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classes for creators. Ahoj! This is Zdenka. The city is still asleep but I am definitely
fully awake here. I am waiting for a sunrise. Today we are gonna be filming a cinematic
B-roll or cinematic sequence of a ghost town, of a city just waking up and I brought with
me Zhiyun Smooth Q3 gimbal. I am gonna be filming with iphone 12pro so let's get some
shots, let's get already started. First I am gonna be doing just panning shots hidden
behind the bush here just to kind of giving little bit peak. And my mode on a gimbal is
right now pan follow. And I am choosing ultra wide angel for this. Hi from the studio. I
am gonna be adding more commentary to this video as you know the coffee didn't kick in
that morning yet. My channel is all about photography and video so if that's something
you are into, don't forget to hit that subscribe button. Whenever you are shooting beautiful
location like this, you don't want to just do one shot and move on. You might want to
come up with 2 or 3 or more different shots. One perhaps going forward, another one perhaps
going sideways. Try different lenses. Ultra wide angle lens, standard or telephoto. That
way you will have more flexibility to edit your final video in a post. The next shot
will have movement from the ground up and for that one you want to switch the mode on
a gimbal to all follow mode because you want to have that nice smooth ending. You don't
want the gimbal to just sharply stop. Also you want to think about your composition.
Do you want the horizon level to be right in the middle, or do you want the horizon
line to be little bit higher or lower. All right, 2 more shots before I move on to another
location to finish this off. And here I am just going to walk forward because I like
the silhouette. Again, this is pan follow mode just because when you walk forward, you
don't want the gimbal to go up and down tilt. As I am moving onto the city, I found this
building here with a big large window so I am gonna try to find a reflection in those
windows of the city. Let's try the next moves and I am gonna be using for this one pan follow
mode just because I am going forward. It's time to play little bit with POV mode so I
am gonna just do couple swinging shots around all kinds of directions. So there is this
movement. I am gonna take advantage of the canopy just above me. What I had in mind when
I was filming this town is that even though there is no life on the street as it was so
early in the morning, I still wanted to show movement, I still wanted to show energy so
the intention was to start very slow and moody and then speed it up, lot of energy and at
the end slow it down again. The shot from the intersection is already picking up the
energy. The next few shots are all movement. I am at the intersection which is right now
very empty. Obviously everybody is still sleeping. So I am just gonna do whole bunch of shots
here. And I am gonna put it again on pan follow mode. I don't want the tilt to go up. I like
the black frame here so I am just gonna kind of hide behind it. These 4 shots will be edited
very quickly in the B-roll. They will be cut very fast. And now it's time to slow things
down. I optioned for a shot of a building in different focal lengths. Close up, medium
and wide shot. So I am going with the telephoto lens and I am going just gonna be doing up
and down. So for this one actually I want to do all follow mode. I am gonna do same
shot with a standard lens and also ultra wide angle. So I am locking the brightness again
and just steady shot on this building. And I'll do the same thing with ultra wide angle
lens. Just a static shot of a building. Every time you are filming a sequence like this,
you don't want to just end up with overall look of a scene. You want to mix it up with
wide shot, medium and standard. One thing I noticed with this gimbal as I was filming
in ZY Cami app which belongs to this gimbal Zhiyun Smooth Q3 is the fact that it's little
bit difficult to change the lenses. You have to use zoom to get onto the proper focal length.
It's just not the one click to change the lens very quickly. However I like the way
the gimbal responses when it comes to movements. Well, next few shots are the close ups. Whenever
you film a location you might think ahead how you want to capture it. Do you want to
film only part of the location? Do you want to capture some sort of a story? Or do you
want to make it as a tour? I optioned for a tour. So I started filming by a lake and
then I went down the main street with the intention to come back to the lake. At this
point I need to get couple of the close ups on the little tree here because I need to
get some kind of a plants to show that it is a spring time so let's see how it is going
to go. I am using telephoto right now and use the sun as the advantage. All right. Another
place where I can do whole bunch of shots. And what I am seeing is actually, oh my gosh
I love the railing. I have pan follow mode. I am gonna do very wide shot. I might just
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I need to reveal something. This video could easily be called when your equipment fails.
When I received the gimbal for a review, what I wasn't aware of that the firmware is not
fully finished and the app is not fully finished at all. Now when I am filming the commentary,
everything is finished and the gimbal works amazingly. Well, on the day when I was filming,
what I didn't know that the stabilization was working here and there only so some of
the clips it is perfectly stable. On some of the clips it is not stable at all. The
intention of today's video is to help you with creative moves, with angles. Working
with location when you are filming a town. When it comes to new equipment, it seems to
be a trend this spring. I never had those issues before. I am currently holding onto
4 different products which I am not able to review until the firmware and app is fully
finished. Even if that means that my review will run after the launch date. I simply want
to do a proper hands on review. Last few shots were close ups again. But I wanted to do something
different. I was looking for big shapes. Triangles, squares, circles. Now, when you film stuff
like this, you want to make sure you lock your brightness. Unfortunately at the stage
the gimbal was, it was giving me a hard time to lock the brightness and I was already guessing
at that point that something is off here. So in the next few clips, notice how it is
getting darker and lighter. That's something you don't want to do. Make sure your exposure,
your brightness is locked. Once you have big variety of shots, it's gonna be way easier
for you to edit the final B roll, the final video sequence in the post to any kind of
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