100 introduction of film shooting skills

Since the appearance of cost-effective and easy-to-use digital cameras, image photographers have mushroomed. Digital technology simplifies the film-making process, but there are still many reliable shooting skills that only the staff in the big budget film industry know.

If you are shooting your first short film or low-budget drama, this book will help you increase the visual and dramatic effects of the lens. Many new directors have wild imaginations, but later they find it frustrating that their films can't meet their original ideas. Using the skills in this book, you can take excellent shots and make your works by going up a flight of stairs.

Most of the technologies in this book don't cost a lot of money, and some can even be realized at no cost. You only need to own or borrow the main shooting equipment. Even better, most techniques can achieve twice the result with half the effort.

Although beginners can learn a lot from this book, this book is not designed for beginners. Ideally, you should at least have a general understanding of digital cameras, that is, you should read and understand the operation manual. You may not be an expert in photography, but you must have a foundation.

You don't need an experienced director to use this book, but it would be much better if you had the concept of lens configuration and editing. When editing, you need to be familiar with the software to complete the basic editing work. This book will tell you more advanced editing skills and how to present visual effects.

Many skills are like a shortcut, but please don't underestimate their power. Hollywood studios use some technologies. In the field of professional film, time is money. If there is a quick and low-cost way to achieve the goal, why not? You don't need a huge work team, movie lights or a director's chair to make a good shot. As long as the results on the screen are great, the process is not the point.

However, there is one area not covered in this book, and that is the performance of actors. This book focuses on how to use skills to achieve the perfect shot, and the rest is up to you to guide the actors to convey the perfect performance. Without a perfect performance, all the skills in the world will only be like small moves.

No matter whether your shooting team is friends, students or professionals, you should take good care of it. Please practice the skills in the book thoroughly before shooting, so that the actors don't have to waste the waiting time.

You can treat each chapter of this book as a project, or just choose the part you need to understand. Finally, internalizing skills and showing new things are the most important. All directors will learn from other directors, but if you want to be creative, you can start with the skills in the book and create your own things. There is a very simple way to start, that is, to combine two or more techniques to shoot a group of shots.

No matter how you use the skills in the book, remember that you are telling a story. No matter how surreal, ambitious, visually outstanding or innovative, the images taken should add points to the story.

This book will tell readers how to create high-level professional skills at low cost. Including complex visual effects, dramatic shots and powerful continuous shots. The clear step-by-step guidance in the book, coupled with the clear arrangement mode at a glance, is an advanced course for amateur filmmakers and a good helper for independent filmmakers in the digital media era.