How To Get A Retro 70s Film Look

In this Film Courage video, Chris Hilleke, filmmaker and Director of Photography for Third Saturday in October and Third Saturday in October Part 5, discusses achieving a retro look in filmmaking. He highlights the importance of production design and teamwork in creating a convincing vintage aesthetic. Chris emphasizes the significance of lens choice, referencing lenses from the 1970s, such as the Angénieux 15 to 150mm and Switar lenses, to capture the desired look.
Chris Hilleke, a filmmaker based in Birmingham, AL, has dedicated nearly two decades to motion picture production. As a committed independent creator, he handles multiple roles, including writing, editing, scoring, and directing. His cinematography skills have been instrumental in sustaining his career and supporting small-budget projects. Hilleke's work spans a wide range, from corporate videos, commercials, reality TV, and focus groups to both short and feature-length narrative and documentary films. Notable cinematography contributions include films like A Horrible Way to Die, and the HBO documentary Gideon's Army, which won the Best Editing Award at the 2013 Sundance Film Festival. He has also worked with corporate clients like Converse, Under Armour, John Deere, HBO, and Mercedes-Benz, with his projects broadcasted on platforms such as IFC, TLC, Food Network, HGTV, Netflix, Anchor Bay, and HBO. Hilleke's filmmaking journey began as a means of creative connection, and he aspires to devote all his time to his own film projects as he moves closer to realizing this dream. In addition to his DP roles, he has produced numerous award-winning narrative and documentary short films, including Some of What I Know About Tommy, which earned the Audience Choice Award at the 2009 Sidewalk Film Festival, exploring the challenges of Paranoid Schizophrenia in his neighborhood of Five Points South.
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[@filmcourage]

Have you made a retro looking film? What tools did you use to achieve this look?

[@Film.look.addiction]

Hi I use Dehancer film stock plugin in Davinci. I currently graiding my footoge from Tallin city in Estonia. I like mix film stocks luts to get own look also I blend log footage witch film luts. The idea to use vintage glass is very smart move because modern glass lack some charisma. Espesially to achieve true vitntage look with modern glass film stock lut dont work so organicly in my own experince. But I dont like buy vintage glass because its olnly good in narrow use. Also its hard to use witch anamorphic adapter because of moving front elemet.

[@CaptainNow2]

I have daydreamed about making a movie now for about 20 years. This is like a dream for me, watching such passionate people make something so awesome with tools that feel like magic. I will have to check out your movie! :)

[@mattlaw1350]

I just rewatched "Her" and it has in my opinion a futuristic retro 70's look. The 70's with cell phones

[@DenkyManner]

I'm not a filmmaker but I found that fascinating

[@palootto4021]

Thank you very much for sharing your experiences. I learned a lot of invaluable techniques.

[@invisiblerevolution]

Got dag... that's alot of behind the scene work!!!!

[@filmcourage]

Thanks for watching. We are grateful to the talented filmmakers Chris Hilleke, Jay Burleson and cast/crew for making this video for our channel.

[@Thenoobestgirl]

I like the new format

[@HaleyMary]

This was cool!

[@filmcourage]

Thanks for watching!

[@faa9261]

I love it🎉

[@xxannixx4693]

I would love to see these guys remake a Halloween 1978 movie

[@GamersRiseOfficial]

I know it’s not 1970s but that’d be cool if they did goodfellas too

[@paologuardascione1373]

In cinema can you mix the light tungsten with the led light?

[@thesnooch]

Dialed in once again

[@robertulrich3964]

He didn't really get into it too much but there's two kinds of moonlight there is white balance moonlight and then there's gel moonlight. White balance moonlight if shot on raw can be fixed in post,gels cannot.

[@jasserpalm3055]

Yellow, Brown, Yellow, Brown, is all what’s 70s are while it’s totally wrong and gloomy, I’m always preferring The Shades of Blue, which always gives Bold and Leisure in Film’s story telling 💙

[@MelchVagquest]

This look actually depresses me when I see it. I don't understand how the 50s and 60s had such style and then the 70s washed everything in yellow and brown

[@JayFingers]

You must not have been alive then because the state of the world was pretty depressing.

[@thechairman74]

​@@JayFingersI was alive but I was only a little kid in the '70s (born in 1974). It was like I was insulated from all the stuff going on then.

[@MelchVagquest]

@@JayFingers Hahaha no, I wasn't alive yet

[@comebackguy8892]

Well, I mean... It was a golden era of cinema so people must like it... Or try to escape it.

[@yellowjackboots2624]

Suspiria and A Clockwork Orange are two 70s movies which, thankfully, didn't fall into this trap. This idea of the yellow and brown tinge seems to come more from retrospective ideas of what the 70s looked like.

[@Rebecca-qg8pb]

That look kinda makes me sad For anyone that was alive then was that time depressing cause I find it depressing as hell!!!

[@michaelmyers3709]

The only way you can make a movie look like the 70s is to film it in the 70s.