Welcome to another video on how to get the 'cinematic look' in this video we're
going to be debating whether you should go handheld or use a gimbal.
Hey there! welcome to the video I'm Mark Brown from Editors Keys and this is a
little series about how you can master the cinematic look with your camera. In
the last video we talked about the best settings that you should dial into your
camera and if you want to see that video you can just click up here to watch that
and you can see the entire playlist all the way through. Now in this video we're
going to be talking at whether you should go handheld or use a gimbal for
your shoots. Now there are a ton of videos already on YouTube about how to
master the cinematic look but I think a lot of these videos are really how to
master the "YouTube look" you know they all say the same thing grab a gimbal
film everything in slow motion and pretty much you're ready to go... but how
many films have you watched where everything is in slow motion and
everything is super smooth? So in this video I wanted to explore actually when
should you use a gimbal and when should you go handheld and how did the two
shots kind of compare what we're gonna do in a moment is we're gonna go out
onto the Editors Keys roof and just film a really really basic kind of walk up
and down the roof and we're gonna film one section of it using a FeiyuTech
gimbal and then the other section we're gonna film it handheld and we're just
going to show you the power of using two different methods so we've just jumped
out of the studio and come up to the rooftop garden of the editors keys
offices and as you can see it's a pretty cold foggy day here in Manchester but we
want to show you some of the equipment that we use and we've got a FeiyuTech
gimbal and then we'll show you the difference between handheld and gimbal
shots so let's jump into it
so that's our first little sequence there we filmed that with the FeiyuTech AK4500 gimbal
you can watch a full review by the way if you want to see a
review of that gimbal up here but that gimbal just helps you get some real
silky smooth shots and paired with slow motion I really do think that gimbal
shots really look great in certain situations they can be very
cinematically can look really great especially if you're doing maybe product
shots if you're filming small business that kind of thing or if you need a
dreamy sequence for your film they can look really good so now we're gonna show
you what we shot after we took off the gimbal and we just literally use this
handheld with the strap so we'll show you the same sequence with just handheld
footage
so that was the handheld footage and you can already tell it's a lot more shaky
than the gimbal shots of course and if you pair this with sound effects if you
color correct it in a different style you'll see some real different looks so
what we're going to do now is we're going to re-edit these shots and we're
going to add a bit of eerie music to the handheld shots we're gonna add some
summery kind of sound effects and music to the gimbal shots and just show you
how actually handheld sequences can actually be used in a different way to a
gimbal sequence and how both of them can give you the cinematic look but in two
completely different styles so I'll show you that
so you can see they're just by changing the color correction just by adding some
sound effects and then shooting in two very different styles you can actually
get two very different feeling scenes from your videos so next time you go out
on film think to yourself should I'll be using a gimbal for every single shot or
should I maybe go handheld once in a while to achieve that kind of eerie look
that kind of look that you see on a lot of crime and drama films you know I hope
that's helped you and let us know in the comments section below are you going to
be trying this out from now on or are you just one of those youtubers who are
doing everything on gimbal or everything on handheld I'd love to hear from you
and remember the next video is all going to be about that color correction how to
actually achieve that color correction in programs like Final Cut Premiere Pro
or even luma fusion and we'll also be giving away some free Luntz in the next
video as well so make sure you see that you don't want to miss that one so
thanks for watching and I'll see you in the next video