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this video is going to be about how you can use stock footage to your advantage
to sort of increase the storytelling or the depth
of any any project that you might be doing but in particular
an ad like this one
okay so pretty much the whole of that video that you've just seen was created
using stock video so all of the clips in that video except
for the last clip of the watch which is the hero shot at
the end which was created by myself and i'll put a bts as to how
that was done as well but all of those shots
were from a stock footage library so you might already be using stock footage
within your video projects and if so that is super awesome
however if you haven't actually thought about the possibility or thought about
this before maybe this will just help you to say you
know what that is an option and i can use this and i'm going to give
you some advantages and disadvantages of using stock footage now there are plenty
of places where you can find stock footage
to use within your video there might be some free sites
there will be subscription paid sites there may be other specialist sites
where you would license a particular bit of footage for
you for your product but there's various different places
which i'm not really going to go into today but the one that i
use is envato elements and i've mentioned this
many times on here before and i'm absolutely not sponsored by them
however i do have an affiliate link if you ever wanted to
try them out or try their products but i used
this specific library because it just doesn't have
stock footage you've got um photos you've got other assets
you've got sound clips sound bytes sound effects
you've got music and you've got a little bit of everything and that is why i
like that particular library so all of the clips that was used in this video
is from Envato elements so there are a few advantages of using
stock video one of those being it saves time and it saves budget
so it saves time you don't have to actually go out there and shoot the
footage yourself and obviously you know as you would know
the budget would definitely be going up if you had to go out
and shoot this this footage secondly it is
instantly available once you've got an internet connection you can download
that footage and have it in your project in a matter of
minutes and you can go ahead and start to edit that another
advantage is that you can try before you buy so if you have a project in your
head that you're thinking oh i want to execute this
um you have a rough idea of what you want you can go and you can search
for this footage you can put it in your project as a matter of fact you can even
send your client an example and so instead of
even sending your client a storyboard or shot list you can
actually send them a mock-up if you have the time to do
this of how the project would look and that would
absolutely give them a better idea of what it is that you
are trying to achieve obviously there are downsides to using
stock footage that is available on the internet in that it is not
exclusive and it will not be exclusive to yourself or to the project that
you're going to use it for you might find that you may have
seen this bit of footage in someone else's video before
or you might see it in the future so that's just one thing
to bear in mind but let's be honest man especially in times like this where
you're restricted from going certain places for example if you
are an aspiring travel videographer then you can then get footage like that
is you know travel based and that kind of thing and you can learn to edit you
can learn you can practice your edits practice
your projects like that and at no cost or expense to yourself except for
if you have to pay for the subscription for the library or or something like
that okay so here's a couple of clips when
you're going about trying to find your ideal or your bit of footage
to put in your project oftentimes when creators upload clips to these sites
they don't just upload one clip they usually have multiple clips within
the same environment but in the same sort of
story scenario in which they were shooting so if you can get your hands on
that for example in this video that i shot the clip where there's the lady in
the red dress in the desert there were about 10 different clips of
different angles you know different focal lengths
and that kind of thing where she is in the desert and that
actually helped to make the story a lot more coherent and i'm not sure if
you could tell either but there are a couple of clips
in there that were not from that specific set for example the
picture of the time lapse with the clouds that was from a
tour that was totally unrelated also the clip where he had the close-up
of the feet walking in the sand that is a totally unrelated eclipse but
my point is that you can search and find clips that would work together the
only other thing now that you have to consider when you bring them into your
project is trying to make them look the same
because they will be shot on multiple different cameras
and you know different settings different white balances and that kind
of thing so your job when you bring it into
post-production is to make sure that you do your color correction and
you make it look as close as possible and as promised i'm going to
show you a behind-the-scenes clip of the final shot in that video where
we're pushing in towards the product pushing in towards the watch
just inside a valley of sand and this was made possible by my newest lens
which is the probe lens um this is the first time that i've used
it as well so i can't really give you a review as yet
but it's gonna be awesome i know there's gonna be i'm gonna be
creating a lot of good stuff for this one thing i'm going to tell you off the
bat though is that it is a light hungry this lens is from f14 to f40 i think
and it requires a lot of light so that is something to consider as well
if you are thinking about getting this lens but
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