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light diffusing sheets?
RoninEditor:
--- Quote from: GinsuVictim on March 19, 2008, 04:58:00 pm ---Thanks Ronin. I knew it was easier than that! (Film school 101!)
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LOL... it was more of a thing of us being totally poor, but it honestly works better than I expected. I used it a couple months ago while in a bind on a shoot, had a PA run to the supermarket for a bunch of it (with clothespins), haha.
Ginsu Victim:
If you've ever read Robert Rodriguez's book, "Rebel Without a Crew," you know how easy you can do certain things that have expensive alternatives.
RoninEditor:
Definitely!! I have to check that out, thanks for the heads up.
Working where I do, it floors me how much money is wasted on shoots for :30 or :60 commercials or promos. I did this one music video for a certain female singer and her "make-up person" (who sat around all day because we already had a staff) was $15,000 a DAY, but I didn't produce it so I couldn't complain about the waste of money. Obviously it was a friend collecting a check on the label's budget but I was like, um... I've had to do entire videos for $15K, lol.
Rodriguez is great, he pisses off the unions because he does everything himself. The unions want him to hire a DP, hire an editor, etc. Why should he? The less crew you have, the less waste and bs'ing you have.
Ginsu Victim:
^Sorry for taking this off topic....
Ronin, if you haven't seen the documentary "Full Tilt Boogie", get it ASAP. It's the second disc with "From Dusk Till Dawn," but was also released individually. There's a LOT of fighting with the unions on that.
ChadTower:
--- Quote from: Neverending Project on March 19, 2008, 04:58:37 pm ---Instead of diffusing, what about putting a couple of fluorescent bulbs behind the playfield?
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That's still in the options list. I'd like to try and keep the frame depth less than the width of a fluorescent fixture if I can. I'd like to use something that also isn't fragile and is very unlikely to fail. One drawback to rope light, though, may be heat.
I contacted an industrial manufaturer of light diffusing plastic sheets. The guy told me that they don't sell in small quantities, but if I go to any art supply store I can find Drafting Film and it will do the same job. I'll take a look at wax paper, as RoninEditor suggests, but that may be hard to find in a continuous sheets the size of a playfield.
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