Welcome to FlickTips -- your complete guide to making high-quality low-res movies. "Digital Flicks".
If you've just set up your iMac or even if you've been editing online for years, there should be something here for you.
You should start thinking about what kinds of stories can best be told entirely with still images or in close-up.
One day, small image size, low frame rate, and even compression artifacts will be considered retro, employed only to enhance a movie's texture the same way Super 8 and Pixelvision are a part of today's underground film style. Until that day comes, you should know how to make your digital flicks look and sound as crisp and clear as possible.
There is only one rule: The smaller the file, the less time it takes to download off the Internet.
File size has everything and nothing to do with the length of a movie. Whether the movie is a few seconds or 40 minutes, it can fill the same amount of disk space.
The more stuff going on at any one time, the larger the file. That goes for movement, for complexity of image, for the number of colors, you name it...
The links above cover all the basics.
The secret to making digital flicks is recognizing that the small image size, low frame rate, and pixelated artifacts are "generative constraints", rigid boundaries that evoke creative workarounds, like the restrictions a poet faces when composing a sonnet or haiku.
The constraints of web video should entice filmmakers to create new movies for a new medium. It's time digital flicks come of age.
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