Ahoj this is Zdenka. And here is a quick b-roll we're going to be doing
today.
What I used is a Samsung Galaxy S 10 plus smartphone, DJI Osmo mobile 3 gimbal,
some filters and monopod to create those drone looking like shots.
Let me show you how I filmed it exactly and how I edited this moody b-roll. And
for the new faces, welcome. My name is Zdenka Darula. I create photo and video
tutorials, tech reviews and creative camera challenges, so if that's something
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So right now I'm at the top of a very interesting staircase in this
interesting structure and I gotta admit. I was hoping for overcast today with wet
ground. Instead of that I got very sunny day and very dry ground, but that is not
going to stop me. I'm going to create, try to create very moody kind of scenic shot
of the staircase. I love to show the staircase because I love to work with
different shapes and different angles. The shapes are gonna help me with
transitions. The shapes are gonna help me with very interesting point of view. I
don't have any plan, I'm starting just on the top of it because it's kind of tough
to walk up the stairs, so I'm gonna go down stairs instead. I'm starting with
this area and I'm gonna try to get some wide shots, some mid shots and yeah..
Let's just get going. Let's just start. And the first shot I'm going to do is very wide
angle. I'm not doing any slow motion, just regular speed because there's simply no
motion and I'm using a gimbal so the video should be very stable. Also I am
shooting right now with the widest lens in just regular camera application. I'm
not using DJI Mimo.
Next shot that I want to do is to create a transition. I'm gonna move forward to
this wall and if I'm gonna do this, the phone is gonna flip.
so that flip I'm gonna use as my transition when I cut it.
Next few shots I'm going to create with this monopod because I'm quite high in
the air but I want to be even higher so I'm gonna do this jib. I'm gonna bring it
up to the air to show the space and that will sort of look like it's done with a
drone.
And the last shot with this structure I'm going to do is actually going up over
the roof again with the monopod because I'm too short. Well, actually I'm almost 5
9 but that will help me to get above the structure.
So I'm on the top of the stairs and I'm gonna be taking advantage of all those
leading lines. I'm still using just a regular camera app, I'm using the very
wide angle lens and I want to show the stairs kind of in the middle, then I'm
gonna go a little bit to the side again to work with the leading lines. I'm gonna
use the rule of thirds so I'm gonna get a little bit to the side. Here I'm gonna
started with the transitions as I did at the beginning when I was kind of
flipping the phone upside down.
Now I really like the structure of the leaves on the ground, so I'm just gonna
do some close-ups shots of the ground and I will do first wide angle lens but
then I'm gonna do actually telephoto to get very close to the leaves.
Another great area calls for monopod so I'm gonna be doing a whole bunch of
shots with monopod again taking advantage of the leaves and the height
of the stairs. Very wide angle lens. I might try different lenses, telephoto but
right now I'm definitely gonna start with wide-angle lens because it just
shows the staircase the nicest.
I think that should be enough of the monopod shots. I'm just gonna take it off
and it can just easily you know screw that on and let me just do a few
more detail shots so for this one I'm still going to use just regular speed as
everything else and either very wide lens or the standard lens or the
close up lens. I'm strictly working with just the camera app. Don't have desire so
far to go to DJI Mimo to be honest. I like to use the advantage of those three
lenses. Well I think I'm pretty much done with the staircase at this location
but I still want to get some interesting plants. I'm gonna do details on the way
back to the car and I also want some River, some nice River or maybe that
little lake over there, but for that I might use a Cpl filter to get some
interesting shot. So I found my river. I'm going to do a whole bunch of shots first
with LCpl filter and I'm gonna do them in a wide-angle telephoto to get the end
there because I cannot go you see it. Also I'm gonna flip it this way to get the
camera as close to the ground as possible to get a very close-up shots
and then I'm gonna use the monopod to get very interesting shots going up and
then also going down.
One of the last shots I'm going to do now is the close ups over the river but
I'm getting a little bit too much reflection so I'm going to use Cpl
filter which as such just attached to the phone and once you add something to
your phone you need to make sure you rebalance the gimbal, so that's exactly
what I did I am ready to film some more.
Well I think I have enough, so let's go to the studio and cut the piece.
Well I'm by my computer and I am looking at my timeline. I use Adobe Premiere Pro
as my editing software. Music was chosen after and for those interested I use
music from epidemics sound the link is in a video description below you get one
month free. Here's my timeline and it is quite simple. All I did is just cut the
clips into the music. There is one transition which I would like to show a
little bit and look at much closer. Here is a transition which I was doing with
the gimbal that kind of turn upside down so here is the first clip and here is
the second clip which was kind of continuing. Now to make it more smoother
and kind of I noticed that there's are two different clips
I had to speed it up quite a bit so the first one I use the speed ramping the
first one I sped it all the way here to 307 percent. The second clip here I
speeded up again to 360 eight percent but here I slowed it down a little bit
to make it smooth so now when you play this, that's how it looked like and that
was really the only transition I use. Everything is really just clips cut into
the music. Some of the clips were cut into the music in the rhythm, other clips
I cut kind of offbeat because if I were to be cutting everything on the beat, it
would be very boring it would be kind of expecting when the next clip will show
up, but if you kind of cut it into offbeat here and there you will throw
something which is not as expected and that will make the whole B roll more
interesting. Last thing I want to talk about is color grading and as you know
it was very sunny and very dry. I was not getting very ideal conditions because in
the woods when you have such so much light and it was kind of midday you are
getting very harsh lighting so the original footage looked like this, but
then when I darken it up and use a little bit colors I was able to get a
little bit better look. The light conditions were changing on me all time
depending which direction I was standing or if I was in a full shade or no shade
so I had to color grade the clips individually to match the whole sequence
and to make it look like very wide screen all I did has just used the
cinematic bars at the top and the bottom this is just a PNG file. This is how it
looked like before and this is how it looks now.
Well this is just a very simple timeline, so let's just play it again.
Well I hope you enjoyed today's video. Please give a thumbs up if you did and
subscribe to all future videos like these. For those interested to see what
kind of filter system I'm using for my smartphone, it's right here and the link
is in a video description below. Also I listed there the monopod I was using and
my patreon page has another Lightroom presets just freshly added. The ones I
was using in my last photos on Instagram. Only for $2 a month you will get access
to my LUTS and Lightroom presets so feel free to check it out.
Lastly, if you have any questions, comments or simply want to say hello you
can do so in a video comment section below. I'm looking forward to read it all
and I always have fun responding and I'll see you in the next one. Cau... Ahoj...