(light intense music)
(bird wings flapping)
(wolf howling)
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- Welcome to the vlog.
Ooh, what an epic place to start this episode.
In the Canadian Rockies, my absolute favorite place
on the planet, on planet earth,
is Banff National Park.
That's where I am.
I have not been here in years.
I'm so excited to be back.
I'm back in the mountain hoodie.
I'm feeling great.
Minus the fact I'm actually, I still have a cough,
and that cough has got so bad that it actually,
I feel like it bruised the muscle between my ribs.
So it's just, I'm in pain, guys.
(exhaling)
Look how clear the water is.
Like look that.
That's water, ooh.
And it's so cold.
It's cold because it's glacier fed water.
Which means coming down from the top of the mountains.
I just love it here so much.
Like look, look at this.
We got up at like 5:00 a.m. this morning
so we could get here so the light
was nice and flat and even.
It's a little bit overcast today,
so it's making for like the best possible light.
There's also a lot of forest fires happening
in B.C. right now, which is very sad and unfortunate.
The smoke from those fires,
has actually traveled this far
and it's kind of blanketing a lot of the national park,
so seeing the mountains kinda cutting through that haze
is gonna be a bit of an issue today.
But it still just looks as beautiful as ever.
I mean look flat this light is.
I'm out here trying to make good content
with my best friend.
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(feet shuffling)
What's up, man?
- Cool.
Traveling again?
- [Peter] Good to see ya.
When's the last time we traveled?
- It's been way too long.
We haven't traveled once this summer.
I was just telling my guys, we haven't traveled once.
Not once.
- [Peter] And what a place to make up for that.
- Your favorite place in the whole world, right?
- My favorite place in the whole world,
with my favorite person.
We're gonna go get some great footage.
Check out the ride we got for this whole trip too,
it's super dope.
Ugh, great parking job, bro.
Looks amazing.
It's the all new Santa Fe 2019.
It's so shiny and smooth right now.
Let me turn the frame.
Oh.
Thanks, Hyundai.
(dinging)
(hammering)
(laughing)
(coughing)
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Oh, dude, stop, stop.
Holy, there's a chipmunk in here.
- [Matti] No.
- Dude he just ran under the seat.
(screaming)
- Yeah, I saw it.
(laughing)
- [Peter] You see him?
Is he under your side?
Oh he's back here.
Hang on, move your seat back.
- [Matti] No, I don't wanna crush him.
- [Peter] Oh there he is.
I see him!
Oh my goodness.
- [Matti] I'll open this door.
- [Peter] One second.
Okay, door's open.
- [Matti] Oh, he's here, here's here.
- [Peter] Is he gone?
- He's gone!
He's on that rock over there.
- [Peter] Oh my goodness, dude.
What the heck?
How did he get in here?
- I don't know.
Should we check for more?
- Oh my goodness.
That scared the crap outta me, dude.
I was just like, I'll review some of these photos.
And I look down and there was a chipmunk like,
"What's up, Pete?"
One of my favorite things about this national park
is it looks good everywhere.
A lot of the times you just pull over
to throw your four ways on and
there's like shots to be had everywhere.
So Matti is just setting up his Ronin S
so we can get some nice movement, some nice flow
to some of these shots.
- You know what I hate, Peter?
- [Peter] What?
- When it looks good everywhere
and you don't know where to shoot.
That's what I hate.
- Yeah, every direction looks good.
We should just make sure the doors are closed
so no chipmunks get back inside.
(laughing)
Yeah, you gonna do this today?
- What are you talking about?
I'm super speed.
- [Peter] It's been like an hour.
- It hasn't.
Don't lie to the vlog.
- It's only been like two minutes.
It's actually quite quick.
- Done.
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(eagle screeching)
- I just love Canada.
Ugh.
Do those jumping shots look good?
- I don't know if it was worth that hand, though?
- [Peter] What?
Of course it was.
- Of course, of course.
My bad.
- [Peter] Look at this little guy.
Hey.
What's up, buddy?
(laughing)
These guys are super friend.
I love these guys.
I'm just like hiding here in the rocks
'cause there's chipmunks everywhere
and they keep coming really close to me.
I know they want food but,
I'm trying to take photos of them,
but then like I have a telephoto lens on
and they get too close and I switch to wide
and they run far away.
It's like the know and they're like,
"You won't photograph me."
It's like a theme.
Like, they're in the car.
I think they were trying to get in my camera bag.
I don't know but I love these little guys.
They're fat little chipmunks, too.
Little porkers.
I'm gonna give you guys a travel tip,
when you explore, no matter where you explore,
there are always going to be tourist spots.
Those places are usually mobbed.
Either you get their super early,
and I'm talking like 4:30, 5:00 a.m. you are there
or you go super late,
try to go when people are eating dinner,
or you get to those spots
and you wander off the beaten path as far as you can,
as creative as you can, to avoid the mass of crowds
of people shouting and gathering
and taking all of the exact same photos,
wearing colorful clothing.
As Matti would say, they look like a group of Skittles.
And they're all up there.
So I don't know if you can,
I don't even know if I'm pointing,
this ridge somewhere there's like 50 people.
So we've wandered way down the forest
as you can see from that delicious B roll sequence,
ooh, so tasty.
And now we're in this little rock field
and behind me is one of my favorite lakes called Peyto Lake.
It's actually shaped like a wolf.
If you see it from up high, here's a shot of it.
I'll outline that.
It looks like a wolf.
So that's kind of like a nickname, the wolf or something.
That's a fun little fact there.
Secondly, I hurt my hand again.
The same hand I fell on my one wheel with.
For some reason the left hand always gets destroyed.
I was jumping.
You could see that nice jumping shot here that Matti got,
that nice push through, which was amazing.
I did the old Air Jordan jump.
And when I landed, I braced myself with my left hand
and I cut it so it hurts a little bit.
But I gotta say, like, standing up here,
at the very top of Peyto Lake, like,
(sighing)
I live for these vlog moments.
It's also starting to rain,
and it's kind of like a muddy track back to the top,
so we should probably get a move on.
Let's do that.
Careful here, back down.
(grunting)
Here's another fun tip while we're out here.
Never turn off your camera.
So many people turn their cameras off
when they're done shooting,
but the start up time, yes it's fast,
but it's faster to not turn it off.
And the amount of power that your battery uses
keeping your camera on, negligible.
So keep it on and when you need it, it's there.
It seems like something no brainer.
But I gotta tell you, leave it on,
and two months from now you'll be like,
"Pete, that was such a great tip.
"Thanks, bro."
Oh, oh, oh.
- [Matti] Sorry buddy.
- I love these guys.
I just love them so much.
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- So we've been driving a lot on this trip
and we've been talking a lot
and one of the things we've been talking about
is our B roll.
It's similar but different, you say, right?
- Yeah.
I mean sometimes, you know,
people don't even say its B roll.
They're like, "It's not B roll, it's A roll,
"because you're just making cinematic sequences."
But B roll's supposed to go over--
- Semantics.
- Your story, but my story is the vlog.
- Maybe to kind of point out the differences in our B roll,
we should do like a battle or something like that.
- Like a fight to the death.
- Like a B roll battle.
- B roll battle camera show down, wild west.
We drove all over the place to find
a secluded, quiet, pretty location to do this
that we wouldn't be bothered by
the mobs of tourists everywhere.
- We had a different spot earlier,
and we literally sat there for like a half an hour
waiting for the mobs of tourists.
- Just waiting.
- No.
- So this is the spot.
So this is the thing.
I am gonna shoot a B roll sequence,
Matti's gonna shoot a B roll sequence.
To see Matti's, you're gonna go to his channel.
To see mine, you're gonna go to my channel.
Just a battle to the death.
Whoever loses has to delete their channel.
- Wait, what?
- Yeah, that's what we talked about.
- Oh.
- Yeah.
Stakes are high.
- Oh, alright, let's get to it.
- Yeah.
First round knock out.
Okay I was gonna flip a coin
to see who could go first, but nobody has coins here
because it's 2018, so Matti's gonna go first.
And I'm gonna sit here, I'm gonna watch, I'm gonna judge.
I'm gonna judge the technique of travel fields over here.
In his raincoat.
He's even got a raincoat.
That must be nice.
Shield him from the rain that's coming down.
It's getting all over the lens.
You gotta like wipe it off every five seconds.
Can kinda get annoying.
But the one good thing is it's overcast.
So like really nice reflections on the car
which is great if you're shooting car stuff.
Super bright sunlight would be a little bit hard right now
so I would prefer this weather than harsh sun so.
My pinky hurts a little bit though from that rock dive.
Not gonna lie.
Ugh, I'm always getting hurt.
(breathing heavily)
Trying to get some exercise in.
Work those lungs.
(grunting)
Big puddle (laughing).
(swooshing)
Little update on the cough.
Seems to be going away a little bit.
This is the first day I feel better.
So I'm very excited about that
'cause I feel like I've been sick for eternity.
Yeah, I'm just killing time while Matti B rolls.
I'm thinking about my strategy.
(laughing)
(grunting)
Nailed it.
Done?
- Done.
- [Peter] Alright.
- Your turn.
- Let's go.
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Woo!
What an ending to the B roll challenge,
just bombing that puddle.
That felt great.
Matti almost got soaked, sorry about that.
- Very close, I was literally like this much into the water.
Like this.
- [Peter] Ah!
You just made it.
- With my gimbal.
- [Peter] You did it for the vlog.
- Did it for the shot.
- I love it, man.
Okay so, again if you guys wanna see Matti's section
of the B roll challenge, the B roll showdown,
the camera fight to the death, whatever you wanna call it,
head over to his channel, I'll link it below.
And then drop some comments here
on what you guys thought.
Like they're obviously both very different shooting styles.
Matti really likes the wide cinematic shots,
the lead shot, the follow shots.
Where I'm very close up detail oriented so
just a cool example to kinda show you guys
how Matti and I would crack the same sequence.
So hope you guys enjoyed that.
Maybe we'll do more in the future.
High five.
- High five.
- Good job. - Thanks.
- Woo.
It's been a long day already.
I think I'm like about ready for bed.
Are you?
Alright.
Let's head back to the hotel.
(rock music)
Okay, we are back at the hotel.
That was, how long was that drive?
- Long.
- It felt like two hours.
It might have actually been two hours.
Very low on energy, need to eat some food.
See you in a bit.
- Yep.
- Oh, I'm exhausted.
(clicking)
Ugh.
(doors sliding)
Three doors to get outta here.
(jumping)
(sighing)
It's always so great to get back to the room
after you've spent like the entire day
mobbing the mountains, and that is exactly what we've done.
And one of the first things I do when I get back to the room
is I charge the batteries, I dump the footage,
I throw everything onto a drive
and Matti and I usually switch,
copy each other's footage over,
and then we go have dinner and
kinda talk about how the day went.
We also swap footage because it's just,
it's really nice to be able to work with a friend
who, when there's no competition,
where you're able to actually share footage.
So I used some of the stuff that he shoots,
he uses some of the stuff that I shoot,
and it just makes our videos, collectively, better.
So there's no reason not to do that.
And to be able to find someone who's cool with that
and what benefits you, benefits me, and vice versa.
That's just a really great,
it's a really great thing to have.
So I love that.
And I encourage you guys to kinda try the same thing
if you have someone that also films
and you guys can go out and shoot together.
Before I go, I just wanted to say
maybe you would be interested in winning a 5D Mark IV
because Hyundai is actually doing a contest,
if you go over to a website, which I've also linked below,
which is HyundaiSocialContest.ca,
you can enter for your chance to win a 5D Mark IV as well,
and then maybe you can go mob the mountains
with one of your buddies
and take some banger shots for Instagram,
or just go on video, or take shots because it's fun,
or whatever you want.
Links below, guys.
Thank you so much for watching.
(sighing)
I'm gonna pass out because we gotta
wake up at 4:30 a.m. tomorrow
and do this all over again.
That's it guys.
Thanks for watching the vlog.
Just gonna, I'm just gonna go to sleep right here
'cause I'm done.
See ya in the next video.
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Goodnight.