8 Steps to Cinematic Movement | Tomorrow's Filmmakers

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Here, have some timestamps: 2:08 Avoid handheld 4:15 Zooming (Never do it!) 5:50 Smooth movements 7:27 Depth/Foreground 8:38 Motivated movement 10:32 Rack focusing 11:49 Shoot for the edit 12:54 Plan your movements

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telling someone to never zoom is a stylistic choice only! ive seen zooms artfully done in so many films, and it's one of my favorites!

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Adding the basketball was such a simple & effective demonstration for motivational movement

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Not only the jitter, but the constant small movements when handheld, gives you ever so slight motion blur, which lowers contrast and exposure. That may not be obvious just looking at the footage, but a zoomed playback shows it. It also makes you final render have a larger filesize.

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For example I think zooms were used very well in The Grand Budapest Hotel

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Quentin Tarantino uses zooms and has made it part of his style

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Nah. Using the word never added needed emphasis to the topics. And the author highlighted meaningful examples of when breaking rules works for effect. I have to learn to ‘never’ reply to frivolous comments.

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Wellwell now you can handheld with the Lumix S5iix. It is that good that some shots even seem like on tripod.

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I would recommend this video as a basic intro to cinematic movement which helped me focus on exactly what I wanted to learn. Merci ! This made me want to become a filmaker.

[@extendedfilmproject6789]

I have to disagree regarding handheld. A good cinematographer can operate smooth shots. It is done all the time.

[@willster2967]

Not to mention there’s so many techniques and software that can help smooth it even more. I get what he was saying but I also think he overly dismissed handheld a little much

[@ParvaizRaja]

Remember that he is addressing new talents and not experienced cameramen who have learned in time to control their movements.

[@CommentRodent]

@@ParvaizRaja You can't master handling your camera if you don't start learning how to handle your camera.

[@kenji_1240]

@@CommentRodent but when you insert it into one of your projects, thats when you completely ignored his advice. Practice it, and don’t apply it until you know how to utilize it. He mentions how it’s mistakes he notices in videos made by beginners that they would try to actually use.

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@@kenji_1240 And you won't know how to utilize it until you actually learn how to do it. I actually condone the use of handheld before the use of gimbals or anything like that, just like I condone the use of only manual focus as a beginner. A large amount of beginners don't have access to a gimbal either, and gimbals can also limit creativity in some aspects. I don't like the way it encourages the gimbal ad a universal thing to use for cinematography and not as a special tool as it is. I hate how he gave them an easy way out, which in fully against. I'd rather someone say... "Shaky footage? Practice smooth shot movements." Over... "Shaker handheld shots, use a gimbal or steadicam."

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The longest motivated camera movement I've ever watched as in "Oxford Murderers" movie.

[@pablomolla7387]

1. NO GRABAR CON CÁMARA EN MANO: Se trata de meter al público en la trama, y el temblor de la cámara le recuerda constantemente que alguien está grabando (3:15). Mejor es sin movimiento a que este temblando. Poner un trípode o unas palancas en la cámara. 2. NO ZOOM: No hacer nunca zoom porque recuerda al espectador que hay una cámara grabando (5:22). 3. MOVIMIENTO SUAVE: Invertir en un trípode o "gimbal" para estabilizar la cámara. Equilibrar el gimbal (mirar tutoriales) y caminar con las RODILLAS DOBLADAS (6:52). 4. PROFUNDIDAD: Para mostrar mejor el movimiento poner algo delante del S. D. (7:41). 5. MOVIMIENTO MOTIVADO: Mover la cámara sin motivo quedará raro, como en 8:58, sino mejor como en 9:08. Lo arregla en 9:46. Lo más común es seguir al S. D. (10:15). 6. RACK FOCUS: Lo de enfocar y desenfocar el fondo (10:52), evitarlo porque es repetitivo y aburrido, hacerlo muy de vez en cuando. 7. GRABAR PENSANDO EN LA EDICIÓN: Grabar por ejemplo una transición pensando en el efecto que harás luego (12:38). 8. SABER QUE MVTO VAS A HACER ANTES DE GRABAR: Piensa que sensación o emoción quieres transmitir y luego piensa en el movimiento que ayudará a transmitir eso (13:33). No hagas movimientos al azar porque distraerán al público.

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Just a learner myself, but I think maybe one way to minimize the temptation to rack focus is to follow the other point about motivated movement. In at least two of the Hollywood rack focus examples, a character's attention turns, and the focus changes to get us on what they are looking at. So, perhaps the idea (for safe filmmaking, so to speak) is to either don't do it, or do it just once and make sure it is "motivated rack focus."

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Hi Justus, one question please! You say that every movement transmits the right emotion or the wronge emotion depending on what your intending to transmit. Now my question is, are there any "neutral" movements? ... ex. When you don't know exactely what feeling you want to give, so you just shoot and then select your best shot at the editing. So how you make shure to leave out the movement that might FORCE an emotion! I hope my question is cleare! 😅 Thanks.

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