Wednesday, 30 September 2009

Getting That FIlm Look With DV Cameras

For my music video i really want parts of it to have that look of film, such as in the My Bloody Valentine's video for "Feed Me With Your Kiss" (The video can be viewed here). I really like the look of it, and it draws on the genre conventions of psychedelic rock music videos and gives the video a "vintage" feel which is currently very popular. However, i am going to be using a DV camera.

After researching it, what people on forums and advice websites suggest is keeping down the frame rate to 24 frames per second, because that's what 35mm film is shot in, planning the lighting well so that it the censor in the camera has to compensate in an extreme way, and using film and colour effects to get the right look in my editing process. Other sources suggest manually controlling the aperture and exposure levels on the camera whilst shooting.

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