OPT: Vic Milt's latest DVDs - Amazing insights!

ken c wrote on 5/2/2007, 9:26 AM
Just wanted to say thanks a million to Vic Milt for producing the superb new "Director/Cameraman: Master the Shoot" new 2-DVD training videos.

I just got done watching both DVDs this morning, and they're among the very best instructional videos I've seen in my life (of hundreds).

Like "Light It Right", gaining Vic's insights and techniques from his decades of practical, seasoned experience - translated into easy-to-understand, powerful shooting and filming strategies, was very helpful.

It's a 2-DVD series that, like all of vasst.com's DVDs, I'll watch over and over again, so that I can improve my video editing and production skills. I've now come a *long* way since I first started learning from Spot's DVDs 3 years ago, (thanks), and I still have a long ways to go. But thanks to videos like these, my journey will be much faster.

So a heartfelt thanks, Vic - your tips, learning from you (for example, that amazing lighting transformation you did w/Bobby Flay's footage, and Emeril - stunning!), is genuinely helping me learn how to shoot and edit video more successfully.

Learning from a pro like Vic really accelerates your progress, as you can gain from years of hard-earned experience, in just hours. Very, very well done, Vic. I'll recommend this one to all my colleagues as well. Thank you. Bravo!

http://vasst.com/product.aspx?id=7fa4b2dc-f0fe-4cdf-b184-199b46e20236

Regards,

Ken

(and thanks to Manny & Spot for expediting my vasst order, I appreciate it).

Comments

apit34356 wrote on 5/2/2007, 11:49 AM
Ken, you sound like an commercial- just kidding, Vic is a very knowledgeable and talented guy. And is an interesting person to talk to. I've have always though his coffee commercials created a long term image impact in the market, connecting the growing of coffee beans and that morning cup of coffee. Tho, coffee has been around forever, those commercials and a few others, I believe, seeded the mass market to accept the concept of "Starbucks" many years later.
MH_Stevens wrote on 5/2/2007, 12:24 PM
Ken: The VASST site does not give a synopsis of these DVDs. It sounds like something I could enjoy so can you give an outline of the chapters - what areas are covered - and what sort of production is it most useful for? Film making or Doc etc.?
vicmilt wrote on 5/2/2007, 7:58 PM
Ken -

Thanks a million for the nice comments - I made this video with all my friends here at the Vegas site in mind. Hopefully there will be something for everyone, from beginner to expert.

I certainly could NOT have done a project like this alone, and I'd like to thank (particularly) the guys at VASST (Mannie, Spot and Jeffrey Fisher) who reviewed and helped me revise the movie in so many ways to make it more "palatable" to you - the viewing public. They are the guys who approached me in the first place to make Light It Right, and they have been therre for and with me, through thick and thin!

A very SPECIAL thanks to our own GRAZIE - who contributed eighteen typewritten pages of comments and corrections - most of which you will see on the screen. If you need help in development - definitley drop him a line.

And of course - my "behind the scenes guy", Randy Stewart who unfailingly helps me get my "s**t" together at every NAB event. Always smilin' and workin' like a a dog - a true "film crew" guy!!

But the biggest thanks is to all the "regulars" on this very site - who have inspired me to teach - something I never-ever considered. I've gotten scores of letters from folks all around the world thanking me for "Light It Right" and the fabulous (I think) nanolight. Now I believe this video does the same or more for those that want to direct and/or shoot.

I hope you all feel the same way, too.

Thanks again for all your support; keep shootin' and write me with your problems and your sucesses - I want to help you .

v
ps - I've posted a link to a "preview" of sorts including a direct link to Vasst: on the first page of my web site: www.VictorMilt.com
Click the picture to get to Vasst.
Spot|DSE wrote on 5/2/2007, 9:58 PM
is available. We're still getting all of the DVDs released at NAB up on our site with chapter information, apologies for the delay.
Grazie wrote on 5/3/2007, 10:21 AM
Vic! - It was a complete pleasure, typing away this side of the "pond". Vic's a total gent. It was fun!

Looking forward to working on similar collaborations in the future.

Now, stop reading this and go get his "Director/Cameraman: Master the Shoot" and get YOUR share of his vast knowledge.

Graham "Grazie" Bernard


PeterWright wrote on 5/3/2007, 6:09 PM
My copy's on the way.

Interesting from that excerpt Spot posted - I NEVER have the camera red tally light operating - something about it puts some people "on the spot" ('scuse the unintended ...) and this can inhibit behaviour and speech.
How about others' experiences?
randy-stewart wrote on 5/4/2007, 6:09 AM
Thanks Victor. Glad I could help in some small way. Enjoyed working with you and your son. I learn so much at every session you teach. Looking forward to next year.
Randy
DavidMcKnight wrote on 5/4/2007, 9:25 AM
I NEVER have the camera red tally light operating - something about it puts some people "on the spot" ('scuse the unintended ...) and this can inhibit behaviour and speech.

I've kept the red light off for about the last year. There are so many upsides to this; any interview, any event, any situation where you want the subject to at least appear natural. I'll check exposure, focus, frame the shot, start recording, then if possible look at and talk to the subject, and not pay much attention to the lcd screen.

Vic's DVDs are great. I picked this up at NAB but haven't made time to watch it yet.