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- Here's five different gimbal moves
that I use all the time when I'm crafting my stories.
Number one is a dolly side profile.
And you can either use this to follow a subject
or just use it to shoot the scene that's in front of you.
Now, you're gonna take your camera
and you're gonna move left to right or right to left,
and just keeping at a steady pace in a straight line,
as you move perpendicular to the scene that you're filming.
So I like to use this shot if I'm following a subject
and I keep them centered or keep them
in a specific part of the frame.
Or I like to use this for a reveal,
so I come out from behind an object
to reveal the scene that's in front of me.
Now, another easy way to use this move
is just to simply show the scene that you're in.
Now, before we get into number two,
I just wanna mention that these shots
are from a new series that I'm doing called,
"The Creator Process."
It's where I go behind the scenes with other creators
and see exactly how they film their videos
and approach their YouTube channel.
Now, I just got back from Alaska,
because I went up there to film with Jake Sloan
and we dove into how he creates his videos
in the Alaskan wilderness.
We went to some pretty amazing spots
and I really got to see exactly how he films his videos.
Now, number two is an orbit.
Now, I like to use this shot all the time
when I'm using a drone.
However, with a gimbal, it works just as well.
Essentially, what an orbit is,
is you have a single point and you're moving
in a full circle around that point.
You could either move in a fast, tight circle,
or you can move in a super wide and slow circle.
And I like to use this in a few different ways.
So I'll either have a subject completely centered
and I'll move around them.
And this shows a lot of parallax with that background
and foreground.
Or I'll just put a point somewhere on the ground
in the distance and I'll create a much bigger arc.
And just having that movement,
where you're moving side-to-side, but also rotating,
just adds more of a dynamic feel
to the footage that you're filming.
Number three is the follow.
And I like to use this all the time
when I'm shooting people,
because I wanna follow them through a scene.
The ways I like to use it is in front or behind.
So I'll be behind my subjects and then I'll follow them
through the scene so you can see where they're going,
or I'll do the opposite,
where I'm in front of my subjects
and walking backwards so that the subjects
are walking towards me and I can see
where they're coming from.
Number four is the pan.
Now this might seem like a simple shot,
but it just works so much better when you have a gimbal.
Because you stand in one place and you just pan the camera
from left to right or right to left.
And when you're using a gimbal,
it's gonna be perfectly smooth.
If you're handholding the camera,
you're gonna introduce a lot of shake into this footage,
even with stabilizers.
Or you could use a tripod.
However, I'm not always bringing a tripod
with a video head that allows me to do this smooth pan.
So I'll use a gimbal to get these shots.
And it just gives me a good way to show the scene
where we're at.
So when I was in Alaska,
I used this shot all the time to just show the mountains
or to show the landscape of the places
that we were going and exploring.
And number five is the jib.
So I like to use this shot to start down low
and then move up as high as I can get my arms.
So you get this sweepy motion of moving from the ground
to the sky.
And if you have a monopod,
you can make a much bigger movement.
But the idea is that you're going from down low
to up high, or up high to down low.
Now, variety is essential when you're shooting gimbal shots.
So when you sit down at your computer to start editing,
you have a bunch of different shots
that really paint the picture of the scene
that you're in and really show your subject
moving and interacting with that scene.
One thing you always wanna do when you're out filming
is think about the edit.
You wanna think how things will be cut together.
Now, one other thing that you wanna think about
is your distance from what it is that you're shooting.
When you're working with subjects,
when you're working with people or something specific,
you don't always wanna be super close in,
on that thing or that person.
Rather, get yourself away, have a big landscape shot
and have your subject move through that scene,
rather than always being super close.
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And next, I highly suggest you check out this.
It's one of my videos from "The Creator Process,"
where I go behind the scenes with other creators
to see exactly how they film their videos.
I'll see you over there.