Off Liberty is a website that allows you to download videos from sites like Vimeo or Youtube so you can look at them while you are offline. What I do is when I find a project or clip that I like (and I can like it for the whole piece or maybe just one or two frames) is I will copy the link and head over to website called Off Liberty.
So now that you have some footage what are you supposed to do with it and how is that going to help you prep your own project? Sometimes it is the name of the DP or sometimes it is the name of the production company or director.Įither way if you find a person or a company who is doing great work all you have to do is follow them on vimeo and you can stay connected with their latest work. Once you do this for a while you will keep seeing the same names pop up again and again.
Note: It is important once you do this once or twice to make sure you are filtering the content by clicking on the Date tab. I will search Vimeo at least once a month for each of the major search terms and then log the best videos I find. Now most of these aren’t going to be great and it will take some time to filter through the results but if you exercise a bit of patience you are often rewarded with a few gems. The vast majority of those videos where shot using the Arri Alexa camera. I use the search function and filter the results by using terms of high quality camera and lens gear.įor example, if you type Arri Alexa into the search bar and hit enter you get around 4,700 entries. There are so many videos eing uploaded to Vimeo that it can be hard to separate the really great work. The search function allows you to filter videos based on a few different parameters including text in the title, the description, and the various tags for the videos. Inside of Vimeo there is a search function. If you are starting out and you don’t have a list of guys whose stuff you enjoy you can use another trick which I use on a weekly basis. Over time I have built a list of DPs whose work I enjoy and here is just a small taste of that list: I am not looking for direct correlations to the project or projects I may be prepping for, I am just looking for things that catch my eye. When starting a news project I always head to Vimeo and look at what some other DPs whose work I respect are up to. I use the app Evernote to help me organize everything. I am always on the lookout for inspiring videos or still images. You are constantly developing your eye as a cinematographer and keeping up with what other people are producing can help expand your own arsenal of ideas. If you have been shooting for any period of time you will no doubt have come across people’s work that you are drawn to more than others. It doesn’t matter if it is a commercial or a music video, a short or a feature, this process can be transfered to any sort of project. With that being said, in this article I am going to lay out a few steps that are necessary when I am getting ready to shoot a project.
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Each cinematographer will have his or her way of getting inspiration from the script or treatment and translating it to the screen and in this article I wanted to lay out how I go about the prep process to give you an idea of the steps involved.įor the purpose of this article I am going to assume that you have already spoken with the director, discussed the look and the feel you are after, and are now on to actually gather inspiration and ideas on how to put that plan in to action. There are as many different ways to prep for a project as there are to shoot a project.
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