So, I am a total newbie having fun filming myself & partner singing and playing guitar.
I'd love to get to a point where I can make a video in low/ambient lighting like this one:
https://youtu.be/8llogOeHrpA?t=56s
So, we have got as far as simply pointing the camera and pressing record:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1HAoThSzXx5aAyd7gG4xQCcUSA9ca4kZ9/view?usp=sharing
Obviously nowhere near the target yet. There are things I think have a fairly good idea of how to improve (setting up the 'stage' - i.e decluttering, making ourselves look 'nicer'. Ok maybe I can't fix that second one...), but there are many many things I have no idea how to go about changing. Here are my key areas:
- Quality. The video we took seems completely grainy to me, despite the camera being 'HD' (Camera is a Sony HDR-MV1). It was shot indoors at night (which is our only option right now). Now, I want to do this in 'low light', but if I reduce the lighting, the quality goes down even now...
- How to shoot this in low lighting? As in the example video, I'd love to do this in a more darkened room with some low backlighting - Candles or fairy lights. I've been reading about setting up *actual* lighting, even for filming 'dark' shots. So I've been to the hardware store and bought a couple of the brightest bulbs they have. Bringing my equipment up to the Sony camera and 2 bulbs
- How to frame two people? In the example video, there is one guy so its' easy - put him in the middle. I read a lot about dividing your scene into a grid of 9 squares. Not sure how to fit two people into this. My only thought so far is to make one (the singer) more prominent by putting her forward in the shot, with the guitarist a little behind...that way they could be a bit closer together...
I'd love to get to a point where I can make a video in low/ambient lighting like this one:
https://youtu.be/8llogOeHrpA?t=56s
So, we have got as far as simply pointing the camera and pressing record:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1HAoThSzXx5aAyd7gG4xQCcUSA9ca4kZ9/view?usp=sharing
Obviously nowhere near the target yet. There are things I think have a fairly good idea of how to improve (setting up the 'stage' - i.e decluttering, making ourselves look 'nicer'. Ok maybe I can't fix that second one...), but there are many many things I have no idea how to go about changing. Here are my key areas:
- Quality. The video we took seems completely grainy to me, despite the camera being 'HD' (Camera is a Sony HDR-MV1). It was shot indoors at night (which is our only option right now). Now, I want to do this in 'low light', but if I reduce the lighting, the quality goes down even now...
- How to shoot this in low lighting? As in the example video, I'd love to do this in a more darkened room with some low backlighting - Candles or fairy lights. I've been reading about setting up *actual* lighting, even for filming 'dark' shots. So I've been to the hardware store and bought a couple of the brightest bulbs they have. Bringing my equipment up to the Sony camera and 2 bulbs
- How to frame two people? In the example video, there is one guy so its' easy - put him in the middle. I read a lot about dividing your scene into a grid of 9 squares. Not sure how to fit two people into this. My only thought so far is to make one (the singer) more prominent by putting her forward in the shot, with the guitarist a little behind...that way they could be a bit closer together...