Adapted from Victor Khong’s site,

Adapted from Victor Khong’s site, DV Cinematography

A reasonable checklist of equipment and accessories for shooting using a Sony VX-1000. It makes fairly clear the difference between hiring a PM and a crew (the old/OPM* model) and prepping a shoot yourself, essentially from scratch (the new/MM** model)

wide angle adaptor

3 f-stop neutral density filter

Ultra-violet (UV) filter

Polarizer

Diffusion filter – Cokin Warm Sun #694, Tiffen Pro Black Mist, Tiffen Pro White Mist, Tiffen Hollywood F/X filters

Warming filters – 81a, 81b, 85

Graduated grey filter

Red filter

XLR Adapter from Beachtek

[2] Lav wireless mike kits and [1] pin mike

Shotgun mic – Sennheiser MKE 300, 416, ME66 (not gonna do it)

Boom pole, extendible painter’s rod or aluminium shower curtain (same here)

Manfrotto 055 tripod with the Manfrotto 136 fluid head (Victor’s choice)

Headphones with mini jack

Softcase camera bag

Reflectors – white/silver reflector, bounce card

white balance card

lens cleaner cloth (photoco)

[4] camera batteries

[2] AC Rapid battery chargers, [1] DC Rapid charger (Sony AC/DC-v700)

1, 2, 3 closeup diopter filters for macro shots

Gaffer’s tape

Vellum sheets

light kit (detail pending)

Indie Films Online has an interesting article and tips for lighting DV from Cinematography World


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** My Own Money

Some links I’ve found as

Some links I’ve found as I familiarize myself with to-date research and thought on how culture, worldview, personality, and behavior patterns develop or are transmitted:

Faces of Culture [via PBS.org]

this appears to be an introductory anthropology course comprising a series of films/tv shows. Interesting-sounding episodes include 204 Language and Communication, 205 Psychological Anthropology, and 206 Alejandro Mamani: A Case Study in Psychological Anthropology.

Developmental Theories of Crime and Delinquency: Advances in Criminological Theory

A dense but intruiging-looking essay on the theorized difference between people who demonstrate temporary/situational and repeated/persistent antisocial behavior. It showed up in a google search for cumulative continuity.

Resource list of Margaret Mead’s work [from the Institute for Intercultural Studies]

Syllabus for Margaret Mead and Cultural Relativism [from Swarthmore.edu]

The Fateful Hoaxing of Margaret Mead : A Historical Analysis of Her Samoan Research, by Derek Freeman, is a refutation of Mead’s highly influential study of adolescence in Samoa, Coming of Age in Samoa. Both her theories and the controversy that emerged only after her death are interesting. (Of course, if these weren’t interesting to me, I guess I wouldn’t spent the time logging them.)