Stop! No no no no no. Not yet! This is not a typical slow motion B roll.
This is not a typical commercial. Spring is here, summer is slowly coming.
This is a little fun practice commercial video because it's a camera challenge,
video camara challenge for me and for you. I'll explain everything.
Now go.
And if you are new here, welcome. My name is Zdenka Darula. If you want to learn how to
take better photos and videos with the latest gear and possibly participate in
creative camera challenges, consider subscribing. Those who were watching my
print commercial video I did few weeks ago know that I was going to do video
commercial of the same product as well which is this video.
Another camera challenge and just to be perfectly clear Bailey's is not the
sponsor of today's video, they don't even know me. In fact, I just chose this
product to be the main object. I call it a practice video because this is not a
really a commercial but I could see it played somewhere maybe in a lounge, in a
bar or in a club. I did this to play around a little bit to gain more
experience, to play with light, to get familiar with all the new equipment, so
basically whenever you get a new equipment you should practice a lot to
get in sync before you actually do something for a client. This video might
be a little bit different than the general videos on YouTube because they
usually show only the best. I'm gonna show you the bad, I'm gonna show you
some of my mistakes I've made, I'm gonna critique myself a little bit
too because we all learn from mistakes. The initial thought was I want to make
something different because I see everywhere the same type of slow-mo
videos over and over and over. I wanted it to have energy, fun, happy, summery,
inviting, tasty, girly, let's face it those colors are quite girly. The brown
background I was using for a photo version didn't work. It was just simply
too narrow so I went for the white because it's clean, airy and bright. On
the top of the table I placed a Plexiglas. Mine is old and full of
scratches. If I was really filming for a client I would have to get a brand new
one. To light the white background is a bit tricky. If I did photos, it's a piece
of cake for me but for videos a little bit challenge. One light I placed
from top corner and it was continuous ring light I use a lot, the second light
I used in this video is Falcon Eyes light.
I'llreview it actually next week.
I needed a strong spotlight so the glass wasn't so dull looking. You can make this
light very wide and you can make it very narrow so I kind of narrowed it down quite
a bit. I was filming with Canon M6 Mark II which is filming right now.
The first lens I was using was just Canon 15 - 45 millimeters because
I needed a little bit wider shots. First shots were just going forward. I tried to
do it handheld but I was getting there too much shake so I used Moza
Aircross2 gimbal. I went very low to get as much reflection in a glass as
possible.
Next few shows were just kind of going around and then another shot was when I
was just going up to the white background. That was the first
transitions. Just ending it up in the white background. And up to
this point everything was filmed at 60 frames per second. The next few shots
when they were falling strawberries and falling chocolates, that I was filming in
120 frames per second and this shot was done with 50 millimetres lens and
Viltrox speed booster. I just love the way it looks. It's very crisp. And
here first few Clips actually ended up in a garbage because I totally forgot to
bring the aperture up. It turned out to be very blurry like this so then I
brought the aperture to about 6.0 to make sure that most of the chocolates
and strawberries are in focus sharp. I'm okay with the results. They kind of look
kind of natural but I think next time I'm gonna try to bring the aperture even
a little bit higher and definitely I'm gonna try to bring the shutter speed
much higher so it's not so blurry when it's falling down.
Next clip I wanted to do was just a rolling strawberry on a table and then
in the post I actually left it in that slow motion for a good reason because I
again forgot to bring the shutter speed much higher. When you do fake
stop-motion with video whenever you freeze the frame there was a blur
because the shutter speed was simply too slow so I need to bring it next time
much higher. Stop motion from photos I did right after I used Moza Slypod E
as overhead set up. I gotta say I love the fact that I can use this
motorized slider monopod as overhead set up as well. I just do the photos.
I had ring light pointing straight down. I had to do some quick Photoshop work to
get rid of those scratches on the glass.
Another set of shots were just ice cream in a cup and I was just playing
with the camera kind of around to see what can I come up with, sort of
different moves.
For those shots where I was pouring the strawberry syrup on ice cream I used
mini tripod which I detached from the Ifootage monopod. And later when I was
pouring the Bailey's on the whole thing I was just using just something to lift
that camera a little bit on a table so whatever I had around.
Lens cap. Because I wanted to shoot those in 120fps
I had a little bit more sharpness I want to bring the aperture up. I decided to
you grab 50mm lens with Viltrox speed booster and that was a
very good move. Those shots just look beautiful crisp. You can tell
right away it's a better lens. I think I did about F 5.6 I don't really remember
right now exactly. I just did that as a static shot and then I did fake zoom in
the post. I told myself that I have to challenge myself to do it all by myself,
no help. And to fully understand behind the scenes, when I was filming this, you
know, because of the situation, what's going on, the whole family's home.
They were playing PlayStation here, they were running around, screaming, shouting,
all that and it was hard to concentrate sometimes. I was sometimes losing my
track what's next. I can tell you right now that if you put me to film somewhere
next to Canon shooting, I'll be fine, I'm trained.
The last shot was the big reveal and that was actually done with the
motorized monopod slider Moza Slypod E.
I changed the light a little bit here. I lifted the Falcon Eyes light much higher
so I don't get the reflection on a bottle and also the shadow from the from
the bottle. I pointed it straight down. I also placed little LED light also Falcon
eyes behind the bottle on the table and let it just change colors on its own. The
only little mistake I made was, if I moved that left red cup with strawberries
little bit maybe further left because I had a little bit of a shadow on it, it would
have been even better.
Let me also show you quickly the editing part. I edit an Adobe Premiere Pro. This
is the final timeline. I did some speed ramping, I used cross dissolve between
two frames sometimes for transition so it looks a little bit smoother. For
the stop-motion I just imported photos and timed each photo manually on the
beat. When you look at it, it's very simple straightforward timeline. I had to
fix the white balance individually on each clip and also the lighting to match
it up a bit. There was one thing that didn't work out the way I wanted. There
was one clip twice because I ran out of the clips. I wanted to finish it on the
part of music I wanted the finish and I didn't have anything else so I had to
kind of had to use it twice. Bottom line this was quite challenging for me,
that was not the easiest one. There was still a lot of shadows and the lighting
can be definitely improved drastically. Yeah. That's something which could be
improved and there was still a lot of room to get it fixed and Adobe Premiere
Pro. I could do so much more but I'm kind of running short with time. That filming
was actually done in five hours, editing was done in few hours. Because I'm
constantly on a schedule so I used the maximum time I had for this. Well, before
I play the final Broll one more time, let me give you instructions on the
video challenge for you. Pick an object in your house anywhere. It can be product,
it can be just an object which you will make look like a product. It can be a
box or anything and film a commercial. Use any camera you want, you can choose a
smartphone, mirrorless, DSLR, anything goe with any kind of lighting, no lighting,
natural light, whatever you desire. Whatever is on your mind. Just make sure
the maximum is 50 sec but shorter is better. If you can use music from
epidemics sound or artlist or YouTube royalty-free music, I have it linked all
in the video description below for you. And submit it by May 31st 2020. You can
post it on Twitter or Instagram, you can tag me in it, you can also send me a DM
on Twitter or Instagram, just make sure please if you have any
questions you always only use this comment section below. This is strictly,
the DMS are strictly for the video submission or you can use ZDCamera
challenge Facebook group, you can upload it there. The link is in the video
description as well. The best ones will be featured and reviewed on this channel.
Hit the thumbs up if you liked today's video and subscribe to all future videos
like these. If you have any questions, comments or simply want to say hi or
ahoy which is Czech, you can leave it in a comment section below and I'll see you
my friends in the next video ... Cau... Ahoj...