How to make a video look like a movie?

I looked at some you tube videos with tips on how to make a digital quality video look more like a movie, and this video with some useful advise and techniques. I found out that shooting in 24 fps is one of the best ways to bring a "movie like" look to the footage of our project. This is because traditionally most of the very first, top hollywood productions were filmed in 24 fps (because this was the speed film tapes were working at.). The frame rate speed of 24 fps was firstly used in 1920's because it allowed for the best synchronised sound quality at the slowest speed possible. Over the time the audience worldwide got used to the 24 fps quality in the movies, and this is how hollywood left it until now. A video recorded at 24 fps will look more like a movie (in the end), simply because this quality of a movie is more familiar to our eyes.  Even though modern HD cameras can shoot at a "better quality" of 25 fps up to 30 fps, most of the movies today are still shot in 24fps using modern HD cameras.  There are exceptions, however the audience always notices the difference, and makes such movies filmed in a higher frame rate look a bit different and strange to their eyes. Another reason why Movie Distributors use 24 fps frame rate is because its the slowest possible, the faster the frame rate the more tape has to be used, and more money has to be spent ( and the tape is expensive). Using a slower frame rate of 24 fps saves them money, and the motion in the film is still nice and fluid for the eyes.



I looked through you tube to look for some tips on how to professionally light a scene. I found a video on you tube, with some interesting tips and tricks on how to light your scene without spending much money on professional lamps/ lights and gadgets.There are a couple of other important factors which have to be taken into account if a video footage is to be made into a movie. Lighting, camera lenses, using techniques such as depth of field. Lighting is one of the most important. Just by lighting a scene in particular way can change the atmosphere of that scene totally. Lighting the character, the background, the room in the scene from particular angles, with different intensity and colours of light, can alter the way the scene is perceived by audience completely and make it look way more professional and "movie like".