Creating a ''film' look
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Shallow DOF.
Good lighting
24p
Good camera set up.
among dozens of others.
Good lighting
24p
Good camera set up.
among dozens of others.
Fade To Inferno
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Also color correction. I find the learning how to bleach bypass improves the look, and leans it toward that cinematic feel
PerroneFord
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Despite the popular notions, the "film look" isn't a technical issue, but an emotional one and it is derrived from the narritive of your film, good acting,storyboarding before you shoot and good editing. anyone who calls themselves a filmaker should be able shoot a scene film on a cellphone and cut it on windows movie maker or i movie and still achieve the elusive "film look".
kennedymax
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Birthday Pie
Birthday Pie
My wife bakes a peach cobbler for my birthday. When she brought it out I asked her to take it back to the kitchen and give it a chocolate pie feel (my favorite). The peach cobbler really tasted good, though. Particularly the piece of peach I wiped from my forehead . . .and the crumbs I got out of my ears. Moral: if you want a chocolate pie make a chocolate pie. If you want the look of film, pay the dues and learn how to shoot film. There really isn't a short cut or a quick fix.
Good luck.
Birthday Pie
My wife bakes a peach cobbler for my birthday. When she brought it out I asked her to take it back to the kitchen and give it a chocolate pie feel (my favorite). The peach cobbler really tasted good, though. Particularly the piece of peach I wiped from my forehead . . .and the crumbs I got out of my ears. Moral: if you want a chocolate pie make a chocolate pie. If you want the look of film, pay the dues and learn how to shoot film. There really isn't a short cut or a quick fix.
Good luck.
+1
Pick a tool and use it. There are lots of things aside from film out there that look really, really nice. Some are "closer" to "film" than others, thanks to frame rates and gamma settings and the like. But the honest truth is that there are some non-film cameras that are capable of beautiful images in the right hands. Learn to shoot like you're shooting on film: handling the camera, lighting, framing, lens selection. If you can use the tool to tell your story in a way that others want to watch, is it really a big deal that it doesn't look exactly like film?
kennedymax
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Here, here! Don't miss the forrest for the trees. A well crafted show stands on its own regardless of the medium.
Ken
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Ian-T
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Thar's cold!
no its not
Pietro Impagliazzo
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250D has such a nicer, richer look. I wonder why it's so underused.
I have to disagree a bit so I develop my line of thought...
There are the visual characteristics that DON'T depend on medium. And there are other visual characteristics that DEPEND on medium.
When people refer to a 'film look' I think they are referring to both of them. Of course shallow DOF (understanding shallow as 16mm and up DOF), good resolution, good color rendition, good hightlight protection are the technical ones that depend on medium.
The others are the visual techniques employed by Director and DP that make a film a rich medium of visual narrative, well chosen camera movements, camera angles, lens choices, lighting choices, post-production choices, etc, etc. All did with a great production design, set design, set dressing, wardrobe.
Film look ain't easy, if it was easy films wouldn't cost millions.
Film look is a reunion of so many competencies that the untrained eye can't spot it all separately and so it classifies this reunion as a single, contained, specific quality.
PerroneFord
Deals in Lead
I prefer Fuji Eterna to be honest, but I couldn't find a link to it. And I think people tend to avoid 250D because it's kind of an "in-between" stock. It's got too much grain to be razor sharp, and it's too slow to really whittle down the light package a lot. Everyone wants the new Vivid stocks. I love the softer muted colors of the Fuji, but then I also like period pieces and pretty films.
I did see RED last weekend and thought it was a LOT of fun...
kennedymax
Well-known member
Wouldn't it be interesting to see responces to a thread from, say, a film producer that asks, "How do I create a Video-Look?".
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