- Hey guys!
This month my challenge is about making awesome videos
for YouTube.
So let's get into it!
I've been watching YouTube videos for a really long time
and I've always been impressed by some YouTubers
that just produce amazing videos.
They tell amazing stories, they shoot amazing shots,
they edit them beautifully and that's my challenge
for this month.
Just learn some of the techniques and skills
that these YouTubers use and even recreate some
of the famous shots that I've seen across YouTube.
I'm gonna be dividing the challenge into three parts
of moviemaking, which is
number one, story, number two, cinematography
and number three, editing.
Alright, let's get into it.
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- Just like beginning, middle and end.
What do you wanna start with?
- Yup.
So this is Dave and he runs a really successful
film creation company called Angry Chair in Melbourne
and he's gonna serve as one of my gurus or mentors
for the month in teaching me all about film.
And so our first part of the challenge was to think about
story and actually creating a storyboard or a mood board
to figure out what type of content do we want to pull
for this video.
So we put on our brainstorming hats
and started putting together a vision for the video.
So let's get into what I learned
about what makes a great story.
Story, what are the keys to making a story great?
Why does one movie keep your eyes gripped to the screen
and then the other is just boring and you can't focus?
I've done some research on what makes a great story
and here are some of the key elements that I've found.
Conflict, when I think about story one of the biggest things
that comes up and what makes it good is conflict.
That's a struggle between two opposing forces.
It can be internal with yourself or external
and there's a lot of examples from famous movies
and TV shows and just all types of content.
Whether it's external content like the sharks in Jaws
or maybe it's the fight between two core characters
like Buzz and Woody in Toy Story.
Or it even could be separated lovers with differing views
like in The Notebook.
And in my video, too, like when I learned skateboarding
and then I fell and had to deal with that conflict of
the fear of falling and getting back up on a skateboard.
I think conflict is just a really interesting thing to
draw people into the story and make them curious to see
what happens.
Another really important part to a story is stakes.
When you go all in in a game of poker the stakes are high
and you care a lot more on the outcome of that hand.
And it's the same with movies and stories.
Like, why should we care about this story?
In Finding Nemo for example when a clownfish loses his son
and then must travel the ocean to find him.
What are the stakes, why do we care?
And it turns out that that clownfish lost his wife
and 400 of his babies to a barracuda attack,
so Nemo is his only son.
Sympathetic characters.
Another really important thing in stories
is making characters that are likeable or humanised.
If you're watching a movie or a TV show
or a YouTube channel, it's really important
that you actually like the people that you're watching.
It's even true for characters that
aren't that necessarily likeable like Jordan Belfort
in Wolf of Wall Street.
By showing Jordan's vulnerabilities,
we can end up sympathising for a disgustingly wealthy
philandering cocaine-snorting person like Jordan Belfort.
So these are some of the key components that I've learned
about stories that make a story really captivating
for the viewer.
So for part two of my challenge, I'm gonna be focusing
on cinematography and going to be recreating some of
my favourite shots that I've seen from other YouTubers.
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So in particular, I'm gonna be looking at YouTubers
like Casey Neistat and Sam Carter and replicating some of my
favourite scenes that I've seen them produce.
So let's get into it, whoo!
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So part three of the challenge is all about editing.
Good editing is the difference between boring video
and really exciting video.
So for my editing challenge I'm gonna be learning
from a fantastic editor
all about some of the really important techniques of editing
to make your video look better,
from colour grading to fancy cut techniques
and other really cool techniques
just to make your video really pop.
But I won't be learning visual effects because
I make documentary style films and it's not really relevant
for the type of films (exploding)
that I create.
So let's get into it!
- In terms of editing-wise, no, I would if anything
the music feels a little loud.
- [Max] So this is Dave and he also works at Angry Chair
and he's their Master Editor.
And we went over some of the footage that I filmed
in past YouTube challenges to review some things
that a great editor can see, whether it's colour correction
or positioning and other different strategies.
And I also learned a lot of cool tips that you've seen
across this entire video,
as well as one that's coming up.
So that brings me to the end of this challenge, but I've got
one more thing in store for you so keep watching.
I actually only had 10 days for this challenge
because I spent my first 20 days travelling
so it was a little bit rushed to learn a lot.
My challenge next month is to build a business
that makes $1,000 a month.
So definitely hit the subscribe button to keep up to date
with that one if you wanna watch.
And as always, happy learning.
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