Vimeo have many videos of professional Philip Bloom to run through the ins and outs of using a DSLR camera, which could be very handy for me because I will be shooting on a Canon 60D stills camera and also a 5D mark II stills camera too. Vimeo Featured Lessons give you in-depth information and tutorial videos that you can follow, or you can just browse thousands of tutorial videos on their website, which are organized into different categories and skill levels. This is good for me, because I already know a fair bit about filming through DSLRs, so if necessary I could look at the more advanced section of the film school.
Lessons are created by the Staff at Vimeo and structured to give you more details and in depth examples about the topics you want to learn about. Vimeo are continuing to expand on its film school to the point where anyone member of the public could upload their own lesson to the online community to display techniques so that eventually Vimeo will have an online resource to clearly explain and teach film-making to anyone with access to the internet.
This online collection of films could be a very good resource for me if I’m ever stuck or need ways to enhance my filming techniques. There are a number of video tutorials that could help me to fully use my own DSLR in an effective way. Looking at the examples online, you can see how effective DSLRs are at producing fantastic full frame HD video, and how good these cameras look in a fully edited and produced film. An interesting technique that I have recently seen on Vimeo is a way of using a neutral density filter to darken down the image which means you can in tern turn down the aperture on the camera to help create a vey shallow depth of field which is what DSLR camera are becoming renowned for. It’s techniques like this that I hope will really turn my film into something more than just a storyline, something that is visually pleasing and beautiful to look at.
Excellent research into camera work.
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