Hi everyone! today, I'm gonna give you the behind the scenes of my most recent video
many of you asked for it
fortunately for fun we recorded a few footages when we were shooting the video
and other additional content that you might be interested to watch
Lita: This is it, dude!
*look suspicious*
Srod: How it looks? Daniel: Yes, This is it
let me show you the process and what I used in this particular one, I hope you enjoy it!
Most of you know me as a guitarist or audio technician
but one of my jobs is about using these technologies. I mean, cameras related in particular
I've been doing professional food photography, videos for restaurants, commercial and so much more
but I feel like a geek when I talk about these equipments (or how I call it "Job toys")
and this might be helpful for you either if you are a musician
who wants to record a video clip or even you're learning about filmmaking for hobby
first of all I'm gonna show you one of my recent discoveries
a tool that a friend of mine from The Factory Inc. (here in Panama)
the very same guy who shoot the video. He lent me this tool here
I'm talking about a Zhiyun Crane 3 Axis gimbal (version 2)
in order to test it by myself, I instantly fell in love with it.
We used this Crane here in every shot with movements…
and yes guys, movement is the key of making a video more attractive
I know I know, framing is even more important but if you add movement to it
makes a shot glorious (most of the time),
especially for those "action" shots when the beat of the song is really hard and heavy
but please, be moderate ok?, sometimes the viewer needs some rest.
Ok, now that we know that movement is important, we need to be steady
movements are cool, but if you do it handheld is going to be a disaster most of the time
even if the lens and/or body of the camera has the stabilization on
and that's when these tools shine!
it's like having a chicken steady cam
if you don't understand the joke, watch this…
The Zhiyun Crane is really easy to use
the setup is pretty straight forward
batteries here, then handle, place the camera on this plate here
then balance the gimbal
today I'm not going to tell you every detail but believe me is really easy to use
another cool feature of this gimbal is that you can control the tilt or pan
with your smartphone and that's really awesome!
a full charge of the batteries can last you around 6 hours (something like that) and that's a lot
this gimbal can support up to 1.8 kilograms, I think
it can support a great variety of DSLR and Mirroless cameras with variety of lenses (like this Canon 5D Mark III here)
that it's pretty heavy, by the way
but if you're going to run with this thing make sure to use light weight lens
by the way, it has a really cool selfie mode
if you click 3 times you enter in that selfie mode
Look at this!
so awesome..
it has other 2 modes but let's talk about that later, ok?
It's really solid.
Of course, we also used a really cool Manfrotto tripod with a fluid head
which is not expensive at all for those smooth pans and tilts
or just for those single shots without movements.
Now let's talk about the ambience and the lighting in this particular video
even though we were in a really small location we wanted to feel that we were in front of a big fireplace
or only using candle lights, but to use that light only you would need A LOT of those candles
and that's my friends is a bit dangerous inside a place like this and expensive too
we used only 5 black candles (around $2 each)
but obviously it's for creating the effect that in front of me there is natural fire lighting as a key light
for that we used an old practical effect:
we bounced LED light onto a gold reflector
why? because that light is not "static", right?
so Lita was moving the reflector simulating the light of the fire and it was so funny
because you know, it's a 7 and half minutes long track she had to move it all the time
anyway not only makes you feel that you're inside a holy place
like the Great Sept of Baelor
I know , we could have in this video some fake wildfire as well but come on!
If you don't have enough budget, it could be a disaster
I placed some digital wildfire at the very end of the video
just like that big explosion using a Final Cut transition FX I downloaded on Pixel Film Studios
and change the color of the fire to make it green.
Another light we used here was the one behind me you can call it "hair light" or back light"
the purpose of this light is separate the subject from the background
providing definition and highlights around the subject's outlines and hair
Not fill light added this time to be as darkest as possible with shadows in one of my sides of the face
There are several reasons why we placed a black background in the video
and one of the them besides the candles look cooler is because Alina is in Germany and I'm in Panama
so having a black background makes you feel we are in the same place
and it was easier for me to match the colors in the edit even when we shot with different cameras
and different lightning situation, actually She used Canon camera I used Sony camera for video
and they have different interpretation of the colors
Let's talk about now the camera bodies we used here in this video
mainly we used a Sony a7s II, we used a Sony a6500 for, behind the scenes
most of the time it is my main camera though
and the marvelous and trustworthy Canon 5D Mark III for photography
You know, for those cover pictures
One of the key of making a video look artistic is to make use of your surroundings
despite of the plain black background we had candles
and one trick to everything look good in the framing is shooting through something
this time, through the flame of the candles and that bokeh guys… is beautiful!
You may ask how we achieved that beautiful bokeh in certain shots
that's a macro lens at its best! we used a this Canon 100mm 2.8
the very same I use for my food and product photography
I know it's not too common a macro lens (in this kind of shot) but hey!
take a look at that, we know it's hard to focus but that bokeh really worth the try.
Now, let me show you the other lens we used here in this video
one of them is the native Sony lens but most of them are Canon but
I own this one here just because it has a great autofocus for Sony cameras of course
we needed to use a Sigma converter, the MC-11 (EF mount to E mount)
I don't have it here right now because I'm using it in this camera here
The Sony a6500 with the Sigma 35mm f1.4
is one of the main lenses we used in this video
and the 100mm macro lens, this is the L version of Canon, It's perfect!
Ok now, let's talk about "monitoring"
is one of those things that people take for granted because you think the camera monitors are enough
but, believe me. Most of the time… they suck!
especially on Sony mirrorless cameras which the tiny screen is less than useful when shooting
videos in daylight condition or having a team that need to watch in real time what's going on
External monitors are really important, not only for their size but the quality itself for getting the proper exposure
checking the framing correctly or focusing properly using many features like
false colors, zebras, focus peak… and many other features that those monitors have
we didn't use one this time but the cool thing about being in your own studio
is that you can use your own computer's external monitor, believe it or not.
the very same behind me with the right HDMI cable
in order to everyone in the studio is able to watch what it's going on
we used that big computer monitor because we don't own the big monitors designed for filming
and as I told you before, we all needed to watch the video in real time *that's the reason*
we own a 7" external monitor that is perfectly designed for that,
but this time this one was completely useful
The editing process was pretty straight forward, as always, multicam comps on Final Cut X
which is really easy and fast to do if the audio is well recorded of course on the video because
this application does a really good job syncing all the clips with your main audio with a couple of clicks
one of the tricks I use to make sure the algorithm gets the audio perfectly in that sync
is playing the click of the song at least four times with the tempo of the song before starting to play
just like a clapperboard, this makes your job easier for other manual synchronizations if something happens
For color grading, I was using a plugin for Final Cut X
called Color Finale for the first time and it was pretty cool actually
Ok guys, I know there are lot of things I can explain you here in detail
like the editing process, the setting of camera, profiles of the camera
or even how I matched the shots from different cameras in different conditions
but this video could be long and boring for some people, but c'mon your feedback
will be really helpful maybe you want to know more details about this, just let me know! ok?
if you have any question about how was made this video just let me know on comments below
I will try to reply you as soon as possible and please do not hesitate to ask for more videos
like this one I'm making here. I think it's pretty fun and we can learn together here
I have an amount of equipment, techniques and tricks I can share with you guys
either video or audio, besides of course the music itself, that's obvious.
I want to thank to my old friend Daniel Coehlo from The Factory INC. here in Panama City
that helped me a lot with this video as a camera man and for his ideas as well
as always thanks to Lita Mode for being the fake-fire-maker and assistant too
she usually is the camera woman but as a fire-maker was really great
thanks to Alina Lesnik for sharing her amazing talent on this track! she was amazing as always!
I also want to thank to Ramin Djawadi for composing those amazing scores for Game Of Thrones
that I have been using since 2013 with my own arrangements…
so guys, remember to be subscribed
thanks so much for watching and see you next time! Srod out!
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