Direction Unit - Film Settings

During pre-production, something that came into my mind was changing the settings for my film. For the resolution I stayed of course with 1920x1080 HD, but I decided to change the fps (Frames Per Second) for my film. As a standard, here in the UK and Europe (PAL), the normal setting is usually 25fps. Different than America and other countries in the world (NTSC), the normal setting is usually 30fps. For my film I decided to shoot in 50fps, which was a tough decision to make. Originally I was afraid of doing that, since I wasn't sure it was going to come out the way I wanted to. 

I got inspired by Peter Jackson, director of the Hobbit and all Lord of The Rings trilogy, who shot his movies in 48fps, which is known as High Frame Rate. He is the only person so far on doing that in the cinema industry. 

The film was hard to edit, since my computer can't take the playback of clips with 50fps in real time. I had to create something proxy media, which allows you to edit your clips in less resolution, but to export it in the original one. I didn't see the outcome of the 50fps until I exported my final video, which made me very pleased. 

Sadly Youtube and Vimeo have a rule that don't allow any video that has more than 30fps to be uploaded, so they automatically convert it in 30fps, which won't allow people to see all the work I did to make it look right.