Saturday, October 5, 2013

Digital Filming and Advantages Brought to Cinematography


Digital filming is a computer based technology that uses high definition video and equipment that is quite expensive compared to the common 35 mm film. t is also a progress from the most common old forms of filming people know. It is a technological process that captures images on tape, flask memory, hard disks, or other things using digital data.

Hollywood uses digital filming nowadays. It can be used while filming the whole movie, or can be used in parts like filming from helicopter or action scenes. There are those people who utilize an aerial camera to shoot scenes while on top.

In digital filming, you will need a digital camera aside from a digital editing material in order to make a high quality film, compared to using a celluloid camera only. It is best to have a PAL formatted cam recorder if you plan on showing your digital film in cinema houses. For projection of the screen, there are cameras perfect for this, as well as an aerial camera. It is really very ideal to have a chat with the technical personnel for film transfer if you want to make film or video projects. Filmmakers will do filming from helicopter if they will shoot an aerial scene or perhaps action scenes.

The process of making the movie in digital filming is the same with the traditional way of filming, like when casting the actors and crew, as well as the preparation of the scripts. The shooting of a movie in a digital format is very appealing to a lot of producers, that is why many go for this method.

Time and money will be saved when using the digital camera and editing tools, because of how fast the process will be. You will have the opportunity to view the footage of the scenes and make some necessary corrections when needed. The shipping and distribution costs of making copies with digital aerial filming are a bit cheaper. After using a traditional film for quite some time, it will tend to get messy, unlike to the quality of the digital film. No matter how many times you view a digital film, the quality will still be the same.

Using a film format or a digital film for your film will be decided after you take into consideration the area of creativity and logistics. If budget will not be a problem, then proceed with the traditional way. If you think that the movie you made is very good and can be nominated for film awards, then continue using the digital aerial camera and editing tools for digital filming. As a way of developing cinematography, you can encourage and inspire many people to use digital filming when shooting a movie or video with the use of digital cameras or editing tools.

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