today I want to show you five Pro gimbal moves that you can
use to create great videos for yourself or for your clients
who makes the Weeble 3. now this isn't my review of the Weeble 3 you can see that up
in the corner it'll pop up here but this is one of my favorite travel gimbals because of
how small and lightweight it is but not only that it can handle a lot of weight so this
is one of the better gimbals for filming what we're going to film today because we're going
to be running up a Mountainside and creating a story about going to a Mountaintop to be able to
enjoy the view let's go first shot it might seem really simple but following your subject through
a scene works really well especially if you're coming down a long Corridor a long hallway or
in this case we're gonna have Keith go across a bridge I'm going to follow him as he crosses
this bridge into this epic location and starts the journey kind of up the hill toward the Mountaintop
but there's a couple of things to keep in mind you can follow from behind that works really
well but we're also going to do it from the front because you want to get a lot
of variety of different types of shots whenever you're doing these so you do all of your shots
multiple times so that when you come to edit you have a lot of different options to pull from
this next shot it might seem simple but it can do a lot for your story or for your videos you
put it together and that's a simple sliding shot where you're just basically moving the gimbal left
to right or right to left through a scene now you can do a couple of different ways you can follow a
subject to a scene as you just slide left to right or you can do it from behind them and slide left
to right as they kind of move into the scene and keep moving through the scene you get bonus points
if you use something like the bushes behind me on this bridge because we're going to have Keith
walk across this bridge and then we're going to slide behind him as he gets on the bridge
and walks across you have bonus points if you use something like the bushes here as a foreground and
then you come around behind from behind it and reveal your subject as they move into the scene
the next gimbal move that you're going to want to use a lot is a side tracking shot so we did
kind of the forward push through shots and then we did just a side sliding shot which
a sliding shot you can do from the rear or you can do from the side but a side tracking shot
is different it's where you follow your subject through a scene for a little bit so right here
we've got this nice little Ridge line that goes up and you've got of course this epic
view behind us so we're going to track Keith as he walks up through this and the cool thing
is we've got some of this higher grass and some of these weeds bushes here we're going
to let those go through the shot in between us and the camera and that's going to give
us a lot of sense of motion much more than if we just had a clean shot with nothing moving
between us and the subject so if you can use a foreground something in the foreground to give
that sense of motion that's between you and your subject it'll add a lot to your shots
our next shot is a reveal reveals are great for when you want to show more information
to your audience and let them know what is going to be coming kind of down the road and
it definitely keeps people's interest so we're going to do is we're going to
start with a simple following shot down this path and then we're going to pan and include
another range of motion or another direction of motion pan up to the mountain that we're
trying to climb to get to the top and enjoy the view which is part of our story here
something that's really important in getting good looking gimbal footage is remember to
vary your shots so not all of them are from the same distance away you want to get some
that are really close to your subject and you'll get some that are further away this
is a great spot to do some that are really further away so we're going to just do a
side tracking shot like we did down lower but because of the waterfall behind us and
because this big rock it's going to make for some really great backdrop and really
great scenery to get a full body shot of Keith walking through this epic location
the next move we're going to talk about is a simple pan now there's
two ways to do a simple pan you can just Pan the gimbal left
and right which is fine because the gimbal does smooth out that motion
so now that you've seen the regular pan it's okay it's not that exciting we want to add more motion
to it because what separates Pro gimbal movements from just normal average gimbal movements is the
amount of movement and motion that you get and so you don't want a static shot you want lots
of movement in motion because that's what gimbals are for smoothing all that motion
out so what we're going to do is add a little bit of opposite motion from the direction that
we're panning so we're going to pan left to right just like we did but then at the same
time we're going to move the gimbal from right to left and that's going to introduce parallax
and the last shot we want to get is an orbit shot orbit shots are great for really showing
off your subject and location they're kind of a hero shot like the culmination of the journey
showing off everything your subject worked to get to and they're also great for product shots so an
orbit shot while it's probably one of the more difficult shots to master with the gimbal it's
really important that you get it down because when you do it's absolutely magic you get this
great Parallax effect especially if you use longer focal lengths like this is at 16 millimeters here
it's great I mean it's fine it just doesn't have the same feeling as what we're about to
get which is with about 35 millimeters and our subject standing in the middle so the idea of
this shot is that our hero has had his journey all the way up here and now gets to stop on this
Pinnacle of the top of this mountain and enjoy the view in the Vista and this beautiful fall day
foreign
you're going to want to watch this video right here to learn more tricks and tips
on how to use a gimbal in the meantime if you have questions ask me in the
comments below or join my live stream which happens most Wednesday nights at 4pm Alaska
time 8 PM Eastern at least Wednesday nights when I'm not standing on top
of a mountain in the middle of nowhere see you again soon next video cheers