How You Know You're Doing 10 Mistakes Every Beginner Filmmaker Makes, The Right Way.

If you like to create a cinematic video and love to shoot the stuff that you love. Then this is the right place to know what to do and what not to do. In this blog, you will know 10 mistakes that you will do while doing the cinematic videos the first time. So without wasting my time let's get started.

1. The Wrong Frame Rate

The most common mistake is not choosing the right frame rate. Usually, people think that the more frame rate will be the more good your video will be. But it's not. When you shoot in higher frame rate, in proportion to that the shutter speed will be. That's why when you slow down the image you will get the choppy video. Because it includes the sharp images, With a very little bit of motion blur.

When you shoot in 24 frames per second you will get a cinematic look and the exact motion blur that you need. Yeah, I know many gamers will get angry on the point. But it's true in film making. More FPS will be beneficial while playing the game. But while shooting a video in cinematic look we need 24 FPS.

2. High ISO

When you shoot with the same camera that other person shooting and you compare the footage and you can see that your footage is dull and not good as the other one. What should you do at that time? It's only because you are using very high ISO settings.

When you use your iOS setting, literally there is no light remain to capture. For every camera there is some specific ISO recommended, we can call this a "Base ISO". That base ISO gives a high dynamic range and very low noise. So make sure you stick to the base ISO.

3. Auto Settings

Many people buy a DSLR and Sticking with an auto setting. This makes you the worst filmmaker. Because you don't know which setting will do which task and you don't know how to control your camera manually. you also giving away a lot of creative choices. Do this kind of best practices and you will be on the right path of making good filmmakers.

4. Bad Exposure

This is also, mistake that many filmmakers do. Exposing your video at the right level is a very necessary thing had to do. Because overexposing or underexposing your video can cause loss of high (highlights) and low (shadows) values. Your video will not look good when you editing because not Enough data will available to process. You can not trust your eyes all the time. The best thing you can do that using the histogram to see which color coming towards censor at what intensity. When you see all the thing on the right side of the histogram that means you're underexposing the video and when you see all thing to the right side that means your overexposing the footage. You have to somewhere in the middle.

5. No Color Grade

Colour grading one of the most essential things while editing a video. If you did not do this, it will be like building a house without furniture. It is the part where you can give that original cinematic look to your footage. Take your time to color grade your footage. This gives depth to the footage. The colors look more dramatic. It's just simple you have to do basic settings first with you are video or Raw footage that you have. Then apply a color Luts. By doing this just two steps, You will get that look you saw in movies.

6. No lighting

if you want to pop out your subject from the foreground and background. You need some source of light to pointed on them to make the subject brighter. So the camera can capture more shadows And highlights from the subjects. If you're not going to spend money on the lighting setup. Then make sure to use natural light in a way that will make the subject look brighter. For example, you can choose to sit in front of the window. So more light will be put on your face, that's how the camera will capture your shadows And highlights.

7. Bad Audio

Many times we use an inbuilt microphone or a dedicated one. But we never work on how we can get the best quality of sound from the system we have. The simple tool we can apply for the audio quality is that we have to somewhere between -12 DB input range because it is the best mid-range where we can gain the volume or decrease the volume while editing.

If you did not do this, when a very low noise will come up in the audio and when we increase the gain of the audio to a certain level that we can hear. It will increase the noise also. Vice versa, if we increase the inbuilt gain while recording. We will be not able to capture the high end of the audio. Because it's already picking out. So stick to the -12 DB so you will capture the whole range of audio signals.

8. Shaky footage

shooting with a camera only with hands is not a good choice to do. Because it comes with a lot of shaky footage. And sometimes it's not able to stabilize with the software stabilizing effect that female Pro comes with called warp stabilizer. You must have to buy a specific gimbal for your equipment. Shooting with smartphones then there is an option available for gimbals for smartphones. And if you are using a DSLR camera or mirrorless camera. Then you have to stick with a crane gimbal.

9. The Song

Don't choose a song that you like. Always see what is the subject and what music will go with it. if you want to make your footage more dramatic then choose a dramatic song. If you want more intense so use the intense song. The song will decide how emotions are will be.

10. Neglecting Story

When you begin with a new setup. you are very busy while doing and trying new things. At this point, you forgot what will be the story of your footage. And you come to the home with a bunch of good looking and some semi good looking footage. But you don't know what to do with it. That's why we have to always create a story plan before starting for shooting footage.

So, this is the top 10 mistakes I usually see people are doing when they are starting out in film making. Know me in comments your thoughts about this post. Until then make sure to subscribe to the RSS feed for the ElecEco. So you will be get notified of the new posts.