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johnnymartyr · 1 year

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Mail Bag: Should I Go Pro?

by Johnny Martyr I get a fair number of DM’s asking various questions about shooting film. I do my best to answer thoroughly; as if my response was something that I myself would depend on. If you’ve written me and not received a response, it’s likely just because I’m trying to respond in the most helpful way that I can. I might make a regular thing of featuring some of your questions here on my…

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#business #Film Photography #get paid #gig worker #paid photography #professional #shooting film professionally #side hustle

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abirdie · 3 months

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Gael García Bernal in Rudo y Cursi (2008, dir. Carlos Cuarón)

(these gifs also feature Diego Luna and Jessica Mas)

Gifs are all 540px wide so you can click to see larger.

[other gael filmography gifsets]

#gael garcía bernal #rudo y cursi #ggb filmography gifs #gael garcia bernal #in the second half of 2007 gael filmed this then immediately went to canada to shoot blindness #(per Meirelles' film diaries he arrived three weeks after the rest of the principal cast)#then started principal photography on mammoth #so i assume that the final coda scene here was a later pickup shot after he'd already got his buzzcut for mammoth #the idea that he was playing tato one week and the king of ward 3 the next is itself... well. a contrast.#almost like he's a professional actor or something

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antiadvil · 10 days

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Everyone going "ooh how did Phil get the gold paint on his chin during that jump cut" as if Phil is not the type of person to get gold paint on the fucking walls by complete accident

#dnp #lou is loud #phan #the vibe I get from dnp is that they wouldn't kiss while filming #partially bc then they'd have to cut more stuff out before sending it to editors but also I just think they try to be a little bit #professional when they shoot #or not. I don't know anything I'm just talking

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hooked-on-elvis · 2 months

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Elvis Presley and Gene Smith (his cousin), and Elvis and Alan Fortas (his friend and Memphis Mafia member) during photo shoot for "King Creole" in 1958.

Alan Fortas (nicknamed "Hog Ears" by Elvis), said about his pictures with EP: "To prove to my friends I was actually making movies with Elvis Presley, I had wallet size pictures like these made up from shots taken at promotional photo sessions for 'King Creole' held at Paramount studios 1958."

Elvis and friend, Alan Fortas. Early March 1958, at the Paramount Studios in Hollywood, CA.

#don't know the behind the camera stories but...#i imagine the photographer's face during those shots #like 'wtf presley is doing in those guys'#'okay lets get over with this'#i mean... it was a professional photo shoot for a film #i guess it shows how elvis didn't take himself too seriously #which is a good thing... mostly #update #i just read the story Alan told about those pictures as I shared above...#so i guess elvis' friends asked to be portrayed with him during the photo shoots #funny... funny!#memphis mafia #presley/smith family #elvis #50s elvis #elvis movie #king creole #1958

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nezbitzy · 1 month

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sf strolls.

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tokyo-camera-style · 2 years

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Shinjuku, Tokyo

Fujifilm GA645 Professional

#Fujifilm #GA645 Professional #medium format #645 format #120 film #shinjuku #photography #tokyo #camera style #shoot film

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lauraepartain · 2 years

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Kendell Marvel, Nashville artist, musician, songwriter, and all around badass. Fun fact - we are both from Southern Illinois! One of my favorite shoots so far this year.

#kendell marvel #kodak #kodak professional #tmax 400 #hasselblad #medium format #black and white #black and white film #Americana music #americanafest #outlaw country #shoot film #lauraepartain #laura e partain #portraits on film

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poorlittleyaoyao · 2 years

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I think we should congratulate Wang Yizhou for his mustache work in The Untamed because

-If it’s a real mustache, it’s a good one!

-If it’s not a real mustache...oh my god, have you ever had to wear fake facial hair like that? It tickles so much! And the spirit gum used as adhesive pulls your skin so you feel like you can’t move your mouth or nose all the way. He’s also crying, sweating, and/or coughing up blood 75% of the time, which makes it even MESSIER, so the makeup team would probably have to reapply it between takes even if he tried his best to not touch it. If the mustache is fake, it came at a price!

#I mean I would HOPE he as a professional film actor had a better-quality fake mustache than regional theatrical supply stores can offer #but there is a chance that he spent that whole shoot having the same struggles that I have every time I'm extra on Halloween and RIP if so #this applies also to Hrithik Roshan in Jodhaa-Akbar whose mustache I am like 90% sure was fake

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seis-por-siete · 2 years

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jmflowers · 1 year

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sometimes I’m like, yeah, I’m totally normal and like an average level of intelligent and everything is cool

and then other times I feel this like, consuming rage at witnessing other people ‘breaking rules’ and like not understanding things that I do and I’m like, oh yeah, dis bitch neurodivergent

#my perfect world right now would require any handheld video to be filmed by trained steadicam operators with stabilizing equipment #so no one just shooting with their cell phones while running around would be allowed to create and share video #also there’d be no more mopping linoleum floors with boiling water #and you wouldn’t be allowed to ‘restock’ cleaning supplies in dumb glass containers that don’t include the safety information #clearly those are all insane ways I would like to control other humans #because none of that impacts me seriously #except for the shaky video shit… cause I just hate watching most things now as they all make #me dizzy when they’re not done well/professionally #just buy a tripod and use it exclusively everyone thanks #personal #edited to add: watching classmates edit!!!! sometimes I wonder if we sat through the same classes

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bbreaddog · 2 years

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Pass the happy! ✨ When you get this, reply with 5 things that make you happy and send this to the last 10 people in your notifications! <333

my dog!!!

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grimy liddle tungler mutuals

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getting cast in a short film that I’m filming tomorrow morn!!

#ask #borfbork #thank u!!!! I love when you send me these it’s so cute #re: short film only found out I was cast yesterday WHILE I WAS WITH A STUDENT #only found out my character. shoot location and other info like….AN HOUR AGO #that’s show biz 😮‍💨#I’m keen tho!!!#I hope I get clips from this bc last time I shot something they just never followed up after I wrapped soooo #idek if that show even aired in the end #this is gonna be my first ever professional short film :’)

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this-doesnt-endd · 2 years

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While i hate the late fall (aka when its actually cold now) and the winter, i work so much that my paychecks are fucking nice and i've been wanting to get some like investment pieces and its like i wanna get em though

#like i want some cowboys boots cause my one rn are old and peeling and like you can feel the rocks underneath you theyre dead #but like new good boots cost money #and i kinda wanna get a cowboy hat thats like more to fit me cause i have my dads and it fits but its big #and i want a hat i can like actually kina wear out and about #i also wanna get all my filmed developed professionally cause i really want those pictures to come out right #and then i gotta get my camera fixed cause my light meter doesnt work and i know how to like adjust based on like elements #but im just kinda shooting in the dark here like i can take some great ass pictures with proper tools

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kaushikimishra · 2 years

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🌸 Shootmode

#shootfilm #shootingtime #film #actor #i love tumblr #kaushikimishra #bollywood actor #professional actor #mumbai #tumblr #outdoor shoot #indian dress #kaushikimishraactor

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pearwaldorf · 6 months

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I hate that you can't see a tweet thread anymore if you're not logged into Twitter (as a gesture of disrespect I refuse to call it by its rebranded name). Here is a copypasta of a thread from Dan Olson, a Canadian documentary filmmaker, expanding upon camera quality, the guilt trips Somerton used to goose his Patreon subscriptions, and how the best tools will never make up for lack of dedication or patience. I have added clarifications in [[double brackets]] where I feel it is necessary.

START OF THREAD

Okay, so, back in April I snapped at James in reply to a tweet that was linking to this video (which James has since delisted but not deleted) and I want to talk about the full context of that but I don't want to make a video, put your beatdown memes away. [[The video has since been deleted. I can see the title of the video is "Maybe the end (not an April Fool's Day thing".]]

The first bit of context is that I initially got keyed into James to fact-check his claims about indie filmmaking in Canada. As a filmmaker the entire Telos venture was immediately obvious as a juvenile fantasy dreamed up by someone with no idea how to make a movie.

Just wild claims about their plans that weren't worth debunking because they bordered Not Even Wrong. But in watching one of these pitch videos I noticed that he had a $4000 current-gen camera in the background as a prop, and that seemed both pretentious and weird.

You don't use your best camera as a prop, you use your second best camera as a prop. So being an obsessive weirdo I needed to know, and I watched his BTS stuff until I spotted his main rig, a $6000 camera with about $1000 in accessories.

Now, these in isolation are unremarkable because his Patreon at the time was bringing in ~$8000 per month, his channel was a full on Business business, and so investing in some professional equipment of that level is maybe a bit indulgent but justifiable.

What was weird is that he doesn't shoot multi-cam, doesn't shoot outdoors, doesn't shoot on location, and in a studio the two cameras kinda really step on each others' toes. Basically if you already have one and don't need a B cam there's no reason to get the other.

Again, on its own, this says nothing, it's just indicative of poor financial decisions, maybe impulsive purchasing, Gear Acquisition Syndrome. Biblical sins, but not crimes.

Paired with the constantly inflating fantasy scope of the Telos films it was clearly an expression of a very, very common bad filmmaker habit of "if I just get the right gear then my movie will basically make itself" Buying stuff because it feels like progress.

At the end of February he tweets "I want to start shooting anamorphic" and then three weeks later in March he posts the worst, out of focus, under-exposed "I just got a new lens!" video I've ever seen, showing off his trash-covered bedroom.

Based on what's available for his cameras and the lead time, that's enough time to get a Laowa Nanomorph or Sirui Saturn from B&H but not enough time to get a Great Joy from the UK or a Vazen from China. And with the flaring blah blah blah, $1300 lens.

Again, [gear acquisition syndrome] is not a crime and these lenses are budget options. Bit of a pointless impulse purchase since he only used it for the Showgirls video. But this is what he was doing just a few weeks before that above video came out: effortlessly impulse purchasing lenses.

James has (had?) a habit of regularly, aggressively driving viewers to Patreon by claiming that videos were getting demonetized. While tacky, it is something a lot of queer YouTubers have dealt with, so there's precedent there. But people were noticing he did it a lot.

Mid-March he humble brags about needing to work so hard to make 6 videos in April because he has over-booked sponsorships.

Then March 29th James posts this whole incel screed on Twitter about how sex work should be "subsidized as a mental health service."

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1. "For the majority of people sex (and human contact) can be imperative to a healthy state of mind. A kind and talented sex worker can make someone feel wanted for the first time in their life. I know sex workers who have pulled people back from suicide just by being there for them." 2. "Not only should (sex work) be legal, but it should be subsidized as a mental health service."]

He spends several days getting absolutely *roasted* for this, just dragged across the pavement and read for filth, and doubles down in the replies the whole way.

So this is the context immediately surrounding James waking up on Friday, and posts the above video and the below tweet.

[image description: "We just got the lowest Patreon payout we've gotten in well over a year. Like, a "maybe we need to rethink things" kind of amount... NOT an April Fools Day thing btw. But I don't know if we'll be making videos much longer."]

Now, this unfolds in kinda two directions. The first is that I'm convinced he was just lying about this income shock in the first place.

There's a million theoretical edge cases about what maybe happened and if maybe he just misunderstood the data or saw a glitch and panicked, maybe one of those happened, I don't believe it, I think he just lied because he was salty about getting dragged and felt owed a win.

A big tell to me is that he doesn't blame Patreon. He says he doesn't know what happened, but let's be real, Patreon screws up all the time, they're the first people anyone blames if anything confusing happens, just as a reflex action, even if it's completely not their fault.

The only reason to not blame Patreon is if you already know that it's not their fault and that any investigation on their part might reveal embarrassing details.

Instead he indirectly blames his viewers for not watching enough, not sharing enough, and not turning on auto-renew.

So regardless of the unknowable truth, this segues into the second, far more offensive direction of the messaging itself. "I don't know if we'll be making videos much longer." "Maybe the end" He explicitly framed this as an immediate existential threat to his channel.

In the video he is vague about everything, leaves a ton of hazy room for plausible deniability on how long the channel can keep going, but the messaging is "I need more patrons right this minute or my YouTube channel is over."

He repeatedly evokes all the "fun stuff" they had planned that would never see the light of day if this didn't turn around right away.

And his audience received this message loud and clear. Tons of people making far, far, far less than him left very heartfelt messages about digging a little deeper to subscribe or up their pledge or unsubscribe from other channels to move their pledge to his.

1200 new patrons in one day.

Since I simply don't believe the income shock was real in the first place that would put his post-"Maybe the end" Patreon income at around $10,000 per month. US. Add YouTube income, he's spent the last seven months making around $18,000 per month.

I have seen creators scale back their capabilities to the bone purely to keep making videos for the love of just, like, making stuff even as their funding evaporated and they needed to go back to a desk job to cover their bills.

You'd have to be so outstandingly reckless with your finances as a channel that a one month spook leads immediately to "channel over, sorry about all the fun stuff we won't get to do with you, our patrons, specifically because you, our patrons, aren't giving us enough money"

And not a spook where you then spend a couple weeks crunching numbers. Oh no. A shock so violent where less than two hours later you're weeping on camera about the channel being over.

Three weeks later he brought a brand new Sony FX6v for $8000 CAD to add to his pile of cinema cameras despite the fact that he was, but scant moments earlier, in such a precarious position that a single bad month would kill his channel.

He stole your money, and for that I'm profoundly sad and angry. That's why I snapped at him in April. I'm sorry I couldn't give you the full context then, and I'm sorry if that anger upset you.

END OF THREAD

#james somerton #dan olson #hbomberguy #jesus christ tumblr #it won't let me format things the way i want #because this website is sometimes a piece of shit

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rockypeanut · 2 months

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1957, one of Bettie's very last shoots. Don Whitney, an amateur photo buff, rented a studio in New York by the hour to 📸 models. One of the sessions was with Bettie.

The photos were shot in color, and he had to develop the film because professional labs would not develop nude photos. Bettie was 34 here and would disappear from the public eye very soon after this session.

I sharpened the image and removed some of the color saturation.

#pinup #fresh edit #pinup art #pinupgirl #goddess #bettie page #queen of pinups #pin ups #betty page

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eph-em-era · 8 months

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well all i can say about HBO's anti-union message in that bts video is that AS A KIWI ACTOR/STAGE/SCREEN INDUSTRY WORKER who isn't being strongarmed by a corporation into saying shit that they agree with

the hobbit laws suck. peter jackson is universally despised. what that man did with warner brothers and the national government to make our laws worse for workers so he could film his bad films here in the late 00s is akin to several crimes.

we WANT union protection! we WANT to be able to strike! i'm a member on the Equity NZ (union akin to SAG-AFTRA) committee for Wellington and the amount of work that's going on behind the scenes at the moment to claw back worker protections from our fucked up local laws is immense.

most of us aren't allowed to strike. most people working at wētā (the big screen production house), as well as on most screen/stage jobs are employed as contractors, so they're taxed exorbitantly, have no sick leave, have no holidays, have minimal protection from harassment or being taken advantage of.

long hours? being burned out? that's the kiwi way of living in the screen/stage industry and it SHOULD NOT be celebrated.

The Screen Industry Workers Act of 2022 has fixed some of that but there's still so much to go. yknow how SAG-AFTRA is fighting over residuals? here, we don't even know her.

i know all this personally and intimately.

i was taxed 39% on my contractor income last year.

only now that i'm a salaried worker can i afford to get my teeth fixed.

i had to get a legal action from a lawyer from ANOTHER UNION to get paid for one of my contracts in 2021 because the production team didn't like how i spoke up about their lax health and safety rules (this was a contract I was nominated for one of the most prestigious awards in the country for my work on, fyi)

sexual harassment is rife. what support is there? basically none. we hope it comes out in the media, or it doesn't change and there's nothing we can do cause we'll get sued into oblivion.

ive worked multiple 12+ hour days with only a tiny break in the middle or none at all. friends of mine have done 10-16 hour night shoots.

i've burned myself out multiple times in five years of professional practise cause that's the expected thing. that's what you do. if you're not working at 150% the entire time then you're a bad arts industry employee.

in conclusion, fuck off with your anti-union message, fuck you for utilising our weak-ass laws and HBO i'm in your walls

if you're in the US, support the Entertainment Community Fund! if you're a screen/stage worker in NZ, join Equity!

#ofmd #our flag means death #ofmd s2 #unions #workers rights #peter jackson

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