oh just a dream oh hello this is Ben from life in 360 and looks
like today is my birthday and my first birthday wish is to go back to sleep
I think I've just been outed yeah you see this thing this is my youtube
background and this it's my bed I film my YouTube videos from my bedroom
somehow I managed to cover this thing up in my youtube videos so all you see is
this beautiful background when I was in film school I was obsessed with the
great Stanley Kubrick and my favorite film was this one here "2001 a Space
Odyssey" I was so obsessed with it that I covered an entire wall of my
apartment here in the entire movie so every one of these is a shot from the
film I love his use of symmetry and circles Circle Circle Circle there's circles
everywhere Hal is a circle the eye at the end
circle maybe that's why I'm so obsessed with tiny planets there's nothing but
circles so of all the days in the year this is the one day I will allow myself
to take off I can already work wherever I want
because I'm my own boss but i don't, I'm a hardcore hustler I'm always working
even on Christmas Day Boxing Day New Year's Day I'm working but not today
today is for doing my favorite things what do you think of that snowy daddy's
doing whatever he wants today are you gonna join in Instagram notifications
facebook notifications YouTube notifications email gonna be a sunny day
in Sydney the first and most basic tiny planet video style is called walking
planet where we put our 360 camera into video mode and we keep that record
button there and we're going to walk from the top to the bottom of our planet
just hold the camera in front of you like this and walk from A to B
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the second tiny planet effect is what I
call the treadmill and this is going to involve you walking around the camera
and creating the illusion that you're walking along the top of the moving
planets so let's do it
by the way the treadmill effect is something I teach in
my ebook life in 360 a beginner's guide to tiny aww shit I live directly
beside in airports so trying it clean sound is an often impossible task always
have to pause my videos and wait to QF 72 from Johannesburg to Sydney to
land safely where was I? you can find that last tiny plant effect in my ebook
plus a bunch of other check it out link in description now it's time for lunch
and one of my favorite healthy dishes ever which is the Green Bowl we have
avocado baby spinach kale quinoa poached eggs buffalo mozzarella this is like
intestinal broom for your insides -hello. -Happy Birthday there were some Instagram messages
hello mate what is the App that you use to do this effect well my friends this
is not an effect it's crazy how many people think the whole tiny planet thing
is an effect you need your 360 camera you I mean look you can do it to normal
photos but they're going to end up stretched and warped and they don't
stitch properly so it ain't an effect hey man just letting me know that it's
not an effect you will need a 360 camera so check out my youtube channel for
recommendations hi Ben I'm so inspired from your work that I bought an
Insta 360 One will get this by Amazon tomorrow hope I can sleep and be concentrated
work hehe all the best Jan. Hey Jan super happy
to hear that you're going to enjoy your Insta 360 One definitely check out my
channel for tutorials about tiny planets and everything else but you've made a
very very good investment my friend good luck
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Bought the Yi 360 VR still have so much to learn but my first tiny planet video
thank you for the inspiration so it is really cool to see people that are
inspired by my work and they go out there and make their own awesome content
this looks really cool I'm super happy to see this and in turn I know he's
going to inspire someone else to pick up a 360 camera and captured their world in
360 as much as I'd like to write something longer I've so many comments
in my inbox that it's not really possible for me to write anything longer
than a sentence
it's crazy just how many comments and
messages I'm getting every day it's seriously getting out of hand I could
wake up and start responding to messages on YouTube than Facebook and Instagram
then email then YouTube then Facebook and Instagram and a whole day would pass
it's getting out of hand and don't really know how to manage it
I'm so humbled that so many people want to reach out to me and I do my best to
answer every single message that comes in to either my inbox or the comments
section of any of my profiles at the same time though if I spend all day long
responding to comments it means that's less time for actually creating the
content which is the valuable thing for both me and you guys so I'm trying to
figure out how I can manage this a bit better then I try to keep responding to
all comments but I'm only human and there's only a certain amount of hours
in the day so please bear with me if I do take a long time to respond I
apologize the third tiny planning defect we're going to try is the jumping shot
how do you get a really good jumping shot where firstly you're really high
above the planet but also it captures you crystal clear so many times I'll try
this effect
so the secret of this shot is to get our shutter speed really fast when we jump
we're only gonna be in the air for about half a second so it needs to capture
1/100 of a second and get us pin sharp when we're really high above the ground
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Countdown...
okay so it caught me way earlier than I'd anticipated
so that tells me I need to jump maybe half a second before the timing that I
just jump
oh my god
but looks like I've got a winner
took me about 20 shots forgot the timing just right most cameras will activate
the actual shutter maybe half a second after the camera beeps so you do need to
experiment such as short window you're in the sky now we edit the tiny planet as
we normally would enroll world or another app check out my ebook if you
wanna know more about tiny planets but it's super simple you can even do it
within the apps of most 360 cameras so why am I making a youtube video on my
birthday well because I love YouTube I love making videos I love being creative
it's my favorite thing to do I used to be a filmmaker I made a whole bunch of
short films I sent them out to film festivals and sometimes a short film can
take six months to a year to create a 15 to 20 minute piece of cinema and if
you're lucky you might get selected for a few film festivals and your film gets
seen by an audience of 20 to 50 people maybe 100 if you're lucky on YouTube I
can make a video and get an audience of a thousand plus within 24 hours that is
pretty incredible and have an audience view it and appreciate and be inspired
by it learn from it with filmmaking I just wasn't getting that it was a really
hard decision to make to stop making films but it's the best decision I ever
made to pursue YouTube and make films in a way
that the audience is actually there people are on the internet they're not
so much in cinemas anymore so filmmaking for the Internet is one of
the smartest things I've ever done and a thousand percent recommend if you're in
the same situation that you treat the Internet as seriously as you treat your
precious come at your precious Film Festival because audiences at festivals
are dwindling and they're growing on the Internet this is how you can audience
this is how I've been able to turn it into a career this is why I'm here on my
day off filming a YouTube blog in my local park
and I'm not at some boring office job or making films for no money I'm so
grateful to have all of you guys out there watching every new video I create
and I'm gonna do my best in 2018 to create even more to a better standard
and cover a wider range of topics that will help educate and inspire you guys
if you want to follow me on the social networks I'm sure you know what my
handles are by now Instagram is here YouTube is here Facebook is here
check me out until next time keep capturing your world 360 it's been Ben
another year older another year not so wiser then I'll see you in the next
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