Shooting film at 25fps

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Mike_E

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Everytime I go into Borders I read some of this book The Guerilla Film Makers Movie Blueprint (its a British book) and in it it says, if you're shooting on film to always shoot at 25 frames a second no matter what anyone tells you. (if it said why, I just can't remember)

I'm sure I'll find out about that at film school but I would think it is something to do with editing. Anyone here know anything about this, and agree or disagree?
 
Re: Shooting film at 25fps

Not too old (on Amazon says 1st edition June, 2003) http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/t...1/103-4448048-8745453?_encoding=UTF8&v=glance

It's actually a really good book. The only bad thing I found was that they were sponsored by Arri, Kodak & FujiFilm among others and it seems like there pushing you to shoot film might be alittle more because they sponsors want money.

J, I take it you've never heard about this always shoot 25fps philosophy?
 
Re: Shooting film at 25fps

Shooting 25 is a European/PAL thing.  25fps makes for an easier transfer to PAL television.

In the US we shoot 24fps, which transfers well to NTSC television.

For theatrical release it doesn't make a whole lot of difference, depending on where you're screening the film.  The "standard" is 24fps, but if you do a spot-check of theaters around the world, you'll probably find the standard deviates anywhere to +/- 2 fps or so... especially in theaters where the owner's deliberately sped up the film to get people through faster!

Still, if you're shooting for the theater, I'd say shoot 24fps. If you're shooting for PAL TV/DVD release, definitely shoot 25fps.
 
Re: Shooting film at 25fps

Thanks for clearing that up Barry, I thought it was something like that but I thought I should ask the experts. :)
 
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