low budget filmmaking: USING ONE CAMERA. cool tip/trick

[Righton2000]

What's the name of the camera at the beginning of the video and does anyone know how much it costs?

[BSEntertainmentFilms]

@Righton2000 The larger cam at the beginning is the 'canon xh-a1.' They cost around $3,000

[JCTheServant]

"I thought I was the only one who do the 'freezing phrase' awesome!"

[im2Sketchy]

Freedomfighter 213 try tweaking around with your eq to find the frequency that most of your background noise is coming from and toy with it. that always helps me. and a little background music makes it flawless.

[Erin101Green]

OMG! THANK YOU SOOO MUCH!

Your tips are WAAAY better than expertvillage. Thanks for your help!

[BSEntertainmentFilms]

@Erin101Green Thank you! so glad we could help. Be sure and subscribe cuz we got lots more coming :)

[freedomfighter213]

what do you recommend for sound design man? you know when u have one cam and cut from one scene to another? The sound is jumpy and kills continuity.. what do you recommend? you suggest adding room noise.. but how do we manipulate that exactly? thanks, bro!

[elegiono]

this is good shit man!

[warbread]

Good stuff. Thanks for the advice. But how do you edit out the sound of yelling, "Freeze"? If you cut out too much action, you'd ruin the effect, but it obviously can't be left in.

[BSEntertainmentFilms]

@warbread hey dude. Well, thats all in the magic of post production and sound design. You just cover the "freeze" up with extra room noise or just cut that part of the clip out. Trust me, it works beautifully.

[bipop5000]

hey dude why not shoot the same scene more than once in another angle. then you have more footage to work with. Plus movie are traditionally shot with 1 camera majority of the time

[BSEntertainmentFilms]

@bipop5000 hey bipop. #1. if you've worked on a low budget film, you'd know that its important to work fast. We usually do alot of angles, but this effect is seamless. Do what you want, but this works well. #2. low budget films are shot with one camera, BUT most big budget films are shot on SEVERAL CAMS. trust me. So this video is for people who wanna make a low budget film. Btw, i shot 'kodie' using 2 cams, and now i'm using 3. So....

[bipop5000]

@BSEntertainmentFilms. Cool Bro. I wouldnt say that i havent used what you have used. Its just, that once you start to go with a little more budget and add any kind of light/DIY reflector then, this is going to take more time because moving lights eats time. But yea deffinetly good idea for Low budget/guerilla shooting especially if you are shoting oustside and dont have a permit haha

[Drevilbreakfast]

thanks for that i am shooting my first feature at the moment and this will save shit loads of time

[BSEntertainmentFilms]

@Drevilbreakfast hey no prob. glad i could help

[kuunami]

this might be a silly question but have you done the freeze trick with dialogue scenes too or only non speaking scenes?

[kuunami]

That's are really creative trick. I never would have thought of that. I'm definitely gonna use this on my next shoot.

[nin131]

Thanks! Nice Tips!!

[BrandonsDiary]

cheers for the tips, this has realy helped because im starting a zombie film soon and this has realy helped :D