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-I feel like a DJ!
[Cinecom's Intro music]
Hey folks, Jordy here for cinecom.net and welcome to Creative Tuesday.
Kupo Grip have sent us some very interesting gear.
They are a manufacturer of all kinds of grip tools, such as clamps,
poles, light stands and a ton more.
So I thought, let's turn my living room into a movie set!
[Chill-out ambient music fades in]
We're going to create three short scenes in different genres.
We've got Horror, Action and Drama.
The horror scene had to play at night, but because the sun was shining pretty hard outside,
we had to cover up the windows.
Here we could use the Kupoles from Kupo Grip to clamp a black fabric
on the outside of the window.
If you can't clamp it outside, you could also fix it in place to the ceiling inside.
And since we're trying to cover up a 4 meters or 13 foot window,
we used a double Convi clamp on top.
We also call these a super clamp, or in this case double super clamps.
This allowed us to secure an extension Kupole in there
on which we could throw a black fabric and completely darken the living room.
[TV set background sound]
[Suspense hit]
[Horror hit]
With horror, you can make your lighting ugly.
With that I mean, having low or high angles, deep shadows and, of course, back-light.
We started off with Lorenzo sitting in front of the TV.
To mimic that we had an Aputure LED panel with a soft filter.
With the controller we dialed the brightness of the light to let it flicker a little bit.
The TV itself wouldn't give enough output, which is why we did it like this.
And this is done very often in films or series.
Then as for the background, we had some blue lighting in there
which represents the moonlight to create a night feeling.
We had another Aputure panel in the Kitchen, which we softened to give a blue fill.
But as Yannick pops into the shot, we wanna make sure that he's a silhouette
to keep it mysterious.
And that's why we added an extra backlight to the scene.
Since we don't wanna have any light stand visible in the shot,
we used a Super Viser clamp from Kupo.
You can clamp it anywhere and it comes with a standard adapter socket
on which you can attach any light.
If you're using something with cables, you can tuck that away over the ceiling,
we are using a Stella Pro, which is super small and it runs on internal batteries.
And then we took a shot from the other side.
We wanna keep the same lighting, so we're going to change it.
Makes sense, right?
Well, since I was casting shadows with the camera coming from the blue backlight,
which now was a frontal lighting, we had to move it to the side.
We also lowered it to create a hard shadow, typical for horror films.
The TV wasn't giving enough light, so that Aputure panel had to stay there.
Unfortunately, we couldn't place it anywhere without having it in the shot.
Luckily, we had these Super Viser Clamps, so I could attach one to the ceiling.
[Music]
Next up we're creating an action scene.
Here we went for the typical teal and orange look.
For the teal or blue, again we setup a moon light.
To avoid having it in the shot, we clamped a Kupole horizontal between two walls.
On there we then attached a blue colored light, which acts as a backlight.
We did the same with the tungsten light, which is a light pointed down,
and it acts as a ceiling spot.
[Rock incidental music]
[TV background sound]
[Lorenzo: -Mhm...]
The ceiling spot was nice, as it was first acting as an orange fill light,
but as Lorenzo passed it, it became a strong backlight, putting him half in the dark.
In the editing, though, we noticed that we didn't have enough shots of the scene itself.
Typical for action films is that you have a fast cutting pace.
So, what we did was adding extra cuts
and just scaled up the clip to add some extra close ups in there.
Moving on the last scene: Drama.
In here you wanna avoid having too much contrasts.
Flat and dirty lighting fits very good here.
We let back in some daylight, which has a blue color tone.
To stay in the same color spectrum we went for a slight green tone for the indoor lighting.
This could be a fictional fluorescent lighting.
We setup the Kupoles, again with a double convi clamp,
to secure the extension poles in place.
Here we added two Stella Pro's with soft and green filters over them.
We now had a very nice lighting coming from the back
creating some more depth over the scene,
but we do retain that flat look because of the choice of colors.
We're going for a slow pace, so we chose for a one shot
on the Magic Carpet Pro slider from Syrp.
[Telephone tone]
[Answering machine: "Please leave your message after the tone"]
-Hello Mr. -------, it's Jeff Winston speaking here from the Police department.
I have some great news for you:
your wife and child are found alive and okay.
They were the only ones who survived the plain crash.
They were found at a small island nearby the incident.
Call me back any time, okay? You have my personal number.
You are one lucky man, Mr. -------.
[Sad dramatic music]
Poor Lorenzo!
Anyways, this fiction film themed video
is part of our process towards a short film that we're panning to produce.
We asked you guys to submit an idea and we've been receiving tons of great ideas.
We're still processing everything, but we'll let you guys know by the end of the week
which story it's going to be.
If you wanna see more of these kinds of videos, then let us know
by hitting that thumbs up button!
Thank you all so much for watching, Thank Kupo Grip for the support,
and by the way guys, if you wanna check out all the gear from Kupo,
you can find a link to them in the description below.
But most importantly:
Stay creative!
-Lorenzo, how is the foam?
-The foam is going great,
but it's a little bit slimy yet.
-Ha, ha, ha.
-Lorenzo finally grew a beard.
-Ho, ho, ho!