Vital Butinar

Yeah I know. I mean the prices are really crazy. Yes I realize that a lot of the equipment used for filming is really high quality but the prices of any equipment you can name is by my estimate overpriced by a factor of 10 regardless of quality. So when you're starting of like I am and have very very limited budgets either you improvise and find non conventional solutions or spend loads of money you don't have for stuff that's overpriced that you're gambling weather you'll make it back or not. I actually have a couple of really good ideas for lower budget stuff that I haven't been able to figure out how to make. :)

Ok cool that is an option I didn't even consider. It's not cheap but it's a start or at least I can start searching in the right direction. Thank you.

Hi guys! I'm relatively new here and I was wondering if I could ask for a little help with something. I'm planning on doing a project with the unfortunate detail of having a very limited budget. Unfortunately an all too common thing lately. Anyway it would come really in handy if the 1st AC and the director would be able to look at a screen and see what the camera is actually shooting. Now on sets they usually have remote video systems. And I actually don't have any problems hooking up a pc monitor to a the camera or even multiple pc monitors. Since I do have access to a bunch of them. My question since I've seen LCD TVs on set showing the camera image. Is there something witch I have absolutely know idea what to call, some kind of electronic box that would let you see a histogram and focus peaking etc. on the monitor or TV hooked up to the camera. Of course something that isn't so expensive that it would be cheaper to buy field monitors that already contain this functionality. Anyway thank you for your time and ideas witch are very welcome. Best regards

I'm a complete beginner in filming and all that goes with it. But at university I had a course of cinematography and filming that I loved and ever since I can remember I wanted to make movies. Well I became a semi-professional dancer in the last 10 years and when I was in a dance video I remembered how much I wanted to be in film businesses so with my girlfriend we decide to film a dance video of us to learn everything we could about the production process. So we did everything and got a nice dance video out of it and because of the video we got to make 8 more for various other dancers we knew and I must say I learned a lot. Anyway my advice to you is don't use an iphone or any kind of small camera but use a DSLR at least because you can do much more with it (unfortunately you're still limited in some areas) but the image will be much better. Make a shot plan in advance before filming and decide what exactly you're going to shoot before getting to your locations. I even went and scouted the locations in advance and decided what and how I'd do everything. Figure out what to do with lighting and or use onsite lighting decide how to use it and do it constantly because otherwise you shots won't match with each other. Also don't forget to prepare your audio in advance. What I did was I added some beeps to the beginning and end of the audio for the video that I used when filming on locations and it made aligning for editing much easier (even though software can align audio well this was much more reliable). But the most useful advice I can give you and this really depends on the type of dance and theme of the song is to plan your shots according to the choreography. Get the artist to give you a recording of the rehearsal of the choreography so you can prepare and look at the performance as a first person watching the show and then make notes of what you noticed the most (I usually notice either facial expressions and interesting dance styling movements because shows are meant to do that) then when you know what's interesting decide how to shoot the close ups of those elements because they are the once that are going to give your video the dot on top of the i. You have to remember it's that first person experience that makes a show great to watch but if shoot only a wide angle it's like watching a dance show from 400 feet and it loses it's charm and the close up shots of expressions and things like that is what brings a similar experience to the viewer compared to a live watcher. Also if it's a group or even if it's just a pare of dancers you can fake some movements or adjust positions to get a better shot from a different angle but this also depends on how are the performers able to adapt and adjust to your directing. Basically with the wide shots the more coverage you get the better off you because you have more options in editing and the close ups are what make it look really nice. As far as editing goes and again it depends on the style its similar to I guess it reminded me of action films where they cut on action and then you just go by feeling in some places what you want the person watching to see whether you show them something a little before it happens or after depends on the pacing. I think of stuff like this like editing a conversation it has to stay interesting. Sometimes you let the viewer be surprised by close up and sometimes you lead them in with the wide shot. Anyway that's about as much as I can give you in general I hope it helps and that you're able to make an awesome video (hope you show it when it's done) and have great fun making it. I know I did on all of mine. :) Best regards

Hi guys! First let me introduce myself. My name is Vital and I'm from Slovenija. Anyway when I was a kid I wanted to make movies the moment my dad bought the first Hi8 camera. Well since I was a kid we shot a lot and edited very little and finished almost nothing. Then when studied graphic design in college but my favorite curses were of course photography and cinematography. So when I graduated I kept on doing photography since DSLRs were getting available but didn't have a video camera so I didn't shoot anything for a bunch of years. Well one of my other hobbies is also dancing and since I've been a semi-professional dancer for years and last year I got to perform in commercial it reminded me how much I've always wanted to make movies or anything along these lines. So with the money I got from that very video I bought myself a new DSLR that could shoot video and started learning about everything and since my girlfriend had always wanted to also do something along these lines we decided to make our own dance video to see what we could do and learn about stuff. Well soon after our first video a bunch of people from our dance scene contacted us that they thought we made a nice video and wanted to know if we were interested in making a dance video for them. So we got our first gig and a couple of others after that and a little more than half a year later we've made about 7 dance videos and it's looking like we're going to do even more. I joined because I'd love to do more along the lines of producing even more stuff and that means learning at every step of the way. That's why I decided to post a few of the videos and get some feedback. This is our first video: Last Dance It was shot during the summer using only available light sources and at times a reflector on my Nikon D7100. It took us about 60 hours to shoot at all the locations and find the angles and everything. So first project ever. This is the gig we got based on our first video The first one was a group dance video https://vimeo.com/204753155 This one was hard just because the set where we were shooting was just an empty dance studio so we got a little creative with the lighting and used the dividing wall to make it a little more interesting. Well one of the dancers from this group gave us a challenge for when she said she needed a bollywood style video done in just one week. We organized everything from a to z in two days shot it in one day with 11 people that came out and helped and edit it in just two days. So there's a bunch of stuff that could have been done better if we had the time in post. But what I was happy was the shoot because it all went according to plan and we got everything I wanted and on scheduled. Then we got another chance to make another bollywood dance video This was a fantastic location to shoot the only thing I wasn't happy here was the coverage at times we didn't shoot enough footage because the performers weren't constant and kept trying out different stuff but there were only two critical areas and I was able to fix it with some b role. And this is the final video we did it's also a bollywood style video I was very happy with this video even though it was made again on a tight deadline but everything worked out great because I planed everything down to the letter but we got a little screwed with time on one of the locations. That's it from us for now. Like I said I'm learning at every step. The way I see it right now the thing that is hurting me the most is the camera since I'm getting some noise from the compression and if I get the white balance wrong I'm screwed in post. Hoped you guys liked at least some of the videos and I hope I'll be able to learn some more and get even better at this stuff in the future. Best regards and thanks for watchingVital

Wow. Great visuals and I love the film noir look of the venetian blinds. I hope I can once be able to make such nice visuals and even the film grain looks great to me.