Make Videos Look Like Hollywood Movies

how does shoot a Jason Bourne action

scenes lots and lots of inserts

everything is edgelet and everything is

shaky and everything at slow shutter

speed everything is very open aperture

I'm going to show you how to get the

Jason Bourne Hollywood look for your

video step 1

Jason Bourne has a bit of a low-key look

it's a little bit darker a little bit

dimmer so the very first thing I'm going

to do is turn off all the lights in here

now it's really dark it's the very next

thing we need to do is turn on our fill

light the next thing we need to do is

turn on our edge lights there we have it

the edge light needs to be positioned

behind the actor if it gets too far to

the side of the person or in front of

them it just kind of becomes a key or

fill and does not look very good it must

be a niche one light that's warm is that

a tungsten temperature and one light

that's cold daylight temperature with my

camera is a white balance set to

tungsten his skin will look normal and

the light coming from that warm light

will look white to light coming from

that daylight light and a really turned

blue change my white balance thirty six

hundred degrees Kelvin

so the Tungsten's will still be just a

touch orange but pretty close to white

in those daylight edges it's going to

look blue step one is to put some point

lights in your scene these lights should

be warm to match the fill in Jason

Bourne space they're not to light the

room but to give you little spots of

interest in the distance that's there on

the wall step two is then just bring the

rest of the room up a little bit in

brightest with a daylight colored light

I have it pointed up not at the

character the scene what's happening

here is this light that's hitting the

top of the ceiling and it's diffusing

and then bouncing back down everywhere

it's getting us a very soft blue globe

there's not a lot of direction there's

not a lot of shadow either it's very

very soft all right so now our lights

are set up to film we need to set up our

camera aperture and shutter speed you

want to get as soft of a background as

possible with your camera you're going

to want to open your aperture pretty

much as far as you can the shutter speed

needs to be set to 1 over 48 if you're

shooting at 24 frames per second 1 over

60 if you're shooting at 30 because

Jason Bourne does not have Kris movement

as very blurry motion blurred movement

you get that by having your shutter open

longer

oh the bad guy that says hey let's get

another action shot Oh rolling and

actually wait wait wait

wait a minute that doesn't look very

good because that edge light when I

moved over here became your fill light

because coming from the direction of the

camera leading with that edge wipe

always be behind my actor I'm moving the

camera when you keep the actor between

camera and the edge light I'm going to

move this Phil like stay on his face I

actually don't care that much about

continuity anyone is wondering we are

using aperture lights this is the after

120 T it is a little point light LED and

a little big dish looks great these are

the aperture light storms they're

basically large LED light arrays they

give off a very nice area life they're

all battery-powered we are running them

all off of Anton powered batteries right

now I'm giving this down here and

shyness to this railing get some shadows

up in that wall it's a couple warm

streaks of light the rest it's still

filled in at this cool daylight light

and I'm gonna get my second shot imagine

you heard a sound coming from that door

so I want you to sneak forwards

shooting with a more telephoto lens kind

of compresses the space and also makes

things look a little bit more composed

foreground mid-ground background put

something in the foreground here to

shoot through the stuff on the kitchen

counter these lenses for example

mid-ground be mister bjorn back gonna do

that painting light on the hall

lights off downstairs ago because the

second step happens on my computer he's

making Thanksgiving it's that simple I

have my shots just important to the

timeline the movements nice I mean it's

got that Jason Bourne shakiness focus is

dynamic really isolating or we should be

looking now I know not everybody has

premiere what I'm doing here can

generally be done on any program if you

know what filters singers talk about

just mullerian next thing I'm going to

do is I'm going to apply a crop filter

that adjustment layer crop can let you

crop off the tops and bottoms of your

image give you those widescreen bars

boom widescreen bars or everything looks

great another way you can get that

widescreen looks to actually change your

sequence settings so here thirty and

forty by sixteen twenty

all right the next step is to apply the

metrics we're going to get that film up

now that Jason Bourne stylized in life

I'm going to go to my effect controls

under creative is an option to apply a

look and I'm going to apply the m31

lookup table this lookup table it does

cost money it's not that expensive you

can get it part as part of the Osiris

look-up tables pack from color grading

central.com

they're amazing I've used them for years

it's the best $50 you are spend to make

your footage look good it works on

iphone footage or some DSLR footage it

works on red footage it works on

everything it looks cool but doesn't

quite look like Jason Bourne Nick's a

little orange things a little blue it's

because Jason Bourne look is shift a

little bit more towards the yellows so

now I'm going to go down to my shadow

tint to my highlight s did my highlights

a little more yellow and I'm going to

shift my shadows next up I'm going to

bump up the vibrance and saturation

basically just enhancing the colors a

little bit so you can mess around the

color more if you want to it's very easy

to take color wheels and stylize things

some of those scenes in Jason Bourne are

actually overall very warm some of these

things are overall very cool so the m31

lookup table with this lighting setup

then with some tweaks cab dialed in to

the look of your camera will give you a

very cinematic look that looks a lot

like a Jason Bourne movie so hope you

guys learn something I hope you guys

enjoyed watching this process to see how

we got this away and yeah do some more

stuff like this in the future

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