Blackmagic Camera + Lighting Test

Yesterday Lee gave a Black-magic camera tutorial  as that was the camera I was going to use for my minor. From that tutorial came some very important information for when using the camera:


  • The battery will last 1 hour 30 without external chargw
  • When choosing the film setting you will colour grade your film or digital setting you don't need to
  • The ISO goes from 200-1600 with 800 being the best setting because of the noise and quality ratio
  • The frames per second go from 23,24,25,29.7 and 30 and which one you chose depends on your market
  • Make sure to plan the look of your film before shooting so not to cause issues when editing
  • One film setting known as Raw is best for quality, but not practical
  • When it comes to lighting there are a choices such as:  Tungsten - 3200, Daylight - 5,600 and Sunlight - 6,000
  • Images - 2.5K Raw, DNXHD, ProRes422 with Pro Res 422 being ideal, 4 - raw 22 - compressed 
  • Shutter - 172.8
  • Timelapse - Off
  • 95% Zebres - Focusing
  • Scratch track is the audio on camera and is only used for syncing up
  • Higher resolution is not good for film-making as there is so much you can get out of an image

Afterwards I moved onto my lighting test:


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This is one of the lighting setups we did with a red gel over one of the red head lights to add to the mood which gives the scene a unsettling feel.

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This the setup for one of the versions I did with two lights off to the side and one taller light on for a version of three point lighting

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This is the product I ended up with the first or second tests I did coming out the best because of the feel they give off an unsettling feel.


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