I love shooting motion pictures on small gauge film, and I’m also starting to love shooting video with GoPros. Just like a Super 8 camera, the GoPro is tiny and portable with just a few buttons. It doesn’t have a viewfinder, but if you point it in the general direction of your subject, you’ll get your shot. Unlike most Super 8 cameras, the GoPro has a very wide angle lens, but it’s actually a cool look and makes handheld shooting and movement a lot less shaky.
One of the downsides of shooting with a GoPro is that the footage often comes out looking a little muddy, but now that the 2015 version of Premiere Pro CC has a whole line of useful color correcting LUTs, fixing this problem is a piece of cake. It’s also pretty fun. Here’s some GoPro footage I graded to look like black and white film.
My boss saw this video recently and asked if I could make a tutorial about my process for Fotodiox. Here’s what I came up with.
For a couple of years now, I’ve been considering shooting an entire feature film on a GoPro. With these new tools at my disposal, that seems a lot more doable now.