- I know it's midsummer, but I had the A/C
I left it on all night and it's like 64 in here.
You could actually chill beverages just having them on
your desk it's so cold right now.
What's up everybody? Peter McKinnon here and welcome back
to another tutorial.
Today, today's something different.
We're not necessarily teaching camera specifics,
but I'm going to be reviewing your footage.
And this is something I've never done before.
I've actually been asked to critique photos
and review videos and do some kind of feedback style
episode, and I never have until actually today.
So I'm a little weird about doing it just because
I don't ever want anyone to be offended with my opinion
on their work.
And this is really interesting because I hadn't planned
on doing this.
So last week I put out a video called The B-Roll Challenge,
and essentially that was how to get good b-roll footage
no matter where you are, at any time, anywhere.
I kind of ran you guys through the things that I look for,
the things that I see when I'm shooting b-roll,
no matter where I am in the world.
And we used the intersection at the bottom of my office
as an example of that.
I did not leave that intersection and try to build
and entire b-roll sequence.
Now at the end of this video I said,
"I would love to see what you guys created.
"Use #PMbrollchallenge."
And I posted the video and the weekend came
and there you go and peace out.
I did not expect the amount of entries that we got
for the PM B-roll Challenge.
My friend was like, "Have you looked at that hashtag?"
I was like, "No actually, I totally forgot."
Busted my phone out and was like,
"Wow! There are so many entries."
And guys, you did such a great job.
Thank you so much to everybody that made an entry
and posted it online for me to see.
You guys are the greatest,
and some of you are amazing, by the way.
Some of you are making me look bad.
I don't even know if I wanna do this. (whirring)
No, but joking aside there were some great entries
so I figured today's episode would be going over some
of the ones that I chose to critique and play for you guys
so you can see what your fellow cinematographers
and filmmakers and fellow content creators are creating
on the platform around the world and then we would talk
about each video, so that's what today's gonna be.
And I'm actually quite excited about it.
Now I wanted to address because I know a lot of you will
be asking, "Who won the 1Ds Mark II camera?"
And I'm gonna announce that winner next Two Minute Tuesday,
so next week, so stay tuned for that.
That'll be coming on Tuesday.
But let's jump in to the first video of
the PM B-roll Challenge, posted by Nick Zamudio.
I'm sorry if I pronounce anyone's names wrong.
Names are really really hard. But this is Nick's video.
It's titled Breakfast. Let's take a look.
I appreciate that.
Yes. Ooh!
I love that he's just making breakfast.
Yes!
Alright, Nick wins.
Okay, breakfast. That was great. Nick, that was amazing.
That was exactly 34 seconds and that was the epitome of
what I was challenging people to do.
Making a b-roll sequence no matter where you are with what
you have, immediately with your surroundings.
So Nick's making breakfast, we have a beautiful shot of
the cream or the milk going into the coffee,
which always looks so good for visuals,
for Instagram photos, photography, anything like that.
What I really liked was the egg spinning at the beginning
and how you had sound effects going with that.
(fast whirring)
That was really really cool.
That's actually a lot harder to do than it looks,
timing those sound effects.
So, well done.
But one thing I will say is when the avocado shot dropped
in frame, I know you did kind of a zoom transition
on the hit of the music to showing it opened.
I was kind of really hoping
that I would get some kind of epic knife
slice to actually show the act of cutting that open
instead of it already being open.
I loved your little transitions, I love how you're using
whip pans and a little bit of in camera shake to mask
different speed ramps and stuff like that.
Well done, dude. Keep it up. Keep up the great work.
This one is from Usman Mumtaz.
It's called The Streets of Lahore.
Let's check it out. Looks a little something like this.
Good transition there.
(clapping)
Very well done.
Okay that was 56 seconds, so it was a little longer than
the challenge, but that was still great.
I loved your use of speed ramps and frame blocking
through the windows as I'm assuming you were either in
the back seat of a car or a cab or an Uber.
Not sure where in the world that was but it looked awesome.
Super visual, very cinematic.
There was a couple shots like this one specific right here
that I think hung a little bit too long.
I think you probably could have cut that at least in half or
a little bit sooner and replaced that with something else.
I think a lot of the times with b-roll, and I do this too,
which is really really hard especially if you're shooting in
slow-mo or you've got a tracking shot
of something happening.
It's hard to know when to cut that, because the shot might
be so good, or that slow-mo looks so great, or that tracking
shot looks amazing and you wanna hold it because the payoff
is still coming or it's just incredible.
It's knowing when to actually stop that
and tie it into something else.
That's the mark of a great editor
and I struggle with that myself, too.
So I think that shot could've been cut a little bit shorter.
But dude, great job. Loved it. Great choice of music.
I love that kind of stuff. So well done, man.
Thank you for sharing that with us.
Okay, moving on to the next one.
This is called Laundry by David Lopez, let's take a look.
- Hey Peter, what's up? My name's David.
I'm currently doing laundry as you can see here.
So let's do that b-roll challenge you
suggested in your video. Hope you like it.
- Ooh, got some masking going on.
Okay, I love it. This is the epitome of
the b-roll challenge, using what you have no matter
where you are.
This dude is doing his laundry, shot this on his phone,
it's all he had on him.
But that's exactly kind of what these b-roll sequences
are supposed to be.
You are vlogging, you're filming your day, you find
yourself at a laundromat, and you're just showing
the process in a little more of like cinematic way
than you would normally do that.
So I love that. Great job on that.
That last shot hung a little bit too long, again.
The clothes washing in there, I would've loved to have seen,
that was a wide shot. Maybe if you had punched in a little
bit at the end to show an extreme closeup of the clothes
moving just so that it wasn't that last, it was a good
10 seconds or so of the same clip.
So I would've either cut that or put a close up in at
the end instead of letting it hang so long.
Another thing you could've done, I don't know how good
the iPhone is or the Samsung phones for waterproof
ratings, I know that the 10 is waterproof, but maybe even
throwing the phone in the washing machine for like
five seconds, stopping it, and grabbing it, retrieving it
so it's not in there for like 30 minutes. Bad idea.
But getting an interesting shot or GoPro or anything like
that in the actual laundry machine would've been really
really cool for like five seconds.
Potentially very damaging to your phone as well.
So I'm not suggesting anyone does that.
Just where my mind goes intantly, being able to see inside
that would've been super cool.
But dude, I loved it. Great job. Good job on the masking.
And making use of your surroundings.
Thank you.
To the next one.
This is fun, I'm having a great time.
This one is from Marjolein.
I'm so bad with names.
This is from Amsterdam.
Some little Amsterdam b-roll sequence.
Let's go ahead and roll that.
Seamless transition, love that.
Nice.
Speed ramps.
I think I've been to this exact spot.
Great use of sound, I heard those bikes.
It's smooth.
Cool. I love that, specifically I loved that there wasn't
a lot of really slow-mo in this one.
I felt like maybe those slow shots were at 60 frames,
they weren't 120 for sure.
There may have been some at the end there.
Those nice tracking shots were beautiful.
That transition at the beginning was great, seamless.
But I love that you were just capturing street life.
It was exactly what you were experiencing.
So if you were in that square, which I think is where you
were, I think I was shooting there with Casey,
you're capturing the bubbles there's always a ton
of pigeons there, people taking photos.
I love that you were just showing life happening around you.
And that's exactly kind of what these sequences are.
Either what you're going through that day at that specific
time or what you're experiencing on vacation.
And you're just showcasing that in a good,
how long was that?
53 seconds. Got a perfect sense of where you were.
Very very well done. I would say keep it up.
I loved your use of sound. I would maybe suggest bringing
the levels down just slightly so that it's not so much
of just a very distinct,
"oh, I heard those spokes of the bike".
I would rather be like, "did I just hear the bike?
"Are those feathers?"
It's the subtleness of it and I'm working on that too,
because my levels are sometimes just,
just all over the place.
But great job, thank you so much for sharing.
Okay we got time for some more, right?
Like this is gonna be a long video but if we're having
a good time, let's just keep it going.
Okay this one's from Ramy Ozara from Switzerland.
Let's check out his b-roll sequence, The B-Roll Challenge.
Oo-hoo, hyperlapse!
Love that.
There you go, some PM action right there.
One minute, four seconds.
Obviously Ramy knows what he's doing.
That felt like watching one of my vlogs, so very good.
My only issue with this is
it wasn't really the b-roll challenge.
That felt more like a really great intro to a vlog.
We saw a subway in that, we saw buildings, there was
a hyperlapse, there was walking through a market,
going down stairs.
There was a lot of different areas with that, whereas
the challenge is more so like,
"Okay I'm sat here right now. I have a gorilla pod,
"I've got a roll of gaff tape, this is my desk.
"I'm going to stick to b-roll of just this area."
The exercise is to really focus in on not so much of
a variety of locations, but just limiting yourself to
something that forces that creativity out of you.
So very good job, your video is amazing,
but I would recommend maybe trying it in just a very
tight quarters, like the laundromat.
Dude's doing his laundry and he's just stuck with that.
Great job. Masking transitions on point.
I heard all those market sounds, all the sounds.
The glitch was amazing, loved the glitch.
But great job, dude. That was damn good.
We got some more. I got room left on my memory card.
We're gonna keep going, we're gonna keep rolling with this.
Keep rolling with this. B-rolling. P-roll. Okay.
Alright, this is from Tristan Mark.
This was shot out his office window of the seventh floor
I believe, wherever he works in the world.
Let's take a look at what this looks like.
I hear that plane.
I just, I love birds.
I love that.
You know, that was honestly one of my favorite ones.
I love the pacing, I love the tone of this one.
I love that it was very unique.
It was soft, it was beautiful, it was great visuals of
sunset and the birds and the sounds
and it was just really soft.
I like the change of pace for this.
Obviously this guy is shooting this out his window,
you can only get what you can get.
But he did a great job.
So let's say your vlog is at the office, and you're like,
"Alright guys, the sun is setting, I'm gonna get going.
"The sun is coming down low, so let's pack this day up
"and move to the car. We'll see you guys there."
This could kinda just fade in real nice to just
kinda set the mood of the day.
So Tristan, you did great job.
I'm a huge fan.
Alright so next up we have a collaboration b-roll
challenge from Audrey and Cody.
I guess Audrey and her friend Cody live in different parts
of the states and they both filmed the b-roll
and combined it together.
I haven't seen this yet but
I saw a little snippet of this on Twitter.
So let's go ahead and check out what this looks like.
Kind of excited for this, to be honest.
Very good use of shooting what's around you,
as you guys could see.
You saw a lot of the same clips, but that's because you're
trying to get the most out of the area that you're in.
Great masking, I love that you were going to the beat of the
music, even if it wasn't a transition, it was just like a
punch in, punch back out. That kind of stuff is great.
My recommendation too is I don't think that was
shot in 24 frames a second.
It looked kinda like it was in 30 or 60,
which kind of made it look a little more
home video versus cinematic.
I would've preferred it in 24 frames a second.
I think it would've looked better.
I think the motion blur, because you did a lot of pans,
a lot of whip pans, it would've looked better with
that proper frame rate.
So that would be my one recommendation is to shoot that in
24p, or make sure that your timeline is matched up to
your actual footage.
Thank you so much to everyone that submitted their
PM b-roll challenge videos.
I really had a good time doing this.
If you guys liked this format and wanna see more
of this style video, let me know in
those comments down below.
I'm gonna be checking them out and I'd love to know
your thoughts on this.
But I really had a good time and thank you for
putting yourselves out there because it's not easy
to watch your work get critiqued by someone else
on the internet in front of hundreds of thousands of people.
Good job to you. Keep creating.
The fact that you guys are going out there and utilizing
the stuff that I am teaching makes me so happy.
So that is today's video, guys.
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