This video is sponsored by Epidemic Sound. Ahoj, this is Zdenka. Welcome to Oshawa, Ontario,
Canada. I'm standing in the middle of a location which is beautiful and ugly at the same time. This
place used to be full of little boats and little restaurant here. It was a very nice hotspot. Now
it has changed into industrial area and the task today will be to bring the beautiful side of it,
to capture it in the most interesting way. This video will be beginner versus advanced. Not versus
pro, because pro would be most likely filming in manual mode with a variable ND filter. I'm
going to be filming in automatic mode. I'm going to be showing what beginner would most likely do
and give you a whole bunch of tips to step up the game so you can do more of an advanced filmmaking.
To do all this, you can use any smartphone and a gamble and any monopod. But for those interested,
I'm using iPhone 13 Pro, gimbal Zhiyun Smooth 5 and a monopod. I'm going to be filming
in ZY Cami app in 60 frames per second. Some of the shots I'm going to be
slowing down. Most of it, though I'm going to leave in a real speed. The timeline will be
published in 24 frames per second. Most of the beginners would just turn on the gimbal, film
in eye level, and right now I'm filming with ultra wide angle lens because it's big location.
I want to show the big location. I have a Sun behind my back and I'm actually seeing myself in
the shot, the shadow over there, which is quite a bit of a no no. There is whole bunch of bush kind
of blocking the shot, but I don't mind, I'm just showing one big place. Well, let's break it apart
and tackle the plan a little bit differently. I'm going to look at this place and take it apart a
little bit. So right now, I'm seeing a beautiful shot this way because the Sun is in my back. This
is going to be the nicest shot for the smartphone to show the overall location. When I'm going to be
filming detailed shots, I'm going to be facing the Sun, so I get a little bit of a sun streak.
That always looks way better, it doesn't look so flat when you are filming with a smartphone,
and if I'm looking at this location, I see that shot from here looks very good. I also see that
over there is a bridge where I can also film. There is an island in the middle which offers an
access as well, and there are a few more places over there which can capture this location as
well. So that's the plan. Shooting in this location, going to the bridge, going to the middle, going to
the right. A few different angles, a few different shots. I'm also seeing that the majority of the
colors I'm getting is kind of like a blue and the steel over there. And I'm also seeing a lot of
brown of the fall colors, but kind of a dead plants. Those will be our main colors when it comes to
transitions. Maybe masking transmission, maybe pulling to the color. I don't know yet, but
those two colors are dominant enough. There's a lot of shapes here which will allow me
to choose or be creative with transitions. To make the shot better I'm not filming with ultra wide
angle lens. I switch to just the standard lens because we want to see a little bit more of
a closer view. The ultra wide angle lens was simply way too much, and it was not showing off
the location properly. I'm also having here a whole bunch of... I don't I want to say greenery,
brownery, so I'm going to be hiding behind that, revealing this main shot, and I'm making sure I'm
logging the focus. The gimbal's mode is pan follow and I'm going to reveal this location from the
plants out. As I am walking with the Sun in my back and progressing throughout this whole location, I'm
seeing another view which would be quite nice and every beginner would most likely just film this.
Panning to the right or even going forward, missing that there is just spectacular
reflection in the water. So this location is specifically calling for ultra wide angle lens
shot and very low angle. So I'm going to move this came out to a flashlight position because
this gimbal really allows me to do so, and I'm going to just pan
very, very slowly sideways, very close to the water.
I like these locations where everything meets at one spot for a big reveal,
kind of like a drone shot reveal, and my Sun right now is in a back to make sure that I am not
see myself in a shadow. So I'm using ultra wide angle lens. I have two options. I can first
look to the ground with a camera, and as I am lifting, I can reveal the location so I would
be using just all follow mode because I want the gimbal to do the soft ending. But if I want
just go low to the high, then I would do all lock mode, already focus on
already frame the shot and then I would go down with the gimbal.
I'm still in the main location over here. Before I changed of view completely, I'm considering being
myself here, number one, there in the middle and on the bridge number 3.
so I'm still on the location number one. Now many beginners, I'm going to shoot
what they would most likely do right now is just going sideways in the eye level. Well,
there are three things I was doing wrong. First of all, I was walking too heavy. I need to go into
knees in very, very soft ninja walk because this gimbal will help you to stabilize the footage only
to to certain point. The rest you have to do yourself. You need to really go
down low and you need to stabilize it even further. You need to do the work. Second of all,
I would probably use ultra wide angle lens because I want to see a little bit of a foreground,
maybe what's here below me just to give it a little bit more of a dimension. And third of all,
whenever I'm doing shots, I just don't end up at the same position. I'm always thinking,
where can I place a transition? So if I'm seeing a railing right here
or some sort of a barrier or even tree trunk, I'll make sure I finish the shot hiding behind it.
So I have more flexibility in a post to cut it in the other location from revealing somewhere. So
here I'm going to go sideways and then dip to the ground to hide the camera.
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the movement, it is best not to shoot just one clip which is moving sideways or moving forward.
So as I did one shot moving sideways, I'm going to continue with the movement and going forward just
to show the location from a little bit different angle. I found quite nice composition where there
is a lot of detail ahead of me, so I'm going to make sure that the detail is on the first, third
on the grid, which is rule of thirds grid. And then I'm just going to keep moving forward.
Obviously, you have to be very careful, so don't fall because there's a lot of rocks right here.
A lot of beginners will probably just do a few panning shots
of one location and they will move on. It is the best to aim for five shots per certain
angles, certain location like again I am considering these location number one.
I have already five shots one, two, three, four or five and I want to secure it by one close up
shot of the plants. For the close up shot I'm using just a standard lens because I'm finding that the
telephoto is simply way too close and I don't like that, so I'm shooting against the Sun. There is
a little bit of a frozen water, already a little bit ice, which is giving me beautiful reflection
and I'm getting a backlight for the detail shot. All I'm doing is just going up and down,
up and down. I made sure that I lock the brightness and focus on the plant in the front.
Everything else is blurry. That's why you are getting the beautiful bokeh in the background.
Bridge location is next, and here again, I would like to do five different shots.
Let me do just first regular walking through shot most likely beginners
would do and that at just eye level with ultra wide angle lens shot through the bridge.
That shot didn't look bad at all. But we can definitely make it better. I added monopod to
this gimbal. I'm going to start shooting way lower to the ground. And as I'm walking almost at the
end, I'm going to lift it very high in the air. So this is going to be a combination shot.
Very simple, though. Very minimal combination shot. I'm using all locked mode. The camera already
is framing the shot for me, so I don't have to do much. So I'm going to go very low to the ground.
Whenever I'm filming at this kind of a spot where I see a lot of different shapes around me
like this bridge and has many windows openings, then I take advantage of that. Mainly when I'm
backing up and revealing something interesting. It will be definitely eye catching. The closer
I'm going to get to that structure, the better it is. For this one I'm using ultra wide angle lens.
I'm making sure the gimbal is in all lock mode. I'm going to extend a monopod way further
out of the bridge, making sure I'm already framing the object, which will be the ship over there,
and I'm going to be backing up revealing this bridge. Let's do this. I'll try two different
ways. Once I'm going to show bigger window when you are going to see such a
dramatic change. But then I'm going to go to tighter space where you will see a lot more shape.
OK, one more time.
Shot number three on the bridge will happen right here. In the previous location,
I was actually hiding behind the railing, so this is a perfect spot to reveal another location.
I'm going to start from hiding behind this railing the same color and I'm going to go down
revealing the river. The mode I'm using is all locked mode. I'm already framing the shot now
and I simply just tested by seeing how it's going to look like. So again, I'm starting here.
To finish the sequence with the bridge, I'm just going to do
backup shot hiding behind the rocks, I think, but I'm going to shoot forward as well. Again, I'm
going to use all locked mode because I'm going to frame the shot already. I'm using standard lens.
Last shot for today is from the other side of this location.
And I think that most of the beginners would just select regular lens and
today would do again, just a panning shot showing off the location, but I had a lot of already
shots with a standard lens and ultra wide angle lens. What I didn't mention today is taking
advantage of the foreground, which would be this so I'm shooting which telephoto lens
and just going to go through some foreground to get more interesting look.
All the shows are finished, it's time to edit it, add some music and sound effects, color grading and
play the final result. But now I'm going to mention one more mistake
which beginners can do, and that will be using too much of a strong
sound effects overpowering the music. Make sure it is in balance when you listen to it.
Make sure it's all making sense, it's not very strong. So let's play the final cinematic B-roll.
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