Make Video Look Like Film: Shot Design - Filmmaking Tutorial 1

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Learn what makes great looking images in film, music videos etc. It's not always the camera but how you design the shots. In this first overall tutorial I try to explain in general terms what designing a shot entails. This can be applied with any video cameras, as well as digital and film cameras. It's the basics of good photography. Special thanks to Beverley Marquis for starring in the video. Shot using the Red One Camera and Canon XH-A1.

Here are great examples of what you can do with a HD camera without the lens adapter (courtesy of Jeremy Mcdermott):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J2CNuG0PnH4
and
http://www.vimeo.com/3180816

Category:

Howto & Style

Tags:

• cinematography
• how to
• digital camera
• DSLR
• Canon 7D
• color correction
• editing
• Red One
• XH A1
• movie making

[Varleyh1]

how did you 'pop the reds' ? is it a special lens? effect? that makes it look like it belongs in a movie, i find it hard to make that final step....

[polcan99]

@Varleyh1 I poped the reds by adjusting the colors in my editing software... I use Adobe Premiere but you can do it in almost every editing program. Check my other tutorial about color correction where I show how to do that step by step

[sunpsn1]

Hi Polcan99, I am really wondering about whats the best/few/ideal F STOPS for film look on Canon 5d2?

[polcan99]

@sunpsn1 there is no ideal F stop setting... Fstop and shutter settings will always change depending where you are, what time of the day and what you are filming. You just gotta set the right exposure so u dont over or under expose the image

[Googopqp]

Wow, there are so many things I wouldn't even think of b4 I saw this! This is seriously very helpful, thank you!

[polcan99]

@Googopqp Thnx! Glad you found it helpful

[OrsonMyles]

is it only me or does the red camera perform pretty badly in this video? lot's of noise and especially the colour fringing took me by surprise...

[megalo]

Tom, what was causing the Vignette effect on the Red camera between 1:30 and 3:30?

[TheJamon79]

Crush the blacks! That's not racist, that's a color correction term!

[Dalqaz]

Very informative - subbed!

[ascinematographer]

@almightytreegod if you're trying to isolate a detail or create a feeling a separation between the person and the world around them, sometimes that's a great time to use a shallow DOF. I mean, it can always make stuff pop, but if it's difficult to get, sometimes just use it for those two cinematic purposes.

[almightytreegod]

I have a Panny HVX200, and sometimes don't have room to stand back far enough to get a shallow DOF, even with the iris all the way open; not to mention if I do, the FOV is very narrow as well. Any tips?

It might help if I knew a little better how to decide between shots that should use shallow DOF and shots that don't need it (if any).

[DSLRCARBON]

Great tutorial.  Thanks for sharing.

[andrewfelo]

This is awesome.... The best tutorial ever seen... thanks.

[inform2rikesh]

i really love, what you did is very expensive to us, you will do more other tutorial i thin so. keep on buddy, i like it .

[ChluyFilms]

you spent all that time showing how to make a shot look great with a $25,000 camera and then you go to a $3000 camera and change 50% of the shot? ........?............