today is a biggie how to get that cinematic look and feel for your videos
you tuned in to travelvids.tv my name is Dean and today we're going to
look at cinematic video break it down explain what you need to do what you
need to look out for so that it makes it really easy for you to do as a
definition cinematic video is defined by a couple of different things in modern
times especially in the YouTube world nowadays people call anything that is
slow-motion with a good color grade cinematic but that's a little bit broad
a little bit vague today I want to go a bit deeper into the four things that
makes a dramatic cinematic video what it is it's called the cm cm cm cm
doo-doo-doo-doo cm cm dueduedue cm cm you won't forget that now ha cm cm
stands for composition movement color and music the four ingredients you have
to have to make a perfect little cinematic piece of video the first C
the composition this is a rule book that is quite thick there's lots to consider
here but for today I would like to leave you with two points I think you should
work a lot with the rule of thirds and the leading lines rule these two are for
me the most important thing to consider when you're trying to compose a shot
that is cinematic rule of third shots and leading line shots have one thing in
common they give the picture space cinematic film is inherently associated
with wide open spaces it's the reason that it's used in travel and it's also
the reason we use it in adventure films what good would lord of the rings' of
being without those huge open space cinematic New Zealand landscapes so my
word of advice to you is go back to your little rulebook of composition go over
them again and make use of this every time you set up a shot take the time to
set up the shot
movement is really important when it comes to making cinematic videos but if
you're a complete beginner I really suggest that you leave the step out for
now and to understand why we need to go back a little bit of time when a
beginner takes a camera and starts to film something they hit record and they
start to move this is the epitome of what a home video looks like with video
you've got to understand that the primary movement is actually the subject
we're dealing with Harry Potter pictures here I mean think about it the frame is
on the wall but the picture is the part that moves this part stays still that's
how you need to think the movement of the camera itself is a secondary
movement and this is only something that you can start to use when you've started
to understand the relationship between the subject and the camera itself the
more you practice filming and the more experience you build up you'll start to
learn the spatial relationship between the camera and the subject and as you
get better and better over time you'll understand how to manipulate the space
so that the the subject and the camera can either move past each other can move
with each other or can go further away from each other or come closer together
there is an unlimited amount of ways that this relationship can be used but
if you you have to start slow with only small basic movements in the beginning
and it took for you to make this really easy is that if you use slow motion you
get away with absolute murder and that's why today
slow motion is used as the tool to mimic as sort of cinematography in true
cinematography you don't have to be using slow-mo if that horse is galloping
across the field well then the helicopter or the drone needs to chase
it at the same speed and that relationship between the two is what
makes it cinematic in our world we can use things like slow motion to sort of
enhance that feeling even though the movement is maybe less so take that all
in for a second use slow motion as a hack tool to get cinematic but if you
really want to get good at this be aware of the space between you and
the subject and start to experiment with slow slow steady movement between the
two of you the relationship between your camera and your subject is like a sexy
tango dance that's what keeps you subdue of your audience completely focused and
fixed and captivated but what you've created the second C is for color color
grading and I'm going to bring the second M forward the music and I'm going
to lump these two together because it's pretty obvious you have to have a good
color grade and you've got to have good emotive cinematic music to complement
the shots that you're getting
a great thing with color these days is that all the editing apps and programs
all come with these built-in plugins you can also go and buy some LUTs I will
explain that in another video in the future which is basically just something
that you can drop like a filter on the video
same thing in Instagram that really enhances the look and feel of your
cinematic video and then the same goes for music I mean today there are so many
new channels on YouTube where people are saying please download my music and use
it make sure to credit people where it is due for the music they created but
color and music is really the easiest side of this take your time and focus on
getting that composition right and then making sure that your movement is
pleasing to watch not too fast not too slow make use of the slowmos if
you're a complete beginner and you're looking to make some really good-looking
videos and you need some of these concepts that we're talking about here
explained and it's sort of easy to follow away and check out our online
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