10 Essential Steps for Capturing Stunning B-Roll Scenes in Your Film
If you are a professional filmmaker, you know that all of your supplement shots require as much planning, preparation and TLC as master photography. Just like anything you shoot. You have to plan your shots, and make difficult cinematic decisions. And you are able to change it, which can be quite challenging if you don't.
If you are new to this, don't worry, because filmmaker Darious Britt from D4Darious shares a lot of great ideas on how to capture great and effective shots of your projects.
Darius sums up a lot of great advice, so here are the ten quick points we think are the most important for capturing high-quality B-roll video:
- Capture a variety of scenes: wide, medium, and close-up shots… you'll need them all.
- Shoot more than you think you'll need: shoot more and more. Because you will benefit from it as soon as possible.
- Make the shots last at least 8-10 seconds: There is nothing worse than not getting enough really good shots.
- Capture scenes with higher frame rates: In case you decide to slow it down later, use it with Slowmotion.
- Pay attention to the position of the camera: High angles, low angles and eye-level shots communicate different things to your audience, so be aware of them.
- Choose the right lens for your needs: Zoom lenses are great for quick b-roll shooting, but it's nice to have wide lenses and macro lenses on hand as well.
- Move the camera: stills are good, but the action scenes make things interesting.
- Use camera stabilizers: Nobody wants to see choppy, shaky shots. Get a monopod, gimbal, or other type of camera mount.
- Rack focus shots: These shots alternate focus or focus from one thing to another in the same cat and give a special aesthetic to photography.
- Try it all !: B-roll is a great time to try new things.
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