Ahoj. This is Zdenka. i'm in Ontario Canada in one of my favorite local parks.
I needed to get outdoors so bad. Here
on the Youtube I already shot quite a
few B roll sequences. For example like
this one....
And few of you asked me if I can share
how I am planning all those shots and
transitions for b-roll. So in today's video I'm going
to show you, I'm going to take you on a
journey with me
how I am filming a very short cinematic
sequence of this location
and obviously I'm going to show you how
I am actually planning all those shots
and all those transition. Simply I'm going to show you all the
stuff behind the scenes.
So now that I made it all the way up to
the stairs I'm gonna start filming.
I'm gonna be shooting here first just
because it's the darkest area
and I want to make sure I don't run out
of light. It's not way too too dark here.
The first selection I'm going with the
24-105 millimeters lens because I
want to get a wide shot of this staircase. I might
switch to other lenses but right now I'm
going to stick around with the wide lens.
And then panning sideways...
First of all, I am an old school. So paper
and pencil does the trick for me.
Whenever I'm planning to shoot the next
b-roll what I'm always wondering first is
what exactly I want to shoot and then
what camera and lenses, what gear I'm
gonna be using. Today's topic is this place Heber Down.
I know this place very well. I've been
coming here for years and I don't think I've been here since
spring so I really don't know how it's
gonna look like right now. It's beginning
of September. So my task today is to capture this place
in the current season, the way it looks.
Another shot is literally here because
this area is just, it's a must to shoot.
I'm going to try to do the same wide
angle shot with the same lens 24 to 105
millimeters.
And I'm going to try to shoot through
some weeds here.
Next I usually plan what equipment I
want to use and today I brought with me
canon M6 Mark ii and Viltrox speed booster because I
want to use few EF lenses with it. One lens I have
here is the nifty 50. 50mm lens. The next
one is 24-105 millimeters and the
third one would be the telephoto
700 to 200 millimeters. I want to get
different depths.
I want to shoot some close-ups, some
stuff far away,
some medium shots and all those lenses
will give me different
results. So if I would be filming a city
right now and I had
my car parked somewhere close by, then I
would definitely bring
gimbal with me but because I'm going to
be doing quite a bit of hiking today. I
wanted to keep my gear very limited so I'm going
to be shooting pretty much everything
handheld.
I'll take advantage of the digital IS on
this camera and lenses.
I will be mostly filming in 60 frames
per second. Some of the shots
of water, plants and animals if I see any
in 120 frames per second. I'm also
planning on taking some photos here and
there
on those locations. So that would be my
first list of all the gear i'm going to
be using for the b-roll. So now I know
my possibilities but also my limitations.
Another spot is here. I'm on the other
side of this little lake and
what I like to do is obviously shoot
through a lot of plants
because the foreground is giving me nice
bokeh.
and all I'm doing is just getting the background shots.
I'm gonna try to go close to the water
hopefully I'm not gonna fall into the
water and um we'll see how muddy it is.
Not so bad so I'm gonna go very close to
the water
to shoot.
This area still looks quite nice so I'm
just gonna
keep going and
take the advantage of this to hopefully
hopefully stabilize it a little bit more.
Next step would be the shot list. I'm going to be filming at 3 main
areas. One is the river, then we have the lake and also the very
large staircase which looks really nice. So I'm
gonna be shooting all over the place. I'm
not gonna be limiting myself only to one
location so the b-roll will be shot of
it's gonna be mix of different shots
pretty much again to capture the season
the way it looks like right now.
So the shot list is gonna start with the
opening sequence. Now I have two choices
here. I can kind of keep it as a little tease
and then the big reveal, so I could do close-up shots of
different plants and different
insects and maybe animals and then just
do a very nice shot opening
the whole location or I could do
just kind of like a pulling shot right
away on
the big location and then do a huge
reveal. I think I'm gonna go for
option number one... yeah... the tease
and the reveal. So the shots will follow
for each location. Wide shots, medium shots, close-up shots
with the telephoto lens and then extreme close-up shots
of the plans and some insects. So again
I'm still shooting with 50 millimeters
lens. I'm gonna do a whole bunch of
plants. Now that's my plan to do
very close-ups of plants and um
as I mentioned before the transitions
here I'm gonna go into the color so
hopefully that can help me
in post once I'm going to be editing the
video
and since there is a lot of movement I'm
going to let it go on its own.
Always making sure I get a little bit of
the sun
shining through.
The aperture I'm selecting right now is
f/2.8 and it's
with the Viltrox speed booster
and I'm taking advantage of the
foreground
and the background. So what I'm doing
right now, I'm panning very slowly to the
side and because I'm focusing on the
background, the foreground is nice and blurry, really
nice shot with the 50 millimeter lens.
So let me try to capture the bee as this
working.
and back up a little bit. As you can see
the shot list
is quite simple and it's very
straight forward
because I'm shooting outdoors. If I will
be filming indoors, I would be filming a
food B roll for example or food commercial, stuff like that then
I would have controlled lighting and I
would know exactly
what I want to do. I could plan exactly
the transitions
and all the shots. Because I'm here
outdoors, I really don't know what's
ahead of me. I don't know what kind of
light situation I'm gonna be dealing
with. Which way the sun is going to go on
those locations. I have to keep my mind open, I have to be
ready to film on the spot. So my thing is to go very safe
with safe shots and safe transitions.
Meaning, if I'm shooting I'm gonna be
probably panning most of the time to the
right.
I'm gonna be maybe going a little bit
forward, I'm gonna be going backwards
maybe a little bit up and down but not
really. I'm gonna keep it mostly in the
same direction so it's not over the
place.
For the transitions I'm planning to do
three transitions kind of safe
transitions what I call and it's mostly whipping to the side or
camera shake with the telephoto lens
or I'm also planning to transition it
into the color and I'm gonna choose two
colors. Green and brown to keep it very
safe. So if I'm gonna be doing all these transitions in all three
different locations then I have a lot more opportunities to
mix it up in a post and I think all that will be
quite enough. It's still going to be
quite short cinematic sequence
and as I was taking you along and I was
showing you a little bit behind the
scenes how I'm actually filming this
whole cinematic sequence,
let me take you for some more. I was
planning to shoot a different river but
family is still there with kids and I
don't want to bother them so
I settled on this location. It's not as
pretty part of the river but hopefully
when I'm down here and I'm coming back, they might
be gone. So I'm just gonna do that. But
right now
I'm gonna try to get close here and uh
still with the 50 millimeter lens I'm
gonna try to do a few shots.
Look at that reflection. It can't get any
better.
And once it is all done, I just place it
to Adobe Premiere Pro which is my
current editing software. First I actually add the music, then I
choose clips, put them in the order, start editing on
the beats, add the sound effects
and yeah this is the outcome.
If you are interested to see how I
filmed the baseball b-roll
I linked the video in the video
description. I also added few other
b-roll videos there as well so you might
find it helpful.
Also all the gear I was using in today's
video including my
current filming kit can be found there
as well.
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in the next video. Cau... Ahoj...
