Hi guys, Marlon King here aka Marlon vlogger, this week Peter
Mckinnon sent out a challenge to his viewers, who can do the best b-roll in
the most boring place you can find. b-roll being a cinematic sequence.
challenge accepted Peter, guys stick around to find out where I decided to
make my cinematic sequence. hi guys what a wonderful day, I'm at Newnham Court Inn, in
Maidstone, this is a nice little pub on the outskirts of Maidstone town just had
band rehearsal with Nick and now we're just going out for a pint. How do you think
rehearsal went today mate? yes good, got another track in the bag, yep sweet as!
and what have you got there? this is the promo copy of our new album continuum
sorry, were you in shot there mate? I'm not sure, this is the promo
copies that we will be sending out shortly to people that were lucky enough to ask
for one ,cool so let's go grab a pint mate, yeah
just finished at the pub nipped off off to Aldi's to try and get some supplies
and this is what happens when you stay at the pub too long, as you might see around
me the car park is completely empty and yeah the place is shut. I think, it's
Sunday so I should have known better. so now I've got to try and get
home and explain that to the wife - sorry we've got absolutely no supplies now. seeing as
I'm here and late for dinner, might as well take the opportunity to do Peter
McKinnon's b-roll change and that is; take a boring location and take some
awesome b-roll footage using only one lens, well I'm going to be using the
Canon 70d 24-105 f/4 lens let's see whether I can make Aldi look cinematic
or, rubbish, probably the latter let's give it a go guys
so guys made it back I just remembered when I started filming that the Canon
70d can't film at 60 frames per second in 1080p so all of that footage was
filmed at 720 actually it couldn't even film at 60 frames I think I had to film
it at 50 frames so that was a little bit frustrating I've obviously got used to
using the g7X Mark ii now which can film at a 60 frames per second so that was
a little bit of a challenge it was fun doing it I'm not sure whether it's going
to look very good, I haven't seen the footage yet, but nonetheless as with all of
these challenges you don't know until you try, so I did for me to use that
camera you know what, I think the Canon 70d is getting a little bit older
now so I probably do need to upgrade at some point but probably best not to talk
about that, i'll have to look at equipment some other time. anyway I'll
quickly show you what I was using when I was looking for ND filters the variable
filters can cost quite a bit however I managed to pick up this K and F concept
I'm not claiming them to be really good quality but what it did allow me to
do is actually pick up an ND filter and start playing around with it
which is all obviously better than having no ND filter whatsoever. for those
unfamiliar, ND filters allow you to keep the frame rates low whilst filming
out in the broad daylight otherwise you'd have to adjust the shutter speed
right up and that's not suitable for filming, it matters slightly less in
photography but certainly with film when you want to keep those fast lenses you
need the ND filters and this is a K&F concept. so this set come with a UV
filter, an ND filter and a CPL filter so it wasn't too bad. they do
various sets of varying prices with very portable little cases so I recommend
getting one if you're starting out and just throw it in your bag and try it out
when you get the chance as I mentioned earlier in the video guys
my band Sons of Alpha Centauri have just released their second album now, it's an
album we've been working on for a long time it's actually out officially on the
1st of June however the pre-orders have started to be shipped and I've got my
copy here, official copy 12-inch vinyl
there we go so the album's called "Continuum" it's instrumental Hard Rock
progressive rock and been mixed by a guy called Aaron Harris who's worked on
several bands such as Isis and Palms so if that is your bag definitely worth checking
it out. I believe it's on all of the streaming platforms now as well or it
will be as of the 1st June so I'm not gonna plug it too much but if you're
interested to see what I've been up to outside of the videos and maybe they'll
help you understand why I'm only doing one video a week rather than daily as
some vloggers are doing. I've obviously got other things going on in the
background, oh and let us know if you want to see more about the band in these
vlogs obviously I could potentially do some
behind the scenes stuff so just give us a shout in the comments if that's
something you're interested in seeing. anyway guys I'm gonna wrap it up here, I
hope you enjoyed this week's video, a little bit random I know however
sometimes I'll just have to share with you what's going down so I'll catch you
same time, next time, which will be hopefully Thursday at 9 p.m.
I've been trying to release at a fixed time, I can't always guarantee it, but at
least that's what I'm trying to do, I hope you had a good bank holiday weekend guys
and on that, Peace!