If you go to shoot a film with an experienced crew and you pull out a DSLR camera you’re going to run into a significant issue. All the lenses used on professional cine cameras are PL mount and won’t fit on a DSLR.
And the lenses that do fit on a DSLR don’t have the features an experienced camera crew depends on. That has now changed and this video from Philip Bloom is proof of the value of PL lenses on a DSLR.
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Film making is story telling. Right?
So what’s more important – the film making or the story telling?
NPRs Scott Simon knows a thing or two about this subject and shares a few tips in this short video.
Learning to use the language of film to tell stories is one thing. But the basics of good story telling are about the story itself, not the media used to tell the story.
Scott Simon walks the talk in this video. It’s as important to watch what he does as much as listening to what he says. He’s using his own tips to tell the story… brilliant!
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