Making my GL2 video look like film

So im just got out of film school and have been using a panasonic dvx100 and thats what we were teched on. But I own a canon gl2 and I am wondering how I can make it look like film, i.e how do i set my recording to 24fps and also do i need to shoot in the 16:9 ascept ratio? Could someone tell me how to set up my camera to look like film.

24p?

Based upon the comments in http://www.camcorderinfo.com/content/canon_gl2_camcorder_review.htm
you DON'T...

The closest would appear to be to turn on "Frame" mode -- which may be a 30p equivalent, and then to play with the limited features of the "Custom Preset" menu to adjust color/brightness settings (very limited compared to those of the XH A1)

So im just got out of film school and have been using a panasonic dvx100 and thats what we were teched on. But I own a canon gl2 and I am wondering how I can make it look like film, i.e how do i set my recording to 24fps and also do i need to shoot in the 16:9 ascept ratio? Could someone tell me how to set up my camera to look like film.

It's better to shoot in a 16:9 aspect ratio, as well as adjusting the manual controls. the camera itself doesn't have a 24fps setting, but I think if you buy canons DTE recorder to perform tape less recording one of its settings is Quicktime 24p, with the DTE recorder you also have a wide range of recording formats such as "Raw Dv, AVI type 1 and 2(for adobe premier AVI type 2 24p, Matrox AVI, Canopus AVI, and then Quicktime, and Quicktime 24p)" so i can only assume that it records the footage at 24fps progressive in the Quicktime 24p format. another thing that would be a good thing to make your footage look more like film would be buying a 35mm lens adapter for it. From what i'm hearing and reading from forums other then this one Nikon lenses are the best way to go with a 35mm lens. Well i hope that this was of help to you.

-DMP_Gurt

This post is not aimed at anyone who has posted above, but I wanted to have it here for readers of this thread.

When professionals make lists of factors that contribute to the film look, frame rate is actually low on the list. At or near the top are things like lighting, framing, diffusion filters, camera movement and depth of field. That's good news for people who want to learn the craft, and bad news for people who hope that technology will substitute for creativity. A lot has been written about the film look which can be found with a google search.

Also good news for codynanney is that the GL2 has been used to make hundreds of indy films. You used to be able to list them at IMDB.com but I'm not sure that you still can. The Sony VX2100, considered by many to be a superior video camera to the GL2, has only be used for a handful of films.

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Fred

The Canon GL-2 is a great camera. I'm with fred though. See if this helps http://dvcreators.net/seven-secrets-of-shooting-video-to-look-like-film-intro/

Another little way to help get a "film look", or at least subdue the "video look" is to kill the contrast a bit. Just create a pure white bitmap in Paint or something similar and lay it over your video with maybe a 12-15% opacity. It lightens the darks a bit and brings out some more detail without blowing out the bright areas. Doing this instead of simply tweaking the actual contrast settings will preserve the image quality and not give it that "digitally processed" look.