The director teaches you how to make a microfilm and how to make it.

Microfilm is a kind of art film with micro-duration. Simply put, it is a short film with a plot. It was originally the product of grassroots spoof entertainment. If you want to make your story into a microfilm, you might as well pick up the equipment and start doing it now. It's not just directors who can make micro-movies.

Microfilms have low requirements for shooting equipment. Canon's 5D2 and Iphone4 phones are excellent shooting equipment. Now most families have DV, with rich artistic effects or automatic editing functions built in. You can shoot some interesting clips according to the camera's instructions.

For amateurs, just press the start button and you can shoot. In order to avoid too long content and no focus, you may wish to pay attention to the following points, so that your microfilm will be more professional.

First, observe the environment before shooting. Observing the environment before shooting is mainly for two points:

First, through the observation of the surrounding environment, what are you going to use, what angle, and even consider whether to upgrade (slow motion) or downgrade. Second, for your own personal safety, because when shooting, you often only focus on the object being photographed, and it is easy to step on the air or hit the object and get injured.

Second, the shooting method of the big scene in the microfilm If the microfilm is fixed throughout, it will look very dull and boring. When you shoot a big scene, if you can't shoot the whole picture completely with a wide-angle lens, then you should use the "pan" shooting method. Panning means that when shooting a lens, the camera is fixed, and the camera is shaken in any direction with the help of a tripod or a human body. There are various forms of panning, such as horizontal panning that moves the optical axis of the lens horizontally, vertical panning that moves the optical axis of the lens vertically, intermittent panning with several pauses in the middle, circular panning that the camera rotates once, tilting panning at various angles, and so on. Grasp the speed and angle of rotation when panning, and the picture will be smooth.

Third, the diversity of scenery in microfilm shooting. When shooting people and scenery, motion will directly mobilize people's visual feelings when moving or moving. "sports photography, the frame of the picture is moving, and the objects in the picture will show a trend of moving away from each other whether they are moving or static. Mobile photography opens up the modeling space of the picture through the movement of the camera and creates a unique visual artistic effect.

Fourth, the lens of the microfilm photographer must be stable. Many people are shaking too much to watch the video taken by DV. I just don't pay enough attention to it when I "pay attention". Follow-up shooting means that the camera keeps following the moving subject, so the picture taken is called follow-up. It is the basic requirement to keep up with and catch up with the subject when shooting, because the lens jumps up and down greatly, which is very easy for the audience to have visual fatigue.

Usually, the position of the subject in the picture is relatively stable, and the scene remains unchanged. This requires the photographer and the protagonist to move at the same speed, so as to ensure that the position of the character in the picture is relatively stable, the protagonist will not move out of the picture, and the scene will not change.

5. Pay attention to the freeze frame during zoom shooting. Usually, we often see such pictures on TV. The camera is aimed at the vast and harmonious scene, and the camera gradually advances, and finally focuses on a certain detail. This method is often used to shoot flowers, candlelight, small animals and other details. It looks professional, but we can also shoot with ordinary household DV. The focal length of DV can be adjusted by the focusing lever, and the distant scene can be zoomed in by pushing the knob to the T side. If you push the knob to the W side, the shooting range will be expanded. When shooting a zoom lens, you should pay attention to keep still for about 5 seconds after aiming at the target for later editing. In addition, you should freeze the images for 5 seconds at the end of a group of pictures, giving people the feeling of beginning and ending.

The long focal length lens has the characteristics of narrow viewing angle and small depth of field, and has the effect of "seeing far". At present, the optical zoom of home DV has reached more than 10 times, and some even reached more than 30 times. Small objects as far as 10 meter can be felt as if they were in front of you. However, if you want to shoot a long focal length lens, you need to pay attention to: prevent DV jitter.

Although the anti-shake effect of many DVs is very good now, it is still easy to shoot micro-movies with shaking pictures at the telephoto end, which affects the audience's viewing. So try to use a tripod to stabilize the camera when shooting, or use a bracket to stabilize the body or arm. So if it's not the need of the plot, try to go to the side of the scene and shoot with a wide-angle end, so the stability of the picture will be much better.

Information: Love Microfilm