So you want to make your videos look more cinematic?
Today we're going to be looking at my favorite way to get that cinematic feel in your footage
So camera movement. Why should you care about it?
And why should you consider it in making your footage look more cinematic?
Well camera movement has a lot more of an impact in videos than you would really imagine
Say you're watching one of your favorite films or TV shows
More often than not when the camera is moving you probably don't even notice it
And that's because you're paying attention to the thing that's going on in the scene that the actors or the actual performance
Camera Movement in Hollywood has a very very strategic place
It can really make a big impact on the audience, so if we want to make our footage look more cinematic
We should be doing the things that are being done up on that big screen
So the biggest issue that I see a lot of people encountering when they're trying to make their videos
more cinematic is they're either not moving the camera at all or they're just sort of picking up the camera and
Pressing the record button, and then just kind of pointing it, just this eye level perspective the problem with footage like that
Is it really has no purpose and it really doesn't do anything to make your footage look any more cinematic
Now that's not to say that handheld footage and locked off tripod shots don't have their place
But you'd be really surprised how much just moving the camera more strategically can make your videos have that more cinematic style
Okay, so now we understand why camera movement is important and why you should be implementing it
But how do we accomplish it. So the types of camera movement used in cinema are often things like sliders
sort of side to side shots
Pushes and pulls which are usually also done on a slider sort of forward and backward movement
Then there's those crane and jib shots to get that up and down swooping movement
And then all sorts of stuff sort of in-between that. The beauty of every single one of those movements is that we can pretty much
accomplish all of them with just our hands
You guys constantly ask me like what stabilizer are you using. Do you have a three axis gimbal, do you have a Ronin?
No, the only time I'll really use something to stabilize my footage other than just my hands on the camera is something like the gorilla pod
Which I use for vlogging, but I really don't actually that much because it's just kind of bulky
There's certain sort of little tips and kind of hacks that you can use
while shooting handheld to sort of accentuate that camera movement it really doesn't take that much actual physical movement to
create Movement inside of the camera
You can sort of create the illusion of more movement than there really is
Ssing objects in front of the lens to sort of slide past or push or pull away from
can all sort of create the sense of movement even though you may only be moving the camera matter of
12 inchesin front of you more often than not when I'm shooting my cinematic sequences. I'm not even really walking with the camera
I'm usually just sort of leaning forward and back with the camera or just pushing the camera out from my body or sliding
Side-to-side there really isn't a whole lot of physical movement that's happening there
Using that technique because you don't have to physically move that much you're generally able to have more contact with the camera and create that smooth
Movement. Which is really really critical and important when using camera movement in general the biggest thing
You should avoid is Shaky footage. Camera movement is great, but if it's Shaky camera movement.. UGH
Okay, I do have to add a little disclaimer to that because Shaky sort of camera movement does in some cases
have a use in sort of cinematic shooting if it's an
action scene with just tons of movement and lots of AHH
You're trying to cause a lot of action then sometimes that Shaky look can actually have a place
the Beauty of camera Movement
And why it is my personal favorite way to make something have a higher production feel more cinematic feel is that there's really no
Right or wrong way to do it
But the best thing about adding camera movement into your videos is that it's free you really don't need all that fancy equipment to create
Some high production cinematic feel in your videos. I mean just
Go out and try it seriously
It's this really cool thing that you can use in so many different ways so many different styles and your videos you can use
Music to influence the way the camera moves you can just do so much with it to add
To that cinematic feel in your videos if you guys aren't using camera Movement
You're filming in that sort of eye-level perspective that I talked about earlier
I urge you to get out and start trying use it try and get it to flow into your videos and
Once you can sort of accomplish getting those smooth camera movements even handheld you're one step closer to creating just
amazing cinematic films, and I want to see those films, so
Every once in a while. I'm doing live streams here on Youtube where I'm going to be
Basically live watching people's videos. I'm not sure exactly what I'm going to schedule those but if you haven't been in them already
It's been a super super fun and engaging time tons and tons of you guys have been coming in
watching the video and
The coolest thing is that I'm getting people coming in who have bought my lut packs or my presets and we're watching
The work that they've created with those which is like. Oh, it's mind-blowing. It's super cool and everybody just reacts to it
It's a really fun time. It's a really cool community everybody gives very positive feedback
I urge you to stay on the lookout for the live streams. You should and turn on the notifications. You'll get an email or
Notification on your phone also speaking of that I released a new limited edition
Summertime lut pack this one is featuring three new luts. Which have actually been used in today's videos
So definitely go check that out wings going to be down in the description, but with that being said guys
I'm gonna go ahead and end the video here. Thank you so much for tuning in and watching the camera Movement tutorial today
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I'll see you in the next video