Camera Settings
Camera settings include multiple settings that are required to make your video's more professional I really wanted to nail these clips. So I shot in the hardest settings a film maker can, the reason as to why my settings are "harder" is that it can make your colour grading a nightmare later on when you come to edit your clips. I shot in a colour profile of:
- Black Level +5
- Gamma - S-Log2
- Colour Mode S-Gamut3.Cine
- Saturation +3
Now you're probably wondering what an earth do these settings mean. However it's pretty simple your black levels are simply effecting your contrast. The higher it is the more blacks you'll see which is how contrast is used within photography and any other application it may be used within. Gamma (S-Log 2) is as stated "Log gamma, such as Sony's S-Log2, allows the camera to capture a much greater brightness range or dynamic range than is possible when shooting with conventional television gamma." It basically enables another world within editing as you can unlock more adjustments as opposed to the default colour profile. The Colour mode, “S-Gamut3. Cine/S-Log3” is designed for more pure log workflow. Colour space is similar to negative film scan which is used for TV production, film out and digital cinema. Colour reproduction is designed slightly wider than DCI-P3 to provide ample room of grading." As you can see it is used for when trying to get the maximum colours you can get out of your camera.
If you want to see a preview of the before and after of the colour grading you can see on the page titled "editing process"
This was the main camera settings, other than it varied, from using a low f-stop when filming above my shoulder, to then making the f-stop bigger for when I need more objects in focus. The ISO was always kept at 800 as that's the minimum required to shoot in S-Log2. I also shot in 4k, 24fps, which is 3840 × 2160 resolution and 24 frames per second is how many frames recorded within one second.