hmm…24p
I’ve always been under the assumption to get a good “film look” while shooting video is to use the 24p setting on your camera, assuming your camera can shoot 24p. For those who don’t know 24p is 24 frames per second, progressive. Meaning it shoots one whole picture as opposed to lines up and down throughout the image as it would be with interlaced.
I knew that 24p was the first step if you want to one day print your video to film, I knew this…and I am aware of this. When I shot my last film, I shot in 30i, (30 fps interlaced) because I knew that I was not intending to print this to film.
My assumption to using 24p to get a film look is an assumption that is shared by many I suppose. It has been my experience that shooting on 24p will make the video look jumpy, I never noticed it too much, as my past films were always experimental and jumpy didn’t matter to me. I just read an article that goes in to depth about 24p being a bad thing if you are trying to achieve that film look. It gives great tips and great alternatives to get that film look without using 24p. One of them being, shoot on 60i (60 fps interlaced) and another is to add filters and get better lighting…
It’s a pretty interesting article, that I learned a lot from…
http://www.dv.com/columns/columns_item.php?articleId=196603851