Hi, this is Jay P. Morgan. Today on The Slanted Lens, we're out here on this great
curvy road and we're going to shoot a fabulous motion shot, a panning shot using
our Syrp Genie Mini, and also our Matthews car mounts. Let's get started and see what
we can do. ♪ music ♪
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♪ music ♪ So, we're out here at this great curvy
road, not too far from where I live. We've got Randy here with his fabulous 1966
Chevy pickup. I thought I almost bought this truck when I was a high school
student, but I'm not sure any more, but I think I did, I wish I had. But, anyway,
what we're going to illustrate is how you can use your Syrp Genie Mini as a panning
motion control device when you're shooting car shots.
We're going to rig this on the side of the car, using our Matthew car mounts. We're
going to do three shots. The first one, we're going to look here at Randy and the
camera's going to slowly pan and look towards the open road. The second shot is
we're going to take and we're to put the camera on the side of the car, we're going
to look down at the wheel, we're going to pan out, and the camera is going to pan
back into that rolling wheel as the road's coming and we see the yellow line. And
the last shot is on the hood, as he's driving along, get that camera as it pans
from Randy, looking out to the open road. The reason I think this is so interesting
is that that Syrp Genie Mini is a very small device, so it'll give you a 360
degree motion. It allows you to get motion, panning, in
very tight spaces. I can put a camera on the side
of a car, I can put it on a dashboard, I can put it on the
hood. You can control it with your phone, so you set it up with the app. Get my
motion as far or as short as I want it to. I can repeat the motion, so as a person
drives away from me, I can put my phone in the car with them and the motion just
goes, and then comes back, goes and comes back. I'm going to get a section in there
that I love. So, I just love the thought of this Genie Syrp Mini as a motion
device. For our first set up we're going to use a
Matthew Magic Riser. We've got a five inch cup against the side of the car, we've got
our Magic Riser to get our camera up high, so we can look into the cab and out to the
open road. We've got two cups on the sides, to be able to stabilize it. I'm
going to attach my rods to the hot shoe on the top of the camera. This is going to
cause a problem, because my Genie Mini is turning. So, in order to overcome that,
I've taken two rods, put them together, twisted them apart to about three turns,
grabbed it with a magic clamp above the turn, hooked it off to a
five inch suction cup above, now the Genie Mini can turn, at that point, where
they come together. Allows it to have motion, but it stabilizes it from on the
top using that hot shoe attachment. For this first setup, I've got a Sony A7R II
with a 15 to 30 millimeter Tamron Lens. I've got it at 15 millimeters, I want it
as wide as possible, so I can look into the cab of the truck
and it pans out and looks down that open road. It's just a fabulous look.
So, let's take a look at the footage from our first setup.
I've set my aperture at 22, I've pushed my ISO up a little bit, cause I
want as much depth of field as possible, because I'm going to really focus shallow
on Randy inside the car and I want to be able to carry that focus in the deep, as I
see the open road in front of us, so I want a lot of depth of field.
This second shot was really simple, we just simply have a five inch Matthews car
mount cup. We set our camera on there, it's going to pan slightly away from the
car, and then I'm going to pan it right back into the car. So, I've got my app,
I'm going to do about a 70 degree turn, it pans away and then back in. I pointed the
camera down, which means it's pointing on the lefty loosey side of the car mount.
I've got to do something to keep it from just loosening and dropping towards the
ground. So, I took a matthellini, clamped it on the side of the mount, put a
rod back to another suction cup to keep it from falling forward, and it worked great.
So, let's take a look at our footage from our second setup. I used the same
15 to 30 millimeter lens, but I went in slightly.
I was about 20 millimeters on this, so I could be a little
tighter on the wheel, but you see it kind of pan away. We see the road, and the
yellow line going by, then it pans up into that great logo on the tire and those
white walls, it looks just fabulous, it's a great shot.
For our third setup, we simply put a Matthews car mount on the hood, looking
straight back at the drive, it's going to pan forward to the open road, then back to
the driver. Same camera settings, we're at f/22, at the fiftieth second, and a 180
degree turn, because it goes back and forth. We turned it out, so it's going to
see out into the road, then back to the driver, then back out to the road, and
then back to the driver. Those three together
make a great mix of shots. You got the road and the tire and
the driver and the arm where you were able to see on the one shot, we see his arm with
the tattoo that says "Hollywood" on it and then we see that same tattoo in the
mirror. We set that up so we could see it in the mirror as it pans forward. So,
there's three different shots using that Syrp Genie Mini, as a motion device for
live action video. It's not about just doing these three setups, but it's the
principle that you could use that Syrp Genie Mini as a motion device in a lot of
different places. You can use it on the hood, inside on the dashboard, on the
seat. You can use it a lot of different places, it doesn't have to be on a car
mount. It could be on a tripod, it could be on a lot of different ways to rig it.
It's the principle of using it as a motion device when you're doing live action
video. I just love it as a small device you could use it anywhere. So,
check it out, put some of your pieces up on our Facebook. Join our Facebook
group and put some of your pieces up on there, so we can see them, we can talk
about how you're using that Syrp Genie Mini as a motion device for doing live
action. So, keep those cameras rolling, keep on clicking.
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