How to Light a Romantic Film Scene - Cinematography & Filmmaking Tutorial 3

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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 3rd tutorial I try to explain how I setup a restaurant scene from a narrative film, as well as how I fix one sequence from the same film by re-designing a shot.

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Howto & Style

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• video
• short film
• film look
• lighting technique
• DSLR
• camera
• Canon 7D
• film equipment
• Directing
• film production
• movie making

[mrbinibone]

i have one silly question that is how many cameras are used in movies to record a normal conversation scenes like these two girls in the begining the camera views change as the other one talks,like when moving from one person to the other?

[polcan99]

@mrbinibone most of the time it's fillmed with only 1 camera. you do a take from one angle. then u move the camera to another angle and have the actors repeat their lines, then u do it again and again untill u have all ure angles shot

[TheAwesomeJassim]

you said that there was stuff that you didn't like about the 7D, such as? I currently own a consumer cam and want to upgrade to a higher level camera. Any thoughts? I've had people recommend the 60D as well.

[polcan99]

@TheAwesomeJassim I dont like the Rolling shutter, the moire problems, horrible audio... no pro audio connections or monitoring, no dedicated video out, no ability to plug it into AC outlet, you have to run it off batteries the whole time. But those are the same problems that all DSLR cameras have. Otherwise they're great!

[AnInternalProduction]

@polcan99 T2i owner here, thought I would drop a tip or two. You an buy ac adapters for all eos cameras, they plug into the battery section. Also, you can use the HDMI out for video monitoring. Prices for a HDMI camera mountable monitor range from $200 (not very good) to almost $2,000, just depends on what you want/need/have. As for Awesome Jassmin, what do you want to use the camera for? The truth is, DSLR video is not for everyone/everything, it can be a pain to work with sometimes.

[polcan99]

@AnInternalProduction great tips ! I appreciate it... please share more if you guys have other suggestions

[Refused2Break]

Nice ass at 3:08

At 3:10 the main male actor had to take a quick glim at it LOL

[onursalbayraktar]

dude you have good vision.but I have a question what do you use for editing and what color correction style excatly for the two girls scene on the meadow.it looks fantastic .keep it up man.and thanks

[TALIK96]

I like that your sharing your knowledge with the people...thanks

[flicebaby]

@mrbinibone Like Polcan99 said... you can do it with a single camera, but there are several options, all depending on who and what you work with. You should read The Five Cs of Cinematography. It will reveal all the answers to your questions.

[DallasWorks1]

great work buddy

[bruvvamoff]

Hey dude

Great tutorials, I watched most of em many times. I appreciate the uploads.

I am writing horror and I intend to start shooting soon. do you have any tutorials on how to create moody shadows for horror and suspense movies? Like Fewdio Bedfellows (youtube)

[randallmckay]

Along with the immense focus on technical creativity that goes along with these kinds of tutorial videos, I would like to see directors focus on more subtle aspects of creating a scene like:

*How to direct your actors for creating realism

*Spontaneous methods of directing to do with lighting, camera angles, etc...

*Set design

Basically, the area around the camera should be believable as possible.

[directorlog]

Thanks for the tip! but I heard the 7D has a bad motion-blur when you move the camera around with quick movements, but if you can stabilize the shot it looks beautiful..

[caiobasilio]

7:30 LOL

[GMatthews537]

Thanks Tom! Lighting is something that I have always shied away from, but I will defiantly attempt to use it in my next few films :D

- GNMfilms

[viciousbloodbath]

A few questions: For the restaurant scene, did you reposition the lights after you got your wide shot, when you came in for coverage between the two main actors? Also, for this particular scene, what made you instinctively go for the 36''x36'' 500 watt softbox for your keylight (which turned out great), and not any other light such as a diva kinoflo, or any other light with diffusion? Do you have specific tried and true "go to" lights, when shooting particular settings?