Being Cinematic

great work done by PerroneFord and others too....... the best and the most resourceful for beginners and as well as professionals. thank you PerroneFord
 
wow!
I ended up sleeping 2 hours last night and running straight back to my PC to keep reading!
(I followed every link here too and every link from there - haha).

A really great thread! Keep it coming!

Sharing wisdom like this so selflessly is highly commendable and very appreciated.

I love movies, every Genre!
I would love to see a flood of great quality, entertaining masterpieces hit the market every week!
One or two Hollywood releases a week is not near enough, we need oodles of cool films bursting the seams and pushing the boundaries!
Threads like this make it very possible for beginners like me who have tons of passion but equal amounts of ignorance.
Thank God for certain people's insomnia... heh heh.

Anyhoo:

I Googled 'Color and Grading' last night and found a brilliant tutorial on color in post (using magic bullet).
http://www.redgiantsoftware.com/videos/redgianttv-video.php?id=23
(Sorry for the long URL, I'm a forum virgin).

Also found this about getting 'The film Look':

www.indie-film-making.com/​making-video-look-like-film/​.

I hope it adds some value :)
 
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LOL! Yea, Stu's tutorials are great. I watched this after I bought Magic Bullet and found it very helpful.

Your second like there doesn't work.
 
PerroneFord said:
LOL! Yea, Stu's tutorials are great. I watched this after I bought Magic Bullet and found it very helpful.

Your second like there doesn't work.
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Fixed the second one :P

This thread and that tutorial (first link) have made more sense to me than 5 years of crash courses, personal lessons and non-stop forum trolling!

I lurrrv these tutorials for dimwits cos I am one. I was the guy in school at the back of the class with low Ram. (The blank faced dude in functional maths class).

When stuff is spelled out like that with pictures and crayon I have a lot more "Ahhh" moments than the 60i vs 24p vs small penis urinating competitions.
There I draw an epic blank unfortunately. (Insert white noise here).

'Here is what a 35 mm lens looks like (insert picture here)' - "Ahhhh"
'Compared to a 50 mm lens (insert picture here)'. - "Ahhhhh"

Keep it up dude, you're changing lives here!

Heck, you even got me posting and I've got 'Epic Fear of Looking Dumb on teh Internetz and getting Flamed Syndrome' (EFOLDAGFOTS).


I look forward to your next lesson thingie. (Obviously).
 
"i think it's time for me to watch "Baraka"."

I think it's the best of those types of films. This one mercifully lacks the monotonous repitition of Phillip Glass.

I recently ordered Earth on Netflix. That should be impressive as well.
 
That first tutoiral, the RG one by Stu is just awesome. It's so super helpful because it goes into the basic theory behind color grading and getting looks. Not a lot of extra technique, not a lot of fancy industry talk, not a huge AE or MB lesson. Just the most concise tricks to get you going.
 
Thanks for the tips.

I can think of one instance where you want to shoot down slightly upon your subject. I call these bad shots "nostril shots". Some people's nostrils are huge. If you shoot up into them, they make huge black spots. If this is the case, raise the camera slightly until they're not so obvious.
 
zoob said:
Thanks for the tips.

I can think of one instance where you want to shoot down slightly upon your subject. I call these bad shots "nostril shots". Some people's nostrils are huge. If you shoot up into them, they make huge black spots. If this is the case, raise the camera slightly until they're not so obvious.
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The idea is not to angle the camera up, but to keep the camera level at a lower height.
 
Oh God, thanks for this thread PerroneFord. I only had time to read the first page but I'll be back for more. This is an awesome post for dummies like me that "point and click".
 
I need to find a little time to work on this one more. Been crazy the past few weeks for me. I need to get back in movie mode soon though.
 
Influences on Expression

Influences on Expression

Before I ever picked up a motion picture camera I had already spent quite a few years drawing, painting and working as an animator. When I was in art school at university working on my degree I had a chance to also study photography but there was no formal program in film. I ended up starting to make films as part of an interdisciplinary course in another faculty.

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I've been working with a very avante garde director on a feature project over the last year who not only spent a number of years in hollywood but worked a lot in the world of the theatre and both acted in and directed a lot of shakespearean pieces.

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While DP'ing on this project, its been interesting to start pushing into areas more reminiscant of what I was exploring in other media. From my days painting I would work a lot with palette knives pushing colours around more directly and on this project I've been starting to push light around in a similiar vein,

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while keyframing spots for sequences to both emphasize those spots and shorten setup times.

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Thank you Perrone for taking your time to write all this, I read every word and will difinitely refer back to this in the near future. I'm very interested to hear what you have to say about camera movement. Ok, I'm interested to hear anything you have to say at all :D
 
I'm sorry I haven't updated this. I am slogging my way through editing a movie that I hope to deliver by Christmas. When I am done with the movie, I'll update the thread.
 
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