How I turned a cheap camcorder into a cinema camera

Watch the full short film here: https://youtu.be/Ew_LB_wSgaw IG: https://www.instagram.com/scott_burchell/ In this video I take a second hand camcorder I bought on Ebay for less than £500 and test it's cinematic capabilities! We take a look at the best camera settings and shooting techniques for filmmaking and then jump into Davinci resolve for a grading tutorial, where I run through the process of a modern 35mm film inspired cinematic grade and also an authentic 16mm film emulation using a third party plug-in. The camcorder I used in this video: Panasonic HC-VX 870 Eric's channel: @EricNorcross Dehancer Pro: https://www.dehancer.com Save 10% with code SCOTT10 0:00 - introduction 1:53 - Buying the right camera 2:15 - The camcorder I used 2:39 - automatic settings 3:39 - sensor size 4:37 - The best settings to use 6:10 - Optical vs digital zoom 6:40 - A useful tip for shooting 7:11 - Getting shallow depth of field 8:24 - Depth of field examples 9:00 - drawbacks 10:04 - Grade tutorial intro 11:44 - Grade 1 - modern cinematic 17:13 - Before and after 1 17:45 - Grade 2 - 16mm Film emulation 24:08 - Before and after 2 24:57 - The final film 25:31 - What did I learn? 27:07 - Closing wisdom from Eric Norcross To learn more about our film work: https://www.lipmouthstudios.com