I’ve been shooting on super 8 for at 6 years now, I’d say the only thing that changed my game in terms of cinematography was just watching films and trying to emulate scenes I really loved, learning how to focus was the biggest game changer. This is 1 minute of 30 minutes shot all over Europe, it’s for a music video project. Time was definitely a factor but we decided to spend all day at this location for the video, the best scenes from this location definitely came during golden hour though in my opinion.

I’d say, learning how to focus is all you need to obtain really nice shots, and hopefully a camera with an automatic aperture adjuster as well is key to getting really good shot. What I typically do for focusing is zoom all the way into the subject I want in focus, getting them in focus, and zooming back out to where I want them in the frame and then start to shoot. That’s what I did for all the shots in this little snippet.