3. Hello.

6. “We just want a cool movie.”
“Who will watch it?”
“What is the main purpose?”

7. Problem > Context > Solution

9. Basics!

10. Light

11. No light

12. Frontal?

13. Sideways?

14. Backwards?

15. 3 point lighting

16. 3 point lighting

17. 3 point lighting

18. Depth and Contrast.

19. Depth and Contrast.

20. Depth and Contrast.

21. Shots

22. Establishing shot gives context:
Location, objects, people and relations.
Midrange/medium shot is neutral:
Leaves space for action.
Close-up gives detail:
Emotion, detail, involvement.

23. Close-up

24. Mid-shot / Medium

25. Establishing shot

26. Close-up

27. Mid-shot

28. Establishing shot
?

29. Framing

30. Headroom

31. Room for action

32. Thirds / Golden Ratio

33. Symmetry

34. Balance

35. Eyelevel

36. Movement

37. pan
tilt
dolly / slide
crane

38. pan tilt dolly crane

39. pan tilt dolly crane

40. pan tilt dolly crane

41. pan tilt dolly crane

42. Vertigo effect

43. Cameralens

44. What are the differences?

45. What are the differences?
18mm 200mm

46. What are the differences?
50 mm
equivalent human eye

47. Color

48. Skintones

59. Wall-e

60. Moonrise Kingdom

61. Butch Cassidy And
the Sundance Kid

65. Focussing on both visuals, audio and
content is very difficult.

67. Analysis

68. Report about a truck-test
on a special track.

69. Analysis

71. TIPS!

72. Tip #1
“The best camera is the
one you’ve got with you.”

73. What makes film look unlike video?

74. Shuttertime
(1/50th)

75. Depth of field
(or lacking)

76. ISO-value
Shuttertime Iris
(1/50th) (eg. 1,8)

77. ISO-value
ND-filters
Shuttertime Iris
(1/50th) (eg. 1,8)

78. Tip #2
“Know your equipment well.”

82. Tip #3
Sound is equally important as visuals

83. Speech

84. Music

86. sound DEMO

87. Tip #4
Be prepared!
2 examples

93. Michalis Androutsopoulos

94. Flight
Hotel
Luggage
Rental Car
Electric Car
Working Chargers
Good Weather

95. 1 day of location-scouting
3 days of shooting with actor
Recording voiceover (which we didn’t use)
Shooting night timelapses
Shooting Aerials
Relaxing ?

101. Tip #5
Interview techniques!

102. Ask them what they had for breakfast

103. Ask the interviewee to tell
their name and spell it out

104. Talk to me about...
or
Can you tell me about...

105. Shoot extra material to cut away

106. B-roll or Cutaways
It can tell 2x as much
Gives context
Hides jumpcuts

107. Communicate with the
interviewee through 1 person.

108. Tip #6
“Realize that there are 3 films.”

109. The one you come up with

110. The one you record

111. The one you edit

112. ( The one you watch )

113. Montage/edit

114. Tip #7
Film stabilized.

115. Rotation in 3 axis:
pan, tilt, roll

116. Translate 3 assen.
dolly 2x, crane

117. Use a tripod, your body, a wall,
fence, tree, car, surfboard.

118. Tip #1

119. Tip #8
The main task of the director is to
make everyone has enough info to
do their task.

121. Tip #9
Film is illusion

123. Tip #10
Use the available light

129. Tip #11
Decide fast and be confident about
you choice

130. “You’re the cameraman,
so you decide.”

132. ★ 30 minutes meeting.
★ 30 minutes interview
★ 30 minutes extra shots to
edit with.

133. 52,440 views!

134. Tip #12
Make sure you have enough footage
...and preferably more

135. Tip #13
Zooming is for lazy cameramen. Make
composition with your feet.

136. Tip #14
Kill your darlings.

138. Tip #15
Check out:
Buck.tv
The mill+
Onesize
Passion pictures
Mothership
Fubiz.net
Sehsucht
1stAveMachine
Motionographer
Philip Bloom
Vincent Laforet
Chase Jarvis
Vimeo Staff Picks & Vimeo filmschool

139. Tip #16
“Each filmmaker has a few bad movies
in his system, so you can better make
them asap...”
Robert Rodriguez, Sin City, El Mariachi, Desperado, Machete

140. Tip #17
Simple can be effective

142. Q & maybe A

143. More videos?

144. Watch ‘the sleepover’ (vimeo) and analyse all principles
that we discussed. Try to stay focussed and not get sucked
in the story.

145. Same assignment for paperman (youtube)