For anyone who is interested, the "look development" phase is a lot like how an interior designer will create a palette for your home before any painters come in and do any painting. It's part of the planning phase and works closely with which part of the story is being told in any given scene. Using a LUT is what a lot of people would call "color correction". Some might interpret that as meaning that the colors are being corrected to their true definitions but in reality the correction is more akin to bringing the raw color data closer to what the scene design calls for by normalizing not only the colors but also things like contrast and exposure. The color grading process puts the final touches on that process.
You put it very well! Defining a look is something that should and most of times happens before a project or movie is shot and it defines the way the material is displayed! Thanks for your comment! ☺️
Fascinating! As a landscape/wildlife photographer I often wondered how movie color is managed and modified as well as how a standard "feel" is maintained throughout the movie. This video answered all my questions! Thanks!
It has always made me wonder, amazed, how the movie’s scene looks so great compared to the “making of the movie” look of the exact same scene. I would have loved to be a movie directer so I found this video so festinating. Thank you.
You're so right at the end. Well, you're right all the way through, but especially when you talk about the look development with the help of color scientists and custom designers on set... way before even talking about color grading, which is just the cherry on top of the already delicious and perfectly crafted sundae! Good job Jimmy!
Just a casual viewer who is a creative and saw this thumbnail and decided to watch. OMG what a great video. I found it very interesting and I learned a lot! Thank you! You did a fantastic job on this RUclips video. 👏🏻
Oh, wow. What an amazing video. It‘s not only pretty informative and has a great pacing, it also makes me calm and that‘s amazing. It was pleasing to watch and I also love that these rules of cinematography were also applied to the presentation setting.
Wow, this was very impressive. I know a thing or two about a thing or two and every time I thought "Yeah but what about ______?" you addressed it using really well thought out examples. I think you covered all the bases but in a way that was to the point. I can't stand when creators take 10 min of content and stretch it to 30, and you didn't. Most importantly, you didn't waste time with a long intro.
Those 3 different basement shots, absolutely amazing how each one gives a different type of feel and emotion Loved the video, well explained and well exampled 🙏🏼
New Subscriber here. That was great ! I remember reading Orson Welles dismissal of a lighting cameraman's attention to detail .. ."We have a deadline. You are not Rembrandt painting with light. Just light the damn shot !"
I'm only half way through this video and I am enjoying sooo much! You explain so nice and this is such a great refresh for filmmakers. I have saved it in my YT favourites and I've also instantly subbed to your channel. Now diving back into it with such excitement mate, thanks a lot and looking forward to watching more from your channel!
Comments like this really help me as a creator to keep making videos! Thanks man! Also I suppose you’re Italian from your name. I’m Italian too! Grazie del supporto! 🙏🏻
@Jimmy on Film if my comment could spur you on creating even one more video like this I would be the happiest guy❤ Needless to say go on and I'll be waiting for your next videos. Also, the fact you're italian too is such a great discover and the cherry on the top! (For the records, I couldn't get any italian accent in your voice...if anything I assumed you were American 😅 which fits very well with the topic of your video!)
Your videos are always so helpful. You don't hide things like other youtubers. I loved the part in which you explained how that lady is looking out of the window and during her closeup, a motivated light is used. I can even relate with ur final words, most looks are done thru lighting during production and not color grading. Even I have a strict rule of ensuring max. adjustments while shooting so that there's no probs at all while editing.
This is a spot on explanation with simple descriptions. You adequately explain the subject of cinema look in simple terms that will also be correct at the highest levels of discourse. Congratulations on such a great piece. Though an editing you make it appear that John Daro was working on Resolve. I literally did a double take to check he was still on his Baselight.
Great video! I appreciate the effort put into the lighting and color grading. However, despite our advancements in technology, it's still challenging to replicate the authentic look and feel of a film.
Frame rate is a big factor. I recently bought a TV and by default it has this motion smoothing option on which basically changes the refresh rate and makes everything look like it was shot on video. Even watching an older movie like Saturday Night Fever looked like an afternoon soap opera. I immediately turned that feature off.
Yes, the 'movie standard' is 24 fps. It's the frame rate upscaling that ruins the movie feel...draws you in like a fly-on-the-wall documentary/ soap opera feel. TVs are best in their 'movie' mode (like THX etc...) where frame rate is 24 and colours etc...are optimised. Your brain likes realism: If you keep your eyes still and move your head from side-to-side you will note that everything is blurred while your head is in motion. When you watch a movie, your head is still and the camera pans instead...now if there is no blurring while the camera pans: Your brain calls BS on reality and you get a 'hyper real' sense that ruins the feel of a movie. High frame rates and motion smoothing are great for sport or gaming...where there's an advantage to seeing every detail. The 'soap opera effect' is downright bizarre when you take an older movie on DVD, for example, and see it upscaled to high frame rate and 4k resolution...as will happen on many modern TVs outside of the 'cinema' mode.
excellent video. one more key difference between movies and video is the different number frames per second. That's why especially great old movies feel "wrong", disappointing and "video-esque" when watched on a TV instead of the big screen
Frame rate, _artistically tasteful_ lighting, sets/locations and framing, beautiful actors. You could study these for the rest of your life. The most beautiful movie I've seen in my recent memory is _Malèna_ (2000). For some mysterious reason, the Italians have an uncanny ability to produce excellent art (music, visual, gastronomical), no matter what century.
6:14 I agree with this alot. The thing is the light in the background was placed next to a dark window, creating the biggest contrast which would bring unnecessary attention to it. It probably is a ancient instinct we have as humans.
Thank you so much! I have been trying for soooo long to put a name to the concept of 'look development' and everyone just said it was lighting and color grading! You have answered a longstanding question for me! Much appreciated! I can die happy;-)
Illuminating! No, seriously. I had no idea and I am fascinated by these behind-the-scenes techniques. You led in beautifully with the question I have indeed asked myself a million times. We’ll done!
Nice narrative , but excellent work on video.🎉 road to 100k within a couple of months.❤ Also great thumbnail. It design helpful in making it video viral
Great breakdown! I'm really tired of over color grading in today's movies, but I'm probably in the minority here based how popular this trend is. It reminds me I'm watching a movie and completely kills the immersion for me. It works when it's motivated by the story, like in the Matrix (which I also feel is responsible for popularizing this trend), but it's abused too often today.
For sure. I couldn't get over how "The Haunting of Hill House" was just slammed with post-production color work. The blues would take over an entire shot, over and over and over. Couldn't stand it. I love when that sort of thing is just done in certain scenarios to impart a feeling of discomfort or of serenity or something, but mostly it's just too much these days,
Over color grading? I actually feel like modern digitally shot movies have less color grading and good lighting. Everything looks colorless and like a sludge or mud filter was put on it. I actually like it when I watch a really low-budgeted modern movie or a mid action movie that has saturated color grading. It's like a breath of fresh air amid all these high-budgeted movies that feel like have no lighting or color whatsoever.
I appreciate the brevity and conciseness. Similar presentations I've seen prattle on about a lot of nonsense. Usually in an ego inflationary way. I had an experience a few years ago of shooting and editing together a panel from a conference. I shot it in log of course. When the stakeholders came in to help me with a few editorial points they balked at how the log footage looked so washed out. It was kind of funny. So then I dropped LUT Buddy on an adjustment layer and they all said 'ahhhhh'. I wasn't trying to do feature quality work. But I know my camera doesn't have the most dynamic range, so it behooves me to shoot in log to stay out of the weeds. It's really shocking when I watch stuff like Mayans MC and see a shot where they obviously screwed up their log footage, either using the wrong LUT or trying to make non log fit with log footage. Super noisy!
This is a good start. What’s missing is a rim light in the 3-point lighting scheme. Well, technically, you have rim lights. They are just not providing sufficient output to create any meaningful effect.
Wow, what a cool video! Man that was fascinating! What a cool creative field to work in. I learned so much in only 9 minutes. I always wondered why the behind the scenes footage always looked like camcorder amateur stuff while the movies themselves had a more "real" look. Awesome!
Definitely based on the mood desired. I was in Frozen Ground as an extra and stand in. It was interesting as a stand in seeing how they set up lighting.
I think I'd really appreciate a video that shows the process of going from a shot that was hastily put together to a shot that looks like it's from a movie, where it lays out each of the small iterative steps that gradually took it closer to looking filmic. Preferably more than one example so you could see how much there is to do on average and what aspects made each shot eventually look good enough for a movie.
50 experienced production workers and multi-million dollar budgets give them a leg up too. Thanks for the insights to help us guerilla filmmakers shine. I’ve seen some Omeleto films that are better looking than some of the big productions.
masterpiece is to create the illusion that someone believe it's real, nothing is real, everything is imagination only from your perspective.. awareness.. consciousness... you are the masterpiece!
I'm second lenguaje learning & videography entusiat your classes are perfectly explained even for someone like me with not fully English knowledge Gracias !!!!
I’m happy I was clear enough, since English is not my first language sometimes I feel like I mumble a little bit too much. I appreciate your comment :)
For anyone who is interested, the "look development" phase is a lot like how an interior designer will create a palette for your home before any painters come in and do any painting. It's part of the planning phase and works closely with which part of the story is being told in any given scene. Using a LUT is what a lot of people would call "color correction". Some might interpret that as meaning that the colors are being corrected to their true definitions but in reality the correction is more akin to bringing the raw color data closer to what the scene design calls for by normalizing not only the colors but also things like contrast and exposure. The color grading process puts the final touches on that process.
You put it very well! Defining a look is something that should and most of times happens before a project or movie is shot and it defines the way the material is displayed! Thanks for your comment! ☺️
Fascinating! As a landscape/wildlife photographer I often wondered how movie color is managed and modified as well as how a standard "feel" is maintained throughout the movie. This video answered all my questions! Thanks!
It is truly incredible how much emotion and "feel" is given to shots just by these subtle things that make them "cinematic".
It has always made me wonder, amazed, how the movie’s scene looks so great compared to the “making of the movie” look of the exact same scene. I would have loved to be a movie directer so I found this video so festinating. Thank you.
So good. Please don't change this great pacing and delivery style as your audience inevitably grows.
Man, this is knowledge that is so worth having, even for normal photography. Your examples are so helpful, thank you.
You're so right at the end. Well, you're right all the way through, but especially when you talk about the look development with the help of color scientists and custom designers on set... way before even talking about color grading, which is just the cherry on top of the already delicious and perfectly crafted sundae! Good job Jimmy!
Just a casual viewer who is a creative and saw this thumbnail and decided to watch. OMG what a great video. I found it very interesting and I learned a lot! Thank you! You did a fantastic job on this RUclips video. 👏🏻
extremely underrated channel fr
Oh, wow. What an amazing video. It‘s not only pretty informative and has a great pacing, it also makes me calm and that‘s amazing. It was pleasing to watch and I also love that these rules of cinematography were also applied to the presentation setting.
Wow, this was very impressive. I know a thing or two about a thing or two and every time I thought "Yeah but what about ______?" you addressed it using really well thought out examples. I think you covered all the bases but in a way that was to the point. I can't stand when creators take 10 min of content and stretch it to 30, and you didn't. Most importantly, you didn't waste time with a long intro.
The irony of the bad lighting in your own room lol
Those 3 different basement shots, absolutely amazing how each one gives a different type of feel and emotion
Loved the video, well explained and well exampled 🙏🏼
Phenomenal explation. I've watched dozens of these types of videos and this is the best by miles
New Subscriber here. That was great ! I remember reading Orson Welles dismissal of a lighting cameraman's attention to detail .. ."We have a deadline. You are not Rembrandt painting with light. Just light the damn shot !"
As a film editing student, this was wonderful to watch. I learned a couple new things too. Awesome video
I'm only half way through this video and I am enjoying sooo much! You explain so nice and this is such a great refresh for filmmakers. I have saved it in my YT favourites and I've also instantly subbed to your channel. Now diving back into it with such excitement mate, thanks a lot and looking forward to watching more from your channel!
Comments like this really help me as a creator to keep making videos! Thanks man! Also I suppose you’re Italian from your name. I’m Italian too! Grazie del supporto! 🙏🏻
@Jimmy on Film if my comment could spur you on creating even one more video like this I would be the happiest guy❤ Needless to say go on and I'll be waiting for your next videos. Also, the fact you're italian too is such a great discover and the cherry on the top! (For the records, I couldn't get any italian accent in your voice...if anything I assumed you were American 😅 which fits very well with the topic of your video!)
Your videos are always so helpful. You don't hide things like other youtubers. I loved the part in which you explained how that lady is looking out of the window and during her closeup, a motivated light is used. I can even relate with ur final words, most looks are done thru lighting during production and not color grading. Even I have a strict rule of ensuring max. adjustments while shooting so that there's no probs at all while editing.
You're one of the best RUclips instructors in the film genre.
Wow! Live examples answered my questions already! Great instructor indeed.
Now that was very interesting.
It also reminds me of a book a read quite a while back titled "In the Blink of An Eye: A Perspective on Film Editing"
Quite a survey of the methods involved in image creation. Lots of visual food for thought. Glad I watched ...
A perfect video for someone new to directing like myself. Thanks, Jimmy 👏🏾
This might be the best video I’ve seen on this topic.
Thanks😊🙏🏻
great video, loved your practical examples, especially the composition ones
Very interesting, also love your calm voice tone and background music.
This is a spot on explanation with simple descriptions. You adequately explain the subject of cinema look in simple terms that will also be correct at the highest levels of discourse.
Congratulations on such a great piece.
Though an editing you make it appear that John Daro was working on Resolve. I literally did a double take to check he was still on his Baselight.
An excellent video - thanks for clearing up a few things I never really knew much about!
Really concise and yet, very artistic in your wording. Nice job.
Great video! I appreciate the effort put into the lighting and color grading. However, despite our advancements in technology, it's still challenging to replicate the authentic look and feel of a film.
The more I learn about filmmaking the more I realize just how much I have to learn!
your videos are helping me understand so much, keep up the good work and thank you for all of this!
Thanks, algorithms for bringing me such a nice channel... glad to find you, Jimmy!
This is exactly the kind of video i was looking for, great video.
Frame rate is a big factor. I recently bought a TV and by default it has this motion smoothing option on which basically changes the refresh rate and makes everything look like it was shot on video. Even watching an older movie like Saturday Night Fever looked like an afternoon soap opera. I immediately turned that feature off.
Yes, the 'movie standard' is 24 fps. It's the frame rate upscaling that ruins the movie feel...draws you in like a fly-on-the-wall documentary/ soap opera feel. TVs are best in their 'movie' mode (like THX etc...) where frame rate is 24 and colours etc...are optimised. Your brain likes realism: If you keep your eyes still and move your head from side-to-side you will note that everything is blurred while your head is in motion. When you watch a movie, your head is still and the camera pans instead...now if there is no blurring while the camera pans: Your brain calls BS on reality and you get a 'hyper real' sense that ruins the feel of a movie. High frame rates and motion smoothing are great for sport or gaming...where there's an advantage to seeing every detail. The 'soap opera effect' is downright bizarre when you take an older movie on DVD, for example, and see it upscaled to high frame rate and 4k resolution...as will happen on many modern TVs outside of the 'cinema' mode.
excellent video. one more key difference between movies and video is the different number frames per second. That's why especially great old movies feel "wrong", disappointing and "video-esque" when watched on a TV instead of the big screen
Its like a professional lesson bro thank you for sharibg your knowledge
Damn dude! Great work there! 👏🏻
Excellent. Straight-forward. Informative. One of the best online.
Awesome video!!! It felt very short but you covered a lot! Thank you very much!!!
Super interesting and well-presented, especially in combination with the real-world and Hollywood examples. Incredibly helpful🤯
Frame rate, _artistically tasteful_ lighting, sets/locations and framing, beautiful actors. You could study these for the rest of your life. The most beautiful movie I've seen in my recent memory is _Malèna_ (2000). For some mysterious reason, the Italians have an uncanny ability to produce excellent art (music, visual, gastronomical), no matter what century.
Fascinating! You answered a question I’ve had for decades!
6:14 I agree with this alot. The thing is the light in the background was placed next to a dark window, creating the biggest contrast which would bring unnecessary attention to it. It probably is a ancient instinct we have as humans.
This was such a great video. You explained the concepts so well
Thank you so much! I have been trying for soooo long to put a name to the concept of 'look development' and everyone just said it was lighting and color grading! You have answered a longstanding question for me! Much appreciated! I can die happy;-)
I enjoyed watching, you went in depth with your explanation for all the methods.
This video is so rich 👍
Deserves multiple rewatches 👍
Illuminating! No, seriously. I had no idea and I am fascinated by these behind-the-scenes techniques. You led in beautifully with the question I have indeed asked myself a million times. We’ll done!
You should title the video "Cinematography 101". Great job, man.
if it was 60 minutes video, I'll watch till the end regardless. great work!!
Simply excellent. This video is a masterpiece.
Nice narrative , but excellent work on video.🎉 road to 100k within a couple of months.❤
Also great thumbnail. It design helpful in making it video viral
Very good primer. Going to send it to a few friends.
Back and front lighting @01:40. The difference between the two is really brought home to you here, the former being far superior.
Very clear explanation! Great job!
Great breakdown! I'm really tired of over color grading in today's movies, but I'm probably in the minority here based how popular this trend is. It reminds me I'm watching a movie and completely kills the immersion for me. It works when it's motivated by the story, like in the Matrix (which I also feel is responsible for popularizing this trend), but it's abused too often today.
Seconded.. Even in TV series'.. Too much dark and blue.. not in any way natural
For sure. I couldn't get over how "The Haunting of Hill House" was just slammed with post-production color work. The blues would take over an entire shot, over and over and over. Couldn't stand it. I love when that sort of thing is just done in certain scenarios to impart a feeling of discomfort or of serenity or something, but mostly it's just too much these days,
Over color grading? I actually feel like modern digitally shot movies have less color grading and good lighting. Everything looks colorless and like a sludge or mud filter was put on it.
I actually like it when I watch a really low-budgeted modern movie or a mid action movie that has saturated color grading. It's like a breath of fresh air amid all these high-budgeted movies that feel like have no lighting or color whatsoever.
I love the idea or theme here
What a nice video. I enjoyed that!
Great video the coach shot using the lamp as practical light. What Kelvin was the key light
Amazing, useful and well paced video
Thank You Very Much Sir!
🙂🙏
great segment
Quickest sub I’ve ever done. Keep up your good work.
Good solid short summary!
Wow, perfect and compact explained. Thanks!
I have no clue about film making but 04:42 looks beautiful
Fascinating. Thanks, Jimmy!
Amazing. Such a succinct presentation. Love it.
I appreciate the brevity and conciseness.
Similar presentations I've seen prattle on about a lot of nonsense. Usually in an ego inflationary way.
I had an experience a few years ago of shooting and editing together a panel from a conference. I shot it in log of course.
When the stakeholders came in to help me with a few editorial points they balked at how the log footage looked so washed out.
It was kind of funny. So then I dropped LUT Buddy on an adjustment layer and they all said 'ahhhhh'.
I wasn't trying to do feature quality work. But I know my camera doesn't have the most dynamic range, so it behooves me to shoot in log to stay out of the weeds.
It's really shocking when I watch stuff like Mayans MC and see a shot where they obviously screwed up their log footage, either using the wrong LUT or trying to make non log fit with log footage. Super noisy!
You: Not every shot calls for an interesting composition.
Wes Anderson: Hold my beer 😂
Fabulous video brother, thank you for sharing your knowledge
Fantastic breakdown!
This is a good start. What’s missing is a rim light in the 3-point lighting scheme. Well, technically, you have rim lights. They are just not providing sufficient output to create any meaningful effect.
Thank you so much for your explaination. Super interesting!
*_This is actually interesting, I've been wondering as well._*
Wow, what a cool video! Man that was fascinating! What a cool creative field to work in. I learned so much in only 9 minutes. I always wondered why the behind the scenes footage always looked like camcorder amateur stuff while the movies themselves had a more "real" look. Awesome!
Holy shit! Someone on RUclips that actually knows what they're talking about.
Definitely based on the mood desired. I was in Frozen Ground as an extra and stand in. It was interesting as a stand in seeing how they set up lighting.
Skyrim Luts! Modding has helped my movie brain!
Brilliant video, thank you so much.
I actually learned so much watching this. THANK YOU!
I think I'd really appreciate a video that shows the process of going from a shot that was hastily put together to a shot that looks like it's from a movie, where it lays out each of the small iterative steps that gradually took it closer to looking filmic. Preferably more than one example so you could see how much there is to do on average and what aspects made each shot eventually look good enough for a movie.
Yes! I’ll definitely put it together! 💪🏻
Great essay! ✨ Just subscribed
Great information and examples, thanks!
bro this video is so informative.. first time on channel and you got sub.. please make more videos like this.. love from India
Very well explained. The different levels of crafstmanship needed to achieve a cinematic view
50 experienced production workers and multi-million dollar budgets give them a leg up too. Thanks for the insights to help us guerilla filmmakers shine. I’ve seen some Omeleto films that are better looking than some of the big productions.
Legend has it, she never stopped sippin.
So very cool! Thank for this great video with excellent examples. You have a new subscriber:)
Well done and very informative. Thankyou.
Such a great video. Straight to the point and informative. Thanks for this.
Thank you so much!!
where is your green table lamp from?? its amazing and my dad would love it!! great videos btw :)
masterpiece is to create the illusion that someone believe it's real, nothing is real, everything is imagination only from your perspective.. awareness.. consciousness... you are the masterpiece!
i'm a fan.. my vids will be at another level from now on. and i thank you for that
I'm second lenguaje learning & videography entusiat your classes are perfectly explained even for someone like me with not fully English knowledge Gracias !!!!
I’m happy I was clear enough, since English is not my first language sometimes I feel like I mumble a little bit too much. I appreciate your comment :)
Great video! I enjoyed this. Explains the art of filmmaking and concepts that many people overlook.
Very interesting! Love the explanations, examples and the calm vibe👌
This was awesome dude ... thank you film😅 brother
This is fantastic! Thank you!