Ahoj! This is Zdenka. I don't know how about you, but I am stuck indoors. But that doesn't
mean that we should stop being creative. You know with our smartphones and DJI Osmo Mobile
3 gimbal maybe or with another gimbals or another smartphones,
we shall still lift our moods up. So let's get creative together.
You guys sent me lot of requests and questions and ideas to do an indoors shoot
with this gimbal, so today I'm gonna be attempting to create a video sequence or B roll or commercial
or demo, whatever you wanna call it of food. A static set, nothing is moving, but I am
gonna be moving around. I am gonna combine it with
whole bunch of transitions, whole bunch of effects. I'm gonna be actually filming the
whole thing in Filmic Pro app with DJI Osmo Mobile 3 and Android.
Because I want to see what the limitations are, what we are actually able to do since
this is not compatible right now with Filmic Pro. Let's get started. So this morning I
baked this apple strudel. My favorite. I love to bake that a lot. And since
we are all at home together, I thought something nice and sweet would be the right fit at this
point. And once I was done, I was looking for right
background, the set up where I am gonna be shooting the whole thing. Actually, let's
start with some tips right away. Now, wherever you are cooking or baking, it could be filmed
very nicely in a brightly lit room close to the window but if you don't
get blue sky, steady light or overcast steady light day, you will end up with your footage
sometimes kind of looking dark and bright, dark and bright. If
you have clouds passing by, the light is not gonna be stable. So, that was my case. I decided
to film this whole thing in my studio on a black background because I like that dramatic
edgy look. And that way I knew that I am gonna get very steady
light which I can control myself. To keep it simple, I decided to use only 1 light that
is it. Nothing else. One light. Because I know that most of you at
home probably don't have access right now to lot of lights. So I thought, one light
will be plenty. And you don't have to go with light like I have right now. You can even
get a flashlight or anything handy at home. Any strong light would do it.
It would totally work with long lasting battery. The light I am actually using is Pokelite.
It is Falcon Eyes F7. I did a review on this light, I highly
recommend it. I'll link it in the video description, you can check it out. The reason I don't want
to film this sequence in DJI Mimo App or native camera app is because I want complete control
over the frame rates so obviously I grabed Filmic
Pro. Now, DJI Osmo Mobile 3 right now is not compatible with Filmic Pro. That means that
you cannot connect it together. But today, I wanted to show that
you are still able to work with Filmic Pro on your Android, on this gimbal. But obviously
there will be some limitations. You cannot do everything like you would normally do on
other gimbals which are compatible with Filmic Pro. That's why
I am doing this video. Just for fun to see what we are able to do and what we are not
able to do. After the first shot, I was thinking to do the first
transition. When the flash goes off and goes to the black, that's when the first clip gonna
finish. The second clip I'm gonna start from the black background and reveal the whole
set up. Kind of going forward.
Since we are filming in 120 fps, again, shutter speed has to double. So it's 1/240th of a second. The rest I am just kind
of adjusting manually with the reticles on the side in Filmic Pro.
I am also locking the white balance so it doesn't shift on me whenever I am filming.
Next few shots I am just gonna go from left to the right. It is not a pan. It is just
kind of passing sliding sideways. Now, if I hold the gimbal like this,
it is quite difficult for me to control, but if I flip the gimbal upside down, like that
and hold it very lightly, things get so much easier.
The downside to filming on Filmic Pro on Android is that quite often it actually goes back to different
shutter speed. You have to really watch your shutter speed. Whenever you are doing a new
take, sometimes it goes down to 1/50th of a second or different
ones. So you always have to make sure that your shutter speed is set and locked at 1/240th
of a second. The next few clips I am trying to create
focus pull. So what I am doing is selecting the area which is sharp, tap on the reticle
to select that and then focus on another area of the set up and tap on the reticle again.
And then when I am clicking on the arrow the focus pull happens.
Obviously I have to tap on the screen because I am not able to do that from the gimbal but
it is all possible when you just gently tap on the screen, you
are still able to do focus pull.
As I am filming this B roll, I am filming everything in Filmic
Pro. Obviously on standard lens. I tried to switch it to wide angle lens on this Samsung
S10 plus, but I am actually seeing the motor of the gimbal
in the shot. When I am filming with DJI Osmo Mobile 3 gimbal in the regular native camera
app, I don't see the motor or if I am filming in DJI Mimo but
for some reason when I am filming in Filmic Pro, I do see the motor. So I am avoiding
that today. I am just shooting with a standart lens. Another in camera transition you can
do is this I think camera shake. That's how I would call it.
Basically I am standing there with a smartphone and I am shaking the camera in all kinds of
directions up and down and left and right, up and down. You can
use those moves to create this kind of a glitch effect. The glitch transition between the
clip because you are getting the same texture, the same colors, the same kind of a background
which you can take out and use again as a transition between
those 2 clips.
Three shots follow and I call it the orbit shots. Basically you are just
going around in circular motion. So for this one I chose as a main focus
the apple because it is bright and it is very bold. It is very easy to focus on. So the
lowest shot starts first and the second one is little bit higher and the last shot is
going all above.
And for those who don't want to film in Filmic Pro can totally
try this whole food sequence in DJI Mimo in real speed if you are working with Android
because you are not going to be able to shoot in slow motion.
And then if you want to do some shots, you actually want to shoot in slow motion just
use native camera app, the regular camera app you get on your phone. If you have iphone,
yeap, you are gonna get all those goodies. You can film manually in
DJI Mimo and you will also get slow motion there. I always liked the shot when you are
kind of snowing, sprinkling the sugar, the icing sugar on a cake.
And because I only have 2 hands, I had to place the gimbal on a tripod. And then in
a post I am going to do little fake zoom in as I am myself sprinking the cake filming
it from a tripod to create this effect.
The next shot I am doing is just
the view fromt the top because I am using that white strong light. Everything is nicely
lit up it's bold looking. And then the last transition follow
which I really like and it is actually going into the object to the black and then revealing
the next scene. So first clip I am just going to the apple
and the next clip I am going from the abject out revealing a new scene. And it is a new
scene because I added an icing sugar and I added a knife there.
And at this point I feel that I need to do some more camera shake for that glitch effect
because I changed the scene little bit so I wanted to make sure if I need some kind
of a transtition that I can actually use it because it is gonna look more like the current
scene right now. Everything is finished, let's just cut the final B roll
or video sequence and let's play it.
All the items I was featuring in today's video, the DJI Osmo Mobile 3 gimbal and the Falcon Eyes light is listed in the
video description below. I also added to my Patreon page another Lutz and photo preset
so grab that if you are part of Patreon. If you are not then check it out as well. Again
it is linked in the video description below. Hit the thumbs up if you
liked today's video and subscribe to more. I hope you had fun today and you are gonna
try something like that in your homes. If you have any questions, comments
or simply want to say Hi, you can do so in the comment section below. And I will see
in the next video, Cau... Ahoj...