The rules of film and such part one

Written in stone.


Where film-making is concerned there are no set guidelines or tracks for creating and producing a film or movie, this would make the world of cinema vary from boring to dull. All the time new techniques are brought to the field of cinema such as new techniques, conventions and beautiful was of tweaking and correcting the methods of pre- production which includes the editing and the motion graphics that are placed into the production before it sent off to be approved and shipped out.

So for the rest of this blog entry I will be talking about the rules to follow if you so wish as they could help you on your way to being the next Michael Bay. 


Firstly you are going to need to be almost an expert on story telling and portraying emotion and feel to really pull your audience in for most of this part could be done by either writing an epic script for an amazing movie to shoot or hire/buy a script writer or script. Without a workable screenplay you are stuck up a creek without a paddle (no reference intended). Even your movie has got astonishing camerawork and smooth and creative editing and the best lighting money can buy but your story if a complete pile of garbage no one will be interested an example of this would be 1997 Batman & Robin, just a complete disaster this particular story was very mundane and cringe worthy, But your master piece doesn't have to be.

I was lucky enough to find this piece of work as you can see the dialogue lacks a large amount of effort (Click here to view the script). This is more of an example of what not to do. 

Onward and upward.

LIGHTING! Lighting will be a very important aspect of making your film really pop out to the audience Here is a quick example of lighting.

As you can see there is 3 points of light, this applies for most productions that aren't all Hollywood and 100 million dollar productions. You have your key light (the light which is a main light this is usually the strongest unless you decide to swap them about having a variety of different strengths) then we come to your fill light which is a lot weaker than your key, and finally the back light which if used effectively can give a really nice feel to the film which is very important when dealing with moods and emotion.   

You can see in the caption that the picture above is a shot from Schindlers list which has a very unique composition of lighting which consists of a hot/strong backlight and a soft meaning weak key or fill light.