TZ35 - Getting that "Film Look"

http://www.takezer0.com/2008/10/05/tz35-getting-that-film-look/

With this digital revolution sweeping the world of independent cinema, it seems that more and more filmmakers are out to emulate that film look of the past. Here we'll lay out the basics of what that "film look" consists of, and why your digital camera may have some difficulty reproducing it. We'll also tell you how to achieve that look...and then we'll strike you down for trying. Because, maybe, just maybe, this new digital look can be embraced.

Oh, and welcome to our new episode format. Excuse us, as we're still in the process of improving it within the next few episodes.

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Howto & Style

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• film
• cinematography
• shallow
• depth
• digital
• stock
• citizen
• kane
• cs4
• dslr
• filmmaking
• tips
• take
• zero
• zer0
• sean
• duran
• peter
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• tutorial

[sumgai777]

This video isn't actually about HOW to get a film look. It veers off into the weeds of DSLRs, Adobe CS4, and upcoming developments with Red, etc.

Y'all lost your narrative, your story, your focus. Filmmaking 101: actually plan, and pull off, the film (sorry, 'movie') you meant to make.

This one's rambling, to be generous - and it's only a short. ;-)

[esotericsean]

@sumgai777 Yeah, sorry. We're always trying to improve our content. This episode was better than a lot of our oldest stuff. And I think we've improved a lot since then. Appreciate the criticism! :)

[RoarRibbit]

Believe it or not, you guys are partly responsible for me throwing down money on equipment... Wong Fu and Philip Bloom mainly, but let's just say this. I'm responsible for a few of those views on this video! Haha, and this is like 2 years ago! Do you think it's funny how you guys were trying to figure out the future of DSLR's in this video?

[esotericsean]

@RoarRibbit Haha, so weird watching this again. We've been following along with WongFu since they started too. I think I want to start doing TZ episodes again! It's been too long :)

[pf008]

Why didn't you use soap when you washed your hands? WHY?????

[tcrowl22]

zooming in doesn't simulate lower depth of field, it creates lower depth of field.

and the sensor size has nothing to do with the depth of field, that's entirely up to the lens in front of the sensor, the larger it can open (f stops), the more shallow the depth of field can get.

[imjqqr1]

you look like child milesters

[unicornsplooge]

did he come out of the women's bathroom?

[leonardodalongisland]

I guess "movie makers" also don't use hand dryers or towels....:)

[Offshoreorganbuilder]

Brilliant start to this video. Sorry to be personal, and off the subject, Peter, but you do need to loose some weight, like NOW. Thanks for the posting.

[Offshoreorganbuilder]

Brilliant start to this video. Sorry to be personal, Peter, but you do need to loose some weight, like NOW. Thanks for the posting.

[pholse]

Do you understand the concept of a "hand dryer?" its for drying your hands lol

[NewcastleGrind]

The concept of moviemaking easily makes this the most important video you two cats have made. Film culture internationally has a death grip in countries like Australia where you're socially & professionally castrated for being independent of the clique film culture's created. Embracing Moviemaking as an independent culture is the best thing anyone can do right now to get seen & heard.

[derdasemu]

@tcrowl22 so why, if one used a 50 mm f/1.4 lens on a full frame sensor, this would produce a depth of field so shallow it would require an aperture of 0.9 on a camera with a 1.6X crop factor?

[RoadRunnerLaser]

Nice tricks. It might have been helpful to explain that deep focus would require more care in framing as a shallow focus helps to concentrate the viewer's attention on the subject rather than being distracted by too much detail in the rest of the scene.

[spacedoutpro]

thank you for this channel! Informative there its a duel theme that is interesting

Hope to see more soon.especially making video look like film, anything to make the shoestring look like the real thing lol

newbie cinema major