This is indeed the core of visual storytelling (cinema): telling trough images, using film techniques.

Thank you for calling out what it means to be a filmmaker, rather than a videographer or a content creator. I don't have a problem with any of these professions, but people misuse them interchangeably.

This is brilliant, beautifully stated; this video should be played on the first day of every film school class.

Your videos remind me of me in photography we have lost the essence of the art we claim we represent. Keep up the great work and stay Blessed my friend.

A video to rewatch a couple of times. Great content here! The search foi the "cinematic look" just as a technique and reproduce that only for aesthetics is a common situation. I've done it many times.

Finally! That's something I've been saying for years. I've been watching youtubers talk about how you need a f 1.2 to get the "cinematic" look and while I'm watching their shots, they don't look "cinematic" at all, to be honest they look more "photographic" than "cinematic". When someone starts telling me about long 1.2 or 1.4 lenses, I tell them watch Fallen Angels by Wong Kar Wai, where most of the scenes were shot with a 10mm lens (9.8mm if I'm not mistaken). The f stop and the slow-mo have nothing more to do with cinema than a 10mm wide angle lens stopped at f8. It's all about telling a story with images. Most of these probably never watched a Kurosawa or Ozu or Visconti.

One of your best videos and never a truer word spoken.

I am so glad someone finally addressing this out in the open vast youtube space - well done, it is very important message for all the future filmmakers and enthusiasts - to focus on what is important - not glide on the surface of things. Much appreciated!

Great insights. I never thought about how the far side key envelopes the person in the scene / background.

Great video mate! Love your content! 👏

Wow! One of the best and most inspiring posts I've seen so far on the subject. Many thanks for sharing these valueable insights !

EXCELLENT! A well thought out reminder!

Great points in this video. I find some of the videos about “getting a cinematic image” so frustrating these days. Your content is always refreshing.

Beautiful. Concise. Inspiring summation of this topic. 👌🏾👌🏾

One of the best filmmaking vids on KZfaq imo. I am richer for this - thank you!

Wow... I am so happy to hear what you are saying. A big help and encouragement.

It was valuable Rubidium, very valuable. Great insight and explanation about why it's not about the look but the intent on that look.

Superb! The heart of what is cinematic. Thank you for sharing truth and knowledge. Please Keep Creating

Woah! Excellent advice. Love this: staying away from easy « tricks » and instead, presenting what needs to be thought out. Thanks!

Great post! Cinematography literally means to Write with Movement. Story is everything. All of the visual choices should derive from story.

many filmmakers today are afraid to be "put in a box" or trying to define cinema. Which I think is a major issue. You can't always run around and point your camera at something and call it cinematic without MEANING.

Excellent clarification about the term cinematic.

Beautiful words man. Thankyou.

Learn the techniques and the rules then break them and create your own so you can tell a unique story. I love your philosophy Ru, hope to work with you one day. Thanks for all your excellent filmmaking advice.

All this is obvious but so many filmmakers need to hear this. Very good video. Saving this to rewatch whenever I get lost in the weeds of prep.

BINGO!!! Cinematography as Roger Deakins puts it is Pictures telling a story in a film. Essentially, Cinematography is INTENTION In Motion Picture.

Excellent video, mate.

Wow. This was tremendously valuable. I have watched far too many of those 'cinematic' videos which despite my ignorance (I'm a noob) I could still intuitively tell they simply didn't feel cinematic. Thank you for the insights.

Thank you!

Nice video, its along the way of thinking we got taught back at film-academy, and its how a great DP should think. But i would like to add, that production value is a real thing, and that using a cine camera, nice lenses, props, nice location, extra's, cranes and grip does work. Hence the amount of commercial garbage thats still entertaining to look at. The word cinematic actually just means; as used in films.

Well done! 🌊❤️

Well said!

Thank you.

The "CINEMATIC" means data-streaming, which contains story, movement, etc. And those things must be flowing, that's why so many KZfaqrs' work don't look "CINEMATIC".

Well spoken!

I love dropping Orange-Teal LUT to my tele-conferences lol !!!

Yep. Great actors make all the difference (in addition to your sage words)

Best video you've put out

Thank you

Great video. Noir movies are a good example of telling a story with a lot of these aspects too.

You summarized film grammar in several minutes.

What a great video!!!

Is there any book or website that describes how to tell a story with light. I understand that you use the light here and there for the environment and character but I would like to know more about this.

Fabulous video!

Could not agree more!

As long as you know what you're doing, any technique is right and it will work.

TELL THEM AGAIN! great info bro

Okay so where are we at? Canon R5C or C70? I am wondering about the end result. Thanks.

Wow! Truth!

Agree!

All I can say is WOW!!!

Can you tell me what movie scene that is @ 2:34? Thank you

Storytelling is cinematic 👍🏻 definitely a very good video with top tips for the KZfaq filmmaker community #filmmakingismypassion

I have a CanonEOSM50… And embarking on shooting My first independent film (“Horror “). Is there any cinematic lens you can recommend. I’m also using the roto light kit to light it. I really appreciate your channel and it’s content , and respect your opinion… Thank you for any advice…Inshallah and Peace…

Wait, hold up. So what you're telling me is that slow motion shots of random plants, trees, and my girlfriend walking around, all shot at f/1.4, with no lighting or story, and graded using a popular KZfaqr's LUT pack, are NOT cinematic?

So true, cinematographer requires a lot of years of studies, practicing and self improvement

you mentioned that meaning makes a shot cinematic, at the bedrock. I would even go so far and say: Meaning is what makes a shot cinematic "per excellence". I hate when youtubers take a word out of conext and throw it around like they know it all but haven't accomplished the thirties yet.

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and you get it right 🙃🙃🙃

My only critique of your videos is I wish they were longer…lol hope all is well with you Ribidium (🤞🏽on the spelling)

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Isn't it - What everyone get's wrong about cinematic filmmaking - sorry - maybe this is pin picking - by the way totally agree with you!

Matti and Chris Hau including all other videographers tryna call themself cinematographers exposed😂

So without story it won't be cinematic but cinematish

The only difference between a videographer and a cinematographer is that the cinematographer talks about his lenses in fancy T-stops.

35 and 28 getting called story telling lenses these days

Visual story telling does not have to utilize Orange-Teal color grading, or Mist filters. These are terribly overused implements. This is not cinematic to have Orange-Teal Haze in literally every scene of most movies these days. There are a good reasons most modern movies suck so bad.

Cinematic is just a word. From what i see, everyone has a different interpretation of the word. It is pretty meaningless, as to how people reference it on KZfaq. First it needs to be defined, before we discuss, the what we do to be "cinematic"

Cinematic means slomo b-roll

I have no intention of insulting anyone or to be rude but cinematic means- nothing. It means what ever you want to mean. Cinematography means writing the movement, as photography means writing the(or with) light and we never talk about photos beeing "photographic". If cinematic is about telling a story then your video "Canon R5C Cinematic Footage" is very confusing to me. If you find that "far side key is a way of connecting the character to the background....." or whatever, then you'll have to agree that 99% shoots in modern movies have the intention to talk about connecting the character with the background, and that is not true. In my opinion, there is a certain trend in cinematography and practical reasons for that more than hidden meaning in the lighting choises. Just my opinion. I love your channel and have learned many good stuff from you but this "cinematic" thing all over YT has gone too far.

Everyone? Really?

Wait, wait. Couple of notes here. Documentaries tell stories too. And documentaries ARE NOT cinematic. And talents giving interviews in documentaries are well lit and have DOF and still looks like video from TV. Baraka (1992) is a documentary which does not tell a story and is very cinematic. For me cinematic means - not natural / dreamy / unreal. For example real locations from Lawrence of Arabia to our naked eyes or shot on phone will look very real and natural thus making it not cinematic. All those colors, composition, film grain, lighting, production design makes the magic of the cinema. So yes, just to shoot RAW with DOF and add same lazy LUT on regular video footage is not enough to get cinematic. You need to create cinematic looking shot before pressing the record button.

IMPORTANT TIP FOR YOU - YOUR MOVEMENTS ARE TOO ERRATIC. TRY TO CALM YOUR MOVEMENTS DOWN WHEN YOU TALK - IT IS REALLY ANNOYING TO WATCH.

Thank you CE! Great video. But what "Everyone" gets wrong? Obviously not a true statement. Hmmm. ? "Cine"-matic. As you stated it's translatable. It's storytelling using the medium in its user/viewer experience possibilities.