Please Help me!!

[creator29]

Hello everybody, I am Amar from India and new to this forum. Recently I bought a SAMSUNG SC D363 Mini DV.I am planning to make a short film using this camcorder.However, I am not sure about the quality of the output.Can somebody suggest me some ideas, tools or techniques that can enhance the quality of the film.

Thank you in advance.

Amar

 

[BenB]

Blocking and lighting, the two most important things to a good shot. A well shot and edited film will always win out over a poorly lit, poorly blocked, poorly edited film done on the most expensive hardware.

Practice telling stories. For real, "tell" folks stories. Figure out the begining, middle, and end of the stories, the point of them. Telling stories face to face with people is the best practice for film, IMHO. Because film is the same thing, you just don't get to judge your audience and change the story mid-telling. Telling stories face to face with people, you learn what does and doesn't work. If there's a famous story teller locally (I'm Cherokee, I know professional story tellers, they're awesome), go listen to them and anylise what they do to make a story great.

After that, it's blocking, lighting, editing.

 

[tiel_99]

I agree.

A good quality film starts with the script. Get a good story and then write it up.

Then use lighting and good acting bring out that story.

The camera you purchased should be okay for the job. If you have to get one piece of additional equipment, go for a tripod. It'll keep your camera steady at least.

One piece of advice: When shooting, set your camera to manual. Don't go to auto because you want to be able to control the aperture and focus for your film.

 

[Jody Michelle Solis]

The only thing I can add to this is, is how important the sound is. Always get an external mic of some form. I edit loads of stuff for clients and we employ freelance camera operators. Trust me sound is important!

http://www.grafxflow.co.uk/forum/

 

[tiel_99]

Yes, sound is very important. Get a sound recordist if you can afford one. Poor sound has the potential to give you editing headaches and just renders your project as low quality.

Sound is often the most overlooked aspect of a video production. Look into the sound at your location. Is there any construction going on in the vicinity which can ruin your sound recording? Is the location noisy? Near a freeway or road? All these locations will present problems for sound recording so do consider them when location scouting.

I've passed on some beautiful locations before because of loud noise which we couldn't control.

Believe it or not, I've had sound problems in the wilderness before because we were shooting near an airport where trainee pilots were learning to recover from a stall. And they were flying about a mile high above us. They would circle around us and then cut their engine. Then when they restart the engine, there's a loud droning sound and that's when we have to cut our recording. Not because of visual problems, but because of sound. And we wasted about an hour and a half of production time just waiting for the plane to complete their exercise.