{"id":23730,"date":"2016-12-13T04:00:42","date_gmt":"2016-12-13T03:00:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.maihua.fr\/en\/?p=23730"},"modified":"2016-12-12T14:05:54","modified_gmt":"2016-12-12T13:05:54","slug":"my-video-tips","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archives.maihua.fr\/en\/2016\/12\/my-video-tips\/","title":{"rendered":"My video tips"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hello darlings<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Here you have a post where I am boasting\u2026WHICH NEVER HAPPENS.\u00a0 It\u2019s because I have received more and more questions regarding my filming skills.\u00a0 And this thrills me!\u00a0 Thank you!\u00a0 So here\u2019s my tips:<\/p>\n<p><strong>1\/ Do what pleases you &#8211; ACTION<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>About the marketing, I studied commercial courses at the university.\u00a0 For color, I landed a certificate in one of the most renowned French art school and for the video, which is however my main source of income, I haven\u2019t follow any academic studies.<\/p>\n<p>I learned on the spot by practicing.\u00a0 Filming and editing.\u00a0 My desire to film and tell stories on video.\u00a0 So the important part is not to be validated by a diploma or your entourage.\u00a0 It\u2019s just to do it.<\/p>\n<p>Go GO GoooOOoOooooo<\/p>\n<p><strong>2\/ Do what pleases you &#8211; CAMERA<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I need a natural, luminous image and a handy, light camera.\u00a0 Because I only shoot live on the spot.<\/p>\n<p>Many asked me what equipment do I use.\u00a0 I use Panasonic camera GH4 with two Leica lenses (more or less close up in the frame.)<\/p>\n<p>I do not use the Canon 5D because I find the image \u201ctoo beautiful,\u201d too smooth, too sophisticated.\u00a0 It\u2019s great in low light, it\u2019s really beautiful.\u00a0 But generally speaking I find the image to be taking me away from the realness and I love the beauty of the realness.<\/p>\n<p>And also that it\u2019s so heavy, I wouldn\u2019t be able to film for a long time with it (which sometimes I need to do.)\u00a0 Mine is almost twice as light.<\/p>\n<p><strong>3\/ Do what pleases you &#8211; SHOOT<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I assume that it\u2019s good to have some kind of film culture; I don\u2019t have any (except what I find in \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/everyframeapainting\">every frame a painting<\/a>\u201d)\u00a0 What I know is that I like certain camera shots, I like a certain light, I like a certain balance of tones.\u00a0 I am a sensitive person HAHAHAHA!<\/p>\n<p>Today I am working on my long feature and therefore the storytelling has become important BUT up until now many of them were simple.\u00a0 What counts is the emotion.\u00a0 The communicated emotion and the lived emotion. Therefore I don\u2019t shoot significant images:\u00a0 to tell that a person went from the kitchen to the living room, you can shoot while traveling from one room to the other, add images of the boiling tea pot then the fireplace etc.\u00a0 All this is significant.\u00a0 I don\u2019t do that.\u00a0 Sometimes it gets boring during editing stage and yes it is limiting and I can never deliver a storyboard to a client, BUT that\u2019s the way it is.\u00a0 The more I progress, the more my writing desires are changing and I\u2019ll certainly move toward more sophistication.\u00a0 BUT to begin:\u00a0 shoot whenever you feel like it, whatever you feel like filming (a specific composition, the wind, the texture of neck, what really makes YOU happy.)<\/p>\n<p>Oh yes, and I don\u2019t do it because \u201cit works\u201d or because it looks pretty, BUT because the moment moves me and I try to transpose it into a shot.\u00a0 Do you follow me?<\/p>\n<p>In a certain way I have a very \u201dimpressionistic\u201d approach, organic and meditative.<\/p>\n<p><strong>4\/ Do what pleases you \u2013 UNTIL SATISFIED<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>They asked me if I spend my life filming.\u00a0 It happened.\u00a0 I found that everything was beautiful, that I \u201chad to\u201d capture it.\u00a0 And then I got over it.\u00a0 There\u2019s a time when you understand that beauty doesn\u2019t stop.\u00a0 That if you missed a shot, another one will present itself.\u00a0 That it\u2019s not important not to have memories from that moment or another.<\/p>\n<p>I satisfied myself, and therefore I shoot whenever I want&#8230; Yes you get it, whenever it pleases me.<\/p>\n<p>Still, note that sometimes when you are in the \u201cnon-satisfied\u201c phase, it can create conflict with your entourage.\u00a0 It\u2019s a little strange and at times really irritating to have to live with someone who shoots everything.<\/p>\n<p><strong>5\/ Do what pleases you &#8211; EDIT<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>My brother L\u00e2m was telling me that there is nothing more painstaking than video, indeed once you are done filming you have yet to do anything (as oppose to photography for example).\u00a0 The editing stage is the time when you find yourself in the front of a mountain of pieces of textiles.\u00a0 You must sift, throw the rejects, unearth the beautiful threads and most important figure out if you are going to design a jacket or a pant.\u00a0 It is in my opinion the most artistic part.\u00a0 I heard Chabrol say that it was the time when you were in the matter (cinematographically for him)<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s about all of it, you know it all.\u00a0 I mean I believe so, don\u2019t hesitate to ask me more questions!\u00a0 I kind of like answering you all!<\/p>\n<p>Lots of kisses<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hello darlings &nbsp; Here you have a post where I am boasting\u2026WHICH NEVER HAPPENS.\u00a0 It\u2019s because I have received more and more questions regarding my filming skills.\u00a0 And this thrills me!\u00a0 Thank you!\u00a0 So here\u2019s my tips: 1\/ Do what pleases you &#8211; ACTION About the marketing, I studied commercial courses at the university.\u00a0 For &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/archives.maihua.fr\/en\/2016\/12\/my-video-tips\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">My video tips<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":23722,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1169,1177],"tags":[1313,1174,1312,70],"class_list":["post-23730","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-diary-en","category-mai-journey","tag-leica","tag-mai-hua-en","tag-panasonic","tag-video"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archives.maihua.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23730","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archives.maihua.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archives.maihua.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archives.maihua.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archives.maihua.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23730"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/archives.maihua.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23730\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23738,"href":"https:\/\/archives.maihua.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23730\/revisions\/23738"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archives.maihua.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23722"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archives.maihua.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23730"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archives.maihua.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23730"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archives.maihua.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23730"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}