Ahoj! This is
Zdenka. I'm filming commercial today in a
studio
on a black background. I am setting up and I'm
gonna take you with me on a journey. I'm
gonna show you how I am doing it,
behind the scenes. How to set it up, how
to edit it.
How to create this wonderful little
commercial. And for the new faces, welcome.
My name is Zdenka Darula. If you want to
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consider subscribing. A lot of you are
asking
how I have my black background attached
to the wall. So
let me take you up. When you look at it,
it's pretty much a
simple hook which is attached to the
wall, directly mounted.
So I can just take it off and put it
back on. I bought it somewhere online, I'm
gonna try to find it and link it below.
It's just hook mounted to the wall.
That's it.
New shiny plexiglas. Well, this is gonna
be a real
challenge because it's very tiny.
I wish I had double the size. And I would
use my
old one which is this one but it's
scratched,
it's done. Well, I'm almost set up there
but the product is missing. Let's go get
it.
Yeah, I know it's empty.
Okay, we were celebrating this past
weekend
50th birthday. Not mine, not mine.
Somebody else in our house.
My husband was 50 and
I helped them to celebrate.
Actually they helped me to celebrate. I'm
going to fill it up with something to
make it
look full. I guess you're wondering what
it is. Well, it's a gift box
and inside is this
fairly strong drink from Slovakia. It's
from plums
and yeah it came with two little
glasses, so I'm gonna put it all back in.
I'm ready to shoot. Let's quickly review
the setup. So I'm just using regular
table. On the table I have a black paper
background.
If you want your background to be really
black you need to make sure the
background goes
far enough in the back. It doesn't go up
like here at the end of the table
because then the light would be
catching up the wall. It will be lighter
here, the black background will be
lighter.
On the table I also have plexiglas.
Product is sitting on it. My main light is
the Aperture
120DII and I also have a light dome
2 on it. Soft box with the grit to make
sure that
the light is very directional and very
soft. So for the first shot which will be
the establishing shot I have
the gift sitting on a table. I had to add
another light which is the RGB
Falcon F7 light. The other light which is
shining on this part.
This was too dark. The head light was only
covering
the one half and I need extra light here.
So that's why I decided to put it
overhead.
Then camera I'm using is Sony A7SIII and
the lens
is 28 to 75 millimeters f
2.8. I have it set up on a slider which
is Moza
Slipod E and I'm going to be slowly
coming
towards the object.
So now I'm filming at 60 frames per
second and the next shot is just gonna
be following the line here
on the side of the box.
I might be doing the whole thing. I'm
gonna stop in the middle. That's when the
next shot will be. Opening
the gift box.
What I forgot to mention is for the side
shot I already changed the lens
to 17 to 28 millimeters and
I was using it quite wide. I believe on
24 millimeters. Right now
I'm still shooting at these 17 to 28
millimeters because
I want to get a close-up shot of the
buckle. I just need a hand to open
the gift box and as I'm filming by
myself, don't have a model, I need to kind
of do that on my own.
Well, I'm finished with the first part of
the commercial
and now it's a time when I need to bring
in
all the details, so I need to do shots of
the bottle, I need to do shots of the
glasses,
some water, plums. Well, I ran into
problems with those,
with plums. Here in Canada you can buy
any fruit you want
usually throughout the year. It's not a
problem. I went through five stores
yesterday and I couldn't find
the real beautiful plums so
luckily this morning I realized that I
have some shots from my
Dad's backyard. The plums on a tree.
I took it just with uh my Android a few
years ago.
The video is quite decent so I can use
it in the commercial. So I dig it out. I
have it actually. I have a few clips so
I'm gonna definitely use it.
This year is all about being very bold
and
colorful so since I'm shooting these
items on a black background, it's not
very colorful. So my plan is to bring in
like I said the plums into the shots.
I want to bring in some color on a
bottle. So I'm gonna light it
differently and also the splashes and
some bold writing.
It's gonna be a short commercial but it
should be bold, so
let's move on to the other shots, but
first I need to grab
something which arrived yesterday. This
item. It is
fully charged, ready to go. I needed this
for so long.
It's a spinner, it basically will spin in
the same speed. You can adjust different
speeds, you can adjust the
direction and also can handle a lot of
weight. I purchased it
two days ago on the Amazon. Yesterday it
came. I needed this for so long. I'm
finally happy I have it. By the way,
everything I'm going to be using today
is listed below the video so you don't
need to ask me in the comment section
what it is, where I bought it.
It's all listed there.
So right now I switched to the um
different lens again. So it's 28 to 75
millimeters and I have it all the way on
75
to get as close as possible also because
I don't want to see
the spinner underneath the glass because
we are in lockdown. I don't really have a
chance to go
buy blackboard. Normally I would put a
blackboard under the
the glass so the whole thing is spinning.
Because I don't even have a black paper,
nothing available right now, that's what
I gotta do. So I'm gonna
work around it. I'm going to be using
also this little light
to create some light streaks there.
What I did at this point, I turn off the
headlight because I
really didn't like the reflection in a
glass
of the grid. So I'm just using the RGB
lights. One is here from the back,
the other one is on the other side also
from the back which will eliminate the
glass, make it
very sharp looking. Everything will be
black and I'm not getting any
reflections
in a glass. I'm going to be using third
light most likely from the top to make
sure that
the front of the glass is lit up
properly.
I want to see the light on the um
graphics there so that should be working.
Let's try.
Few things could give away that there's
actually water inside.
One of them is the actual plum because
when you get that drink,
it's, the plum is at the bottom, it's not
floating on the top like that. So
what I'm going to do to create even
movement
inside of the bottle, to make it more
interesting, I will simply
let the plum come to the top
get it ready... go to the top and then
once I am ready to shoot, I'm gonna sit
it this way and that way there will be a
movement
inside of the bottle. With the whole
bottle spinning the plum will be flying
up and down so it's gonna look like
actual motion and that should camouflage
that there is actually a water inside.
Next thing, I'm gonna do, well obviously
when you drink Slivovica, you don't
have it chilled. You can have it in a
room temperature. But again for
commercials, this is quite common that
you spray
the bottles with the water so it looks
more nicer and there's water drops and
all that.
So that's exactly what I'm planning on
doing. I just brought a spray bottle,
I'm gonna spray it, shake it, put it down
and
let that spin, that should create a lot
of motion
hopefully. Well, the scene has changed one
more time again because like I said, I
want it
bold and colorful. I'll place the bottle in
the middle there.
I put two lights here, colorful lights on
the sides.
One is kind of like a purplish blue and
the other one
is more pinkish
purple because those are the colors from
the case and those are the colors from
the plum. Like I said, I'm gonna spray the
bottle, I'm gonna shake it a bit and with
my camera I'm gonna be going up and down.
First I'm gonna be zooming in on the
details, then I'm gonna make
the whole shot of the whole bottle.
Hopefully the plum will go up and
down at the bottom. We'll see. Let's get
some
movement going on here
So
what I'm going to do, I'm going to hold
the bottles in my hands
and actually shake it in all kinds of
directions so my hands are not in a shot.
Moving on to another shot. I'm going to
be pouring the water into the glasses.
Again I had to shut off the
main soft box because I didn't like the
reflection so I'm back to
just two lights one from that side and
the other one from this side.
Very simple shot just pouring the water
through glasses
And as you just saw, that was the whole
product, the whole shot
arrangement. I did it once just with the
regular lights
because I wasn't sure if I just want the
regular lights or if I want the color so
I did one with regular lights and one
with the colors. Now, I'm gonna move on to
playing a little bit with water and
splashes.
Okay, last set for today. Changing
everything
again. I found paper in the house which
we have
actually complementary to the colors.
Right here. I'm gonna place it on a table
on top. I'm gonna put this container
clear container filled up with the water.
I'm gonna be throwing some ice in it
and maybe dip the bottle in it. I'll play
a little bit just to get some motion of
the water.
Yeah and that will be all and then we'll
start
editing the whole thing. OK so here I
just need some shots of the water
movement, so actually I'm gonna do it with
my hands
to get the water moving around.
I added a blue light to get the effect.
So I'm just gonna go for it.
The only thing I'm finding on the Sony
A7S iii is
that when I do the manual focus,
sometimes it doesn't stay. I have to
re-adjust quite often so...
interesting finding. All right,
all finished here in the studio. I have
all the assets. It's time to move to the
computer
and edit the commercial.
I'll see you there. I'll show you how it
was done.
As you just saw, it was a very easy, very
simple commercial.
There were no transitions, very
straight forward.
Majority of the clips I filmed in 60
frames per second. I think about two
clips were done at 24 frames per second
but everything else was at 60 frames per
second
because I have the flexibility to slow
it down in the post if I want to.
What made the whole thing was the way
the clips were cut together. The
selection of the clips and obviously
also sound effects and music. Music and
sound effects I use from Epidemic Sound.
By the way,
if you are still looking for music for
your videos and sound effects,
the link can be found below the video.
The first month is free.
So let's go on a timeline and see how it
was done. As you can see the timeline is
a very
simple. It's just a whole bunch of clips
cut together,
very short cuts. Now, whenever I had a
static
shot like this one for example, I made
sure I'm
zooming in on the clip so it's not just
a static
shot. So something is happening, so I
just zoomed in a bit.
So let me see that here.
One little thing I had to camouflage in
this shot
was actually the shot of the shot glass.
The reason so I'm gonna show you in a
second
because in this clip you can see the
little
reflection from the spinner and that's
what I didn't want because I didn't have
that black board under the glass.
So what I did, I took a frame, I took a
photo
from this clip, imported to Photoshop and
I flipped it
horizontally because I wanted to use
that left side on the right side
where it's perfectly dark and what I
just simply did, I used a mask. So here is
before
and here is after. I'm going to show you
the mask which is right here.
So what I did, I just selected that
little area, covered it up
and I obviously used mask feather to
feather
the edges out a little bit. So that way
you don't see
the spinner underneath. If I'm gonna move
on then there's just
again repeated shots. Very simple
timeline. I added some sound effects of
the water when
we are cheering with the glasses.
I uh did that actually in a closet. I
just grabbed those little
glasses and I clicked few times and that
was the sound I was using. And then
obviously each clip was color graded.
I didn't do many changes there. I really
just added a lot more saturation, I
increased the contrast. I added more
shadows to make it very punchy and very
colorful, added tiny bit more magenta,
went a little bit to the blue
just to make it very very colorful and
very bold.
Well, I hope you found this video
informative, maybe you learned something
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future videos. More filming videos
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And if you have any questions, comments
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using, all the information is listed
below the video in the video description
for those
interested and I'll see my friends in
the next video.
Cau... Ahoj.....