When I was younger, maybe seven, I had my first digital camera for a birthday
and I was just so obsessed.
and then I thought, can I combine my two loves, football and cameras?
And it started here just behind me.
I was on this patio and I was freestyling after school.
I find it therapeutic to paint.
So putting it into a video shares the satisfaction.
Creating music is something I've always naturally done ever since I was a teenager.
It was never something I questioned when I was doing it.
It was always something I found myself doing quite naturally.
I create because it's fun, there's not much to it.
I create because it's fun.
I think it's powerful to
share creativity.
I think it brings happiness to people's lives.
Collaboration is the best way to grow your account and just to meet people in general.
Collaboration is having people bounce off each other to create something special.
You are never going to give yourself everything you need,
you are never going to teach yourself everything you need,
you need to interact with other creators.
The only way I can push myself is to sit in front of someone who knows more than I do about something.
I love not knowing in front of someone who does know.
And together we're going to make something that's phenomenal.
Hello.
Hey guys.
Hi, how are you?
I'm good.
So I'm Nifé, I'm a dancer and content creator.
I've made some of your favourite dance challenges.
I'm just about good vibes and good energy.
I just dance because I enjoy it,
and I hope that other people enjoy it too.
So I give you tutorials,
I give you just entertaining chilled pieces,
I give you challenges to do.
I love my followers, they're like a little family
and they're just really supportive they're mainly positive.
They're really interactive, so yeah I love them for that.
So my name's Ewan or EABSkills, I'm a football freestyler.
I produce content that's very much in the football space,
so it can be recreations of professional footballers,
tutorials, trick shots and I'm very much about passing on
what I know to the next generation.
Hi guys and welcome back to a brand new freestyle tutorial today on the EABSkills Instagram.
Hi
Come in!
So my name is Jack Garratt and I'm a musician and producer from London.
If I feel safe,
and bored, I know I'm in the wrong place.
I'm FatCap Sprays,
and I'm a London based street artist and content creator,
Everything around me is inspiration.
There's so many people on the platforms nowadays,
you have to stand out.
Not just image quality, but also the content as well.
I'm super excited for this project.
I feel like it's a great way to get four different individuals
that do completely different things together.
So we've got the football freestyler,
got the street artist, and we've got the music artist,
and then I'm a dancer, that's amazing.
That's a sick combination.
It's a really cool opportunity I think, for different creators to come together
and to kind of like, take different aspects from each other.
I'm just excited to see how
the other creators who have
completely different skills to me
all bounce off each other.
I'm quite excited to see how the end product is going to look.
Collaborating is great, I love to collaborate.
I can't do keepy ups
I can't, I can dance a bit,
and I've never picked up a spray can in my entire life,
but like,
I'm so looking forward to seeing
what the music that I'm doing,
how that gets reimagined
by other artists.
Hi guys.
Alright mate.
Hey you alright.
OK, so Jack, you are the guy who's producing the music for this piece,
so there's a lot of pressure on you mate.
What have you been thinking when you've been producing the song?
I found a beat that I was working on years ago,
that kind of has the energy that I think a project like this needs.
This is
the kind of vibe of it.
So here's a big,
big drop.
I mean,
I've got no idea if you heard any of that.
That sounds so good.
A lot of the songs I try to edit to,
have big drops like that as well.
Similar kind of energy sure.
I think it was nice what FatCap just said,
because obviously we're going to be transitioning between all of ourselves.
So it's nice, like you said little pockets there where we can transition into.
I could kind of mimic that with my movement
and have like really bold movement.
And I'm already thinking about on that not drop,
I'm hitting around the world,
I'm hitting the 360 around the world.
So, yeah, it's all going to come into place, I'm sure.
Yeah, it's going to be amazing.
I'm really honoured to be working with you guys to be honest.
Likewise. Absolutely.
Yeah, it's going to be sick.
Really cool to collaborate.
Really, really looking forward to seeing what we will come up with.
It's going to be so fun.
I can't wait for the day, guys.
I will see you then.
Thanks mate.
See you there
See you later guys.
So the kit that I'm using is the Canon EOS R6.
I love using this camera because the video quality first and foremost, that's paramount for me.
We can shoot at 4K at 60 frames a second,
which is absolutely seamless.
And we can also shoot 120 frames a second in full HD.
So if I want to get any slow-mos it's just absolutely brilliant.
I'm using the Canon EOS M50 Mark II
It's great for vertical videos
and it's just really lightweight, so it's easy for me.
Look at the quality guys!
So the piece of kit I've been using
is the Canon Powershot G7 X Mark III
And it records my content just the way I want it.
I really love how powerful the colours look
and it captures them
how I want them to be seen.
I'm using this, I'm using the Canon EOS RP.
Using this camera has been a dream because
it's made it easier for me to have images in my head and for me to create those images in the real world.
In the same way that when I make music, I have sounds in my head,
my job as a musician is to make those sounds real.
I think the one feature that is absolutely key for me is the autofocus.
I'm moving right, left, forwards, backwards,
but autofocus is absolutely brilliant,
I could be moving in and out and it's
just always there, never drops out
At full HD it shoots 120 frames per second,
which allows me to capture that dusty flame effect beautifully.
So the bluetooth remote is really convenient because
for me, I can setup the camera,
take off the Bluetooth remote
and start it where I'm standing.
Or if I'm just vlogging, I can have it on the side and press start.
Also, I'm spontaneous sometimes so I just want to record.
It's such a nice day.
Honestly, I just want to record to appreciate the sun and have a memory of it.
I had a play around with the video function today, the focus tracking on it was really fascinating.
I'm quite an active mover when I'm performing.
Having something that's going to track me no matter where I am
is obviously a deal breaker.
It means I don't have to have someone else in the room.
As an artist, I really want my content to reflect
the quality that I produce in person.
The G7 X Mark III
allows me just to set the camera up on the side, press record
and I feel comfortable that it's going to capture quality content.
So I can just focus on painting.
So for my performance for this project
the M50 Mark II is going to be used
to basically capture everything I need to think of.
With choreography, I tend to just freestyle a lot.
That's going to be great for that.
And then I get to just vlog the experience, I'm really looking forward to
just walking around and just vlogging everything
and just capturing everything.
Yeah so on a break, we've been recording the whole day.
I think being able to obviously flip the screen around,
I can see what I'm doing, and when you're trying to practise for something, you want to see it instantly.
I'm very aware that on the day
everyone else is doing kind of very
physical performances.
I want to make sure that I am,
in the melody I write, in the music that I write, representing the energy that everyone else has.
And I'm not as fit,
as them, I know.
That's just going to be, I'm just going to have to get through it.
So my part in the performance is making the background art,
which I really hope compliments the performers.
So right now,
I'm thinking footwork,
I'm thinking hips,
I'm thinking a lot of just big movement.
With specifically Ewan,
I'm hoping he can teach me football trick or two so I can interpret it,
in a dance.
Yeah so me and Nifé, there's a real cool shot where
the football is going to transition between the two of us.
So I'm hopefully going to teach her a few things.
And she sure she'll teach me
definitely a few things about dancing
because I'm definitely not a dancer.
The other content creators, there's a lot more pressure on because
they've got to perform a certain thing with a camera on them
and they've got to do it over and over again until they get it right.
There's definitely a few things that I'm worried about on the day.
The main thing would be dropping the football and that spatial awareness,
but I'm pretty confident that I'll be fine.
I feel better going into that
into that warehouse, into that shoot,
knowing that everyone else
trusts me,
and I trust them.
That's the only way that projects like this get made is if you have an amount of trust
in who you're working with.
I didn't even recognise FatCap
because he doesn't put his face anywhere,
so we had half a conversation before I realised it was him.
Shoot day,
look at this view!
So everyone is just setting up,
all the lighting is going up.
It gets to this point where it's really exciting,
you just want to get on set now.
Makeup done, hair done.
Outfit on, I'm ready.
Yeah, feel great, I'm keen to get started.
I like the fact that I get to play with these pillars,
I get to move around in the space
and I get to interact with Ewan.
Yeah, we've been teaching this one,
so the little left shoulder pop with the football.
So she does shoulder pop in dance,
I do it with the football so it's a nice little collab there.
Always a challenge on shoots like this - things like this - is
I always get a bit scared that I'm just going to mess up,
and that I'm going to be the reason that we have to cut and start everything again.
That's exciting, though, that's fun.
That's like the fun bit about doing stuff like this.
It's going really well, but I'm struggling with the ball.
You see!
I've been trying to match the performance of everyone else by
making sure that I'm playing with
all the emotion and kind of energy that I can give.
Yeah, it's going great, it's all coming together.
Alright stand by,
music!
You're doing camera moves through an environment
and trying to make that look cinematic,
and then you've got the added layer of
having artists and performers
in a space where they've got to
work together and perform,
can be quite challenging.
I think Nifé's upstairs doing her bit with Ewan.
We got Fatcap back there who's
putting the outline together for the
design he's been putting on the wall.
So yeah, everyone's just doing their bit.
I think in a minute we're all going to come together and kind of finish the piece off.
So the third set up is when we all meet together finally.
I think the most impressive thing has been Jack playing the guitar
like over and over again for his shots
he never misses a note.
I've just seen a little bit from behind the scenes,
and they all look awesome together.
Yeah, done!
It's bittersweet you know,
now I've made these friends,
I want to collaborate more, and I want to be in the space with them more
This has sparked ideas for what I can do with other people
that are not in the same space as me going forward.
Definitely. Ewan and I have spoken about it a couple of times during the day.
So we're definitely going to do something.
We've seen today how we all work together really well,
and our skills combined to make
really nice pieces, so why not do more?