<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by PhilAlex:
at $30, that's $300.
Now... Getting him a camcorder is the problem...<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>
Assuming a camera is found, I suppose the next problem to tackle is where to set up the shoot. Almost anywhere a camera is set up in the apartment, the background will look like a garbage dump because there is no storage here, so everyting I own is just piled floor to ceiling in garbage bags & cardboard boxes in every room. Plus the carpet really sucks. It belongs in the garbage can, not on the floor. Martha Stewart somehow forgot this apartment the last time she came through Seattle.
The only indoor options that would look OK here from an aesthetic standpoint will be to do the whole shoot either sitting on the sofa with the camera aimed in that direction (covering the sofa, an end table, and the wall above), or sitting right here in my work area with the camera set up at my right side and aimed in the general direction of the ProMetric's target.
Barring that, an outdoor shoot would be the only other alternative that would produce acceptable aesthetics for both the scene & background, but there's no place safe to take a $600 camcorder and 300 flashlights outside at night. Bad neighborhood, heroin junkies, gun-toting "ganstas", crackheads, and other assorted riff-raff.
So what'll it be?
A "living room" setting with the couch, or a "laboratory" setting with instruments & computers filling half the frame?
I have a 100W 120V halogen video light, so scene lighting shouldn't be an issue. And I can make an acceptable animated "title screen" on the computer, like I used to do before Seismic Sam took my last camcorder away from me.