From the course: Creating a Short Film: 07 Cinematography

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Choosing a frame rate

Choosing a frame rate

From the course: Creating a Short Film: 07 Cinematography

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Choosing a frame rate

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- So far in this chapter, we've been primarily focusing on exposure, but another fundamental concept is that of frame rate, and as we'll look at in the next two movies, frame rate can also have an indirect effect on your exposure. It's important to remember that video is just a series of still images, called frames that are played back in rapid succession. The speed at which those frames play back is called the frame rate. The frame rate for a film is typically 24 frames per second, this is what cinema has always looked like, it has a very distinctive style to it. Now I love the way 24 frames per second footage looks, but one of the drawbacks to it is that it does have a tendency to kind of create this strobing effect when the camera moves too fast, and when I say moves too fast, the camera really doesn't have to move very fast at all to get this ugly strobing effect. It happens with your pan, tilt, any time you move the camera quickly it happens, and it's this annoying attribute of…

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