Nice video. Im learning so much. Always from real experience. I think frame rates and movement on sports commercials would be a great topic. Thanks, Mark!
Hey Mark! I'd love to pick your brain on storyboarding. How you go about it and choosing the right compositions to help communicate the right emotions! Maybe that could be interesting! Thanks for the awesome content! As always!
When you are turning on and off Image stabilization durning hand held shots. Lens, IBIS, Digital. In camera transitions, certain movements, whips, pans whatever. If you have any Image stabilization is there ever a time to turn if off, if so why? etc...
I'd argue these places aren't ugly, they're gritty. Ugly'd be a yellow, dimmly lit kitchen with cool temp LED bulb lighting and not old interesting items but new cheap Walmart appliances and no space to back up or shoot wide. That's ugly. *Looks at own kitchen*
Tell me abt it, my kitchen has some retro bright turquoise counter tops and poor lighting at anytime of day. Even with the lights on, the yellow tint doesn't mix all to well with the almost green/blue counter
HOW TO MAKE UGLY LOCATIONS CINEMATIC 1. Shoot at the right time of the day 2. Switch up angles 3. Add camera movement 4. Add some foreground element 5. Swap lenses 6. Add some haze in indoors and turn off lights
no no no Tip 1 : Learn how to control the Light of the Sun Tip 2 : Learn How to Float up high to get different angles Tip 3 : Move Buildings and Matter to conform to your scenes Tip 4 : Get a long lens like a 900 to 5000mm for best look or wide like a 1mm to 2mm (on full frame) Bonus : *ADD HAZE , or Cigarette smoke ....preferable weed smoke for Atmosphere
i love that you go right into the content, as opposed to making us watch skateboarders or someone thinking that we want to see coffee being made in slow motion.
Tbh we actually want to see him making coffee coz we love him and we watch him every time he uploads not just to learn stuff. It's about the fan base. We love his style.
Dude... you have no idea how helpful your videos are to aspiring cinematographers. You are so knowledgeable and specific with your tips which is amazing! Thank you 🙏🏻
Thank you so much Mark, you are awesome and all your advice is more worth than hundreds of other filmmakers which share their ego trips, but you are so simple and direct and I appreciated. Thank you from the bottom of my soul and best wishes for your upcoming works.
Nice vid, some of these things i do subconsciously but it’s good to spell it out like this to make it more conscious. Limitations are good for creativity so a limited location forces you to break conventions and try something new.
One of the few real "filmmakers" on RUclips, always great content. Be interested in how you location scout maybe tips on how you plan/pick them and how you go about cold calling to request them?
Great tips! I think everyone struggles with not wanting to film when the location sucks, but now we can see it as more of a challenge than a hindrance. 👍👍
True, but you can see where he's coming from. The locations wouldn't be as good if he were trying to get a clean and tidy style, like a romantic comedy. He leans into the look of the available location rather than fighting it, and it doesn't feel unbefitting of a "workout video". Moody, contrasty lighting/exposure and a somewhat "urban" color grade -- He's makes it cinematic by /telling the same story/ with everything he does. A lot of locations can actually be quite cinematic IF they're lit/filmed/graded to feel right for the story that location might tell.
I’m on the side of the argument that there is no actual “ugly” location. It’s possible to film anything, of any genre (give or take), in the location in this video. Grading and lighting always play a role, but so do costume design, blocking and camera movements. With all the pieces together, anyone can make any location work.
@@pilkfilms At the indie level, sure, you do what you can to realize your vision with what you have. Nothing wrong with that -- creativity can you get you pretty far. But it is important to recognize that with big budget films, anything and everything visible in the shot (including the location) is carefully determined to help tell the story in as many ways as possible. The attention to detail is far beyond what many would imagine. Your idea that anyone can make anything work has merit up to a point, but it stops being true the further your raise the bar on what "works". The more you can make your films APPEAR to have well utilized, budget-fueled production freedom, even to the eyes of a professional, the more "big budget" and "cinematic" your shots are going to look. Working within the strengths of the location can help you achieve this effect, and that is what this man is doing pretty well here. The severity of the challenge your location gives you can make a huge difference in the end result, especially when you are probably already cutting corners in many other areas of filmmaking.
Green Ghost in a big budget movie they have the ability to make the location whatever the hell they want, whether that be through physical or digital means. The odds are even better when it comes down to bigger, better, productions. Now, since time is money obviously they’re not going to just pick a random location and do what they can, they’ll obviously scout and find a location that fits their specific means. I am confident in my point that you can make any location work for the means of what you’re attempting to produce, and I think indie-film wise it’s even harder, not easier, my friend.
@@pilkfilms Well, none of that was really a disagreement with anything I actually said, just a lot of additional ideas about the subject (which are fine) and a repeat of your opening thesis. I can't tell if you're trying to argue or if you're just saying additional stuff
Really great tips... Just found out your channel... Its awesome man... I love your content... Thank you for these tips.. So that i can shoot a better video after this... 🔥💪💪
You know what an actual ugly location is? A university dorm. Not a fancy one at like Harvard, but like a public university. Absolutely horrendous without a ton of artificial set design. Terrible lighting, terrible windows, plain walls, artificial furniture, terrible flooring, they're designed more like prisons but have furniture that we associate with a home so it's difficult to make it seem completely edgy, but it's also really difficult to make it feel like any other strong emotion that's positive.
I think they are not ugly because they match to the subject. But as someone here says, ugly are boring and bland locations, locations you have nothing to work with
More than a smooth camera or actors I would say top notch editing skills... You can shoot with your phone and some friends and there's no problem when you know how to edit and color grade your footage.
Pablo Eduardo that definitely a bonus, but more than anything it’s about understanding and mastering the basic fundamentals and having a deeper understanding of lighting, composition, and cinematography as a whole. Those who believe otherwise have a very limited knowledge... I can say that much.
Holy shit, every single thing you've covered is actually actionable content. Not some vague crap that you're supposed to dig out some insight from. Great work Mark.
@@markbone btw one location is kind of a boring interior with some cool natural light, so I'm using some haze. Have you ever used that "atmosphere aerosol"? I'm giving it a try, hope it works well
All about great light and a good eye for seeing the light. Not about ugly or pretty locations. A pretty location will suck big time in bad light and vice versa.
Thank you man really appreciate these tips I'm new to cinematography and I'm starting out using my GalaxyS20 because it has a decent camera to play around with anyways yeah thank you 🤙🙂
Any new topics ya'll want me to cover??
Nice video. Im learning so much. Always from real experience. I think frame rates and movement on sports commercials would be a great topic. Thanks, Mark!
This was gold bro! fast paced editing in future video🔥
Hey Mark! I'd love to pick your brain on storyboarding. How you go about it and choosing the right compositions to help communicate the right emotions! Maybe that could be interesting! Thanks for the awesome content! As always!
Your approach to proxy workflow (if you use it) and your approach to color balancing and grading.
When you are turning on and off Image stabilization durning hand held shots. Lens, IBIS, Digital. In camera transitions, certain movements, whips, pans whatever. If you have any Image stabilization is there ever a time to turn if off, if so why? etc...
I'd argue these places aren't ugly, they're gritty. Ugly'd be a yellow, dimmly lit kitchen with cool temp LED bulb lighting and not old interesting items but new cheap Walmart appliances and no space to back up or shoot wide. That's ugly. *Looks at own kitchen*
I want to admit that my kitchen is pretty much that. But I thought the yellow was "uniquely" cinematic.
Do you live in the backrooms
Just an office
Exactly. If a place looks bad in real life, chances are it'll look super interesting on camera and vice versa.
Tell me abt it, my kitchen has some retro bright turquoise counter tops and poor lighting at anytime of day. Even with the lights on, the yellow tint doesn't mix all to well with the almost green/blue counter
Mark: turn your house lights off
Me: dang my life is cinematic af
Me at night
lmaooooo
HOW TO MAKE UGLY LOCATIONS CINEMATIC
1. Shoot at the right time of the day
2. Switch up angles
3. Add camera movement
4. Add some foreground element
5. Swap lenses
6. Add some haze in indoors and turn off lights
You forgot the most important tip..... Have good looking actors.
7. Use good looking models, nobody will notice anything else !! :-)
no no no
Tip 1 : Learn how to control the Light of the Sun
Tip 2 : Learn How to Float up high to get different angles
Tip 3 : Move Buildings and Matter to conform to your scenes
Tip 4 : Get a long lens like a 900 to 5000mm for best look or wide like a 1mm to 2mm (on full frame)
Bonus : *ADD HAZE , or Cigarette smoke ....preferable weed smoke for Atmosphere
@@YoungBlaze lol
how do you add haze?
LIGHTING IS EVERYTHING !!
i love that you go right into the content, as opposed to making us watch skateboarders or someone thinking that we want to see coffee being made in slow motion.
Lol. I try not to put you through that 😂
I agree.
Absolutely. These days anyone who keeps his stuff under 10 minutes gets my views & subs. Loved the tips too!
Tbh we actually want to see him making coffee coz we love him and we watch him every time he uploads not just to learn stuff. It's about the fan base. We love his style.
What's wrong? You don't wanna see coffee b-roll? :D :D
After learning about your channel I’ve been binging all of the content can’t wait for the documentary course to come out.
Dude... you have no idea how helpful your videos are to aspiring cinematographers. You are so knowledgeable and specific with your tips which is amazing! Thank you 🙏🏻
Thanks mate! So glad I could help
Utterly, utterly marvelous, teasingly helpful, priceless hiss. Thanks Mark!! 💛🙏🏼
hey mark really awesome video again! love your content! looking forward to the next doc tips and tricks!
One of the best videos on RUclips about practical camera use. Thank you for the links.
these videos are amazing!! I see a bright future for you on this platform
Thank you so much Mark, you are awesome and all your advice is more worth than hundreds of other filmmakers which share their ego trips, but you are so simple and direct and I appreciated. Thank you from the bottom of my soul and best wishes for your upcoming works.
He: this is an ugly location. Me: seriously?
These are gems that I unintentionally have been doing. Sometimes cinematography is about what is intentionally not being shown.
Exactly! It's about showing what's important
This is such a great idea for a video! Love these tips and one of my favourite vids cheers! Short sweet informative.
Nice vid, some of these things i do subconsciously but it’s good to spell it out like this to make it more conscious. Limitations are good for creativity so a limited location forces you to break conventions and try something new.
Hi Mark, really enjoy your content. Straightforward; informative. Thanks.
Mark, this is great stuff. Thank you so much!
Great advice, nice video with real info! Love for you to cover the way you use dynamic range.
Some great tips here. I love shooting at sunset, looks so so good! Definitely going to try some of these on my next shoot!
Your videos are priceless! Thank you for all this valuable info and tips!
One of the few real "filmmakers" on RUclips, always great content. Be interested in how you location scout maybe tips on how you plan/pick them and how you go about cold calling to request them?
My very first time here and I'm liking this guy already.
Gotta love those alleys in Toronto. Looks a lot like where I recently did a shoot in Etobicoke.
Fantastic video. All rather basic stuff, but a great reminder and great new tips for anyone who hasn't heard them before!
Thanks Mark.. Thank for inspiring me every time. Much love Brother.
*This is Creativity in another dimension*
Thanks for sharing!!
Excellent tips Mark. Thank you!
I really love these tips they are atleast I have experienced these out on set great job man
i love it, when ppl sum the video up at the end!
Mark, Really appreciate the content brethren. Thanks for all you do mate! - Cheers
Love the channel Mark! Keep it up. Subbed.
Great tips as always man! Will try those on the next shoot✌🏼
Best video EVER!!!!!! Thank you very much!!!!
Nice one. Having a cool subject that is doing an interesting action helps a lot too
That was EXTREMELY helpful, thank you Mark!
My pleasure
These are fantastic tips. Thanks so much!!
I just finished watching this video; subscribed. Keep up the stellar work, Brother.
Thank you! appreciate the love
Love it! Great tips Mark! Thank you
very solid tips Mark! Thank you
Niiiice thanks for this !!! The haze is an excellent one !
Very true! My wife and I do the same thing with our videos! Love your work!
Your vlogging part alone is already fantastic and cinematic look!
Great tips! I think everyone struggles with not wanting to film when the location sucks, but now we can see it as more of a challenge than a hindrance. 👍👍
Everyone is commenting how this location is not "ugly." I'm here to add to that. This location is so rustic! These are the locations I look for!!!
True, but you can see where he's coming from. The locations wouldn't be as good if he were trying to get a clean and tidy style, like a romantic comedy. He leans into the look of the available location rather than fighting it, and it doesn't feel unbefitting of a "workout video". Moody, contrasty lighting/exposure and a somewhat "urban" color grade -- He's makes it cinematic by /telling the same story/ with everything he does. A lot of locations can actually be quite cinematic IF they're lit/filmed/graded to feel right for the story that location might tell.
I’m on the side of the argument that there is no actual “ugly” location. It’s possible to film anything, of any genre (give or take), in the location in this video. Grading and lighting always play a role, but so do costume design, blocking and camera movements. With all the pieces together, anyone can make any location work.
@@pilkfilms At the indie level, sure, you do what you can to realize your vision with what you have. Nothing wrong with that -- creativity can you get you pretty far. But it is important to recognize that with big budget films, anything and everything visible in the shot (including the location) is carefully determined to help tell the story in as many ways as possible. The attention to detail is far beyond what many would imagine. Your idea that anyone can make anything work has merit up to a point, but it stops being true the further your raise the bar on what "works". The more you can make your films APPEAR to have well utilized, budget-fueled production freedom, even to the eyes of a professional, the more "big budget" and "cinematic" your shots are going to look. Working within the strengths of the location can help you achieve this effect, and that is what this man is doing pretty well here. The severity of the challenge your location gives you can make a huge difference in the end result, especially when you are probably already cutting corners in many other areas of filmmaking.
Green Ghost in a big budget movie they have the ability to make the location whatever the hell they want, whether that be through physical or digital means. The odds are even better when it comes down to bigger, better, productions. Now, since time is money obviously they’re not going to just pick a random location and do what they can, they’ll obviously scout and find a location that fits their specific means. I am confident in my point that you can make any location work for the means of what you’re attempting to produce, and I think indie-film wise it’s even harder, not easier, my friend.
@@pilkfilms Well, none of that was really a disagreement with anything I actually said, just a lot of additional ideas about the subject (which are fine) and a repeat of your opening thesis. I can't tell if you're trying to argue or if you're just saying additional stuff
Thank you for these tips! The footage of the FX9 looks absolutely stunning btw!
I’m loving the images from the camera more every day
Useful tips, man. Thank You!
Mark, you are probably one of my best filmmakers on youtube right now!
1:32 turn off the light and burn your food so the kitchen is full of smoke!
You are the most under-rated channel on RUclips. I love your work. 🔥🔥
Really cool man, thanks for making this video.
Awesome piece Mark! Going on longer lenses is a great tip especially for locations where you're forced to shoot that aren't looking too cheeky haha
Excellent video bro, great tips in here!
With your kit and color grading everything looks good :D
Really great video! I have never added haze to a shot before, I will definitely have to give it a try!
these were awesome tips. i can't wait to try 'em out
Really enjoyed this video, thank you 🙏🏻
Great video. Very talented!!
Great tips as usual, thanks mark.
Great tips, even though I know some, I always learn something new through this.
Fantastic video love it🔥🔥
Amazing content . Thanks Mark
Love your videos! Thank you! ❤️
Thank you!!
Really great tips... Just found out your channel... Its awesome man... I love your content... Thank you for these tips.. So that i can shoot a better video after this... 🔥💪💪
Very amazing and helpful video thanks for sharing great inspiring info👍
Very helpful information I will use this tips very soon for a video
These tips are sick!!! WOOOOO
You know what an actual ugly location is? A university dorm. Not a fancy one at like Harvard, but like a public university. Absolutely horrendous without a ton of artificial set design.
Terrible lighting, terrible windows, plain walls, artificial furniture, terrible flooring, they're designed more like prisons but have furniture that we associate with a home so it's difficult to make it seem completely edgy, but it's also really difficult to make it feel like any other strong emotion that's positive.
You’re so right! Those places suck. If you can turn off all the lights and just use the window light
Hope your course comes soon. I´ll start filming for my next project in 2 weeks 😁
So soon!!
Again delivered...awesome tips
🙏🏻
These really aren’t “ugly locations”, ugly locations to me are boring locations and these aren’t really boring.
Yeah, because "ugly" has "character", whereas blank and bland and boring are the real challenges
Exactly, I was about to comment this, these locations aren't "ugly", they're already quite cinematic actually (ex: graffiti walls, etc)
@@r.o.g.e.r.m.a.c you look ugly to _us._
The location is ugly, but that's the appeal. I think he missed a huge opportunity here to talk about matching a location to the subject matter.
I think they are not ugly because they match to the subject. But as someone here says, ugly are boring and bland locations, locations you have nothing to work with
Nothing is ugly when u have a top notch smooth camera and actors...
Facts
It’s about your knowledge and ability - not the camera
@@LouisJonesFilm
For photos yeah but the quality of the camera and lens selection have a significant impact on video quality.
More than a smooth camera or actors I would say top notch editing skills... You can shoot with your phone and some friends and there's no problem when you know how to edit and color grade your footage.
Pablo Eduardo that definitely a bonus, but more than anything it’s about understanding and mastering the basic fundamentals and having a deeper understanding of lighting, composition, and cinematography as a whole. Those who believe otherwise have a very limited knowledge... I can say that much.
Thank you for this. It’s super helpful.
Amazing content! Thank you so much!
Holy shit, every single thing you've covered is actually actionable content. Not some vague crap that you're supposed to dig out some insight from. Great work Mark.
Great tips! I definitely need to level up my video!
Another great one, Mark! Finally have a few jobs in the coming weeks and this video is inspiring me 🙌
Awesome! Go crush it man!
@@markbone btw one location is kind of a boring interior with some cool natural light, so I'm using some haze. Have you ever used that "atmosphere aerosol"? I'm giving it a try, hope it works well
@@erthaldop Ive never used it, but it would freak me out breathing it in if it's coming from a can!
@@markbone 😷
Awesome tips! Thanks 💕.
Great stuff. Thanks!!
This isn'y really an ugly location, i thought you meant like your standard student dorm, or inside a bachelors kitchen.
Waiting eagerly fr ur series on documentary...lots of love frm kashmir lower Himalayas.
Great video bro! It would be awesome to make a video on storytelling/storyboarding tips.
Thanks for the great tips!
Actually quite useful tips thank you 😊👍
All about great light and a good eye for seeing the light. Not about ugly or pretty locations. A pretty location will suck big time in bad light and vice versa.
Living in Lodz, Poland I clicked hooked by just this video title :D
Thanks for these!!!!!
Man every time I watch a video of yours I feel like I've done a new uni course in five minutes 👍
Yes!! Just wait for my documentary course :)
So helpful!!! Thanks
wonderful brother..more power to You.
Thanks! Great tips, will use it at the next shooting! :)
Thank you man really appreciate these tips I'm new to cinematography and I'm starting out using my GalaxyS20 because it has a decent camera to play around with anyways yeah thank you 🤙🙂
Fantastic tips as usual 👌
Great video - would love to see more tips and tricks to make more interesting shots
Great suggestions. Thanks for the inspiration.
This was dope!
I think my home is gonna be pretty cinematic from now on 😂
And your face too 😆
Underrated
i hope that too
👏😁
awesome video thanks Mark!
THANKS BRO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! XERO FOR LIFE
Great tips man, thanks!
the url is gay!
Good stuf. Sometimes you forget to go back tot he simple stuff. Keep rocking