For sure! But Master Class? That's a bit rich....

What are other 4?

What are other 4 cinematography youtube channels bro?

@@ashwinshiva18 Hurlbut is prob the only other one on this level.. between that and this channel you dont need film school for cinematography

Unconsciously and consciously colours do affect us and will on their own; the key is how we are wired! For example a literal mind will think little about colours nor connect with music that without a singer and lyrics telling them what to feel. They rarely use other senses simply because they can't.

No, colors aren't meaningless. Any film comes from a culture, and as such, the way you, the cinematographer, perceive it based on your culture, should - and in fact will anyway, subconsciously - be a point of reference. I also disagree that there are such differences between cultures or experts. Red anywhere means passion, blood, violence, burning love... even in a culture considered "cold" by american people : in Japan, people say that a red string links everything important in your life - tangling, in every direction, but never breaking. This signifies that you are still linked to every important moment, individual, and thing in your life, be it by love or hate - you will never be indifferent to those important parts of your life. In fact, the cultural differences are more about the reasons for which you put a color on display rather than the signification of the color. Example : some cultures wears white for death, some black. That's because for occidentals, death is perceived negatively - even from a religious perspective - and thus, black, which is darkness, absence of light, is being worn for funerals all around the occidental world. But, white is also worn for funerals in some parts of the world, because there death is perceived *positively* - the meaning of the color never change, it's the meaning of the *funeral itself which changed from culture to culture*. Finally, no, you can't just try to create a patter in your viewer's head without any reference. Cinema carry a language of it's own rooted in many different arts and techniques : painting, drama, music, photography, image in motion recording, radio broadcasting knowledge applied to sound recording, etc Therefore one cannot just create a language with no reference. For instance, in Game of Thrones, they tried to create a realistic night scene. Which looks black where it should be. The result? People were literally scandalized. The scene was a technical feat never achieved before, where the camera truly transmitted what one would actually see during a battle at night in real life. But it didn't worked. The audience hated it (the audience in cinema is always right btw; if you don't think that, keep your stuff to yourself, unless you do very experimental projects). Why? *Because night in cinema always been blue.* You can make a night scene in a room with a 6K 5600K balanced HMI shooting through the window, some quarter blue gels, and tungsten for contrast if the character turn a light switch on - and no one will be shocked. Yet it looks *nothing* like real night...! You can't just go and decide your night will be red. The American night technique is so deeply rooted in cinematographic language that anything else is like trying to talk to an audience in a language they don't know. Your idea is the same. Sorry.

Natasha Braier has a wonderful interview where she talks about LEDs and transitioning from film to digital for The Neon Demon, and how to get the best out of deep colors in the digital format

He is right. Film and digital have different characteristics, one of which is the way they interpret color. On Film, blues are often shifted to greenish blue, and red is pushed towards brick red. Furthermore, all colors tend to be "heavier" or darker on film as opposed to digital, which has a bias for more "neon" or brightly saturated colors. Your comment about the over relaiance on color grading. Is also incorrect. While getting things right on set is good practice, it has nothing to do with the argument. Color grading is what allows us to emulate film in the aspects mentioned above and without it we wouldn't be able to leave film behind without sacrificing it's many characteristics and overall aesthetic. Steve Yeldlin, ASC, has a great video on KZfaq where he compares film to digital footage that was graded to match it. Your later comment on the lighting is about a completely different topic, which is the way different lighting technologies feel. In the end, there's been a lot of crazy worshipping of film about all sorts of non-existent reasons, like superior dynamic range to digital (which is bollocks) but that doesn't mean that film and digital don't have different characteristics or that those characteristics can't be moved from one medium to another through digital manipulation.

That's why we shoot flat and make the look pop in post. Most "presets" or "color profiles" are very saturated and burn the sensor. I used to hate cheap LEDs when shooting live shows, especially purple and red so i feel your pain.

@@alex0589 You're right, I should shoot flat. (I experimented with uniWB, but I didn't really get the hang of it.)

Interesting... I've never had problems with red, as much as with blue (multiple different cameras). No matter how flat I shoot, some gels that they use on stages come out just pure blue with almost all detail lost. When I really have to preserve more details, I have to shift all colors towards yellow in-camera, then do a little more work on normalizing the image in post.

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So CORRECT! Its a film if film was used. To call a MOVIE a film is to know it was shot with a film camera. We use video, digital, to shoot movies, for the most part. It's best to say MOVIE, film is a misinformed use of the word. 20-30% of Movies are shot with film, the rest are digital. And film is used less every year.

@@Rocketryman what I meant was that film was used because that was the technology of that era, now digital is the technology of our current era. Both are perfectly valid mediums

American beauty, three colours:Red,Pulp fiction, Inglorious busterds, Kill bill volume 2,Madmax fury Road, Full metal jacket,Sky fall, Moonrise kingdom and Birdman

@@ohmkarsirikonda7248 both of the mentioned shot seems like from a Japanese film. I don't mean 0.58-1.28, you probably misunderstood my question.

Got it. Tokyo Drifter by Seijun Suzuki

Does your teacher know the difference between film and video?

Idk