Here are 6 things that instantly make your videos look amateur (and yes… I’ve been guilty of all of them): 1. Relying on LUTs to fix bad footage. If your lighting and exposure are trash, no LUT on Earth is saving you. 2. Shooting everything at f/1.2 just to “look cinematic.” If the subject is swimming in and out of focus, it’s not cinematic… it’s chaos. 3. Overshooting instead of directing. More footage doesn’t mean better footage. Say what you need. Control the scene. 4. Thinking slow motion =