfjodur August 2013 permalink
US: Yes we can... eat, but can't make a shit
@jrd I see no indication that you are reading what I am saying. I hope, if you ever find yourself running a bar, that you will not consider the median costumer spending to be more important than average costumer spending. Please, you don't need…

Comment by arnarfjodur July 2013 permalink
US: Yes we can... eat, but can't make a shit
@jrd "Median" is not more useful measure then "average" overall. Which is more useful depends on the question your are trying to answer. I still don't think "median wealth" compared to other developed countries tel…

Comment by arnarfjodur July 2013 permalink
US: Yes we can... eat, but can't make a shit
@jrd Well, I'm not trying to argue that American manufacturing is great, something I haven't studied very much. But I have a hard time understanding how *median* wealth is a good indication. Average would make more sense, although still qu…

Comment by arnarfjodur July 2013 permalink
US: Yes we can... eat, but can't make a shit
If we wanted to draw a simplistic conclusion from a graph like this, it could just as well be that Americans employ fewer people working in manufacturing because they are getting better at manufacturing - not the other way around. The general tenden…

Comment by arnarfjodur July 2013 permalink
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I ordered Star S5 Butterfly and recieved it yesterday (see link in VK's comment above). Shipping via DHL was fast but took them a week to actually dispatch it. Communication with Pandawill was a bit weird (repeated e-mails for all kinds of deta…

Comment by arnarfjodur May 2013 permalink
Cheap quad core MTK 6589 based phones with fullhd screens
I wonder if full HD has an advantage over say 1280x720? I mean, at which point do you stop seeing a difference on a 5 inch screen? I also wonder if higher pixels require more processing and battery and might thus be less practical? Anyone here trie…

Comment by arnarfjodur May 2013 permalink
Proper democracy
Which Zinoviev is this mr. A?

Comment by arnarfjodur April 2013 permalink
Great female directors
@bwhitz What you are proposing is so far away from science, that even CAPITALIZING the word doesn't help. 100 years ago there were no laws against women being doctors. Yet very few existed. What has changed in the last 100 years? If you know an…

Comment by arnarfjodur April 2013 permalink
Great female directors
That so few prominent directors are women is not a proof of, and not even a strong indication of, some inherent quality of women vis-a-vis men. Someone who follows this logic would also have said that since slaves did not usually own houses, that wa…

Comment by arnarfjodur April 2013 permalink
FreeFly MOVi - very expensive handheld stabilized system
Of course, "affordable" is relative. But the price point of the gadget is not the only implication for how accessible to low/no-budget productions it will. To use this properly, if I understand correctly, you'll need three skilled ope…

Comment by arnarfjodur April 2013 permalink
Introduce yourself
I'm a filmmaker from Iceland. I had a GH1 which I hacked and shot a [short film](http://www.personal-view.com/talks/discussion/5784/disappear-short-film-on-hacked-gh1/p1) on. I spend way to much time scratching that mental itch following film b…

Comment by arnarfjodur March 2013 permalink
Previz - usually a good idea
Please do some tutorials. I'd be very interested. This is something I've thought about a lot. My skepticism is that two things: 1) The time it takes to do this properly for each scene and 2) That conditions on the day are always different …

Comment by arnarfjodur February 2013 permalink
How good are these Lumix Cameras - Awesome pieces of hardware
My hacked GH1 died after two years of use (just so that people reading this don't believe they are immortal!). Don't think I did anything wrong with it, simply started to freeze one day and then I turned it off and it seemed to work later …

Comment by arnarfjodur January 2013 permalink
Nightmarket. Pune. India
Very nice. I'm in Bombay currently and feel like you've captured the atmosphere quite well.

Comment by arnarfjodur January 2013 permalink
Disappear: short film on hacked GH1
@stonebat I suppose it's understandable, when I post in a forum where a lot of discussion on patches goes on and I put "hacked Gh1" in the topic that many people are interested in such things. Probably the reason many people watched t…

Comment by arnarfjodur January 2013 permalink
Disappear: short film on hacked GH1
@andyharris For me, the mother is obsessed with the diseased brother and using emotional manipulation tries to reach him through the main character. This is an impossible situation for him, which he has to break out of in the end. Ultimately it is a…

Comment by arnarfjodur January 2013 permalink
Disappear: short film on hacked GH1
@DanPV A very good question. Iris, the costume designer, suggested having the mother wear a colourless coat with a very stark red bag. We liked this approach so we tried to shoot accordingly, and work with this even more in the colour correction. Yo…

Comment by arnarfjodur January 2013 permalink
Disappear: short film on hacked GH1
@tinyrobot pretty sure he has not worked with GH2 or GH3 - but I'll forward this thread to him in case he wants to chip in.

Comment by arnarfjodur January 2013 permalink
Disappear: short film on hacked GH1
@endotoxic Don't remember how much I used the 14-140 - but definitely in the cinema lobby scenes, as in on: 04:50. Needed the wide angle to create the awkwardly flat an symmetric look. In that case you don't need shallow depth of field, c…

Comment by arnarfjodur January 2013 permalink
Disappear: short film on hacked GH1
@producer wow, thank you. Of course, a lot of the credit for the look goes to Jonni, the colour grader. And the director and everyone else.

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