My name is Matt Como.
I'm a filmmaker and photographer.
I pretty much just wanted to document my travels
not only for, obviously, the Internet and YouTube,
but more so just for myself to see.
And like the YouTube travel vlog,
like whole thing is just my creative outlet
to make what I want to make.
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So what I'm going to walk you through right now is a shot list
I did for a company called "Movement"
which is this watch company right here.
We did this campaign "How We Do Time."
So the idea for this is
we have 24 hours to make the most out of the day.
For the most part, YouTube videos can be very run-and-gun,
you can show up to your location,
you can just shoot around, get whatever clip you need
and be done with it.
"Yes. Yes. Yes. No!No!"
But for something like this where you're allowed one day,
you only have a certain amount of time to do everything,
like you need to get the stuff figured out beforehand
and having a tool like this is super helpful for that.
Here is the breakdown of the shot list.
So we have time,
we have our shot,
camera,
shot size, equipment, lens and location.
For this particular shoot,
I believe we had like three or four locations.
We started out in Lake Tahoe for an early morning sunrise hike,
and then after the hike we went to Squaw Valley,
we snowboard in the early afternoon.
After the early afternoon,
I got on a flight back to Rome from Orange County.
In Orange County, I went cliff jump in at the spot.
I grew up cliff jumping at.
And then from there we got picked up in a helicopter and did a sunset,
like nighttime ride over downtown L.A.
It says the perfect 24-hour California day,
but in reality, no,
you only have maybe 12-ish hours to shoot it.
You want to think about what shots are essential?
What do you need to get to actually make a story?
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In here we have camera.
So I really shot with three cameras for this.
So it's A7R III is the main body.
Cannon 16-35 2.8.
I have a 35 f/1.4 prime.
And then my vlog camera is a RX100 Mark 5.
Phantom 4 Pro
when I'm kind of like around L.A.
but when I travel I like a Little Mavic Air.
And then Gimbels.
I'm going to start using the Ronin-S.
I've never been like a gearhound
because the more time you take deciding like,
what lens am I going to use for this,
the less creative you are to like the overall vision of what
you're trying to make in my opinion.
So I try to like minimize the amount of decisions I have to make.
So this isn't like set in stone,
like you can be on set and you can change what you need.
So this was actually going to set up the snowboarding scene.
Right now, it's at the end
and it shows that we did it like last in the order.
We actually did that first.
These two scenes that you see here,
you have the shot of me backflipping off this cliff.
Then you have this underwater shot.
Now on the surface is do look like two very different shots,
that would be different setups and different scenes,
but it's actually the same setup, same scene.
We had special equipment for this,
in my special equipment, I mean, we had a underwater Dome Housing.
So that allowed
a friend of mine to actually go out and get the appropriate angle
with his A7 II
and get two very different-looking shots with the exact same setup,
so we didn't change one's is didn't change body,
but we were able to get this like really cool extreme close up of the water moving.
We shot that a 120 frames per second,
so it's slow down really nice in post,
and then you actually bring it up out of the water
because it was far back from where I was,
and also turned into a wide shot.
It`s a little like this, where you can get
these two completely different feeling looks and aesthetics
with the exact same setup and it all just comes down to planning and
coordinating what you want to do.
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So minute might be overlooked but I'm really particular about is
the way things are aligned,
and what's really cool about this,
so these three little toggles that you have here is just a different way,
of like looking at your shot list,
kind of like you look at files in your Mac finder.
So this one you have like the thumbnails
and then you have like the description of the shot.
Keep click over, it gets rid of the thumbnails,
just gives you the relevant information,
and then if you go to the right,
go to the storyboard view,
you have more of a snapshot of what each individual frame will look like.
And then this print view,
so when you actually do go to print out your shot list,
it's all correctly formatted,
so it fits on a page,
which I don't know if any of you guys use Microsoft Word or Excel,
things never seem to print in the right way, so this is nice.
Two other cool features other than the views
that I like to use a lot is this presentation mode.
So if you click this it's just a very
visually pleasing way to look at your shot list.
You can scroll through these thumbnails.
So this is a perfect if you're giving a presentation to a director, a studio.
What's really cool
is that like a Dropbox or Google Drive,
you can actually share this.
It gives you a link for it
and this can be sent in like a view-only mode,
so you don't need an account to actually do this.
You can also invite them to edit it as well.
It's really convenient, actually.
The last little button over here
is little two comment thought bubbles
and it's exactly what you think it would be.
Once you would like do share this document
and invite collaborators.
You guys can go on to every single shot and give feedback.
You don't need to send emails,
don't need to go into text messages,
it's like all-inclusive on this one site.
So it's really nice
when my company has come along
and they take something in this like archaic
and hold and, you know, revamp it and make it new
and this is like, you know, it's a great example of that.
There's nothing really out there that makes a shot list so easy to make.
This video link will be down below
and if you guys like what you saw, go check out StudioBinder.
It's a very valuable tool
and I definitely plan on using it for my projects going for it.
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24 hours, 1440 minutes, 86.400 seconds.
We all have the same amount of time in a day.
It's what you choose to do with that time that counts.