Why You Should Recreate Shots From Films

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Everyone's favourite lighting exercise - recreating shots from films! But is it actually useful? I would say yes - any practice is good practice - but when it comes to painstakingly recreating a shot from a film perfectly, I think it may be a little unhelpful, at least in the grand scheme of developing our own looks and practices. Instead, taking influence from a film's lighting or composition and making it your own can be far more beneficial when creating an image. We're simply using these influences as a base, tweaking them for own scenarios - and since we're not going for a perfect recreation - we're inadvertently adding our own touch and vision. Therefore, creating our own image, with it's own look.

This applies to any creative field, as we're all influenced in conscious and subconscious ways by different creative mediums and even the world around us. You're simply taking - in this case, a library of film stills from ShotDeck - using them as influence, translating them into your own look and developing them into set of practises you can then go on to use in your future work. I think this is why you should recreate shots from films - just not necessarily in the perfected form you might first imagine!

I'm one of Samyang's UK brand ambassadors - which means I shoot most of my work with the Samyang VDSLR MK2 Cine lens kit. In this video we used:

Samyang 14mm t/3.1 VDSLR MK2
Samyang 24mm t/1.5 VDSLR MK2
Samyang 35mm t/1.5 VDSLR MK2

Camera:

Blackmagic Pocket Cinema Camera 6K Pro
Blackmagic Micro Cinema Camera (some BTS)

Lights:

Litepanels Gemini 1 x 1 Soft - https://www.litepanels.com/en/product...
Nanlite Mixpanel 150 - https://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/produc...
Godox M1 - https://store.godox.eu/en/led-panels/...
Godox ML60 - https://store.godox.eu/en/led-lamps/5...
Godox SL150 ii - https://store.godox.eu/en/led-lamps/5...



Video Contents:

0:00 - Recreating Inherent Vice
3:16 - Recreating Ain't Them Bodies Saints
6:18 - Lighting with Colour 5 Part Mini Course/Thank You Patrons!
6:43 - Researching/Recreating Roger Deakins
7:46 - Mixing Our Film Recreations into One Shot
10:48 - Shotdeck Recreation Contest!!
11:11 - Support My Channel/Get Extended Videos