achieve the film look with my new canon 7d The biggest influence on getting the filmlook is in my opinion the shooting (and settings) itself. Although it could have been better (more experience, tripod, use of smaller aperture for wider shots, etc), this definatly has the filmlook. Settings: 1080P at 24 FPS. Shutterspeed always at 1/50th (to get as close to 1/48th as possible). Vari ND filter for blocking out light so aperture can be wide open for close-ups with narrow DOF. That are the basic ingrients for the look. More advanced filmic trics are dollyshots, craneshots, using lots of effects, etc. Not that my footage in the link is compressed by Youtube (quality-loss) and is not colour-graded or anything. Straight out-of-the-camera footage. Good luck with practicing. That is most important. I also have so much to learn still! timeflight is offline 1, set the 7D up in the correct picture-style for video, google this its pretty simple. 2, Have the right lens and right aperture. I wouldnt go much lower than F2.8. Have a lens with a decent focus ring. 3, Set the right shutter speed and frame rate. 1/50 and 24p is the ideal film look! 4, light the scene well. Have soft diffused light at the right temperature that lights the scene well, try not to push that ISO too high. 5, Have the right hardware, tripod or a steadycam. Dont bother with a mattebox or filters (unless you need to use an ND filter). A standard lens hood is fine, and with digital video you can do what filters do in editing. Now shoot! Obviously this is where your creativity in lighting, framing, focus and motion will come into play... thats up to you In the editing room... 1, Edit in the right format ie. not the standard h.264 if you can help it, it should be a 4:2:2 or 4:4:4 color-space idealy. Cineform or Prores is best. Keep it progressive not interlaced! 2, Any editing suite from Adobe, Apple, Sony will be great. (the cut down versions are perfectly good) 3, If you want quick fixes in colour-correction use Magic Bullet Looks plugin! Great software. If not learn the basics of RGB Curves and Colour Corrector! 4, Once youre happy with your cut and colouring export to a h.264 format at a healthy data-rate. Obviously theres a lot involved in a great looking film... thats why its so expensive! But doing these steps as well as you can (if i havent missed any out) you should get a decent look. Good luck and remember to show us what it comes out like here.
Posted on: Sun, 03 Nov 2013 09:47:12 +0000
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