Greetings

[OttoMoBiehl]

Welcome, Dan: enjoy but be on the lookout for the friendly South African with the dodgy, icky undies. *

* Me. 

Gotcha, be on the look out for the friendly South African with dodgy undies. Check. 

If I do stumble upon him is it a duck and cover type of thing or do I need to call an institution or something?

Thank you for the welcome!

About me...

I'm Skull... I also go by a pen name Richard Staschy. I enjoy bad movies, mostly horror but I do enjoy other types. I do have high expectations when it comes with good movies (especially when they have big budgets and multiple of writers). Low budget films I'm willing to over look the flaws (unless they are humorous).

As a writer I wrote a few short stories (currently posted on Amazon) I do have a few books, too. One book is called: HIM (which is still going through a major editing phase and fingers crossed it will be released by October this year!)

Hi Richard!

I do agree with you on big budget movies but, unfortunately, I'm often disappointed. I did enjoy Fury Road though. More like that please. As far as B-Movies go I enjoy most any genre that has a really low budget but where the film-makers were able to do incredible stuff with such a small budget. Those are far and few between though.  I also enjoy the horror movies from the 60s, 70s and 80s. The 90s with the transition to digital film-making really doesn't sit well with me though there are some good films out there.

A writer too. Cool. I have an lot of respect for people who sit down to write a story and then get it published. A lot of hard work. I've been guilty of starting writing projects but never finishing them.

[bob]

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[Trevor]

or do I need to call an institution or something?

That is exactly what you need to do. 

[Skull]

Hi Richard!

I do agree with you on big budget movies but, unfortunately, I'm often disappointed. I did enjoy Fury Road though. More like that please. As far as B-Movies go I enjoy most any genre that has a really low budget but where the film-makers were able to do incredible stuff with such a small budget. Those are far and few between though.  I also enjoy the horror movies from the 60s, 70s and 80s. The 90s with the transition to digital film-making really doesn't sit well with me though there are some good films out there.

A writer too. Cool. I have an lot of respect for people who sit down to write a story and then get it published. A lot of hard work. I've been guilty of starting writing projects but never finishing them.

I saw Fury Road at the show and it was awesome... :)

The secret of writing and finishing the story is an outline (therefore if you get in a part that you cannot write, well you jump to the next part of the story and then you jump back when your ready). If you need help I could show you :)

[dean]

When I bring up ADR with some of the local filmsters who rely too much on the built in mics on their i-cams, they act insulted.

I'm an editor, and had a client tell me once he wanted a scene to sound intimate and gave me an example from another film as the scene I had cut didn't have 'the right intimate sound to it'. I had to break it to him that the scene had better recorded audio because it was ADR not field recorded and his eyes bugged out. I said we could do it ADR if he wanted but told me no as they didn't have the budget and later complained that it still didn't sound intimate enough.   

[LilCerberus]

When I bring up ADR with some of the local filmsters who rely too much on the built in mics on their i-cams, they act insulted.

I'm an editor, and had a client tell me once he wanted a scene to sound intimate and gave me an example from another film as the scene I had cut didn't have 'the right intimate sound to it'. I had to break it to him that the scene had better recorded audio because it was ADR not field recorded and his eyes bugged out. I said we could do it ADR if he wanted but told me no as they didn't have the budget and later complained that it still didn't sound intimate enough.   

I actually tried doing ADR this past spring for an acting gig I'd had last summer... The director couldn't get the lavaliere to work, & lost the pole to his boom mic & was too good to try clipping it to a broom stick, & his sound girl was shorter than me....
Then, rather than call me in for ADR during principle production like he did everyone else, he called me & one or two others back some seven or eight months later, long after I'd forgotten my thirty second part.

By then, he had managed to get some nice high tech closet space a some center for the hearing impaired. Problem was, I had a cold at the time, & felt very uncomfortable being locked in a closet with someone else.
I'd never seen any of the footage before this, & should've asked for a few days to rehearse...
I also have ADHD & Aspergers' & asked to see the clock so I could better sync what I was reading with what I was saying on screen.
After about forty-five minutes, with a few breaks & sound checks in between, the director decided to go with the live audio he already had.

I was pretty embarrassed.
That's just one of many reasons I want to accumulate & master My own equipment.