Ahoj. One of the latest requests I got from you was if I can create a vertical cinematic
b-roll or reel or Tick Tock or short video. Well, Tick Tock is number one. That's where
the place is dominating right now. Instagram is not staying behind, they are just.... everybody
is talking about it. They just introduced that it is no longer photography platform.
Now the reels are a deal. YouTube is not staying behind either. They are introducing shorts
on their platform. For me personally, I am gonna stay away from shorts on YouTube for
a while for number of reasons but I am definitely gonna try some Instagram reels and I am gonna
play with Tick Tock as well. Well in today's video we gonna try to create one of those.
If you into cinematic B-roll looking like vertical reels and Tick Tock videos, you are
in the right place. We gonna talk about composition, framing and editing. We gonna edit it together.
And for the new faces, welcome. My name is Zdenka Darula. If you are all about photography
and video, consider subscribing to this channel. In this video I am gonna be using my smartphone
iPhone 12pro and I am gonna also be using gimbal to help me stabilize the footage. Today
I picked Zhiyun Smooth Q3. I shot this location so many times. I have tons of vertical footage
already on my hard drive as I filmed them all for my past tutorials. I pulled out a
few clips which I personally like quite a bit and I'll be mixing it with vertical shots
for a reason. I'll show you how close to the end. It's time to flip the phone around. I
am gonna be filming in ZY Cami app in 60fps because I would like to slow down the footage
in 4K. Let's talk about the framing and composition little bit. If you are used to always filming
in a horizontal mode or in the landscape mode, you are used to that type of the frame, suddenly
when you flip it this way, it might be little bit weird at first because you have this whole
new space to work with. For shots like these the best is to look for leading lanes or some
type of a curve. Or very interesting objects in the middle. Or objects which are evenly
spaced out. If you gonna be standing on a beach and if you gonna be just panning from
left to the right or right to the left, the clip will be way too long and it's gonna be
boring. And that's the reason why I am gonna be keeping those landscape shots just like
that and I am gonna be adding them to the video later in a post. I am gonna be mixing
them in. Which I am gonna show you later. But now, let's go ahead and shoot about 4
to 5 different clips in the vertical mode and I am gonna explain you how I am framing
them, how I am doing the compose thing. Now first, I was just standing here but when I
am standing here, I see lot of rocks in this corner so I am gonna move myself. little bit
to the right to get rid of the rocks and now I am seeing beautiful grass in front of me.
I am seeing also this very nice sky and the S curve. The screen is nicely filled up, it's
just beautiful view. I am going to lock the brightness on the sky. In the post I can always
make it lighter but I just don't want to have over exposed shot. And as said, the gimbal is in all follow mode.
Now I am at another location just like this one and if you look
that way around me, you will see a nice curvy kind of leading lane going through forward.
Now I am gonna try to catch that. It's just very colorful. There is lot of water, there
is lot of greenery. It's very complex and it's going kind of zig zag throughout the
whole frame. It's not empty. It's not empty on the top, it's not empty at the bottom.
It fills up the screen pretty nicely. Let me show you what to do and what not to do.
First, let's do actually what not to do. Right now when I have selected ultra wide angle
lens, you can see that there is just too much of a sky right here and yes it is quite nice
but it's just very empty. It is not filling up the whole frame. If I am going to select
standard lens and I am gonna start moving. You see that the composition right away would
be better. The blue sky is not so big, I am gaining lot more information, a lot more stuff
here. Now, If I am gonna be filming just as I am standing from my waist position, it looks
quite interesting but it's not ideal. So what I am going to do now, I am gonna tap record.
I am actually gonna go much lower to the ground. The gimbal mode I have selected is pan follow
mode so the tilt motors are locked and I am gonna be going forward and lifting up. Again,
going backwards. I could also shoot this with the telephoto lens. The telephoto lens shows
nice composition as well. Everything is nicely filled. And if I am gonna move myself not
much to the right, I am gonna hide myself behind the grass but if I am gonna move myself
little bit to the left and I am framing perfectly, I am seeing the trees here, I am seeing also the grass, everything else.
Because I selected the pan follow mode, basically all the gimbal
does, whenever I am going up and down, the tilt is staying the same. So once I frame
the shot, I don't have to adjust the phone anymore. This way or this way. Whenever I
lift up, it's just gonna keep framing the shot. Let's move to another location. One
of my favorite shots to do is obviously filming against the sun through the grass. For this
shot I am going to go with telephoto lens and all I am gonna be doing is actually following
the sun. And all I am gonna be doing is panning.
I am done at this location so now let's head
back to the studio. The rest I am gonna be reusing my past clips. And I am gonna show
you how I frame them, how I compose them into your vertical videos and I also how we can
place in the horizontal ones. My preferred editing app I am using on my smartphone is
Adobe Rush. Now, if you are using Adobe Premiere Pro, already there is a chance that you already
have it in your bundle. But you can certainly order this app separately. It's just very
easy to do. It's very simple. It's very similar to Adobe Premiere Pro which you can use on
your desktop or laptop. The second app I would recommend which would be my second choice
would be Kinemaster. I am going to explain the editing process very easily so beginners
can understand as well. The reason I like to use this app is that editing and cutting
the clips can be very precise. You can zoom in and you can literally go frame by frame,
then hit edit and cut. And then you just select the clip you don't like anymore and hit delete.
The way I like to edit is to import the first clip, select the portion of the clip I like,
cut it and then add another one. So import second clip, again select the part of the
clip which works for me. It's time to import those horizontal clips and I am gonna be using
3 of them, stacking them on top of each other. So they gonna be divided just like that. So,
what I do, usually I import the first clip and because it is in vertical mode now and
I only see portion of it, it's gonna be very difficult for me to select the part of the
clip which I like the most. What I want to do is first resize it to fit. To resize it
select transform and fit. And now, you can see the whole clip. It's gonna be way easier
to select it. And again I cut the portion of the clip I like. The same thing will happen
with the second clip. I am gonna import it, transform, click fit. That way I can see it
again and I select the portion of the clip I want. To get it on top of the first clip
all you have to do is simply click and drag with your finger and then you can just reposition
where you want it exactly. You can make it little bit smaller, little bit bigger, it's
very easy to play with them. And obviously I do the same thing with the third clip. I
resize it, I cut it and I reposition it by dragging the clip. You have to be very careful
which clips you are going to select on top of each other. I decided to go for the middle
clip which shows kind of scenery and top clip and bottom would be a detailed shot. Now because
all these clips were filmed in manual mode in 60fps I can slow them down and I decided
to slow down the top and bottom clip of the detail. To slow down the clip works exactly
like in Adobe Premiere Pro. Simply go to speed and then drag it down all the way to 40%.
If you are filming in 60fps, yes you can slow down the clip up to 40%. What I would like
to point out that those vertical clips I was filming in automatic mode. And here you can
notice that there is a frame drop. It happens. The video kind of gets skippy because the
frame rates were variable. They were not set the same because it's automatic mode. If I
was filming in manual mode, then I would slow it down just like those horizontal clips.
It would be very smooth, there would be no frame drop. Once I finish those 3 clips on
top of each other, I just added another vertical clip and at the end I decided to place not
3 but 2 clips on top of each other. To get them to the size you want, you will have to
play with clip width. And then you will just drag the clips back and forth make sure that
you position them exactly where you want to. Once I was finished with the final edit, it
was time to color grade. And what I like to do, I like to first check out all those filters
to see if it actually works for the clips I have. And then I manipulate it further.
I play with the brightness, I play with the levels, with highlights, with shadows and
see if I can make those clips look little bit different from each other. Especially
if I am working with those clips on top of each other. Once I was done with color grading,
all was left is to add the music. I decided to go with very neutral music. Not too much
of a melody because I was adding a voice over. That I recorded believe it or not in a closet
because this is where you get the best sound if you surrounded by clothing. And now, let's
just look at the final result.
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I'll see you my friends in the next video, Cau... Ahoj..