Want to challenge the filmmakers who spend millions of dollars on their films, yet, still have the nerve to call themselves indie? Pick up a 35mm adapter or build one yourself and you can give your movies that "film look" and start being taken more seriously.

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Steve: Hello everyone and welcome to four minute film school. You may be wondering why is today’s episode look so crazy and awesome. The answer is simple, our friends over at vimeo has led us a 35 millimeter adapter. What does that mean? Watch the episode to find out. Just embark the 35 millimeter to shoot some promos and got this pretty extensively and Jared was well born with knowledge on how to use the 35 millimeter adapter. So let us get into asking them some questions. Jared, what does a 35 millimeter adapter do and why should I use one? Jared: What a 35 millimeter adapter does is it allows you to use prime lenses. Lenses that have apertures so that you can open up wide to achieve gigantic or really tight dept to field. Male: Take one step to make you moving like a real movie. Steve: What kind of cameras can I put a 35 millimeter adapter on to? Male: Apparently you can use any kind of camera like someone took a red rock and used it on a exactly Steve: Now further there is different brands of redrock, letus, which one should I go for? Jared: Redrock or letus I mean they are both great it is a matter of pretty much what can you afford. Steve: And you can build them yourself right? Male: Apparently you can. Steve: After hearing that the fact that purchasing a 35 millimeter adapter is going to cost money former member of deadfish productions said buy things (inaudible)well it is possible to build your own 35 millimeter adapter but unless you have all the parts already it is going to run you about $200. the former member CPO studios made a thread about a DIY 35 millimeter adapter that he built and if you look all over the web on youtube there are tons of tutorials for builds. [Promotional Gap] Now, how does using a 35 millimeter adapter change how I should light my scenes. Male: Well, to me that Jared said is that basically if you are going for a full film if you are going to have this some kind of gear then you really should go all out and have all the lights, have all the gels, take the time to set it up- because really so much about what makes a movie look a movie is the lighting so this is just another edition that you can have great lighting and no lens and it could look amazing or you can have a lens and no lighting and it will just look okay. the combination of both those things is what makes it look awesome. Jared: What are the things that you can do to manipulate the image is add more light but notice that now Steve is a little bit over exposed. So, we are going to choke down aperture until it looks about right. But now the background is way too dark. Also notice that we have also increased the dept to field one of the ways to get around all these stuff is add a backlight. Now going back to the over exposed thing, one of the things you want to do is maintain that shallow dept to field you can just increase the shutter speed. Steve: Now, if someone can afford a 35 millimeter adapter and too lazy to build themselves, what can they do to create dept to field without a 35 millimeter adapter. Male: If you simply zoom in on your subject and you have your iris pretty well open you are going to get that shallower dept to field just by the way the camera works. I do not know exactly how that is I just know when I zoom in it gives me more option just as far as where I want to focus. Steve: Okay everybody that will wrap up today’s episode. What did you think of the 35 millimeter adapter? Let us know in the comment section below, and if you have ever shot a 35 millimeter adapter show us some of your footage. We would love to put it in the next week’s episode. So until then I am your host Steve Nelson and this has been another episode of four minute film school. See you. [Music Playing]