Hey Kelsey here and welcome back to Gal. Today
I'm going to show you a bunch of creative gimbal moves that you can
start using to make your scenes more cinematic.
The key to cinematic shots is having movement in your shot.
It makes your shots look more expensive like Hollywood films and
using a gimbal it's better than doing handheld
, tight? Because it ensures more stabilization.
I'm going to be using the Zhiyun crane 2s, which has a higher
capacity for bigger cameras because it's made from carbon fiber so if you're
using a Canon 1dx or a Blackmagic Cinema Camera it's a great gimbal
option for you and the motors are more responsive so let's go ahead
and let's jump in to gimbal move number one. For this shot we switch
between the PF mode and the go mode the PF mode is the pan follow and
that's the default mode and this is the mode we actually did all of our
shots in in the pan follow mode just means that the camera will move side
to side which is the panty left to right and it will follow wherever
you're going and there's another option that Zhiyun told me to try it's
the GO mode in the GO mode is just more Dynamic.
So if you're doing some sports shots where you're going to have to run
around with your subject, it just makes the motors faster.
So for the wipe transition, you need to find an object that can provide a
cup point for the transition in our case
we found a tree. With the gimbal
we followed the running subject past the tree in one location and then in
a different location, we found another tree and did the exact same
thing at the same speed and distance And the key here, is that the
object that you choose must fill up the entire frame when the gimbal
moves past it so that way it provides a full frame blurry cut point where
you can then start the next shot and this was the final tree transition
that we did.
The orbit shot is one of the most popular gimbal moves to do.
All you do is in circle around your subject in the pan follow mode.
So you're just literally going around your subject in our case.
We just found this really cool wooden statue in this part called Citadel
in Warsaw, Poland, and we just went around It and what I ended up doing
was I slowed it down a little bit and I only used partial of the orbit.
So even if you don't show the full orbit in your final edit, you can at
least show part of it and it creates really cool movement on the subject
making really really fantastic b-roll for your next film.
So for the wall transition, this is my favorite gimbal transition and it
did involve a little post production work, but let's start from the top.
So all you have to do is put your subject against a wall and any
location and then the gimbal operator walk around in a perfect half circle
from one starting point to the other and make sure you start completely
up against the wall and end completely against the wall and then
do the exact same thing.
But in a different location after we filmed it, I dragged it into
Premiere Pro.
I sped up the clips a little bit because when we were walking around
it was kind of slow.
So I sped it up to around five hundred percent on each clip and I
did notice there was still a little bit of wobbling which is pretty
normal.
Cuz camera operators there human, you know what I mean?
So they're stepping and sometimes it's not completely stable.
So I put a warp stabilizer on both the clips and then I put them
together and this was the final of that another shot you can With a
monopod is the fake drone shot.
So what you can do with this shot is after you touch the monopod you can
start lower.
It could be on a subject or it can just be a landscape and you can walk
backwards and slowly lift up the gimbal which is attached to the
monopod as if a drone is flying back.
For the monopod we used the ifootage Cobra 2 and this actually got an award
for its design.
It's super lightweight and made from carbon fiber which comes in a lot of
handy because when I was doing the fake drone shot, it was really
heavy.
It took a lot of strength to be able to do that.
Haven't worked out in a while.
So, you know, this definitely came in a lot of handy to do that and you
can use it to create some lower shots to from farther away.
So I was able to get low with it and bring it up higher and it was really
fluid.
So play try out this monopod with your Gamble so for this fly through
shot we ended up having to do many takes because it ended up being a
lot harder than I thought but what we ended up discovering is that we
needed to use the lock mode so we press the M button to do the lock
mode and then we put on the ifootage extension and we just pushed
it through handed it off to the driver and then we would run around
and take it from the other side it didn't work perfectly, but if you
practice you can get a perfect fly through shot, it would be helpful if
you have three people so somebody on the other end can be there right
away to take the whole gimbal plus the monopod together.
So this was the final fly through shot that we were able to achieve.
The jib reveal is a really cool and easy shot to do you just start down
low the camera operator walks backwards carefully and as you walk
backwards you slowly lift up the gimbal.
Revealed the subject and this is great for revealing characters in
your scenes and it just makes it a lot cooler to look at.
The chest transition is also a great transition to do with your gimbal.
It's really easy to do you can just have your subject walk into the
gimbal the gimbal operator walking straight towards the subject and
then just move the camera behind the subject and have them walk forward
and you walk back and you can create a really cool scene transition and
the best part is you don't have to be in the same location, right?
You can have the person the cable operator walk into the chest.
And then in the next scene pull out from the backpack or the back and a
different scene.
So that's a really cool transition that you can do using the gimbal.
And so the very last shot that you can do is very basic.
It's just a simple follow shot where the person is holding the camera
just like we're doing right now and I'm walking towards it and they're
walking backwards.
So I hope you guys found these gimbal moves useful.
Of course, you can do handheld but Gimbals just make it easier to
create more fluid shots that will then make your films look better
more cinematic and have more movement.
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So that's it for today.
I'll see you guys next time.
Bye.