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- Today we're talkin B-roll.
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Okay, it's extremely easy to clutch on the 120p.
And it's amazing.
It always looks good, but I feel like I always do it now.
I need to remind myself not to always shoot
in 120p for B-roll, so as a reminder,
there's different frame rates.
You can shoot in 24 frames.
It actually feels real.
You can have real emotions, not just, like,
slow motion versions of emotions being shown.
When you're shooting different frame rates,
be purposeful with them.
Don't always clutch on 120p because it might
not actually be the right fit,
unless it's like a super epic shot,
where, like, hair's blowing in the wind,
or something along those lines.
But change it up.
Try different frame rates.
I really like 24 right now, kind of like a organic,
live feel to it.
Okay, a super easy one is try rack focusing
on your shots.
So here we have a shot of the car,
and we're gonna rack focus from the wall
which adds eyeballs on it, which looks really nice.
The rack focusing from the wall to the car,
which actually changes it up and looks different.
You don't always see people rack focusing all the time.
So try a rack focusing shot, whether it's, like,
on manual mode and you're actually rack focusing
yourself, or you just allow the camera to go
from one point to another point.
- If you're spending way too much time trying
to think of what dramatic movement you can do
in your B-roll, maybe just try not doing any,
and if you just set up your tripod, balance it,
create a very nice symmetrical shot.
Just try locking it off, because doing a series
of those can actually give you a really dramatic
and pretty epic effect.
- So instead of (siren blaring)
just shooting 120.
I feel like right as it started.
Okay, something different that's actually really fun
to try is handheld shot, so this kinda creates a little bit
of, like, anxiety in the shot.
So we did a music video a couple of years ago
where it was like a very heavy rock song,
and we wanted to shoot the entire thing handheld,
and although we own a Ronin S stabilizer
and could shoot it all slow motion,
it actually supported the music video
to shoot it handheld.
So sometimes handheld is actually the best type of shot,
and because everything is kinda smooth these days,
it's almost that it's like reverting back
to like we want handheld types of shots now.
So, try a handheld for one of your B-roll shots.
All right, next one, super easy, timelapse.
Just set up your tripod somewhere, press record,
and then speed it up, and it shows a timelapse sequence,
which can be very interesting, depending
on how you use it.
Okay, a big thing that I actually learned
from Taylor Cut Films, is I actually change up the type
of shot when you're at a location.
Shoot a wide, shoot a closeup, and then shoot a macro shot
of it, because having diversity in your shots can make a
more interesting sequence.
It's very easy to just have like one shot in mind,
and be like, shot it like this, and then you're like,
Oh, okay, that's the only shot I got when I got there.
So force yourself, like, shoot at 24 mil, then 15 mil,
then 100 mil, then macro, and kind of like,
give a sense of the scene.
So change up the types of shots that you have.
I also should not have picked a skate park
to do the talking parts on,
because I'm sure it's (skateboard banging)
very loud.
(laughs) Okay.
This is a fun one, actually try attaching
your camera to something, so if you have a mount,
attach it to a broom, or attach it to the car,
or attach it to the various items that you're using,
and it kinda give a POV experience of what
it's like to be that item.
So try attaching it to things.
Okay, so drones are so cheap these days.
You guys have to start actually bringing them with you.
Get top-down shots, get like movement across shots.
Get trackings shots.
Bust the drone out, get it in the sky,
because a camera in the sky is very, very interesting.
If you guys don't have a drone, like in an example here,
we're on an underpass of a bridge,
so maybe I could go to the top of the bridge,
and I could shoot the car driving under the bridge,
so that you get an aerial shot example,
so you don't always need a drone.
But this is more of like an idea
of changing up the levels of your shots.
So if you have a few extra dollars
and you can afford a gimbal.
(shouting)
Oh yeah, I'm not shooting a YouTube video
over here or anything like that.
Okay if you guys actually have a stabilizer,
start using the stabilizer.
Bring it with you.
I know they're kind a big and bulky, and heavy.
But if you guys can use it,
it can actually make very cinematic shots.
A gimbal might be the right type of B-roll
for the video that you're trying to shoot,
so but out that gimbal again.
All right, POV shots, that is point of view shots,
this actually allows the person who's watching
to experience what somebody might be doing,
so in this case, if you got a GoPro,
throw a GoPro on their head.
It's a nice wide angle, and you can have like a POV
of somebody driving a car or whatever experience
that they're going through.
And that kind of like translates the emotion connection
of what it might be like to be in that situation.
So try a POV shot for your B-roll.
Al right, this is my friend Ross.
He's actually gonna be operator of our slider right now,
so we're gonna actually begin trying a tracking shot.
So we're gonna have our friend Heather walking
into the car, and actually having a tracking shot
on the slider.
It could be like a really cool cinematic B-roll choice.
Great job being the actor.
- Thank you so much.
- So that was quick and dirty.
It's just a few ideas to help change up your type
of B-roll that you're shooting, so you're not
always relying on 120 frames a second..
I mean I feel like I still always rely a bit
on 120p, so this is more of a lesson for me
to change it up, but hopefully this will change the flow
of your types of videos.
And it's actually a reminder to be purposeful
with the type of B-roll that you're capturing
and making sure that the types of shots
that you're getting support the content
that you're shooting, and you're not always clutched
on the same type of look all the time.
So with that being said, throw your B-roll ideas
in the comments section below.
Let's make a huge thread on different ideas
so this would just be like a place
where people can come to and have B-roll ideas
for days and months and years at this point.
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