Ahoj. My name is Zdenka. In today's video I'm gonna take you behind the
scenes of a little shoot I did for my dear friend of mine. Her name is Melanie.
She's a makeup artist and she needs a little demo or a little B roll so she
can put it on her website, on social media, so she can present herself as a
makeup artist. We know each other for many many years. And we also know one
model for many many years. Her name is Natalie and she's gonna be the main star
of today's video. Let's get started.
And if you're 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. I have only 3 hours to
do this and there are few things I want to do. First of all, I want to film
the whole b-roll sequence and then I want to take photos of Natalie. Only few
photos, so I'm not gonna go any crazy with a big shoot, but I want to do 2
setups. Shoot it with my flash, shoot it with also just with continuous light and
then I wanted to shoot that with my DSLR, versus my phone. First things first. Let's
start with the video. I'm shooting with Canon M6 Mark II and just a kit lens 15
to 45 millimeters. Let's keep it simple. I'm gonna be filming in 60 frames per
second so I can slow it down in post and I am planning to do half of it with auto
focus, half of it with manual focus, depending what I will need to do. My
approach to filming of this video, particular video. I have few notes
written on a paper where I want to see certain shots happening, I want to see
certain transitions happening and I mainly wrote it down on a paper so I
don't forget because once I get carried away, it's just, everything is happening
but not what I really want to do. On the other side, I am letting her naturally
do her makeup. I just want her to do her thing, to be herself and I'm gonna be
filming around whatever I'm seeing, how I'm seeing it. What will really make the
video at the end is the way I cut it. And obviously the music as well. As a
background I'm just gonna be using this makeup lght and it's yellow. It's got a
very different color temperature as my main light which is this ring
continuous light. To be honest, I'm not worried about it. I don't really care
about that because again I want it so raw and so real, that purposely I'm
leaving the colors, the different tones of lights mixed together. I really don't
mind that at all. The corner there is a little bit too dark so I'm using more
light and it is the F7 Pokelite Falcon Eyes
lights. Since its magnetic, you can attach it anywhere, so I kind of just snap it
to the table.
I created one transition kind of swipe to the side because I wanted to go from
single shot of Melanie to suddenly revealing scene where there is already
Natalie in and I didn't want to have them both because I wanted to show
Melanie in the beginning first. So I decided to do just Melanie herself. And add
the transition going to the side and then start the next transition from the
side revealing both ladies. Next few shots follow where I am just following
Melanie's hands as she's applying eyeshadows and eyeliner and all that. So
these shots are pretty much the raw shots I was talking about when I'm not directing
much. I'm just standing by ready to see what is happening and trying to get
different angles, different point of view on the makeup application. Whenever I'm
filming something like that raw, all I'm thinking is about my framing. I know I
don't have to do very difficult moves, very difficult transitions and all that.
If I am keeping my framing very interesting and if I have very
interesting point of view, that will make the video very eye-catching without
being difficult, complicated. I like to keep things very simple. There is one
more transition which I am doing in this whole video and it is when I'm holding the
camera like this. She's opening up the mascara and then just twist the camera
to the side. Now I want the transition to continue in the same direction so the
next shot is starting from that side up.
Few more shots follow where I'm actually standing on the chair or I'm going very
low shooting upwards. Whenever I film I like to play with
different positions because if you're gonna be filming and just looking at the
object like this where the object is in front of you and you're not gonna move
left and right or up and down, you're gonna end up always with the same angle
and to break it you can shoot the same object, the same action but if you just
shoot it from the top or from the bottom, you completely will change your point of
view. So when you edit the b-roll, it's just it's more interesting because I'm
keeping everything sort of beginner stage, on that beginners level and the
whole set is very simple and very easy. This is the way I'm gonna be also
taking the photos. What I'm using is just one flashlight. It's a very old
flashlight. I think I've been using it for 15 years.
These are my first lights and I still work. Use them, I think I bought it
somewhere on eBay many many years ago. The light is about 100 dollars all
together. It came with stand and umbrella and all that, didn't have to change bulb
even once, it works so well. And that I'm gonna be using as my softbox, the main
light. And at the bottom I'm just using this whiteboard which is kind of
bouncing back the light, so whenever I'm flashing with the flash the light will
come back at the bottom so the shadow under her chin is not gonna be so
drastic. The next setting I used is just continuous white light. The ring light I
have here because I wanted you to see the difference between flash light and
the continuous light. And the same thing. The light is at the top litting the
model from the top and then I'm using the whiteboard again to bounce a bit
light back and her and again I took about 15 photos maximum. This shoot is
not about photography as much so I only needed a few photos to put them in the
story. Now the photos are edited and all that. Can you tell which photos are
taken with DSLR, which photos are taken with smartphone, which photos are taken
with the flashlight and which photos are taken with the continuous ring light?
Let's reveal the results.
Now that you've seen the whole video being films now that I've seen all the
photos being taken and the results, let's get it together and let's play the final
B roll.
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