How much coffee did I have today? I'm just wondering how my hands are. Are they
shaky or not? Because I want to test them out and I want to test out this Android. Why?
What is this video gonna be all about? I'm gonna say one name. Brandon Li.
Some of you might know him. Who is it? He is an award-winning filmmaker. Has
been featured on national Geographic, BBC times and so on.
If you visit his web site you can see all his short films there and I'm gonna
link it and his YouTube channel in the video description below this video so
you can check it after okay? Moving on. About a month ago he published a video
on his YouTube channel called iPhone smooth handheld moves no gimbal. It is a
cool video basically where he shows how you could stabilize your footage by
just using your body, no gimbal whatsoever. What he writes in the
description below, it works best with iPhone and that's where he got me. I have
an Android. This is Samsung Galaxy S10 plus, I don't have an iPhone even though
I'm planning on getting one and I heard that the iPhone is possibly a lot more
stable but cannot confim that, I don't have it, I haven't test it, I have
this. So I want to run all the tests today and you guys will be the judge.
Just don't rip me apart please. The first round will be handheld footage. I'm gonna be
filming with this, I'm gonna be actually doing the moves Brandon is teaching. I'm
gonna try to recreate them and I'm gonna try to compare myself to him in terms of
being smooth. How you can you know ... the footage being a little bit closer to
him. And I'm gonna be also comparing this phone vs iPhone but again I think
it's more about the body movements and the skill. The next round will be the
same moves but this time with this gimbal. There's gimbal, DJI Osmo mobile 3. Once
I am done with all of it, I'm gonna cut those two video sequences
together and we'll compare the sequence from the smartphone versus the same
sequence from DJI Osmo mobile 3. I want to know if I can do all the moves with
both, probably not and I want to know if I get close to being smooth. Move number
one will be just going forward and just like Brendon said, you have to hold your
one hand on the phone, the other one will be just supporting, then you're gonna
bend your knees, you're gonna bend it pretty low I found out and have your
phone in a shoulder level and just walking forward. What made the difference
for me, I realized that I was making very long steps so every time I was doing
those steps, I was kind of going like this. I could see that in video, so you
have to do very small tiny steps to maintain the same speed.
Move number two is going backwards and just like Brendon says you gotta hold
your phone like this and twist and he kind of walk forward but filming kind of
backwards. I gotta say for me it was a little bit tricky because I'm on fitness
plan right now so I'm a little bit sore. The twisting was not really good for me
right now but it is a comfortable move otherwise because yes you definitely are
not afraid that you gonna crash into something.
Move number three is just going forward and then tilt up and just like Brendon says, it is very important
that when you are going forward that tilt is one continuous smooth move. It
was even tricky for me. It was very tricky to maintain the same speed to
have the same curve up. It takes a lot of practice.
And move number four is the vortex kind of rotating shot. As you're walking
forward it needs a little bit of practice again because you need to
develop your hands to be able to do a smooth turn. Now I think for me it was
day number three when I was practicing. The first time I did it, it was
impossible but then the more I did it it definitely got easier, so that's a move
you need to practice. Also, when I was doing it with just a smartphone, handheld
no problem. Obviously when I grabbed the DJI Osmo mobile 3, there was a major
fail because there's just no vortex you know ...mode.
So those were four tips for the handheld shots. I'm gonna go ahead and
film the whole video sequence of moves I normally do. It is very difficult to copy
or recreate somebody else's moves. We all have different styles and he is very
skilled filmmaker. I'm not simply there so I'm just gonna do my moves. I'm gonna do
whatever I'm doing normally when I'm filming.
Now, it's time to show you both video sequences. The one will be handheld and
the second one will be with the gimbal. Now that I cut them together and I want
to know again if I got fairly close when it comes to smooth handheld footage to
being smooth like Brendon. Probably not. And then I want to know if the gimbal
footage got very close to my handheld footage, so DJI versus my Android.
Probably not either. You'll be the judge. Once you watch them both, let me know in
the comment section below what your thoughts are.
You know what? That was actually a lot of fun to do. Again, let me know in a comment
section below what do you think and if you're gonna be comparing me and Brendon,
just be a little bit easy on me. You know he's mmm I am mmm... anyways, if you want to
check out his youtube channel and his website the link will be in the video
description below and now before I forget I'm going to start showing some
of the best comments of the week because it's just, they need to be shown just to
be more interactive and just to have more fun in those videos. So here's the
first one. If you watched a video where I was actually showing off my socks with a
hole, there is a comment from David J. We need to start a GoFundMe to get Zdenka
a new pair of socks. Yeah and very coincidentally I'm actually, I didn't
plan on that, I just realized right now that I'm still wearing the same pair of
socks. The hole is still there. I mean like they're washed now I'm not still
wearing them like for so many days, you get it and the second comment of the week
one of the funniest comments was left on one of the videos I did few days ago and
it was the video about laptops what laptop to buy for video editing, it's kind of
like a buyer's guide. Well, this comment was left by Jonathan Jones and what he
says. Here is one mandatory accessory. A little stand to put your laptop on
so when you spill your coffee on the desk it doesn't get wet. Perfect,
brilliant comment. Keep that humor going, I'll see you in the next video... Cau... Ahoj..