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Conceptos básicos de la cámara para el | del video

teacher avatar Kent Hart

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Lessons in This Class

    • 1.

      Introducción

      1:17

    • 2.

      Construye una comunidad

      4:00

    • 3.

      Cuerpos de cámara

      2:29

    • 4.

      Tipos de cámaras

      3:23

    • 5.

      Lentes de cámara

      1:45

    • 6.

      Filtros de cámara

      2:00

    • 7.

      Estabilizadores

      2:02

    • 8.

      Dispositivos de audio

      3:38

    • 9.

      Dispositivos de iluminación

      2:04

    • 10.

      Bolsas de cámara y Misc. Equipo

      1:56

    • 11.

      Ajustes correctos de la cámara

      1:41

    • 12.

      Ajustes rápidos de la cámara

      3:59

    • 13.

      Flujo de trabajo de preproducción

      2:58

    • 14.

      Conocimientos técnicos y creativos

      3:29

    • 15.

      Cómo crear profundidad

      1:01

    • 16.

      Regla de los ángulos de la cámara

      2:48

    • 17.

      Técnicas de grabación portátil

      3:33

    • 18.

      Cómo equilibrar tu cardán

      1:55

    • 19.

      Configuración de Gimbal

      2:58

    • 20.

      5 movimientos básicos de los Gimbal

      1:57

    • 21.

      Cómo iluminar tu escena

      3:31

    • 22.

      Convertirse en director | crea tu confianza

      1:45

    • 23.

      El producto por

      1:34

    • 24.

      Recap | gracias!!

      1:10

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About This Class

¿Quieres grabar videos cautivadores que te sientan dibujados? Aprende exactamente qué margen, configuración y técnicas necesitas hacerlo mientras crea una comunidad en el proceso.


Si quieres convertirte en un videógrafo exitoso que necesitarás 3 cosas. El conocimiento, la mentalidad y la comunidad. Y si te cansas de ver desde los lados, ¡esta clase es para ti!

En esta clase (dos horas) te unirás a mí para aprender el material esencial que necesitas para el tipo de videos que quieres grabar. La configuración de la cámara que te dará los mejores resultados para esos videos. Y técnicas de grabación básicas que te ayudarán a construir una buena base al principio No solo hablaremos de temas que te ayudarán a mejorar tus habilidades técnicas sino que también eres mentalidad.

Aprenderás con tus voces:

  • Equipo esencial que necesitas (te daré un rango de opciones para todo lo que discutimos, una lista de amazonas)
  • Ajustes de cámara para videos (entrega tus videos a tu audiencia con la mejor calidad)
  • Flujo de trabajo de preproducción (el poder de planificación/creación de textos para obtener los mejores resultados para tus videos)
  • Técnico vs creativo (para evitar concentrarte en tus actividades que te limiten el potencial)
  • Ángulos de composición y cámara (qué harán que tus videos se vean más atractivos para tus espectadores)
  • Grabación a mano (cómo conseguir el rodaje de imágenes agradable)
  • Grabación de ejercicios (cómo equilibrar, optimizar la configuración y realizar movimientos básicos)
  • Cómo usar la luz (cómo iluminar una escena con 3 técnicas diferentes)
  • Convertirse en director (resumen de la transferencia de energía en el proceso creativo)

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¿Esta clase para ti? Esta
clase da la bienvenida a estudiantes de todos los niveles, sin embargo la clase está construida para principiantes en mente. ¡Los creadores de videos con experiencia pueden usar esto como un refresco!

¿Quién soy yo? Mi
nombre es Hart y he estado viviendo en Colorado desde hace 5 años. Desde que recuperé mi primera cámara en 2019 para capturar mis viajes, ¡me han conectado con la videografía! Me dirigí a crear un canal de Youtube y desde entonces he ganado más de 100 millones de personas seguidores y vistas de 10 millones de millones de personas en varias plataformas. Vivo para dar un comienzo a los que comienzan y ¡les encantaría compartir mis conocimientos con todos ustedes!

¡Vamos a conectarnos!
Mi canal de YouTube: HarttheplugTiktok:
@harttheplug

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Hello, I'm Hart. I am a photographer / videographer based out of Colorado Springs, CO. When I started my journey I completely relied on guessing / experimenting and this habit caused me to burn out pretty quickly. So I began to believe that education is more important than having the cool gear and fancy gadgets. I'm here to help you squash any questions or doubts about getting started. From Camera Basics all the way to being a Content Creator. You ready to become a photographer/videographer? Lets Do It!!

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1. Class Introduction: This is a camera and you can open many doors for you in life. Doors like this. But without knowing how to use one is basically just a paperweight. So in this class you'll be learning the gear. You absolutely need to be successful camera settings that will give you the best results for your videos. Developing yourself as a creator, building confidence how to use light and much, much more. It's super easy to over-complicate things. So I'll just give it to you straight. What you will get from this class is a solid foundation on which you can build upon however you see fit in both technical and creative ways. And I'm here to tell you early that you don't want to walk this path alone. So for our class project, I'm going to give you what I and many other creators lacked in the beginning, a community, a support system In this will exponentially increase your chances of success beyond this class. What's up, guys? My name is Hart, but you can call me hard to plug. I'm a videographer based out of Colorado and after working with over a dozen businesses and accumulating millions of views across social media. I've learned quite a bit in these three short years. I've been doing this and I want to share with you what I learned, okay, I started doing silly vlogs in 2021, and now I do this for live and this is my full-time job. And I want to show you guys how you can do that. First, we master our fundamentals and then we can master being our own creative. So are you ready to make that first step to making his dream real? Let's get into it. 2. Build A Community: So this class being the basics, the video, I didn't want to just give you guys a task to complete. I wanted to give you guys something that lasted a little bit longer. And it took me recording the entire class to figure this out, right? I was thinking about how I felt when I first started. Just like you are right now watching basics videos and stuff like that. And one thing I thought I was missing was friends. But another thing that is greater than friends is a entire community. And when I found that, and I'll show you guys like a bunch of the people I met along my journey. It was just so much sweeter to accomplish new goals and stuff like that. When you had people that are aligned with the same thing you are trying to do. So in a light of that, I am going to attempt to provide you guys a community. I want you guys to not only just watch this class, I want you guys to support each other, get to know each other, and I will get to know each and every one of you as well. So I tried to accommodate all people. I made three different locations where you can go and interact with people. The first one is Discord. If you want to access the Discord, all you gotta do is download discord and the link will be in the class description above. The second two locations is on regular social media, TikTok and Instagram. To go into TikTok or Instagram, your preferred app to use and go ahead and search up hashtag the plugged in community. And what you're going to find isn't about me video. So you can learn a little bit more about me. And I want you guys to create a video yourself introducing who you are, what you like to do, what kind of videos like to record whatever you want to put it in there. And if you don't want to show your face, that's fine. You can show some footage, you record it and add a voice-over. But what I want is to provide you what I lacked in my early days, recording videos, and that is friends and a community. Community is super important. They provide you inspiration, competition, sense of belonging, all that stuff. Now I'm not forcing any interactions and you shouldn't. Now I'm not forcing any it now I'm not forcing any interactions. But if you see something you like, go ahead and drop a comment, leave something. I'm saying that is a value. Don't just say, Hey, don't edit, like don't, don't do that. Be genuine. This bird is, but to do it for me, I'm getting pretty mad. Be genuine, be yourself, get to know each other and you'd be surprised who you can meet that's in your area. So your class project is simply to connect with people at the start of every relationship who knows where it could go. They could be the very thing to propel you forward and you could be that for them as well. So if you want the class to just see your regular work, you can also use that hashtag for that on the social media platforms. And if you have any unanswered questions or you just want to know something, you can go ahead and go to the discord and asked the community. You can even ask me, I have them separated by content questions asked the community in constant questions, ask car, and then I have a separate one where you guys can just hangout chat, talk about your successes, your failures. So remember TikTok and IG search up hashtag, the plugged in community post your content for that hashtag so the class can see it and also post the About Me video so we can get to know you a little bit better. And then the link to the discord is in the class description so you can join there, get your questions answered by the community or me or just hanging out. Sounds good enough. Let's stay plugged in. Tornadoes coming in. Let's get this class started, guys. Just wanted to show you guys my favorite park. This is where I am. Pretty nice right? Before we get out of here. I just want to tell you I'm not sure, natural average teacher. I'm a bit spontaneous. So speaking of spontaneous, here's something you can do before you start learning. Get your notebook or use the notes app on your phone and type or write three goals for yourself. One-year, three-year, five-year. Think as big, an unreasonable as you can, you'd rather fall short of a larger goal than a small one. I mean, like I wanna make $1 million in my first year type of thing. And you have to be the one crazy enough to believe it'll actually work. Step two, under the Projects and Resources, select, Create project, upload the image or screenshot of your goals, entitle it your name, goals. If you want, offer us a description of why you pick those goals in step three, look at your classmates goals and if they resonate with you, take them on for yourself. And if you ever forget why you're doing this, come back and look on your image, your screenshot, and that's it guys. So do that now before you start to lessons, go ahead and join the community on TikTok, Instagram and discord. And when you post your videos and you leave your goals under the projects and resources, I will be praising you every step of the way, okay, Now we can start learning. 3. Camera Bodies: Oh my God is so-called. Oh, hey guys. Nice of you to join me. Less than one is gonna be about gear. Okay. If I could count the amount of times I've been asked what camera should I buy? Hey, what's that thing called? Gear questions. We'd be rich. We were getting new gear can be both exciting and wasteful. So we're going to show you what you need. If you want to make videos on TikTok, you might just need a phone. If you want to create content for high-paying customers, they might require you to have a full frame camera. Answer that question, write it down somewhere and now we can figure out what gear you need. In the next five to ten lessons, I'm going to go over some gear with you guys that are very common among videographers and show you how to pick what you need and what you don't need. Okay, let's talk about camera bodies. You have full frame and you have APS-C. The first difference to note between these two are the sensor size. Full-frame cameras have a 35-millimeter sensor, almost like a lot of high-end film cameras. They APS-C sensors vary, but just know they're smaller than the full-frame camera sensors are. Now both has its advantages and disadvantages depending on what you use them for. So let's get into it. First thing to note is the price. Full-frame cameras are usually more expensive than APS-C cameras. Full-frame cameras allow you to use the entire sensors without cropping when it comes to capturing photos and video. But what if you do sports or in wildlife, something that forces you to be closer to your subject? Well, that's where APS-C cameras can be beneficial. The APS-C smaller sensor causes at 1.6 times crop, which means whatever focal length your app will be multiplied by 1.6. So this is a full-frame 50 millimeter lens. Now, what would it look like on an APS-C camera? Well, let's take 50 and multiply that by 1.6, and it looks like it'll be 80 mm. Now as you can see, we're on a full frame setting. So let's switch over to the 1.6 crop. And this is what it will look like if it was on an APS-C camera. So keep that in mind when choosing your camera body. Do you need your entire sensor like this or are you okay with it being cropped in like this? Second thing is the sensor size on a full-frame body costs for more heavier and capable lenses, APS-C cameras, you usually don't need a heavier lens, so they can be kept down to a small light package. Lastly, the much larger prices on the full-frame cameras or not for no reason, you'll get a slight edge on quality when it comes to purchasing a full-frame camera. So which one is for you? The answers should be very clear after you answer, what type of videos you want to make and who are you trying to make the videos for? 4. Types Of Cameras: Now, do you need a camera body like this that can take high-quality photos and video. Of course not. These things can get really expensive. And if they're not what you need, you just shouldn't get it. Everyone has a cell phone now and you can use it to make videos before you read off the cell phone, we have to remember that 75% or more content being consumed on social media is coming from cell phones. Sophie meets your needs, use it. It's a very powerful tool in most newer phones come with things like cinematic modes, different zooming modes for k. And what's even better is just one of the most portable and convenient cameras systems you can own. It literally goes in your pocket. I still even use my old iPhone sometimes, so never throw your phones away. You can still use it for the camera action cams or a very versatile camera system. They're high-quality. They have a ton of great Settings, and I just loved doing things in a wide angle perspective. There are tons of different ways to use this thing and I love it because it's so small, you could fit it anywhere, including the same pocket as your cell phone. I wasn't going to mention this one, but let's talk about drones. They are basically a camera with the ability to fly, giving you a different perspective. Joan, technology has gotten amazing over the years. I mean, this Mini Pro can record all the way up to four case 60 full-sized drones are higher-quality than this. And I thought this was good, high-risk footage safety features, and the drone will even fly itself and some modes. So do you need one? I'm going to list a bunch of different things you can do with each types of cameras I talk about. Here is a cell phone. All you need. Let's see at the top here we have UGC ads and TikTok videos. And in these spaces is more common in relatable to use a cell phone. Most times you can capture really good BTS or behind the scenes on your cell phone, but it's not reliable in every scenario, you may need to change your camera settings to get some good footage. And cell phones are limited much more than actual cameras are. Youtube is a storytelling platform. So if you have a good story to tell, it doesn't really matter about your quality. So you can use a cell phone most times on YouTube as well. Commercials are usually high-quality and they pay a lot. So it depends on who you're working for, of course, but you might need an actual camera body to do this. I don't want you to look at this and just writing because obviously these camera bodies looks like it's just better in every way right now. I know these are shortlist, but if you see yourself doing anything remotely close to these things, then hopefully looking at these ratings, you can clearly see what's worthy of investing in and what's not. Anyways, the actual camera bodies are really good at things that require high-quality. What are their real estate commercials, interviews, podcasts. But when it comes to things like TikTok videos, you're spending way more time recording and editing your footage than people that are using their phones. Now I'm not saying don't bother with high-quality when it comes to TikTok videos because that's all I post this high-quality videos on TikTok. But what I am saying is that you don't need to, so you don't have to. Action cameras are very versatile. You can put them anywhere, attach them to anything. And what their most popular for is the POV or first-person shots. As you can see from the ratings, you can use this thing for about anything. But when it comes to the high-quality demanding tasks, it cannot outperform a camera body. Drones can be used for real estate commercials, inspecting buildings, towers, and railroads, just to name a few things. And what's a travel video without drone footage, right? Alright, TikTok videos on drones very low because again, you're spending a lot of time flying that drone and editing the footage on social media. We always have to constantly think about our competition. What are they doing? Are they being more productive than us? And it's very easy for them to be more productive. It all they have to do is take out their cell phone and get recording. But if you'd like to fly drones and you'd like to post your own content more power to you. 5. Camera Lenses: All right. If you had to choose 2420516-50, which one would you choose? 24 to 105. Okay. Why? Well, I just like the versatility. I'd like to be able to zoom in, zoom out whenever I need to. When it comes to prime lens is like your feet become your focal length really because you have to walk, all right, yeah, it may make sense. Somewhat zoom lenses, you have a variable focal length because you can zoom in and out. With the turnover risks with prime lenses, you're stuck at the focal length that is on here. So 50 millimeter, 16 millimeter. You can't go up. You can't go down. So if I'm shooting something on his 50 millimeter and I want to get closer to my subject. I either have to digital crop in or I have to walk closer to my subject with his own lens. You can punch in. Sometimes with zoom lenses, your aperture may go up depending on how far you zoom. Now this zoom lens is a constant F4, but yours may say something like F4 through F7, 0.1. Then what that means is when you zoom in all the way, your aperture will not remain at four. It will turn to F7, 0.1. So if you want to keep your aperture low, purchase a zoom lens that is true to its aperture. So that means it doesn't change and it'll tell you or just go ahead and get you a prominence. Kinda looks like I'm selling you something like, I like my little shop here. It may seem like prime lenses are worse, but that's not the case. So although you can't zoom in and out with a prime lens, it has less moving parts, therefore, it produces a much sharper image and video. Also, it's more common to get a lower f-number or an aperture with prime lenses than it is for zoom lenses. If you don't know how aperture works, go to my first-class and you can learn about that there. Maybe you're shooting a podcast commercial or short film and you don't need a zoom lens. Or maybe you're vlogging or making YouTube videos in a zoom lens might be useful to you. My advice to you. If you want something that looks cinematic like this, where the background blur separates your subject, pay for aperture. Aperture will cost more, but it's worth it. 6. Camera Filters: Nd filters, polarizers and UV filters are the top three most commonly used filters among videographers. But there's plenty more we're not going to talk about. So what I'll do is just drop the names right here. Feel free to look these up and see if there for you. So ND filters are neutral density filters and what they do is they absorb light coming into your lens while maintaining true colors. So the number on the ND filter will tell you how dark it is going to be, but it's basically sunglasses for your camera. If you ever wondered how people can get perfectly exposed videos in broad daylight is because of ND filters. They can come in single stops like this where it's just one darkness setting. Or you can get the ones with multiple stops and you can twist them around to make them lighter or darker. Also invest in equality one, I wouldn't pay for one that's under $100. If you get one with lower quality, you could see some unwanted green and magenta tint to your footage. Of course, our polarizer polarizers simply cut out reflections in on some occasions, reflections can ruin our video completely. So put this on your lens, twist it around and you'll see everything become more and more opaque, is reducing the reflections that everything is giving off. Polarizers are most popular shooting cars are shooting through windows. In my opinion, if you're recording video, you definitely will need a polarizer at some point. So just go ahead and get one. The last one is a UV filter. I don't have one right now because I break them all the time. I basically use UV filters as my lenses armor, probably not a good practice, but it is what it is. But what it does is it prevents ultraviolet light from passing through your lens. Now, having too much ultraviolet light passing through your lens could cause discoloration in your footage. But I always find myself buying them to just protect my lens. If you've never had a lens accident where you dropped the lens or your camera job, if your lens breaks that, that's gonna be a pretty heavy replacement. But the UV filters are very cheap and it can protect your lens from an accident like that. All right, my friends, it's getting really cold, so I'm going to leave here soon. But that is filters. Okay, go ahead and invest in some filters and check out the ones that are left in the video earlier. Okay, let's get onto the next one. 7. Stabilizers: We're going to talk about the thing that is holding up this camera as we speak. And another form of stabilization, you can get for way more money, but both of them have their uses. Let's get into it. Hey, well, for me, start. Go ahead and stop this video and get one of these door and out. So I'm just kidding, I'm just kidding. Tripods are very useful to us Video Creators, okay? I use this thing every single day. I kid you not every single day. Go for a walk. Let's talk about three different builds of tripods. The first one is aluminum. It's heavy, but it's really good at holding your cameras weight and keeping it still. And it holds a lot of weight. Second one is carbon fiber. Carbon fiber is more expensive, but it holds just as much weight as aluminum does, and it's lighter. And then you have your video tripods, tripods that you've seen with the handles on them. I'll put a picture up here. Those tripods are made for video. You could set your camera up there and move your camera around smoothly on a sturdy platform, it may be hard to carry around. I don't use it because I'm usually the one in front of the camera like like something like this. So a gimbal is a stabilizer for your cameras, usually consisting of a three-axis motor technology that keeps your cameras stabilized and in the center no matter where and how you move. Now believe that DJI has the best gambles in the game. So if you're going to get one, get a DJI one. So when it comes to things like the GoPro drone in the gimbal, I'm not teaching how to use these things, but I can if you want. Okay, so just let me know if you want to learn how to use stuff like this. And I'll definitely teach you, I'll show you some footage I can get on this thing. So consider what you're doing first. If you have to do like a real estate video, this will be great if you want to record commercials where people, this is a really good tool. It beats handheld filming 100 times over. So that is stabilizers, tripods and Gimbels definitely get a tripod, but this is not necessary. If you don't need it. 8. Audio Devices: Now audio is arguably just as important, if not more important than video is. So let me ask you a question. Would you rather watch this video with the audio sound like this, or the audio sounded like this. How to use a really big piece of the puzzle and it's something that we should definitely be thinking about. So today I'm gonna go over three types of audio devices that I think every videographer would need at some point. So let's start with the studio microphone. This one that I'm holding in my hand right now, it's called the studio microphone because it will never really leave your studio and it will probably be your highest quality and best sounding mic that you have. So here's three mikes you can check out if you want different price ranges and all that. And I'm a singer, so this is actually my singing Mike and a doubles as my studio microphone because it's microphone, it's called the Austrian audio OC 18 large diaphragm condenser microphone. Very long name. I'll drop the name here and you can look it up if you want to. But if you are in your studio or wherever you record your videos, normally, use your studio microphone because it's high-quality. We always want to go with the highest quality with everything we're doing. And just to show you the difference in quality, we're going to move on to the on-the-go microphone or the wireless microphones wherever you want to call them. It looks a little something like this. And it sounds a little something like this. So this little box here is a microphone and it's called The Road wireless goto. There are a bunch of companies that sell microphones like this. Wireless microphones. They're really good for capturing audio in the field. Hence why I call them the on-the-go microphones. Now obviously you've seen the quality change, but it is still really good for on-the-go in the audio you can get from these devices are definitely 100% usable. Every time I've shown you guys something outside, I've used this microphone peers the name of that, and you can go check that out. And I'll offer to other options here as well. And with these wireless microphones, you can also get a lav mic. And these are really good too, because it's still high-quality, but you can hide it somewhere on your person so people can't see where the audio is coming from. Lab mikes are a good way to hide the microphone, and it's much smaller to work with as well. In the last block we're going to discuss is the shotgun mike here. Now this mike is adequate enough to be used in the studio and in the field. This type of microphone you'll see being used on movie sets. The one they're holding on a long stick and their draping it down. This is what that is. It's a boom microphone. Now most of my microphone's come from road. This is a road into G four plus, and it is really nice. Okay, So I'm going to switch to this audio now. This is how it sounds. The way you can get the most out of these is to boom it. In. What booming it means is to have it above you pointing down at an angle. So you want to have a boom microphone about a foot away from your subject. Okay. This is closer than a foot, but I'm trying to keep it in frame pointing down in the middle of their chin. This is where it's going to pick up the best audio. So the boom mic is very versatile because you can take it out of the studio. You can use it in a studio. It's an on-the-go slash studio microphone. Now you do need a little extra equipment to operate this in the field. And that piece of equipment is called an audio recorder. I'll put some up on the screen right now that you can purchase. Basically you need something to record from this boom microphone will not record on its own. You can attach it to your camera via XLR to the 3.5 millimeter jack your camera takes, but it won't sound as good as it being plugged into an actual audio recorder on-the-go microphone right now you're listening to the lab which is hidden on my body right now. And this is the audio coming straight from the little box here. Remember, do not discredit on-the-go microphones when you're in the field. This is a viable and good option to use. And last but not least, the studio microphone, the highest quality in the most immobile. You won't be moving this around a lot, but you will be using this a lot when you're at your home-base. So now that you know how each of them works, what they're used for, how they sound. Go ahead and pick which ones are good for you. If you need all of them, go ahead and get all of them. If not, thank you for joining me on this lesson. Let's move on to the next one. 9. Lighting Devices: Now in another lesson, I dedicated a deep dive into these lights, light placement, all of that stuff. So we'll go over it then. But right now we're just going to talk about the two types of lights. I think every videographers should invest in the first light we call the key light. And this is a light that lights are subject. It's a very important light and it's called a continuous output light. They are called continuous output lights because they continuously put out light. It gives you a consistent stream of light that doesn't flicker, doesn't flash, doesn't dim. So when it comes to lights, aperture has set a really high standard for studio lights. So before you purchase a light, definitely look into aperture. They have some really good options for really cheap and really expensive. And if you get one of these lights, you might want to get a light dome with it. I'm going to try to show you, but it's a little packed right here. So the light dome works as a layer of diffusion. It's circular shape distributes the light evenly on your subject and it makes it look very cinematic. If you get one powerful enough, you can even use it outside. So now I'll show you the LED and see how the light changes when I switch to the key light in 321. Oh, look there. So the light is a lot more even now and it's giving life to my background as well. We were just using this light to light the whole scene. I didn't think you'd look that bad at all, but this definitely looks better to me. Anyways, LEDs can fill the spot of what's called your rim light or your fill light. So you see this dark side of my face right here. That's what the fill light is. Four it's the fill in the other half of my face. Personally, I like the dark side. Rim light is the light that goes behind you to separate your subject from the background, it creates a rim of light around your subject. I've already said too much about the three lights that we use the same. We will talk about them in depth in the lighting lesson, like I said, but that is the two different lights you should invest in. Led and continuous output light. Even if you're shooting outside of 100%, that doesn't mean you don't need at least an LED light. You never know when it come in use and they're pretty cheap. You can get a tube, one like this. You can get an aperture light like this. Or you can go to Best Buy and get this 70 or $80.01 that I always get. So that is lights next, we're going to move the camera bags. And I think after that, it's just like miscellaneous things and then we can finally move into camera settings. So let's keep this thing rolling, okay. 10. Camera Bags & Misc. Gear: Now after the miscellaneous things that you may want to pick up. So let's go through them. The first one is this camera capture clip. Now these things are very small, kind of expensive. They're around $70. But what it does is it gives you a place to set your camera outside of your camera bag? I have two of them. I have one for my sling and one for my full camera bag. Are you going to do is put it around one of your straps like this, and they come with this little piece you put on the bottom of your camera and all you do is clip it onto the capture mechanism on your bag. Once you hear that click, you're good to go. I've been hiking with this thing. It won't fall. Second thing you may want is a camera cage. Camera cage is just exactly how it sounds. It's a cage that goes around your camera and it gives you more attachment points to attach your camera to certain things. And they look a little something like this. If you do get one, I would recommend this 5.1 diffuser slash reflector. It basically has five functions in one is only about 40 bucks, the black side destroys a little bit of the light. The light will hit this in less light will come back into your subject. The silver reflects a ton of light. So this will be the strongest reflector on this one yet You probably have, you unzip this and reveal the other side in which you have white, which reflects light a good bit, but it's not greater than the silver. You have gold, which gives you almost like a golden hour. Reflection of the light that's hitting it in here in the middle of all of that is a diffuser. So if you have a bright source of light and you want to make it softer, you just put this in front of your subject to this middle piece here, and it will make the light softer for you. Now I'm gonna put a link at the top of this class where you can buy all of this gear we're discussing, but I'll show you three full camera bag options. In three cameras slings that are pretty good as well. The ones in the middle of each of those lists are the ones that I use. You don't have to buy them, but I do recommend them. I think they're pretty good. So now that we know what gear we need to buy, you don't need to buy it right now. But I'm just saying we're done with that part of the lesson. Let's go ahead and go into camera settings. 11. The Correct Camera Settings: Hi guys, welcome back to the next lesson. We're gonna be talking about camera settings for video. The first thing we're gonna do is switch the camera into manual mode. Always manual mode is going to give you the most control over your camera settings that way you can get your desired outcome that you want. Now if you don't know what these three are, go ahead and go to my camera basics class so you can see what they are and how they work. Dealing with camera settings for photo and video are always not the same. So what are the rules for video speaking in the terms of these big three cameras settings, aperture will actually perform pretty much the same InVideo as it does in photo. The lower or more wider aperture is the more light and depth of field that'll be added into your video, ISO will perform the same as well. Digitally add more light while adding noise or digital artifacts. But how we use shutter speed in photos is not the same InVideo. So whenever you choose your frame rate and shutter speed is going to go off of that number. And to explain what a frame rate is, it's basically how many frames in a second that your video is going to be capturing. If you're recording in 24 frames per second, you can expect to literally click through 24 frames in 1 s. So say that I'm vlogging, right? And I'm shooting at 24 frames per second. I'm going to take 24 times that by two, it rounds up to 50. So my shutter speed is going to be 1/50 of a second. Same thing if we're shooting at 60 frames per second, we're going to take 60, multiply it by two, and we get one-twenty. That is gonna be our shutter speed. This is what you get when you don't abide by this rule. When your shutter speed is underneath your frame rate, you're gonna get this choppy looking video. And if we have our shutter speed above our frame rate, your video is gonna look too smooth like this. Having the correct shutter speed with your frame rate will give you a natural look and video. And sometimes you won't be able to get your shutter speed to the exact number needs to be like again, we're shooting 24 frames a second. We multiply that by two. That's not exactly 50, but 50 is the closest number. So whatever the closest number to your equation there, That's what you're going to land on. That is aperture, shutter speed, and ISO for video, we're going to move on to the next lesson, which is Quick Settings. 12. Quick Camera Settings: So quick settings, it is important to understand these. The quick settings are the settings that are available to you without going to the menu on Canon cameras, you can access your Quick Settings by pressing the letter Q. It could be on a screen or it can be a button, depending on how old are your camera is if you're using anything other than canon, this is super simple to figure out. A quick Google search will tell you how to access video quick settings for your camera name. Now understanding these quick settings will prevent you from having to go take a deep dive into your menu. We'd never want to do that. So let's start with auto-focus. We should know what autofocus does. It automatically focuses for us here in the quick settings, we can change our autofocus method we have faced and eye-tracking. Now, each camera brand has different auto focusing systems. Some are better than others, some are worse. But if you do have a good eye and face tracking auto-focus, definitely use it one point autofocus we'll be focusing on one point. It usually selects a smaller area to focus on. And how precise that can get for you depends on how many focus points your camera has. We have expanded area, autofocus, which focuses on a point and the area around it. This is really good when your subject is moving around a lot and you don't want them to get out-of-focus autofocus, it'll look like two brackets and he's going to focus on everything inside of those brackets. And lastly, we have horizontal autofocus. I don't really ever use this one, but it's there if you want it. Most cameras will have these auto focusing methods. Some will have some extra ones that I didn't list here, but just know they're pretty self-explanatory, you should be able to figure them out on your own, but that is where you find the autofocus method and the quick settings. Next we have our recording size and our frame rate. You'll see either for K or ten ADP, you'll see your frame rate next two are under that mine is at 23 frames a second, and then you'll see IPB or all i. Now let me quickly explain IPB and all. These are two compression formats. One is bigger than the other, one is higher-quality than the other. You'll get smaller files from the IPB compression, but your video won't be as high-quality as it would if you were a coordinate. All I, now all i compression is really good, but it takes up a lot of space. In fact, sometimes they can even be up to three times the size of IPB compression. I record my videos and IPB because it's easier to edit. But if you're delivering some content to a high-paying client or you want some footage to last a long time, maybe you want to record an ally. But anyway, we just learned the lesson before how frame rate and shutter speed works. So 24 frames a second is industry standard for most movies already frames a second is mostly what you see on social media and YouTube, 60 frames a second. You might see a lot of that in soap operas and stuff like that. It's just super smooth footage. And also you can get some good slow motion out of 60 frames a second as well. And then 120 frames a second, which all cameras don't have super buttery smooth, slow footage you always see, I always record and 30 frames a second, 24 frames a second one, I'm working for a client. The next one we have audio recording level. Now this is a really quick way to see how your audio is behaving. You don't want to go through an entire recording session and at the end, find out that your audio the entire time. So when you click on your audio and the quick settings, you will literally get a decibel reading. Anything in the red is peaking, anything in the yellow is getting there. Next one is movie digital IS image stabilization. Now this is going to reduce the amount of shake that you have in your footage. I usually use it when I'm recording handheld, but it does come with a drawback. Sometimes there's two to three levels of it. Every level is going to make you zoom in a little bit and you're going to lose a bit of your frame. Next is the white balance. You do not want to go into the menu every time you need to change your white balance. A good scenario is that like your recording outside and you're at 5,600 Kelvin and then you move to an inside location and you need to change your white balance. I'm not diving deep into my settings for that. Go to your Quick Settings, change your white balance there. You can change the Kelvin temperature and in about 10 s, so you're good to go. Now, I don't know if all cameras have this on the Quick Settings, but Servo autofocus for video. Now Servo autofocus is going to have your cameras continuously hunt for new subject. If it loses the subject, it was tracking e.g. since Servo is on right now, I'm going to put this camera in front of my head and it should focus on the camera. And when I move the camera, it'll focus back on me. Now guys, Servo is off and it is not focused on me and it won't turn it back on and we're back in the game. Alright guys, those are the quick settings. Remember you have to find your way around these quick settings to keep yourself from having to go into that deep dive into the menu. All right, enough of the camera gear in the settings. Let's get into recording video. The next lesson we're going to talk about pre-production workflow. 13. Pre-Production Workflow: This lesson we're going to talk about pre-production workflow. If you record a video and you didn't plan it out, people can clearly tell how much time you put into the preparation of the project. The three steps are brainstorm and plan. In the brainstorming phase, you'll be creating ideas. Now, everyone gets their inspiration from a different place. So I'm not going to tell you exactly what to do for you to be inspired because I don t know that if sitting down and listening to music inspires, you can do that if you'd like going outside and taking in nature, maybe that inspires you do that. Whatever you get your inspiration from, put yourself in that space and don't rush it, give it time, have fun. Try to think of a problem that the mass is hold a big problem. Those make really good videos. Now whatever you come up with, I want you to annotate it. Big problem, big solution, right those ideas down and leave room underneath it for the next phase. Because the next phase is the right face. You'll probably say I already wrote down my ideas. Well, in the right phase you're going to elaborate. You're going to delve deeper into your ideas, get more specific about details, variables, et cetera. And after this phase you'll mostly be done. But here's two ways you can do this. The first one we have the full script and basically in this one, you're nearly going to script word for word what you're gonna be saying. It could be a bit tedious, but if you're already not good at talking on camera, it's easier to write something clever than to think of something on the spot. If you're not a good talker. One is the outline and you're going to loosely, very loosely script this one. All you're gonna do is write down your main points or ideas. And while you're recording, this will basically mean you'll read that main point and you'll just elaborate on it. This method is obviously for the good talkers, the people that are comfortable talking on camera. And trust me, when I tell you, people can tell when you put some effort into your videos. Now the final phase is the plan. This phase is where you finalize your script by assigning different parts of that script to a role and B-roll, which we'll talk about next lesson. And the last thing you need to do in your pre-production process is think about what all you need to complete this project, camera gear, props, actors, locations, etc. How much money will that cost me, if any, so on and so forth. You can insert anything you want to in your p.sit production process, but those are some common things that I do. Okay. I gotta go inside. I had to move inside. I was getting rained on. Alright, so why do we need pre-production? You see when you create something that's something started with a vision. And if we hop straight into recording without planning the story that we want it to tell me, not be received in the way that we wanted it to, would it be easier to just press record and get what you get? No. Because I promised you that things were planning for in this process can throw you off guard and control your vision all. I never thought about where I was going to record and if they'll even let me record there, I would love some prompts in the video, but it was last minute, so I just recorded without things like that will build up on you and it will really distracts you from outputting your intended message. Alright, I've rented enough about this. I just really wanted you guys to understand. Join me in the next lesson where we're going to talk about being technical versus being a creative. And it's a really important lesson because I've seen a lot of technically capable videographers that never make it because they're missing the creative side of things there to absorb and color grading and editing, graphics, et cetera, et cetera, that they're not focusing on the most important thing of being a videographer telling a story. So I will make sure by the end of this class you will be a good storyteller because you can gain all the knowledge you possibly can, but it won't mean anything if people don't understand what you're trying to tell them. That was my little piece of advice. I didn't actually script that, but I do think you guys need to know that. Alright guys, see you next lesson. 14. Technical vs Creative Knowledge: Hi guys, welcome to the next lesson. We're going to talk about being technical versus being creative. I thought it'd be best to bring my friend here with me to explain this lesson to you guys a little bit better. So for the rest of this video, think of this side as the creative side and that side as the technical side. Now both are very important and we shouldn't overlook one for the other in a very dangerous thing to do, like I said in the lesson before, it's being too technical and not creative enough. You could think of it like spending many years in college but never developing common sense. Now my friend here knows a little bit of everything about videography, the technical side of things, but what he's not really that good at storytelling. Since when am I not good at storytelling? It shows in your work. How does it show? Don't start, don't start. Tell us what's beneficial about your technical knowledge. Well, to me, knowledge is power, right? So all I've done is made myself knowledgeable and my crafts and there's nothing wrong with that, and it's easy to do. All you gotta do is watch videos just like a class like this. Like you just educate yourself and there's nothing wrong with that. But what it gives you is the ability to speak the language, right? What is cinema again? Know what white balance sheet you use at sunset? It's like technical stuff like that. I'm saying you need to teach herself. And basically what it does for you is it paints you in a better light when it comes to clients and co-workers, colleagues, I'm saying when you are able to speak the same language that they speak, you'll get more respect and you'll get more jobs, better paying jobs. And in my opinion, alrighty, I like it. I'm going to give you guys the creative side. It doesn't really have a certain look to it because it can look how ever you want it to look. When you start recording your videos, you will develop a style, a style that people will know and recognize you for thinking outside of the box and crafting never thought of ideas is what lies in your creativity. And with that, you can set yourself apart from the person next to you. When you're being creative, your constant is simply an extension of yourself. We can see the story, the individuality from what I've seen, the videographers that focus too much on the technical things, the color grading, the quality of the editing. They have a harder time reaching people because you're no longer telling a story. You're no longer making the content for them. You're making it for you. Man, that transition I made was crazy, man. The quality of this video is A1. I aced this color gray and it looks amazing. Yeah, that does sound like me a little bit, but your disomy, you're saying that it's better to have creative knowledge and technical knowledge. Not at all. This is what I'm saying, right? We need to learn both, okay? We learn both creative and technical side and they will benefit us in a multitude of ways. Is that that fair? Okay, that's fair. As I won that battle. But seriously, storytelling is the foundation of being a good creative. So to wrap up this lesson and the lesson before, we're going to talk about a role in B-roll, how to use them. Now, a lot of you are probably already heard of B-roll and you probably know what it is because you've seen Peter McKinnon do his B-roll montages plenty of times. What I'll quickly explain what both of these things are. So a role is going to be what you're looking at right now, basically your main dialogue, a role is going to feature your main story, key plots, and you're talking characters. Now B-roll is sometimes called supplemental footage and you can look at this type of footage as the glue to your story. So instead of me telling you right here, I found a water bottle on the counter. I didn't know it was mine, so I tried to open it up to see if anyone has drank out of it. They didn't. So I took the water bottle. I can overlay a video of me actually carrying out that action without people seeing stuff like that, it leaves them to try to visualize what you're talking about and that way they can kinda lose interests. This is a huge rule and videography and remember this, show me instead of telling me. So guys, that is the end of this lesson, technical versus being creative. I hope you've learned a lot in this one. We'll wrap up the previous lesson, which is pre-production. So now you can write a full script with what you just learned. Let's move on to the next lesson, which is going to be composition in angles. 15. How To Create Depth: So in the next couple of lessons, we're gonna be focusing on composition and angles. So you see how you can tell how close I am to this bookshelf back here. It makes the video look a little bit flat. So to make things interesting in your video and more pleasing to look at, we're going to create some depth than I'm going to show you how to do that. Doing this is very simple. The first thing you want to do is identify your subject, which in this case it's gonna be me. And once you've done that, you're going to want to create some distance between your subject in the background. If you don't have that much space, that's fine. You can just get as far away as possible. And that's one of two things that we need for this technique. Imagine that your camera is your viewer. You want to place something that if they were sitting in the place of your cameras that they can reach out and grab. So we have an element in arms reach of the camera. I am the medium in the background is the far. If your background element isn't a wall and it's something else that you can put behind you. That's fine too. You're going to place your camera down, find your subject. You're going to put one element in arms, reach, one element weigh out of reach. And that should add some depth to your video. Easy enough, right? Try this out. Get creative. Have fun with this next lesson is going to be rule of thirds and camera angles. 16. Rule Of Thirds & Camera Angles: If you know about the rule of thirds for photography, this is basically the same thing. This is how rule of thirds works. Your video is gonna be broken down into horizontal and vertical thirds, which leaves us with nine equal parts of the frame in four intersecting points where we put the most important parts of our video. So you would think people's eyes will go straight to the middle of the video was not. People's eyes are more attracted to those four points. And that's why most cameras will allow you to activate this rule of thirds while you're recording video because composition is very important. That's why when you see podcast or interviews, you'll see that they frame the shot with a lot of room on one side, basically placing your subject on a line of that rule of thirds. I like I said, it's for the important parts of the video. So it doesn't have to just be one subject while you're filming. Remember that rule of thirds and try to strategically place the important things on those four points. So that is the rule of thirds. I was going to separate this next one into another lesson, but let's just knock it out really quick. Now while you're scripting at the end of your script or wherever you want it to be, you'll have a shot list. And remember that your shot descriptions are going to be going off parts of your script. So when we're describing what's happening in your shot, the first thing you should list is what type of shot you're gonna get. I'm gonna give you five of the most common shots you'll see in a video. The first one is a wide shot, or we call it in establishing shot. This shot is going to give you a wide view of your location. We call it the establishing shot because it establishes where we are in the story. Next, we have the medium shot. Now this shot is going to be a little closer. If it's a location, I guess you can just get a little closer. But really the medium shot is meant for people and that means you're getting their upper half. A medium shot is going to capture a person's body and their reactions and stuff like that, no lower than the waste. This is when a person's actions and emotions is important and we really need to see up close what they're up to you. Next we have the close shot. The shot is capturing neck and up or just face in this shot will really hone in on their reactions and their emotions. It can be when someone notices something and they're just talking to themselves in their head like an anime type of style or in scary movies when they're about to do a jump scare, they get really close to the subject so you can't see what's behind them. There's millions of ways you can use all of these shots, just be creative. The next one we have is the first-person shot. Now this shot type is world renowned because it gives our viewers the chance to see what we see. They get to hop in the driver's seat and it's almost as if they're making the decisions themselves. It's a little more immersive than a regular shot. This I've seen people use entire camera rigs. You can use something as little as a GoPro action cam. The basis of this first-person shot is your hands are free and the camera is following your chest or head movement. And the last one we have is the Dutch angle. Now the Dutch angle is when the frame is turned sideways, diagonally. And to put it in the most simple terms, this angle is to make the viewer feel unsettling. You'll see in a lot of movies where the frame is turned to the right or to the left a little bit. And when people see this, they're supposed to feel like something's not right, something's about to happen, so on and so forth. So those are five really common shot types or camera angles for you. Now the beauty of storytelling is using all of these together to tell your story. So that is the end of the composition and camera angles lesson. Let's go outside and start getting our hands on this camera. Okay. 17. Handheld Recording Techniques: I absolutely love how these turned out to me. If you don't have a tripod or a gimbal, you're going to be shooting handheld. And I wanted to show you guys how to do that officially. So first, watch a couple of these videos. I remember, I remember when I lost my mind. That was solid, so pleasant. You'll get this. So believe it or not, I shot those videos hand-held, which I still can't believe to this day. But I'm going to show you how you can recreate something like this. Now the number one problem we have with shooting handheld is the micro jitters that we have, because obviously our hands can be completely still. So the first thing we should consider is if our camera has ibis, which is in body image stabilization, and if you have that, you can turn it on and it will reduce the amount of shake that you have in your video. But sometimes ibis does not work very well, mostly when we're panning and tilting. Now some of our lenses have stabilizers in them to like this one and you can turn that off and on and that will help as well. Here's what it looks like when the ibis is off and here's what it looks like when the ibis is on. So you see turning on ibis and the lens stabilization and we'll help you out a lot with shaking. Alright, so the videos I showed you in the beginning, we were moving around a subject. I'll do we maintain our smooth motion then I'll show you right now. So we're gonna do this by using constant motion. First of all, try to have three points of contact on the camera. I know I have a battery group here, but just grabbed the bottom of your camera palm on the side and try to grip the lens like this. If you came in with this, you have more control over how much the camera moves. So we're going to orbit around this lens and we're going to continue moving. And since we're doing this handheld, what you want to do is just get a bunch of shots. So let's do that. So if you saw what I was doing, I was making long dramatic pools. And as long as you keep the camera in motion, it'll be harder to see the shapes and jitters are, but that's like standing still shots. There's not much we can do here. What can we do when we're moving? So if you haven't heard of the ninja walk here it is slight bend in the knees and you're going to walk heel to toe. Dislike this. Okay. You notice that my shoulders and my head, nothing is bobbing up and down versus when we walk normally, we bob up and down. So I'm going to record this video of me walking regular. Here's what the ninja walk. So you see how much smoother I was able to make that just by crouching and walking from heel to toe, that is the ninja walk. So if you want to become the human gimbal like me, use the ibis and your camera if you have it. If not, use the stabilization in your lens, if you have it, if not, use your Ninja walk, heel to toe, walking, bent knees. And then last but not least, continuous motion shots are next. We're gonna go over Gimbal movements. Let's get into it. 18. Balancing Your Gimbal: All right guys, we're going to talk about Gimbels, okay? I'm going to take you through balancing the gimbal, gimbal settings and then Gimbal movements. So let's get into it. I'm just going to read this. Most gambles like this will have a three-axis motorize apparatus that your camera will sit on. The three axes work together to stabilize your camera based upon your movements. The names of each of these are tilt. This is the one that goes up like this. Pan is the bottom turning left and right. Enroll role is in the back and it's rolling left to right. So let's take our camera and place it on top of this gimbal using the peace that comes with our gamble. Ok, it'll probably look something like this. Are you going to do a screw it into the bottom of your camera? I usually use this spare key. I have to tighten it in because I don't use it anymore. All right, so now we're just going to slide our camera onto our gimbal like this and lock it into place. So at the end of balancing or gimbal, you're going to want the camera to be able to sit by itself without moving around. So I usually like to start at the roll axis. We're going to tighten this and just slide this over. Let's lock that back into place so you can see the camera is still tilted up. We don't want that. So we're going to tighten this here. And we're going to push the camera up a little bit. Now we're going to turn it up like this and you see it falls back down. We're gonna go to the tilt axis now. We're going to tilt this up and push this back. So boom, the camera's pointing straight up by itself. That's good. We can tighten it up now. So now that we adjusted the tilde, you can see the camera kinda lean to the right a little bit straight down. So we're going to fix that again on Titan this, and we're going to move this back again so that right there is perfect extending straight up by itself. We lifted up here and it stays by itself. So now that we have our gimbal balance, we're going to turn it on. And I just thought that was gonna be cool. So guys, now we're ready to record on this gimbal. Make sure when you're balancing your gimbal, you on a flat surface, all you need to do is make the gimbal look straight like this by itself. And then have it point to this guy by itself as well. And after that you can turn it on. So the next video we're gonna go into gimbal settings. 19. Gimbal Settings: I'm sure we've all seen our favorite creator using a piece of equipment in saying, I'm gonna go buy that and make the same video they made, right? No, it doesn't work like that. They mostly not come ready to use. There's a science behind them. So let's quickly go over the best settings for a gamble. If you are going to get a gimbal, I do recommend DJI because they do have a pretty smooth interface. So the first thing you do when you're done balancing your gimbal is you're gonna go and do the balance tests. You just click there and click Begin tests. The gimbal is going to test how balanced your camera is in. Once it's done, it's gonna give you some results. If everything says, Excellent, You did a good job. Now we're gonna go into motor parameters and then we're gonna go to Auto Tone, press OK. And it's going to auto tune. It's going to pre-assign some settings based on the weight you put on the gimbal. If you are cool with those settings, you can go ahead and stick with that or you can change it so you see how most of them are around 40.50. This is just judging the stiffness of the motors. Okay? So if you want these motors to be more stiff, will just turn them up and I'll show you what it looks like. So when we turn the motors up, I can literally fill the gimbal vibrating. So when you choose a higher number, the gimbal is going to restrict movement are. So now that we're done with that, we're gonna go to user profile. And this is where we can decide how smooth we want this gimbal to be. Now you have three profiles basically presets that you can set on your gimbal was best to customize them for different situations. E.g. my first one is pen until follows. So all it will do is pan and tilt. It will go up, down side, side. My second one is SPV, and that means it will follow my every movement. So it doesn't matter where I move the gimbal. The gimbal is going to follow in my third one is called the 3D role. Three-sixths, this one points to the camera directly in the air and you're able to do a rolling motion, you'll need different settings for different situations. So make sure you customize these three modes differently. So what are the best settings to get you smooth footage? We have follow speed, dead band and sensitivity. Now follow speed is how fast the motors will kick in after you start moving. And since we have this setting on slow, the gimbal will slowly kick in instead of automatically kicking in. And that's what gets you a little smooth. Now if we take this setting and turn it too fast, now the motors will automatically kick in when I start moving, there's no delay. So if you want smoother movements, Turn your follow speed to slow till the next one is dead band, and this one is very similar to the file speed. But in this one you can control how far you can turn the gimbal before it starts kicking in at a low dead band, the motors kickin pretty much instantly. See how I barely turn it. And it follows my motion with a high dead band, the motorcycle louder kick in. I usually set my dead band to medium or high for smooth motion. The last one is sensitivity. This is going to dictate how sensitive the motors are to your movement. So low sensitivity is a bit smoother because it is not at all sensitive to your movements. It won't kick in the motors too early and high sensitivity as soon as you move it, the motors will want to kick in. So for sensitivity, I usually go medium or low. So guys, if you want the smoothest movement possible, I would suggest using the pen until follow or the SPV follow in the settings under that follow speed, slow, dead band, medium, sensitivity media. Until the last thing about Gimbels we're going to talk about in the next lesson is going to be Gimbal movements. I'm gonna give you five common Gimbal movements. Let's get to it. 20. 5 Basic Gimbal Movements: All right guys, only thing I'm going to say before we start with these Gimbal movements is remember the ninja walk, you're gonna be using that same walk on this because even the gimbal is not going to smooth everything out for you. You need to do some work yourself. So the first shot we're going to do is to push in shot and you're doing exactly what it sounds like. You're pushing into your subject. This is good at establishing where we are establishing shot. We talked about introducing a person or an area. So let's do it. So the pushing shot is very easy. Are you going to do is walk forward? This is a really cool effect to when you're following a person from behind. So keep that in mind too. Like I said, remember to be your own self and create new ideas. Next one we have is the push out shot is the opposite of the pushing. We're going to walk backwards. Again, opposite of a push in shot. This is good when a person is walking towards you and you're walking backwards. The third one is called a parallax, very simple movement. Are you going to do a sidestep around your subject? Now, it can be small movements like this, or it can be full circles like this. I didn't have too much space omelets tripped and fell over that stuff. But what's super easy motion? All you're doing is a circle around your subject, or just little small orbits like I showed you are in the fourth one has two movements, is tilted up until down. So with the camera facing the front, you're going to tilt the camera up like this. Begin to walk and slowly pull it down. Slowly, slowly, slowly, just like that. So that was the tilt down. Now, we're gonna do is we're going to just point this downward until the camera follows the ground. Are in the same thing. We're just going to walk forward and slowly pull the camera up. Just like that. And the last one, believe it or not, is just sports mode. It is a really good way to get in the action without having to do a lot of adjusting. So have fun with these movements, but definitely try to discover some more on your own. 21. How To Light Your Scene: We're going to use those lights I was talking about in the gear lessons. And I'm going to show you how to light a scene on your first flight needs to be a key light looks like this. This is gonna be your primary source of light. It's going to light your subject. And you can do a lot with justice one light and we're going to talk about that later, but yeah, get a key like first, the one that I got that I already showed you is the amaranth 200 x and the light down to from aperture. That's what I'm using until I've just seen right now and it's the only way I'm using this thing right now. And together those two are about $500 and I thought it was pretty inexpensive to get a result like this, but I'm not trying to sell you on it. It does not come with the light, don't, but you need the light DOM to get this type of cinematic look. The right Don't both adds a cinematic curve to the light and it softens light as well, diffuses it without it, it will look like this. I'll take it off. So I took this dome off and as you can see, it's almost like bright sunlight. It's harsh light. There's nothing shaping and diffusing the light anymore. So the light is just going everywhere and it's super harsh. So I'm gonna put this back on. The best placement of his key light is always going to be off to the left or off to the right of your subject and how you decide that is where the actual natural light is coming from. So right on my left is a huge window and that's where the light would usually come from. So I'm gonna put my key light in the place of that. The last two things is you're going to place your key light higher than your subject in pointing down on your subject, 45 degree angle. Now we have a fill light, and what the fill light is supposed to do is fill the light in from the other side where you see the shadow of my face. So we're going to turn this light on and we're going to have it on the same temperatures, that one. So you see how this looks now, we add the fill light and it feels lighten, similar to where you would put that one. You would basically put this one on the opposite side. And that will give you a video more even light, but I like the shadow side of my face, so I usually keep it there. I'm gonna use the same light to show you guys what the rim light is. You'll see in YouTube or set-ups, they have lights in the back. Those are rim lights. And what it does is it adds more dimension to your shot. It separate your subject from the background so it doesn't have to be directly behind you. It can be off to the side. It could be anywhere as long as the light is coming towards your back. You can place these out-of-state. You can place them inside. It doesn't really matter as long as you get that ring going around your subject, you're good to go. Here's a couple of setups I've done downstairs, but yeah, this three-line setup is very popular among creators. The three lights are the key light, a fill light in the rim light placed the key light where the natural light will be coming from originally above your subject in pointing down at a 45-degree angle, your fill light is going to fill the light in on the other side. If you do so, please. And then the rim light is going to separate your subject from the background and add some dimension. But what if you only have one layer, you only have enough to get one light. You can't get three lights. I'm going to show you a one light setup. So do you guys remember this thing right here, the 5.1 reflector? We're going to use this reflector to act as your fill light. And that is if you even want a fill light, so this one might set up, might just be your key light, like I said earlier. But if you can't afford a light and you want something to fill in the light, go ahead and get one of these reflectors. Instead of spending over $100, you're only spending about $40. Now what if you have zero lights and you can't afford any lights? Well, this is when we use our best friend, natural light. So just open a window, find a good source of light and you're ready to go. You want something to fill the other side again, use the reflector. If you do have one of these LEDs, you can use these as a fill light as well. My only problem with using natural light is that it constantly changes. So keep in mind if you're recording for an extended period of time, the lighting your video is going to change and that's pretty much it. I hope one of these lighting techniques is of use to you. And if not, and you need to find a different way to light your scenes. I would love to talk about it with you in the discussions. Oh, and I forgot to mention in your field and your rim light does not have to be just one color. And I'm going to remind you guys, do not follow everything you hear from your teachers, from the people we respect to the letter b yourself through your creation process and I promise you will be rewarded for it. So guys, that is lighting, I hope this lesson helps you make some beautiful videos. Feels good now. 22. Becoming A Director | Build Your Confidence: Becoming a director, let me ask you a question. Do you believe that you have to have some huge production studio, a whole team, you have all the equipment, all the people assigned to certain positions. Do you think that's what it means to be a director or are we directors? This is not a very technical lesson, but this was recently brought to my attention and I felt like I should discuss it with you all. We are underestimating what we're doing. Oftentimes videographers, creators put out their work and do nothing but criticize it. And then other people come along and tell us how good it is. And all we can do is just say, it could have been better though. You have to be mindful of this transfer of energy. You have an idea to create something. It's merely a thought, something that is intangible. And with your hands in your mind and your being, you brought it to life. You made something that is completely unique to you. It's something that no one else can recreate because there's only one version of yourself. It is truly special to have a mind to create, and creation should not be taken lightly. So appreciate it. Enjoy it. Just because we're not on some huge movie set, yelling action or cut does not mean we sell ourselves short. You are a director. Remember that? 23. The By Product: This lesson is not at all scripted. I know we went over the pre-production and all that, but I definitely thought it would be worth it to show you guys what I've been able to create. And it's on TikTok. I'm not asking you to follow me at all, but I do want to show you some type of proof, something that you can leave with series on TikTok and this is the most popular one, easily broke over 10 million views. The first one got 8 million, which was insane. And I'm not at all doing this to brag. I just want to show you guys this is what storytelling can get you. I took weeks and weeks and pre-production in getting the script right for this, I wanted to make it relatable, closest to real life as possible. And it turned out really well, I had about 16,000 followers on TikTok before this series popped off. And now I'm at around 200,000, I think is like 196 or something like that. But I just wanted to show you, I took a lot of time in the pre-production process of just creating this story. It turned out really well. A lot of people liked it. And now I have a fan base to make these videos for which is awesome. And the best thing is you are no more different than I am. I'm a regular person just like you and you can accomplish something like this tomorrow, next week, next month. I mean, it's all up to you really, you are on this path for a reason, not truly believed that. And I believe that all of you watching this has the potential to be great. So away from the gear and all the fancy stuff, focus on your pre-production, focus on your storytelling, and have pride in your work because you are a director, like I said. All right guys, I'm not as good as talking when I'm scripting, so I'm just going to end this video here. I think that's it. We can now move on to the conclusion. 24. Recap | Thank You!!: Let's quickly recap the class. We first learned what gear we needed. Go ahead and check out the Amazon lists. I put at the top of the class where you can see where to get all of this gear. And don't worry about the prices of the gear because I've accumulated all of this stuff over years and years of working. So as you work, I'm saying you buy stuff that you need. The next thing we learned is the basic camera settings we need to know to record some good videos. And then we went into the importance of pre-production. Being technical versus creative was the next lesson. And then we move to composition and camera angles. Then we went infield and learned a little bit about handheld and Gimbal movements, and then a little bit about lighting as well In the last lesson, which I felt like it was very like a growth type of moment. We learned about taking pride in our work and becoming a director. I know that was a lot of information, so feel free to come back to any lesson to get a refresher at anytime. And now that we know a little bit about recording, my next class is going to be the basics to video editing. I always like to conclude my classes with a thank you. Thank you for allowing me to impart my knowledge into you for constantly going and chasing your dreams. You know, 90% of people fail in life because they quit too early. And I know that's not any of you, 90 and my students. So I do wish you Godspeed in your endeavors after this class.