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cinematography tech info

haralampos
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May 14, 2005, 6:03 AM

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hi there

Iam planing to shoot a film on DigitalVideo(sony pd-170) and i would like some help.I have many outdoor shots wich are like documentary,cause at that shots i only capture the city's movement.So i would like the image to be a bit dirty-grainy.
Is this something that can be done at shooting and how?Or its something that can be done in post-production.

Bob A
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May 14, 2005, 7:25 AM

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You can add a few neutral density filters to force the cam to go to max gain up to introduce a bit of grain.

mjeppsen
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May 15, 2005, 1:35 PM

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Bob's suggestion has another interesting benefit...a wide open aperture lends to a low depth of field composition. So stacking up ND filters and opening up the iris is a quick and dirty way to create selective focus in your shots, something that DV cams are generally not good at out of the box. And low DOF is generally considered to be big factor in faking the "real film look".

Matt Jeppsen
www.FreshDV.com

RickSp
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May 15, 2005, 8:27 PM

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I do not disagree with your comment. The only caveat I would add is that shallow DOF is extremely difficult to achieve with 1/3 inch CCDs even with ND filters. Just part of the geometry unfortunately.

Personally, I would try to shoot really good video and leave adding graininess and other effect you might want to add in post.

Rick Spilman
Meridian Multimedia
www.meridianmultimedia.com

(This post was edited by RickSp on May 16, 2005, 7:26 PM)