by Jake Coppinger
(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QbBR7IsBbZ8&ab_channel=JakeCoppinger)
“A film look is broadly defined as the look and feel of the footage that you’d see in a feature film”
Camera settings are especially important, though you can always edit it in post-production with enough work
- Camera’s should always be on manual control, on Canon, it’s called Movie Exposure.
- 24 or 25 fps only. We have been conditioned to see 24fps as film
- Set shutter speed at double the frame rate (50) 180degree shutter rule
- Use a shallow depth of field, have the subject in focus and the background blurred
- Adjust aperture for depth of field.
- To control exposure change the ISO setting.
Post Production
Smooth Camera Moments are really important in camera work, and it makes it look a lot more professional.
Stabilizing
Useful for smoothness control for shots that should’ve been done on a tripod but weren’t.
In Premiere…
- Use the Warp Stabilizer Effect
- Under the Stabilization tab, change the Result tab from smooth motion to No motion.
Colour Grading
Use this to convey an emotion in a film, and it’s important to use colour grading to achieve a professional look.
In Premiere…
- RGB curves
- Three-way Colour Corrector
With the RGB Curves, The graphs on the left show the highlights and darks of the footage, and you can alter the lines (Probably use the master tab) You can make the darks darker and the lights lighter by adjusting the graph like shown.
With the Three-way colour Corrector, a popular cinematic trick is to have the shadows and darks have a blue hue, and the highlights have a light colour hue like orange, like shown.
Aspect radio is important. Standard video is in 16:9 but most professional films are shown in the 235:1 ratio
The easiest way to achieve this ratio in is to do what is called letterboxing
In Premiere…
- You can just import an external 235:1 template and overlay the video
- Add black bars to the top and bottom of picture (complicated)
