Hello there! Welcome to Nate's Take. Today, I'm gonna show you how to create an online course.
Alright. For this video course, we're actually filming in three different locations. One
with the kitchen is the background, so you can't see the kitchen now, I'll show you that.
And then two, we'll have that corner be the background, and then the third type I'll show
is actually gonna be IN the kitchen; not, not have the kitchen as the background, but
actually be in the kitchen. Let me show you how we've got this set up.
Okay, so for this first shot, that's the angle. We have the camera aiming right here at these
chairs and you notice we've got a big open window there. We have a lot of natural light
coming in. So I set up two soft boxes right here because we have so much light coming
from outside. I needed to turn those, those on quite a bit. They're not on full blast.
I think we've got three or four light bulbs turned on on each. I think three on the bottom,
four on top... just to, to provide some fill light so there's not huge shadows.
On my camera here, this is the Canon 70D and I've got a prime lens. You'll notice this
is 24 millimeter. It goes to an F-stop of 1.4 which allows me to blur the background.
So we've got the kitchen back there. Monica's getting ready for our next shot. With this
lens, the, the background is totally blurred and I'll, I'll include a little clip on that
just to, to show you what that looks like.
Alright, the last thing I'll talk about is audio. I always film with this Shotgun mic
on top of my camera, but when, when we're a little distance away from the camera, I
film on this. I'm actually recording my own voice on this right now, but I put it on this,
this microphone stand so it can be a lot closer. It hangs up in there, hangs upside down like
this, and you sync the, the audio together. So while I"m filming with two different mics,
you just have to get good it, it's placing those together and I'll show you how to do that.
We're looking at Final Cut Pro. In a minute, I'll show you how to sync external audio with
the video. So let's grab the video track first. We'll put it in there. And then we'll grab
the external audio track and we'll put it right below it. I'll trim it a little bit
so I can move it around easier. And I'll try and line them up the best that I can visually.
Now it's always helpful for me if I enlarge the, the size of the video. That'll do. And
then let me hit Play just to show you that although it looks like it's synced up, it's
probably not. Let's hit Play here and check it out.
"Welcome to back to the basics!" (echo)
See here a pretty good echo. We hear an audio from one here and audio from the other there.
So I'll put my cursor next to a prominent spike there and how we finetune this is simply
just by zooming in. And when we zoom in, we see sure enough they're not quite lined up.
So I can drag over like that. And I'm a perfectionist. I like to get things exactly right and I'm
gonna pick an individual spike here. Put my cursor in there, you know, I'm gonna zoom
in even more. Let's center this on the screen a little bit.
So if I put this right on the top of the spike and try and put that, you know, there's an
even more defined spike right there. So now watch what happens. I'll zoom out, but then
I'll hit Play and you'll hear how that, that echo has disappeared.
"Hi everyone! It's Monica and Annika, also known as The Gluten-free Twins..."
Okay, so that sounded great. And now I'm going to mute the audio that's with the video and
I'll just continue.
"...and welcome to Back to the Basics! This is a fun course that we taught..."
So the audio on the... so the external audio is much cleaner, much better quality. There's
a lot of room echo in the upper track, and so that's why I use an external audio. Just
higher quality. It makes for a much better video quality.
You'll notice that these sheets of paper here... there's numbers. This one is number 14. The
reason that we do that is at the beginning of each clip, both when we start the audio
and the video, we'll say the number. That way, when we're sorting the files, we know
what audio goes to what video file and we'll build to make editing and organizing a lot easier.
"That was a good one, right?"
Okay, Video 2 Take 2.
"The great thing about video is if you mess up, you can just start that sentence or section
over."
"Hi everyone! It's Monica and Annika, also known as The Gluten-free Twins. And we wanna
welcome you to -" "Oh God, I opened my mouth."
"Okay, cool. Sorry." "Hi everyone! It's Monica and Annika..."
Now, I like using the glide cam to get a motion shot to use in a 3 or 4-second bumper. Here's
an example of one that I've already got created. You can add a lot of variety to one video
by having multiple backgrounds or multiple environments. Each location that you film
at is different, so have fun, see what you can do with it.
I wanna talk now about using multiple cameras and camera angles. In this video, I'm gonna
highlight Brendon Burchard. He's one of my favorite influencers. You see he's not looking
at the camera right now. And that's a no-no because this is a talking-to-the-camera video.
Let me rewind it and play it for just a minute and then I'll talk about it.
"...on how to avoid burnout? And that's gonna be a little different than today, how are
you gonna avoid overwhelm? That in the moment since that you can't handle it all, right?
So hopefully, we can make sure you're, you avoid burnout, and now we're in the moment.
Now it's like 'okay, there's a lot coming at you today'! How do you go through the day
without feeling completely overwhelmed by all the obligations..."
Okay, he is talking directly to you and I, right? When I'm watching this video, he's
talking to me. And I, we're making eye contact. I'm looking at his eyes, he's looking at mine.
But when the camera goes to the side like we saw, either the zoomed out shot, he's not
looking at me anymore! And so the attention is, is taken away.
Now I do shots like this all the time when it's an interview. I have two people looking
at each other. They're talking. Even if only one of them is on camera, that person's got
to naturally look at a real person. And then when they stop to think, their eyes look up
and they look back at the person, it becomes natural.
If you're not having an interview, you're not talking to a real person, you've got to
look directly at the camera if you wanna maintain that connection with that person. What the
filming crew here with Brendon has done, and they obviously they, they know a lot about
video. I just disagree. It's my opinion. What they're trying to do is add a lot of variety
to the video. And it does! It adds a lot of variety. That's why instead, I'll film one
video in multiple locations by have you looking at the camera the entire time.
I have the perfect example here to show you of how to organize real complex video filming
projects if you film a whole bunch of videos in one day. The reason this is perfect is
because this has been my record filming project. We film 29 videos in one day.
Not only that, but each video is comprised of several different locations and, and some
multiple shots. So let me just open up... let's see, let's pick Folder 4 here.
This is a great example! So, we've got one... I remember the shot. This is in their living
room or their dining room table. Then we've got... it's probably a redo, so one's probably
a messed up, one's probably a redo, a take in his backyard, another take in his backyard,
and this is in his living room, this is a different shot in the living room, and this
one looks like in front of his library. So, you know, film all over the place and we filmed
all the outdoor shots first. We filmed all the library shots last, you know...
So I've already sorted all the video files into all these numbered folders. And now I've
got all these audio files. You can't... looking at them, you have no idea what it is and so
you know, it's a pretty big project. How do I sort all these, you know, dozens of audio
files that go into these 29 different folders?
Well at the beginning, as soon as I hit Record, I say the number. So let me demonstrate here.
"1.1... Video 1.1." Alright. So I know I gotta drag that one over to Folder 1. And then I
can listen to the next one.
"1.3... 1.3." Okay so there 1.3, that also goes into Folder 1. Let's check the next one.
"I think it's 4 point close, 4.5, something like that." Okay, so we know that's the end
of Video 4.
So hopefully that makes sense. Every one of these audio files recorded on my external
mic has the number at the very beginning. In order to make this work, there's gotta
be a lot of organization prior to filming.
So I've got five pages like this. This is page 1. Her'e's page 2. Here's page 3. Here's
page 4. Here's page 5. So you'll see Video 2 here is all yellow and for each shot, we
have a number. And all yellow means that we're gonna film it all on the iPhone in the living
room. And so the reason of... we just have specific reasons for this when we needed it
filmed in 4K and what we're doing. Compare that to Video 4, we've got pink, red, blue,
green, pink. So this video was filmed in four different locations. It becomes really helpful.
This one's 4.1, this one's 4.2, this one's 4.3, 4.4, and 4.5. And obviously, as you can
see, each time we complete one of the shots, we cross it off so that we'll know which ones
we've done and if we miss anything.
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