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1. Video Basics: INTRO - Filming a Music Video on a Budget: All things. So while I will say, I wish
I had a bigger budget, I will say you can film on a low budget and
do a fairly decent job. Skill concave of regret. I want to teach you
critical thinking. I want to teach you
the concepts of how to do it and then
you can kind of adapt, figure out what you want to
do and take that and run it, kept showing no
going on the curve.
2. Preparation: the Importance of Creating a Master List: We're talking about
filming on a budget today. The first thing that
you would do is make a master list that would be for your equipment
that you want to bring. And also you first need
to scope out your venue, if at all possible to
see really what you need to bring as far as
efficient lighting, how the audio is going to be. Just to get an idea of
the general overview, my daughter who is a feature of this podcast is a
Nashville musician. She is originally from
the Pacific Northwest and she has been doing gigs
for about 18 years, I'd say. And she learned very
early on to make a master gig list of equipment
that she needed to bring, because it seemed like
you would get there, you're missing extension cords, you're missing mic, you're going to come and your batteries aren't going to be
charged or whatever. So just have that list. Another thing I would say is go ahead and scout out your venue first so that you can get idea of what kind of
lighting to bring, what kind of audio to bring. That'll just give
you a real edge. When you get there, you'll be a little bit more prepared
and you'll know what to put on your list to
bring when you're filming. Depending on how many people you're filming and
where you're filming. But you will need at
least a couple of lights. You'll need some light stands. You'll need a tripod for
whatever camera you've got. Hopefully you have
more than one camera. You really need two cameras for a different angles so you
can edit back and forth. For lights, you'll need
at least one key light. You can get away with that
if you're in a pinch, but you really need a fill
and a back light as well for the three point lighting really gives you a three
D look and it looks best. You also need a decent mic. You need a lapel mic. If you're a say, speaker or a podcaster, you need one of
those mics that you plug into a conference table. If there's a group of people and you're in a conference room, you might need a
broad spectrum mic. You might need cardioid Mic, which tends to record in certain patterns so that it doesn't get the
ambient sound. Depending on your project research what kind
of mic you need, you need better than
just on your camera. You're probably going to
need a multiple plug in O. That's one of the things
when you scout your venue, if you see where the outlets
are and what you can plug into and where you might
need some extension cords, probably a good idea to pack at least two in
your bag and then multiple outlet plug in thing. You are the producer,
you're the director, you're the editor and
everything, probably. I mean, it's nice if you have maybe a group of
people and somebody can direct and somebody can produce and somebody can
look at all this stuff, you know, they can be in
charge of this and that, but usually one camera on a budget or two
cameras on a budget. You're going to be doing
everything and you're wearing all the hats and
you want to make sure that you have all of
your shots that you need. Now, I don't make a shot list because I'm the only
one filming usually, and I know already
what I want to get. I want to get a wide shot, wide angle static shot. That way when I'm editing, I always have something
I can go back to. If I need an extra
shot and I don't have anything in particular
of what I need, then you need a medium shot and then you need
some close ups. The medium shot can
be a roving camera, especially like I discussed
with the stabilizer. If you have a stabilizer, those look really
nice if you can do really slow and
stabilized moves. Also you need some close
ups just for interest. I'm not saying like this, but maybe like that. Side shots, angles,
different things when you're editing that stuff is so handy to have because you
can add a lot of interest. You don't just have one shot, you don't have from the front. You've got some
interesting angles, different camera angles. Especially for filming video, you need more than one angle. Research a shot list
and what it looks like. If you have people
running your cameras, you need to either direct them in what shots you
want from them, or you need a shot list,
maybe some examples, little stick figure drawings to show them exactly
what you want from them. So that when you or the editor gets into the
studio and starts editing, they have all of
the angles that you want in the shot and you want in your
podcast, your video.
3. Filming: the Importance of Effective Lighting: She went to a local
coffee shop to shoot and record Cassie's new
single called Simply. She invited a couple of her professional musician
friends to be with her on her new acoustic sessions that she has been featuring. The producer brought
his own sound equipment so we didn't have to
worry about audio. The thing about the coffee shop, and I'll show you the set up in diagrams we went in there. There's a bank of
windows in the front and then there's nothing
on the sides and back. Basically coming into a cave. I knew we had to
bring in lights. It's important to have
enough bright lighting that your camera's auto focus
can actually work well. Otherwise, it's going to be
searching for focus all the time because there's really not enough light for the detail. What we did was we brought
in two fluorescent lights. There are 85 watt bulbs apiece. And that's the equivalency
of about 800 watts a piece. And then I put up a couple
of LAD lights behind people just to enhance the back light a little
bit on their hair. And then one of
the musicians had a little bit of side light
from the window coming in. As I go through the footage, I'll show you what I did and then I'll show you
a camera set up, how each shot looked with
the lighting that we had.
4. Filming: Cameras & Varied Camera Angles: On the camera side, it was very budget, I would say because we used
an old Sony that we had, which is a consumer version. You know, it is what it is. It was cheap. I
wanted a medium shot. Just set up the whole
time and so you know, a static so in case I missed
something with something else or had shaky or
whatever I wanted to shot. So I just set that up and let it run. That was an old one. I had two iphones set up
on little tiny tripods. Those aren't very expensive. And then I had my
beloved Luis 85, which I like, this
camera, it does four. The files are so big, I rarely run it on four K. I don't really need
it most of the time, but it seems to do decent. And it's a kit lens, this is a really intermediate, low to intermediate camera,
but I've really enjoyed it. It's got a lot of features that I like, a few that I don't, but for the most part I think
it is a very good camera. The auto focus is pretty good. Even moving shots, the auto
focus does really well. I've been impressed
with this one. I like to go to
BN H Photo video. Oh my goodness, those guys
have been in business forever. They have great
customer service. I would recommend them just
on my experience alone. That was my main
camera and that's the one that I did
the moving shots. So I got close ups with it. I got medium shots with it. I got some moving
wide shots with it. I had an old camera set up right for a medium
shot of Casta Don. I had another old
camera set up for a shot from the right if
you're looking at them. And then on the left, I had a iphone set up on
a table just to get a big wide shot that
I could go back to when I couldn't get all
of the rhythms matching. And then I was trying out an
old steady cam that I had, hoping that I could do
nice steady moving shots, but I couldn't get my camera
calibrated correctly for it. I need to actually
spring for a DJ Ronan or something for
camera stabilizer. But I wanted some
moving shots and that's what my client, my
daughter wanted to. What I did was I
just did handheld. The space was so small
that I had to step over cords and wires
and step around tripod. So I I'm just saying
some of the shots were a little bit shaky and that's the reason is I couldn't
get my steady cam to work. But in general, I like
the shots where it moves around and you get all
of the different angles, but you get a little
bit of movement too, which is interesting. But that's what I
had going on there. The J, Ronan gets
pretty good reviews. The prices range
from, I don't know, 279 up to $8,000 But I've
seen people using them. They look like they get
pretty smooth video. That's probably my
next purchase if you can afford it just to at
least get the low priced one, maybe so that you can
get some smooth shots. Moving shots I find are always
more interesting to me.
5. Filming: the Importance of Multiple Camera Takes: Also one of the things that
you need to do when you're taping is you need to
do multiple takes. If you have four cameras set up and you did one take
and that's all you had. You know what? At least
you have all the angles. But if you can do more than one, it is just so handy to
have extra footage. You never go wrong
having extra footage. In this video, she
did five takes. For the audio, I filmed all of the takes with the four
camera shots that I had. The angles, we take one and
I had 1234 cameras running. Then we did take two, and I had 1234 cameras running for all of the takes
except for the fifth take. I just did a medium shot. On the fifth take,
I did a medium shot from one static camera. She was the focus
of the music video. And I wanted to make
sure that I had good, well lighted and static shot of her because she was
the focus of the song.
6. Editing: Why I use Blackmagic Davinci Resolve: There was an incident with
me editing in around 2017, 2018 with Premier Pro. I felt like they just left
their people in the dust. You have to have
subscription of. I had archived a lot of
projects that I had worked on, and then all of a sudden Adobe just let everybody
sitting there. They said you have to get the newest version and they wouldn't support
in the old ones. You couldn't open up your files. You know, a lot of people, they had business files that
they needed to open. I was looking around. Black
Magic does film cameras. They have some really nice
looking 4.6 K cameras. They offer the
software for free, but you can buy it for 295. It's unlimited. You can
go back to any version. They have them posted. They're there anything that
works on your computer? You figure out which version you can use and
then you can always update to the newest version when you update your computer, but that just works
really well for me.
7. Editing: Editing in DaVinci Resolve: Demonstration & Examples: I've been editing on Davinci resolve and it is free software, so you know what budget, there's your free stuff. So I do intend to do a Davinci Resolve tutorial on editing and it'll
be more in depth, but this is a really
short version of some of the things
I did for this class. I'll work on one segment just to show you kind
of how I did it. It won't be the
finished version, but I'll give you all of the basic steps of how
I put this together. We'll go through some
of the things on the bottom here that Da Vinci resolve offers and
then I'll show you how to export out
a successful file. What I did was I eliminated
all the other segments. This is the class that you're watching
filming on a budget. And so I've already finished it, so I'm going to show you a
little bit about the editing. This is a slide that
I created in Canva. I've been using Canva. It's a pretty good program, I think. Anyway, I've enjoyed it. I uploaded a picture, I put on my little tag, and then I picked out the fonts that I wanted and
where I placed it. So I placed the
slide from Canva. I'm going to go and
take off the snap, because this is a snapping. It's handy when you're trying
to match up everything, but it's also a hassle when this thing is
always snapping. I'm going to take
off the snapping, then I can run without it always sticking
to all of the edges. What I did was I
created all of this. I put in the video, I added some of
the ambient sound. I have my voice overs
then voice narration. Then I also added a
little segment of music. This was just from the
music video that we did. It's her master copy
from the producer. That's the tag, Okay, the width. The slide is a tag over here. You can adjust clip volume, you can pan it, but we don't
have to worry about that. These are a little bit
more intermediate, but your most important
thing is clip volume. Here I have volume
changing because I want it to fade out as I
go into this segment. Right here I started out, you can see it's in the
middle. It's standard. It's compressed to, although
I backed off a little bit, I'm at minus 542. Okay. And then I started decreasing as
my voice over comes in. So we'll go here to a local coffee shop to shoot and record Cassie's new
single called Simply. Okay, I'm decreasing. And then I'm fading
out into here. And what you can do with
these is you can grab this tab on the ends of all
of these are little tabs. You can grab the tab, you can fade, then
if you want to, you can adjust the
fade up inverted. So it goes more quickly, but that's how you
can do that easily. And then whenever
you adjust this, the fade adjusts over with it. That's what I have here. I
just have a standard fade, it's going to fade, then
I have ambient noise. So I didn't add any
background music to that on this segment. Yeah, on this segment, I was
just doing ambient sound. On other segments, I did have an additional
soundtrack and it was running underneath here
under my video narration, but here I just used
ambient ambient noise. She invited a couple of her professional musician
friends to be with her on her new acoustic sessions that she has been featuring. The producer brought
his own, okay, so you hear the ambient sound and you can see
it right in here. And I brought it up a little
bit because she's talking about how she wants to do this song and I thought
that was of interest. Okay. And then just a side
note when I clicked on this, I have these two linked. I have the original
video and audio linked. Usually you want
this to stay on. Every video clip is going
to have its own audio. You don't separate them. You can separate them if for some reason you want
to remove the audio, you don't want any ambient noise or you can just bring
them down like that. However, If you want to remove the audio. If you had this on the whole
thing. I'm going to go back. Command Z on my Apple keyboard, it's command Z. I don't
know what it is on a PC, I'm not sure. But anyway, I just did.
Do you can go up here. Command right there. Okay, then my voice
narration is underneath. Let's see, what else
have we got here? What I have is I have the slide, The narration comes
in this layers out, fades out the ambient noise. I adjusted the
levels a little bit. I'm mainly talking
audio with the video. Now, this one, I moved up here, but that still comes with it. Because that's linked.
The audio is linked. Now, if I were to snap, then this would snap
to all of the ends, so I can match them up
nicely whenever I wanted to. The I have fading audio
here, adjustments. But you can see what I did. Then here's another
canvas slide that I did. I just have the diagram
of the lighting there and then above it, anytime something is above it, you can't see the one below
it unless you fade it. You can go up under effects, video transitions, and
you can do a dissolve. Maybe let's dissolve into this. Now this is going to dissolve. Let me take that off,
otherwise it'll glitch. Here we go, it's
starting to dissolve. And there we go, that gives
you a nice soft transition. You can also do that with
transparency, opacity. I don't know why you'd
want to do it here, but anyway, you can
do it if you need to. If there's something on one
side and something on the other that you want to fade in. Okay, then what else
do we have here? Oh, and then I just
put my video up in the corner so you can zoom out. This is how I did this one, just to narrate a little bit, that's an easy way to do that. I think you can do that. Nobs Studio Two, this
is media, this is it. This is Fusion, which
I don't use too often because it crashes my computer. But you can do color grading, you can add text, you can do lots of color
and contrast and lighting. All right, And then now
this version is color. You can do the same
thing. You have lift gamma gain offset. I'm changing the color
just by doing gamma. I'm trying to remember
if it's mid range. Could be midtone. All right. You got all the
different ways that you can change the lighting on this. Take a little bit of
the reddish out and go more bluish then offset. Also, you can go more bluish. This might be more like the
mid and darks then lift, this actually looks
like the dark shadows. You can also do it with these little wheels and you can do it for each yellow,
red, green, blue. You can also do
it for that also. You can change here, But that's a brutal one. In contrast, there are quite
a few things you can do with the color option
then fair light. I did a little bit of work
on this because I did some audio narration through Da Vinci's Direct Mike input. What I'll do is I'll go here. I'm going to multi select, but I'm just going to select these two, They're grade out. None of the rest of
them are selected. It'll only select
what is grade out. Then what happens
is I get an option. This is one of the
filters that I did because I have a cheap mic. Of course, this was a
whole budget thing. This has to be. Then you
can manipulate this. Let me reset it. I'm okay. We went into a local coffee shop to shoot and record. Okay. I didn't like that so I
messed with the sound. What I did was I brought up a little bit of the mid highs. We went into a local
coffee shop to shoot and record Cassis new
single called Simply, I wanted a little bit
clearer because I had some ambient audio
and music behind it. That is just a really
brief overview of some of the things that
you can do on this side. You can also adjust
volume pan pitch. That's nice to have that option. Now we're down at the
bottom to export, we could do Youtube and it would just pick all of
our settings here. But I'm just going to do custom. So, and then you browse to find out
where you want it. I'm going to put it in my
skill share folder. Okay. It says quick time. I don't want quick
time. I want MP four. That's what Skillshare requires. This is a fine code. If you have newer cameras, you could do the 265,
but this is fine. You could do network
optimization. If you have a big, huge file
and you want a smaller one, I'm going to go with HD. It's a frame rate of 24. I could apparently select more, but 24 is fine, and then this is fine. Actually, I have exported out at 3,000 big files and
they looked pretty good. You could do that if you
needed a smaller file, or you can just do automatic. You have AAC is the only
option on that one. These are mostly
automatic settings. If you didn't want
to mess with that, just do the Youtube
or any of these. They have different
selections you can do. But that'll get you
where you want to go. Now that I have selected where I want it in
the name and custom, then I'm going to add
it to the render queue. And it puts it over here. You can also cancel it. You can edit it, but I'm
going to start the render. Then you'll see this, it will cycle through
all of these clips as it's going through and you can see if there's a problem. Okay, so the export is
done and I'm going to go up here and look and
we have short clip my daughter who is
a feature of it. So we have a viable clip and it looks like
it's 44 megabytes. It's an MP four HD
1920 by 1080/42 long.
8. Editing Tips: the Importance of Color Grading & Folder Management / Wrap-up: One of the things that is I'd
say a downside with using budget cameras is all of them
are going to be different. Your white balance? My white balance on all of
my cameras was different. When I bring the
footage and edit it, I have to do color processing that I
have an old Mac 2012. It has a glorious big screen, but it doesn't have a
graphics card that I can change out. It crashes. It tends to crash if I use
any color grading whatsoever. What I have to do
is when I import, I have to color
grade it and then export it out in a
compressed file, bring in the compressed
file and edit. With that, it is very necessary for you to at least
do basic color grading, especially if you're
using cameras that have the different white balances and they all have
different colors, they all look so much different
when you bring them in, I took all of those, did the color processing, I compressed them and
then I re imported them in all four of the cameras. I think I got them fairly close to looking similar, the color. I'm not in any way a pro color grader and I want to do some
tutorials myself on it. But I'll show you what I did. But I really think
that is something, even if you're on a budget, you can use the free software, do some tutorials, figure out
how to do the color grading and then color match from
your different cameras. Color match the footage
that you've got so that your output looks at
least somewhat professional. Another really
important thing to do if you're editing
any software. I don't care what
organize your files. When you first come
in, you create a folder, your project folder, one for that project,
you name it, and then you send all of the files to that
project folder. Also, I will tell
you my experience, the newer versions might
have corrected this. But if you ever
go and change and name on one of those files or folders
or a project folder, like for instance,
I have skill share 23 and I didn't think about it. And then now we're into 24. I have a lot of
similar files that I share when I do new projects, but I can't go back and change
that project folder name. I had to create a new one. Because if I do, then it destroys all of the
links that I've got. And I have to go manually
one by one and change all the names and direct it to where it's
supposed to go anyway. I mean, there are
some things that you can do that maybe it's just because I don't
know how to do it. Right. That's possible. But I'm saying
you'll save yourself a lot of grief if
you just go in. You're organized, you
organize everything. You organize your
pictures in one spot, your video in one spot, your color graded in one spot, all in that project folder
so that you don't have to go back and change names and then have to
relink all your files, which is a nightmare. While I will say, I wish
I had a bigger budget, I will say you can film on a low budget and
do a fairly decent job. I'm so pleased that you came by today and looked at the
class. Thank you so much. I have some new stuff coming
up that's pretty exciting. I'll get it up as soon
as I get it edited. Please give me a like subscribe, follow all the stuff, you'll get
notifications of posts, and give me feedback
on my class. Give me a good review if you like the class,
I'd appreciate it. I'm going to go ahead
and put my daughter, Cassia Dan's music video that
we worked on after this. So that you can
take a look at it, see what kind of lighting and camera angles and
stuff that we all used. If you want to
check out her site, she's at Cassia Dawn.com and she's also on
Three Sisters Artists, which is my artists site. I have a few things up as well, but thanks for
stopping by and I hope you'll enjoy the video
as much as we did.
9. Simply by Cassia Dawn, Acoustic Sessions : Nashville: You see is a fight. I don't want to win. Coping techniques,
playing hard to get need you a center of my pay. Been here before in
nips and tricks. Cuts. Losing to fix. Do want to play Dr. in open all my wounds. Expos spell overcome all the things you to you love. The gil concave of regret. I checked the box
can't be loved yet. Buddy took my head and scary. So knocking on the back you on a single inch of the back
you're there for me will. No strings of touch. You want every
please serve me car. Oh my root expose,
expecting over care. All those things did want
you to say you simply, you simply love you. Open my eyes. You catch me by space. So simple and see
nothing but free for I don't care at all or motion. Kill me out on pen, card pen. Oh my specs bubble. Say space you to me. Oh. Oh. All else we've broken
pieces but no one stays. They can see. You proved me. You proved me. I did want you to see Si, please love me.
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