I actually made 2 huge mistakes that really marked my life : 1: Shot a Wedding in only one clip 2: Deleted that clip in camera cause I thought it was just a blurry picture Yeah that sounds painful :(
My biggest mistakes 1: not respecting everyone else’s willingness to help me on my short films. Basically I was a jerk. 2: thinking I was so darn good at anything I did was awesome.. basically being lazy
My friends have been doing this for years. Anything they attempt to make takes forever and is not good, because they think they can do everything, when they haven’t even specialized in one subject and honed their craft.
Amateur : Forget to remove lens cap. Professionals : Forget sometimes to clean lens or forget memory cards. Legends : forget to take camera on shooting location. 6:50 🤣
Sudarshan Singh Ashiya: I did this recently. I was working with a client and had a bunch of stuff to bring one day. I met with them a week later to get a bit more content, and I switched my camera to a different bag because I didn’t need as much gear. I left that bag at home and brought my larger doctor bag that the camera was no longer in. I was so mad at myself. Luckily the client got busy right as I got there and couldn’t shoot anyway.
I made all the "standard" mistakes, including forgetting the camera. But the biggest mistake I have made is not having a good story/script. That is turning out to be the hardest to correct.
I had that happen to me when shooting a music video. But luckily the performers were waring masks and we had multiple takes where we went through the whole song so I had some room to sync it pretty closely in post.
I’ve done this a few times. Luckily it’s rare, and I’m usually doing multiple takes so it’s not an issue. There was this one project I was making with all generations of BMW M3s, and I forgot my mic one day to get exhaust audio. No one was bothered, so I met up with people individually to get exhaust audio. This one owner, for some odd reason, he was the only car I forgot to hit record. THREE different times. To this day I don’t know what made him so unlucky for me, haha.
Jaz Breathett happend to me, my mic is on my camera, so I can’t use headphones 😕😕 BUT THEN I REALIZED THAT I NEEDED TO CHARGE MY ZOHULU CAMERA MICROPHONE.
I film on my s10 and when using a external mic there will be crazy interference if i dont turn on airplane mode and i filmed an interview without turning it on. Made me very sad
Filming not enough does not exist. You have to rephrase that to "not paying attention to WHAT I already filmed." Because here comes a major mistake as well: filming the shit out of the day with 1 Trillion GB of clips and wasting 10 years in editing for a 10 second film. Filming not enough is the wrong phrase because it implies you have to film tons of material just because. No, you have to pay attention to what you do and what your project requires!
One technical mistake that’s really easy to make (I’m still trying to get over as a young filmmaker) is not having the actors hold keeping the camera rolling for a few seconds before cutting - that’s one thing you definitely cannot fix in post
I SO agree about monitoring . This is probably the biggest barrier I find as a solo filmmaker. I could do an interview setup that’s two cam two mic but I can’t monitor all 4, especially when I’m in the interviewer. I’m trying to build up my portfolio and this is part of why it’s so hard to do on my own.
GREAT video - My biggest mistakes were thinking I had to do some sort of stylized camera movement ... so many times I wished I had just held the camera super still and got the footage I needed.
I know that feel. Did happen to me when shooting a concert, got some cool angles, but somehow I couldn't keep myself from moving to the music and it kind off gets a dizzy feeling when seen on a big screen.
As a film student I can certainly say I have made all of these mistakes and more. It's a horrible feeling when I sit down to edit and realise there's no audio or the shots aren't useable because of head room or lighting or random stuff in the background. Those mistakes actually made me want to give up on filmmaking but every time cinecom uploads some helpful tips I get inspired to keep trying. Thank you
I graduated from MICA with a BFA in Film and Video and my biggest technical mistake near the end of film school wasn’t necessarily lens-based or focused on the camera. I was a writer whose main focus was using nostalgia to drive a plot and that’s all the story had going for it. I valued my visuals above my story. It took me and my thesis professor a couple of months to a year to focus my thesis film’s story so that it was strong and engaging. The best teaching moment was when my professor told me to rewrite my film from scratch after working on drafts for two years. It was the best lesson in filmmaking that I could have learned then.
I'm still new at learning alot and playing around with my videos but while I make dozens more mistakes then just these....I'm learning lots thanks to your videos. Seriously, thank you much!
Some very good tips, but the best tip was number 4. So true. Never change filming style just because we are running low on time. Improvising is good but instead of going handheld, just prioritzie the shot list and make changes to that list.
Once I forgot to take additional SD cards. After every shot, I had to think if this is good enough or I should remove it to save a place for better shots 😉
Awesome as always! Cinecom has single handedly taken me from casually watching these vids as entertainment, to becoming a bit of a hobbyist, to running and actual company with actual clients! What you guys are giving people cannot be understated, I'm so proud of the small amount I have achieved and just wanted to pass on the massive gratitude and to share in the pride. 😎🤟 Oh and can highly recommend Jordys classes in skillshare, they're a bit more formal and detailed, but that same fun delivery he is so well known for.
Don't feel bad, Jordy... I've forgotten the camera once, too. And it was in a cage, fully rigged, sitting on the counter waiting for me to just grab the handle and go. We'd driven about 45 minutes before I realised and we had to go back and get it, adding an hour and a half to our journey. :)
3.22 Tip. Make sure that when you have light pouring into the lens, it doesn't illuminate the black plastic around the lens and create a visible ring (to the right of the subject). You can buy very black matt paint to cover this plastic. I was shocked that someone coming from film school wouldn't know the things listed in your guide. In my opinion ’educators’ haven't spent 25 years being a camera operator/director/owner, and therefore don't know all of the things that should be thought about. If they had and they are any good, they wouldn't be working as a teacher as the money differs so much. I worked as a camera op/dir for over 35 years. You won't believe how many things need to be seen before pressing record, only time teaches that. We need more peripatetic teachers with real-world experience offering their advice. Good luck!
I once forgot to check whether I could walk backwards freely and fell into a pool in front of the customer with all my equipment. Boy, that was embarrassing.
I have worked with some great names such as Arnie, Duran Duran and Toyah and others. Yes, I have made mistakes. My biggest mistake is thinking I can do everything myself. Trusting someone else to help out with sound, for instance, is a big thing. Remember that sometimes you need help so don't be afraid to ask for it.
My main mistake would have to be letting people change my mind on set. When you're working with friends and everyone wants to be a director they all make suggestions and their suggestions might sound great at the time, but when you do all the prep-work before hand you kind of forget that you need everything a certain way for the edit to work porperly D:
While shooting one of my first films with a DSLR, I was using an on-camera shotgun mic (mistake 1, yes), but the big mistake was forgetting to turn on the mic before shooting an entire scene. With no way to monitor audio on the T2i, I had no idea that it wasn't getting any audio. Luckily, the cast was cool with it, and we were able to reschedule the shoot the next day and considered the "incident" as a dress rehearsal.
My biggest mistake was thinking I can be both cinematographer and director. I studied cinematography and slowly realized that I'm more suited for directing, and did both for my first few short films, then in post I'd notice cinematography issues I could have done better if I weren't focused on specific directing things, and vice versa. Tough pill to swallow. I'm aware there are people out there who can do both but I just don't have enough brain power to do both at 100% quality at the same time.
I can't agree more on these points. Especially the one about compromising the project and style in favor of getting done faster and easier. Do what is right for the moment in the story. Always
I'm still learning on lighting and paying attention to background distractions, and being specific about directing. It's something I still have to learn when I'm filming/post-production, got really frustrated sometimes working with people so I started to lean more towards just focus on editing. Though after watching this video, it does inspire me again to attempt working with other people on video projects and troubleshooting with them (I'm very used to explaining to the people I work with about camera work, so there's never so much room to ask for feedback =| ). Thank you for another fruitful learning tutorial!
Oh and also not getting enough materials when we had to do last minute shooting XD;; worse mistake ever because I had to see the end results and look back 'Ah man should've gone with that angle/this angle' etc.
I just published my first video watching you guys for many months! You guys are wonderful!! Thanks for all your tips and cool stuffs you always provide us!
My biggest film making was learning as much as I can about films so that the time I decided to make a movie I expected to know everything. Another one is letting my expectations dictate my future.
My mistake happened when I first started using an external monitor on the camera. I was shooting an interview and looking at the monitor thinking, "Nice shot!" When the interview was over I pressed the record button to stop...and it started recording! I was using the monitor as a reference and I didn't double check to see if the camera was recording. Everybody was frustrated a little, but was glad that I caught it and was able to save the day.
I once used reflective green tape to hold up several matte green poster boards to later use for a makeshift chroma key. I also had bright ambient illumination behind the camera. Needless to say, 2 hours of shooting had to be done over haha😂
Most frequent mistake I still make is filling the frame and not using 10% safety margins to allow for slight motion correction or warp stabilization when the need arises.
Worst mistake I made as a film student was that I had a track and Dolly system I set up to track my actors but because one actor complained about the track system throwing off his blocking I ended up sliding the track system over a number of feet.... But inadvertently I did not catch the fact that when we did that, we moved the 180 line!!... As a result the actors did not cut together properly in editing and my film Professor kind of chewed me out in front of the class saying I should have never made that mistake and should not have spent so much time setting up the track and Dolly and should have instead focused on making sure the actors were blocked correctly in relation to the camera... it was a very low point for me because my professor was somebody a greatly admired and looked up to and was trying to impress but the end result was that the professor was absolutely right and that's a lesson I definitely needed to learn if I want to be more professional with what I do.... I definitely learned a lot from that experience and still greatly value everything I learned from that program... In fact that same Professor wrote one of my recommendation letters to go to grad school
Thanks for the tips. I once did a photoshoot without Memory Card, the camera was on "focus without card". It was painful, thankfully it was my nephew. My camera is now in "focus with card". That's the first thing I always change when I'm using a random Camera
Much appreciation for the new video!!! BTW, I was once on an audience show (don't remember the name) and Tom was a warm-up guy for it!:)) I was thinking long and hard that he reminds me of someone.On the next day I showed up on the same show and I asked him "Do you know Cinecom?" He was so surprised that I knew it and we joked a little and both yelled "Lorenzo!!!!". Nobody else in the audience couldn't understand? what the heck we were yelling about))) Yep, here's the funny story.
Thank you for making your videos in captions. I’m learning from you. Haven’t done any Adobe since graduation from ITT Technical Institute back in 2000.
My biggest film-making mistake was the first mistake you can make when you start making a movie: I didn't know what I wanted to tell before writing the script.
The only mistake on this list I slightly disagree with is the very first one about keeping the camera exactly at eye level by default. To me, the left frame at 0:56 actually looks more natural than having the horizon going through the middle of his face. I think it’s become a style in most modern commercials and films to have the subject slightly elevated in relation to the camera, so that the viewers are looking up to the subject, but very subtly. Especially if the subject is meant to be portrayed in a positive way. Whereas looking slightly down at them like the frame to the right makes it feel like they’re in a negative place as a character. Everything else is spot on though. I know for sure I’ve made every one of these mistakes at some point. Especially locking into place for something specific and losing a spontaneous moment. That’s something I feel like I still need to be more conscious of.
Not knowing your equipment, be it cameras, gimbals, heck even tripods. And like you said, forgetting a make it or break it piece of equipment.. no... I didn't forget the camera lol... but I forgot my spare batteries and spare memory cards..... camera died halfway while shooting.. Great tutorials love them btw!
My first short film mistake are... 1)while shooting focused changed, when zoomed in and zoom out. 2)too much wide short in most of the frames 3)not having shallow depth of field in closeup shot. 4)wasted many frames in unnecessary camera movement. 5)not having enough battery packages while traveling. 6)under music or extreme music which doesn't really matches the video clips. 7)difficult of voice overs in extreme closeup shorts. 8)too much of background noise in video clips. 9)poor lightning. 10)not using external microphone. These were the mistake i did in my first short film and i was fully searched in youtube, Google...why my short film is not looking like a movie....!?! And i got many answers and i realized my mistakes... And i changed many things in 2nd short film... Which is very progressive compared to my first short film. And still i am learning... Many new things... Now i am 18 year old.
U filmed an entire HIIT Class and when checking storage, I accidentally formatted the card. An hour and a half of footage, high energy, useful footage. Gone. Nobody around me understood how devastating that was.
Biggest mistake is to allow people to walk over me, criticise me in a way that my ideas, despite being good, I had to abandon. Listening to so called big TH-camrs that are not really filmmakers and saturating myself with the teal and orange zoom transitions thinking that I must do this too. And the biggest of them all is trusting people that only saw you as a tool rather than a human being.
#3 I wanna add a beginner mistake, esp. when you're on a trip that you don't bring all your light equipments, shoots in lot of indoor, or lowlight situations cranking up ISO creating unrecoverable noises... bringing one cheap zoom lens is another factor that has high F-stop usually over F4 which they are super weak in lowlights with heck of noises. That was my exp. in trips.
Forgetting your wired headphones are plugged into the camera and then moving in front of it to fix the lav mic on the talent or showing them where to where to stand. I've twice taken down the tripod-mounted camera when the headphone cord reached max length and TIMBER! Luckily, the camera didn't it break either time, just scuffed it up. So, I tried Beats headphones and a wireless receiver plugged into the camera, but the latency was so bad that it got confusing watching the talent talk and then their audio come through a second later. Solution: Avantree Audition Pro low-latency wireless headphones and tiny Avantree Saturn Pro receiver plugged into the headphone jack with the supplied stereo mini post that keeps other inputs clear for other cords. The audio comes through synced with the lips of the talent and I can walk all over the set working with talent, adjusting lights or even go out to the car to grab something, without having to take the headphones off.
My first mistake: Never going outside and film or make a film and always watching film tips to know everything at once and not practicing because I'm scared.
I filmed an interview in auto-focus that went great for the first two minutes. Then the interviewee shifted in his seat, so all I got from then on was a beautiful shot of the bookcase in the background while he was a blur.
I’ve done it- left my camera on my kitchen table. I had a big shoot an hour away and I loaded up all my gear and took off. I get to the location and we unload everything and start setting the lights. It dawns on me that I left my camera on my table since I was using the table to build out my rig. I called my wife to bring it to me but that took another hour and a half. In the mean time I shot with my b cam and it’s kit lens. The client never realized but people on set wondered why I went from a dslr to a fully rigged camera. Now I triple check every time.
As a " Narrative" film maker my biggest mistakes involve story telling. Getting the story and character arcs right. As a videographer, the things you mentioned are very relevant. The biggest mistake however was trying to use a DSLR to make a movie. Thank GOD, DSLR filmmaking is dying.
Im 12, just know the basics, how to cut, add music, sound effects, slow down or fasten the clips and all that. I filmed some gameplay, the whole day i was editing. Didnt know how to export. Exported nit even looking at the settings. The quality was like 10 times worse. Didn't know how to fix it. Got sad and delted all the clips and sounds i used. Found out how to export properly. Tried to export the video... All the media was offline :(
Serious question; who changes camera styles mid shoot? Surely, you would have a shot list before you even start filming to cover all the footage you need? If you have time left over, you can do some handheld footage or whatever to make the scene more interesting.
I shot an interview with a shallow depth of field from a tripod without checking the focus from time to time. As I was alone I stood next to the camera so the person could answer me by looking into my eyes. The guy moved a little bit so almost the entire footage was out of focus. After that I bought a small field monitor so now I can peek even mid-interview.
my biggest mistake , looking at pictures from my camera and letting it slip out of my hand and fall onto a concrete floor , to this day , I still remember how my heart started beating and the lens was damaged (it was a digital camera so no lens swapping)
MY BIGGEST MISTAKE: Back when 'HD' cameras used tapes, you could buy cassettes with wet or dry lubrication. You had to pick one, and stick with it for your camera, or the dry lube would clog up the wet on the head (and vice versa). We didn't realise that, and bought the wrong type that was being used for that specific camera. We didn't check the footage at all during the day to see if it recorded, and wasted an entire day's shoot. Actors, crew, travel, setup.., everything. Regardless of time period or tech used.., CHECK YOUR FOOTAGE RECORDED! It can be as simple as pressing record accidentally, and then assuming each press is ON/OFF
MY Biggest mistake is that I thought High-Quality 4K+ Camera Like Sony A7iii, Red, Alexa Can be shooted at indoor without lightings because they are a low light performer. But the result Lightings are the key thing which will be important for any indoor shoots. NOw learning Lightings from your channel.! Thank You, Jordy..!
I once formatted the project thinking it was a new card... I had just shot the first half of the day and loaded a card into slot 2, but formatted slot 1
Mistake number 6: clean your lens before you start shooting. Sorry the stain 🤔
Big mistake!
I didn't noticed that! Amazing tips! Thanks
LOL
i always do that
I just came down here to comment on that. Might want to check all your lenses. I've notices a few videos where there is noticeable dirt on lens.
I actually made 2 huge mistakes that really marked my life :
1: Shot a Wedding in only one clip
2: Deleted that clip in camera cause I thought it was just a blurry picture
Yeah that sounds painful :(
oof. That's not fun.
@@vegardpedersen I laugh now , but yeah it wasn't that funny in that moment XD
And you still alive 🤣😜😂
@@dolwolfianphotography Luckily I am alive and able to share this horror story 😂🤦♂️
How did you tell the bride ? That’s like my nightmare 😖😅
My biggest mistakes
1: not respecting everyone else’s willingness to help me on my short films. Basically I was a jerk.
2: thinking I was so darn good at anything I did was awesome.. basically being lazy
At least you realize where you screwed up. Some never do.
My friends have been doing this for years. Anything they attempt to make takes forever and is not good, because they think they can do everything, when they haven’t even specialized in one subject and honed their craft.
Always use ctrl+s when editing. Thats will really help when trouble comes
and set autosave to every 5 minutes instead of 15 and max versions to +100!
@Taufiq Thats my daily mistake especially our Country electronic with no APS's
And NEVER EVER EVER TRUST AUTO-SAVE!!!!!!!!!
EVER!!!!!
@@asavag3 More like every minute
bad habit #1: watching youtube videos instead of making them!!
Matt Hayes bingo!!!
Correct
We are all guilty of that
Make something man
@@MobileFilmmaking Id say preach, but here I am watching one. but one before I go to editing "class." ah f*@k it. PREACH!
Amateur : Forget to remove lens cap.
Professionals : Forget sometimes to clean lens or forget memory cards.
Legends : forget to take camera on shooting location. 6:50 🤣
Sudarshan Singh Ashiya: I did this recently. I was working with a client and had a bunch of stuff to bring one day. I met with them a week later to get a bit more content, and I switched my camera to a different bag because I didn’t need as much gear. I left that bag at home and brought my larger doctor bag that the camera was no longer in. I was so mad at myself. Luckily the client got busy right as I got there and couldn’t shoot anyway.
@@RawAutos 😄😄👍
🤣🤣
I was going to say the same thing till i saw this comment!
The old saying from the film days... Check your gate!
I made all the "standard" mistakes, including forgetting the camera. But the biggest mistake I have made is not having a good story/script. That is turning out to be the hardest to correct.
Filmed an interview without headphones/checking audio. The mic wasn't on...
I did this too, kinda awkward when I said we had to redo everything.
I had that happen to me when shooting a music video. But luckily the performers were waring masks and we had multiple takes where we went through the whole song so I had some room to sync it pretty closely in post.
I’ve done this a few times. Luckily it’s rare, and I’m usually doing multiple takes so it’s not an issue. There was this one project I was making with all generations of BMW M3s, and I forgot my mic one day to get exhaust audio. No one was bothered, so I met up with people individually to get exhaust audio. This one owner, for some odd reason, he was the only car I forgot to hit record. THREE different times. To this day I don’t know what made him so unlucky for me, haha.
Jaz Breathett happend to me, my mic is on my camera, so I can’t use headphones 😕😕
BUT THEN I REALIZED THAT I NEEDED TO CHARGE MY ZOHULU CAMERA MICROPHONE.
I film on my s10 and when using a external mic there will be crazy interference if i dont turn on airplane mode and i filmed an interview without turning it on. Made me very sad
my biggest mistake was to believe that sleep is still a thing when working in media xD
filming not enough material and filming everything in wideangle were my biggest mistakes
Same lol
How wide?
Filming not enough does not exist. You have to rephrase that to "not paying attention to WHAT I already filmed." Because here comes a major mistake as well: filming the shit out of the day with 1 Trillion GB of clips and wasting 10 years in editing for a 10 second film.
Filming not enough is the wrong phrase because it implies you have to film tons of material just because. No, you have to pay attention to what you do and what your project requires!
My biggest mistake: Thinking it´s gonna be easy...
For sure
One technical mistake that’s really easy to make (I’m still trying to get over as a young filmmaker) is not having the actors hold keeping the camera rolling for a few seconds before cutting - that’s one thing you definitely cannot fix in post
I SO agree about monitoring .
This is probably the biggest barrier I find as a solo filmmaker.
I could do an interview setup that’s two cam two mic but I can’t monitor all 4, especially when I’m in the interviewer.
I’m trying to build up my portfolio and this is part of why it’s so hard to do on my own.
GREAT video - My biggest mistakes were thinking I had to do some sort of stylized camera movement ... so many times I wished I had just held the camera super still and got the footage I needed.
I know that feel. Did happen to me when shooting a concert, got some cool angles, but somehow I couldn't keep myself from moving to the music and it kind off gets a dizzy feeling when seen on a big screen.
My biggest mistake was letting my friend edit
Lmao. Really? He screwed up that bad?
😂so tru
As a film student I can certainly say I have made all of these mistakes and more. It's a horrible feeling when I sit down to edit and realise there's no audio or the shots aren't useable because of head room or lighting or random stuff in the background. Those mistakes actually made me want to give up on filmmaking but every time cinecom uploads some helpful tips I get inspired to keep trying. Thank you
I maked so much Misstakes when I started, but now I know more about filmmaking. Greetings from Germany 🇩🇪
Ich komme auch aus Deutschland XD
I graduated from MICA with a BFA in Film and Video and my biggest technical mistake near the end of film school wasn’t necessarily lens-based or focused on the camera. I was a writer whose main focus was using nostalgia to drive a plot and that’s all the story had going for it. I valued my visuals above my story. It took me and my thesis professor a couple of months to a year to focus my thesis film’s story so that it was strong and engaging. The best teaching moment was when my professor told me to rewrite my film from scratch after working on drafts for two years. It was the best lesson in filmmaking that I could have learned then.
I'm still new at learning alot and playing around with my videos but while I make dozens more mistakes then just these....I'm learning lots thanks to your videos. Seriously, thank you much!
My Biggest Mistake : lack of confidence
To film others or to make a video starring yourself?
Some very good tips, but the best tip was number 4. So true. Never change filming style just because we are running low on time. Improvising is good but instead of going handheld, just prioritzie the shot list and make changes to that list.
Once I forgot to take additional SD cards. After every shot, I had to think if this is good enough or I should remove it to save a place for better shots 😉
Awesome as always! Cinecom has single handedly taken me from casually watching these vids as entertainment, to becoming a bit of a hobbyist, to running and actual company with actual clients!
What you guys are giving people cannot be understated, I'm so proud of the small amount I have achieved and just wanted to pass on the massive gratitude and to share in the pride. 😎🤟
Oh and can highly recommend Jordys classes in skillshare, they're a bit more formal and detailed, but that same fun delivery he is so well known for.
I am also procuring my gadgets to venture in the same direction
Don't feel bad, Jordy... I've forgotten the camera once, too. And it was in a cage, fully rigged, sitting on the counter waiting for me to just grab the handle and go. We'd driven about 45 minutes before I realised and we had to go back and get it, adding an hour and a half to our journey. :)
3.22 Tip. Make sure that when you have light pouring into the lens, it doesn't illuminate the black plastic around the lens and create a visible ring (to the right of the subject). You can buy very black matt paint to cover this plastic. I was shocked that someone coming from film school wouldn't know the things listed in your guide. In my opinion ’educators’ haven't spent 25 years being a camera operator/director/owner, and therefore don't know all of the things that should be thought about. If they had and they are any good, they wouldn't be working as a teacher as the money differs so much. I worked as a camera op/dir for over 35 years. You won't believe how many things need to be seen before pressing record, only time teaches that. We need more peripatetic teachers with real-world experience offering their advice. Good luck!
4:00 My tip don’t be in front of a reflection e.g Window or Mirror. Look to the left you see jordy’s reflection!
I think in this case it was purposeful to show how it looks when you put a negative fill, but its a good tip anyways
I actually did noticed, but like santos says; it felt appropriate to keep in 🙂
Love that last one - keep the camera style consistency unless it's a conscious decision.
I once forgot to check whether I could walk backwards freely and fell into a pool in front of the customer with all my equipment. Boy, that was embarrassing.
I have worked with some great names such as Arnie, Duran Duran and Toyah and others. Yes, I have made mistakes. My biggest mistake is thinking I can do everything myself. Trusting someone else to help out with sound, for instance, is a big thing. Remember that sometimes you need help so don't be afraid to ask for it.
My main mistake would have to be letting people change my mind on set. When you're working with friends and everyone wants to be a director they all make suggestions and their suggestions might sound great at the time, but when you do all the prep-work before hand you kind of forget that you need everything a certain way for the edit to work porperly D:
While shooting one of my first films with a DSLR, I was using an on-camera shotgun mic (mistake 1, yes), but the big mistake was forgetting to turn on the mic before shooting an entire scene. With no way to monitor audio on the T2i, I had no idea that it wasn't getting any audio. Luckily, the cast was cool with it, and we were able to reschedule the shoot the next day and considered the "incident" as a dress rehearsal.
Forgot to press record on a one-shot-wonder. It just hurt me and my team so baddddddd :(
My biggest mistake was thinking I can be both cinematographer and director. I studied cinematography and slowly realized that I'm more suited for directing, and did both for my first few short films, then in post I'd notice cinematography issues I could have done better if I weren't focused on specific directing things, and vice versa. Tough pill to swallow. I'm aware there are people out there who can do both but I just don't have enough brain power to do both at 100% quality at the same time.
I can't agree more on these points. Especially the one about compromising the project and style in favor of getting done faster and easier. Do what is right for the moment in the story. Always
I'm still learning on lighting and paying attention to background distractions, and being specific about directing. It's something I still have to learn when I'm filming/post-production, got really frustrated sometimes working with people so I started to lean more towards just focus on editing.
Though after watching this video, it does inspire me again to attempt working with other people on video projects and troubleshooting with them (I'm very used to explaining to the people I work with about camera work, so there's never so much room to ask for feedback =| ).
Thank you for another fruitful learning tutorial!
Oh and also not getting enough materials when we had to do last minute shooting XD;; worse mistake ever because I had to see the end results and look back 'Ah man should've gone with that angle/this angle' etc.
2:41 Ever tried "clean lenses before filming" to add to it?
I just published my first video watching you guys for many months!
You guys are wonderful!! Thanks for all your tips and cool stuffs you always provide us!
My biggest film making was learning as much as I can about films so that the time I decided to make a movie I expected to know everything. Another one is letting my expectations dictate my future.
6:03 imagine using a red camera but you still need those stickers
My mistake happened when I first started using an external monitor on the camera. I was shooting an interview and looking at the monitor thinking, "Nice shot!" When the interview was over I pressed the record button to stop...and it started recording! I was using the monitor as a reference and I didn't double check to see if the camera was recording. Everybody was frustrated a little, but was glad that I caught it and was able to save the day.
I once used reflective green tape to hold up several matte green poster boards to later use for a makeshift chroma key. I also had bright ambient illumination behind the camera. Needless to say, 2 hours of shooting had to be done over haha😂
Mistake: Thinking I needed all the best gear to just start. ... solved on my own due to being impatient. Also, yes about the background tutorial!
Most frequent mistake I still make is filling the frame and not using 10% safety margins to allow for slight motion correction or warp stabilization when the need arises.
Worst mistake I made as a film student was that I had a track and Dolly system I set up to track my actors but because one actor complained about the track system throwing off his blocking I ended up sliding the track system over a number of feet.... But inadvertently I did not catch the fact that when we did that, we moved the 180 line!!... As a result the actors did not cut together properly in editing and my film Professor kind of chewed me out in front of the class saying I should have never made that mistake and should not have spent so much time setting up the track and Dolly and should have instead focused on making sure the actors were blocked correctly in relation to the camera... it was a very low point for me because my professor was somebody a greatly admired and looked up to and was trying to impress but the end result was that the professor was absolutely right and that's a lesson I definitely needed to learn if I want to be more professional with what I do.... I definitely learned a lot from that experience and still greatly value everything I learned from that program... In fact that same Professor wrote one of my recommendation letters to go to grad school
Your voice saved my yesterday buddy . Your studio is so awesome man big like .
Not locking yourself in; great tip, thanks for that!
Less the dust in your lens, I found this really helpful. Thanks, I will look what else you have in your channel.
Thank you so much jordy for giving the world Cinecom..
Thanks for the tips.
I once did a photoshoot without Memory Card, the camera was on "focus without card". It was painful, thankfully it was my nephew. My camera is now in "focus with card". That's the first thing I always change when I'm using a random Camera
Much appreciation for the new video!!!
BTW, I was once on an audience show (don't remember the name) and Tom was a warm-up guy for it!:))
I was thinking long and hard that he reminds me of someone.On the next day I showed up on the same show and I asked him "Do you know Cinecom?" He was so surprised that I knew it and we joked a little and both yelled "Lorenzo!!!!". Nobody else in the audience couldn't understand? what the heck we were yelling about)))
Yep, here's the funny story.
It's important ot get rid of such mistakes. Great tips!
Yeah... you don't get a lot done without the camera...
You guys are awesome, thanks!!
Mine is putting a 2000$ camera on a old tripod and tried to film upside down and the camera fell off. It shattered the lens
Holy shit man
Ouch!
That hurt my soul
Sorry
Thank you for making your videos in captions. I’m learning from you. Haven’t done any Adobe since graduation from ITT Technical Institute back in 2000.
My biggest film-making mistake was the first mistake you can make when you start making a movie:
I didn't know what I wanted to tell before writing the script.
Is that the sigma 18-35 on the Red camera? I thought is is only for apsc sensors?
The only mistake on this list I slightly disagree with is the very first one about keeping the camera exactly at eye level by default. To me, the left frame at 0:56 actually looks more natural than having the horizon going through the middle of his face. I think it’s become a style in most modern commercials and films to have the subject slightly elevated in relation to the camera, so that the viewers are looking up to the subject, but very subtly. Especially if the subject is meant to be portrayed in a positive way. Whereas looking slightly down at them like the frame to the right makes it feel like they’re in a negative place as a character. Everything else is spot on though. I know for sure I’ve made every one of these mistakes at some point. Especially locking into place for something specific and losing a spontaneous moment. That’s something I feel like I still need to be more conscious of.
Great video, one of the best i've found on youtube ! quick and informative, would be nice to see more of these... greetings from Czech Republic ! :)
BIGGEST MISTAKE: forgot the camera 😂😂😂 made my day.
Jordy always heals me alot
Learnt manything from this channel
Keep inspiring us❤️
Not knowing your equipment, be it cameras, gimbals, heck even tripods. And like you said, forgetting a make it or break it piece of equipment.. no... I didn't forget the camera lol... but I forgot my spare batteries and spare memory cards..... camera died halfway while shooting..
Great tutorials love them btw!
honesty, the tape thing on the camera as reminder was mindblowing for me lol ahahha can't believe i never thought of it!
My worst mistake:
To use all my money on my camera
What did you get?
I did the same (SONY NEX-VG20) but got some amazing shots, and learnt a lot by using it compared to a phone/tablet/camcorder
I don’t see anything wrong with that. You can build your set up over time after your purchase of the camera.
@@pubchook3921 I bought a red, no just a joke. It was a dslr, i think it was a sony something
Same
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Cinecom dauttt net😌😌😌
My first short film mistake are... 1)while shooting focused changed, when zoomed in and zoom out.
2)too much wide short in most of the frames
3)not having shallow depth of field in closeup shot.
4)wasted many frames in unnecessary camera movement.
5)not having enough battery packages while traveling.
6)under music or extreme music which doesn't really matches the video clips.
7)difficult of voice overs in extreme closeup shorts.
8)too much of background noise in video clips.
9)poor lightning.
10)not using external microphone.
These were the mistake i did in my first short film and i was fully searched in youtube, Google...why my short film is not looking like a movie....!?! And i got many answers and i realized my mistakes... And i changed many things in 2nd short film... Which is very progressive compared to my first short film. And still i am learning... Many new things... Now i am 18 year old.
"It's not about gear"
"I forgot the camera"
U filmed an entire HIIT Class and when checking storage, I accidentally formatted the card. An hour and a half of footage, high energy, useful footage.
Gone. Nobody around me understood how devastating that was.
I didnt use light so there is a lot of noise in some videos that I made... (trust me, BUY lighting kit if you use canon powershot sx60 hs)
Biggest mistake is to allow people to walk over me, criticise me in a way that my ideas, despite being good, I had to abandon. Listening to so called big TH-camrs that are not really filmmakers and saturating myself with the teal and orange zoom transitions thinking that I must do this too. And the biggest of them all is trusting people that only saw you as a tool rather than a human being.
Well damn 😵
#3 I wanna add a beginner mistake, esp. when you're on a trip that you don't bring all your light equipments, shoots in lot of indoor, or lowlight situations cranking up ISO creating unrecoverable noises... bringing one cheap zoom lens is another factor that has high F-stop usually over F4 which they are super weak in lowlights with heck of noises. That was my exp. in trips.
Never give up on your work it's okay to make mistakes and it not being perfect.. just trust your creative process
Never been to film school but my biggest mistake as a beginner was firehosing the camera and trying to track the action everywhere.
Great tips:-) It's so easy to forget thinks, when in hustle mode... A little sticker could really make the difference😊
I also have a tip! Watch out for the reflections of windows, TV or PC monitors. 4:00
if you mistake.. you should be proud of yourself bcz now you can improve!!!
Forgetting your wired headphones are plugged into the camera and then moving in front of it to fix the lav mic on the talent or showing them where to where to stand. I've twice taken down the tripod-mounted camera when the headphone cord reached max length and TIMBER! Luckily, the camera didn't it break either time, just scuffed it up. So, I tried Beats headphones and a wireless receiver plugged into the camera, but the latency was so bad that it got confusing watching the talent talk and then their audio come through a second later. Solution: Avantree Audition Pro low-latency wireless headphones and tiny Avantree Saturn Pro receiver plugged into the headphone jack with the supplied stereo mini post that keeps other inputs clear for other cords. The audio comes through synced with the lips of the talent and I can walk all over the set working with talent, adjusting lights or even go out to the car to grab something, without having to take the headphones off.
My first mistake:
Never going outside and film or make a film and always watching film tips to know everything at once and not practicing because I'm scared.
I filmed an interview in auto-focus that went great for the first two minutes. Then the interviewee shifted in his seat, so all I got from then on was a beautiful shot of the bookcase in the background while he was a blur.
I’ve done it- left my camera on my kitchen table. I had a big shoot an hour away and I loaded up all my gear and took off. I get to the location and we unload everything and start setting the lights. It dawns on me that I left my camera on my table since I was using the table to build out my rig. I called my wife to bring it to me but that took another hour and a half. In the mean time I shot with my b cam and it’s kit lens. The client never realized but people on set wondered why I went from a dslr to a fully rigged camera. Now I triple check every time.
As a " Narrative" film maker my biggest mistakes involve story telling. Getting the story and character arcs right. As a videographer, the things you mentioned are very relevant. The biggest mistake however was trying to use a DSLR to make a movie. Thank GOD, DSLR filmmaking is dying.
Wow that was a really good video! I'm super glad I watched this
Im 12, just know the basics, how to cut, add music, sound effects, slow down or fasten the clips and all that.
I filmed some gameplay, the whole day i was editing. Didnt know how to export. Exported nit even looking at the settings. The quality was like 10 times worse. Didn't know how to fix it. Got sad and delted all the clips and sounds i used.
Found out how to export properly. Tried to export the video...
All the media was offline :(
You will learn over this time... I started at your age now I am 18 and I am still learning
Never delete anything dude, even if you know it’s garbage
@@louisliu2432 now i know... i hope
louis liu If you know a clip can’t be used for anything, you can delete. I usually just delete clips or photos if nothing is in focus.
18 here.but i am Still in basic
Also avoid filming with mirrors and glass and reflective objects unless prepared for masking things out
Serious question; who changes camera styles mid shoot? Surely, you would have a shot list before you even start filming to cover all the footage you need? If you have time left over, you can do some handheld footage or whatever to make the scene more interesting.
I shot an interview with a shallow depth of field from a tripod without checking the focus from time to time. As I was alone I stood next to the camera so the person could answer me by looking into my eyes. The guy moved a little bit so almost the entire footage was out of focus. After that I bought a small field monitor so now I can peek even mid-interview.
5:10 " you will regret that in edit " I think that is my new motto!
I just love your YT videos! Thanks and Hello from NYC!
thank you for sharing your experience 👏👏
Very good one. Thanks !!
my biggest mistake , looking at pictures from my camera and letting it slip out of my hand and fall onto a concrete floor , to this day , I still remember how my heart started beating and the lens was damaged (it was a digital camera so no lens swapping)
MY BIGGEST MISTAKE:
Back when 'HD' cameras used tapes, you could buy cassettes with wet or dry lubrication.
You had to pick one, and stick with it for your camera, or the dry lube would clog up the wet on the head (and vice versa). We didn't realise that, and bought the wrong type that was being used for that specific camera.
We didn't check the footage at all during the day to see if it recorded, and wasted an entire day's shoot. Actors, crew, travel, setup.., everything.
Regardless of time period or tech used.., CHECK YOUR FOOTAGE RECORDED!
It can be as simple as pressing record accidentally, and then assuming each press is ON/OFF
Thanks for sharing. I love it 😊😊
MY Biggest mistake is that I thought High-Quality 4K+ Camera Like Sony A7iii, Red, Alexa Can be shooted at indoor without lightings because they are a low light performer. But the result Lightings are the key thing which will be important for any indoor shoots. NOw learning Lightings from your channel.! Thank You, Jordy..!
Great video! Didn't know of some of the tips!
Thank you so much,
Great video 🔥 Thanks for sharing.
I have been watching tips and nooone told these tips! Thank you very much! Gonna use these awesome tips to make my channel better!
I once formatted the project thinking it was a new card... I had just shot the first half of the day and loaded a card into slot 2, but formatted slot 1
Can you please make a video on how setup wiring connection on location for lightings if we don't have lots of ports.
Thank you cinecom 😁