More like Film

#1

This question has been answered 100 times with: Just shoot on film, but I thought I’d ask just to see some of the ways some people are doing this. How do I get footage shot on video to look more like it was shot on cellulose (old school film)?

#2
  1. shoot with a 24p camera, or use algolith to deinterlace a 24p master (in AE, DF, or Shake)
    2. change the gamma curve to that of a real filmstock (you can find the stock curves from Kodak).
  2. soften the image with diffusion (video’s hard edges are a give-away) either during the shoot, or with the 55mm suite of plugins from Digital Film Tools.
    4. desaturate the image slightly.
  3. add subtle, fine grain to simulate 35mm, and more/bigger to simulate 16mm and more/bigger for s8.
if you want the bleach bypass look of Seven, the 55mm collection has a fantastic filter for it.
#3

Dont quote me on this because I never tryed myself, but it seems that you have to design the lighting in a film way . Modeling with light and shadows would give pictures a more attractive look than the simple washed pictures we see most in videos footages.

#4

!Depth of field! Always try to shoot with as long a lens as possible. If you can afford, get one of the pro35 adapters for DV or digibeta, which let you use 35mm lenses and give you an equivalent DOF (though you will lose some sharpness, due to the principal of how this system works).
This of course is only for the production side. In post, apart from the various plugins, which rarely convince me, its more about colors (and DeInterlacing as someone else mentioned already). Raise contrast and gain in shadows. Watch out for the reds…

-k

#5

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