I have almost no plans to pursue filmmaking, but I love watching these, because I like hearing you guys talk about your craft, and it can't hurt to learn more. Keep it up!
@@CorridorCrew You think you could use this as an example in some content about how far your quality and techniques and the technology has come in only a few years?
I love how you guys make tutorials for how to make film on a budget for people who are actually on a budget, usually when people do that their idea of a budget is "only" a few hundred or a few thousand dollars which is a lot for those just starting on RUclips. Bravo!
For those of you that noticed the extra noise, here's a bit of an explanation- We shot this at 3k (A quarter of what the camera is capable of. Four 3k patches of area make a 6k patch of area), between the ISO of 2000 and 4000. Why the super high ISO? Because we ended up being pretty underexposed with the cloud cover and the aperture and shutter settings used on camera. Even so, the color accuracy and tonal range of the Dragon held up, even though the footage got a bit grainy. We could have done noise removal, but the grain didn't really bother us, so we figured let it ride!
samandniko Curious why you did that tbh, if you could reply. Could have shot 5K, with higher compression, say 12:1, and it would still look cleaner with high ISOs than lower resolution (3k) with low compression. (Scarlet Dragon owner here! High five!)
I was wondering if you guys could do a video with some tips on getting permission/finding appropriate places to film? There doesn't seem to be much stuff about that, at least not that I could find.
mgs108tlou I feel like school teaches you the technical side, terms, and what not. Videos like this seem a lot better because they just worry about communicating the ideas, not so much the vocab and proper phrasing.
Just saw this. Still very useful. And if I may add-- for dynamic range problems, especially in extremely bright conditions, you can make your own DIY ND filter by cutting a small piece of car window tint and use that to cover up your smartphone lens. It'll bring out the clouds in the sky. Just don't get the heavily colored ones though. Something like black or gray tint would be ok.
"Do you know what the difference between a wizard and a sorcerer is?" That has to be the greatest hook I've ever heard and it's at the end of the video.
There's another way to stabilize movement. Just take the part of a selfie stick used to secure ur phone and attach it on a tripod, fig rig, or whatever has a bolt. I don't know if all of them have this, but the selfie stick my sister owns has a removable top secured by a bolt the same size a tripod does. I've tested it on a fig rig and it works really well.
after using DaVinci Resolve for almost 3 months now, I rate it No. 1 in colour grading software, not only does it have a large range of colour correction options but it has got one of the best free trackers for colour I have ever used in the past! I was very surprised to find such a great program to use that was actually free! Great video guys! Keep it up!
seriously, thank you. layman's terms without dragging anyone into an a.d.d. nightmare and giving those trying to step in water for the first time (me), hope. I love a good, clear, no nonsense, rapid fire explanation that anyone can understand and you guys deliver. Subscribing now. Thanks again! :)
if you're getting into photography, u definitely should watch this vdo as many times as necessary until you can grasp and implement all of it. Great job guys!
I'd say I'm a wizourcerer. Mix of both. Even when some of the info in this one is outdated due to cell phone progression, there are STILL fundamental tidbits that are useful/helpful to even those who have been filming for years. I love this old stuff of y'all's. 😄
Thanks for these practical, well organized tips. These are ideas I'll put to use right away. The bottom line is, getting cinematic is about creating "art" and being "painterly," not just recording what's happening.
I just did an internship at a local TV station and although they obviously didn't go for a cinematic look or anything, I was surprised how helpful the information from your videos here was. Especially knowing a bit about the basics of composition, lighting, colour and cutting was very handy. And although I mostly wasn't allowed to do the final cut, I was actually kinda proud to see my footage being used on TV, and thanks to you it looked pretty neat. :)
Thank you guys I'm currently on the process of colour grading and learning the Blackmagic cinema camera so this is very helpful to know that u can use a LUT to flatten iPhone footage to seamlessly merge raw and iPhone together!
Excellent resource guys. A lot of these would be really applicable for photography as well. I'm going to have to look into a comparable workflow for images to create those dynamic ranges you mentioned at the end.
Guys- thank you so much for doing these videos. My son and I are going to be doing a summer project together using what we have learned. If you don't care, when we are finished, My son who is "14" would love some feed back fro you guys. We have done some fun Videos for Toyota and are looking to do some more. Again thank you.
Thanks guys. There are some good things in here that I'll try and incorporate into my videos going forward which are just vacation videos - no moviemaking here (yet!). I have a Movi gimbal so I'm really looking forward to using that when capturing moments on our trips.
TONS of content here. Why have I not found your channel before? Love empowering people to start using their cameras, um, I mean phones to start shooting. I totally wish I had this technology when I was a teen-ager. So much fun.
very cool you covered this. Filmic Pro is also pretty awesome to film on the cell phone. It allows for much better control of the exposure than the default iphone app.
I would say sorcerer. I would love to see a video about corridor digital's writing process start to finish, and how you decide which vfx gags are worth putting the hours of post into
Man, thank you so much for this video guys! Im just diving into serious editing so the talk about color grading and the LUTS was especially awesome for me to learn about. Thank you, thank you!
Definitely going to start using my iphone slo mo on my next live shoot. T2i is my main tool but doesn't have 120fps. good tips guys you've added a new cam to my process
Awesome video. I've seen videos where people always mention, "It doesn't matter if you don't have a fancy camera, use your phone!" but never give a visual idea as to how someone can film "cinematically" on their phone. This video's a great tool for anyone looking to film, regardless of their equipment. Personally, I haven't had much experience with proper color correction, so the mention of Lookup Tables and Vision-Color.com are a big help to me. Keep up the fantastic videos, guys!
I guess to be a filmmaker I'll need to become a full time sorcerer... Interesting episode, liked how the iphone lut was covered quickly, but definitely didnt dominate the show. cooool thankkssss x
You guys are amazing. I learned more about my iPhone in 12 mins than I have in a year. Do you have any tips on noise on a phone other than to have more light in the shot?
Great tutorial! Thanks for posting this. We shot Scary Death House (a funny interactive horror spoof) on our iPhones last year, but didn't really use any apps or lighting to make it more cinematic. And although we tried to use lav mics, we didn't label the files well so it was a huge headache in post. We're gearing up to shoot our sequel, and this time we're gonna put more time into planning the shots so it's more professional. Your tutorial is a great first step!
thank you so much for making this video! I am fairly new to the whole cinematography scene and I don't have money to afford an amazing camera, so this will definitely help! I also wanted to say that I've been a fan for a very long time and I think the videos you make are absolute masterpieces!!! I don't know if you'll actually be able to read this, but keep up the good work!!!!
Hey I just started using look up tables on my footage but I would like to understand them more and it would be fantastic if you guys could do a more in depth video on LUTs and what your process is when using them. Thank you guys for making these videos they're helpful and fun
I'm not sure if this was sponsored by Apple, you know, you were praising iPhones a lot... But I don't mind it! I learned a lot of things from this video and that's important. If every product placement videos looked like this, that would be awesome. Thanks for your videos Sam and Niko! I'm a sorcerer btw :D
Oh yeah! Color grading baby.. This was impressive, you guys sure know a lot & professionally. And as u mentioned there's really nothing that beats good sound, like tell me about it i am most of the of the time so ignorant about how my sound really sounds in my videos.
I'm making my first music video. I'm on an "I was furloughed due to the covid and can only use what I have" budget so I really appreciate you sharing your knowledge. I am a perfectionist and I see no reason not to settle for anything less than excellence even though the tactics at my disposal are limited.
Thank you so much guys! This video gives me hope to do better. I'm currently working on a film project using my Huawie honor 5X. I can't afford a camera. My phone doesn't support raw but I found this app called Cinema FV. It's a pretty good application giving me many manual controls to my phone's camera. I even going to edit my film on my phone using KineMaster Pro. Watching this video I've learned pretty good ideas about lightning stuff. Thank you so much for this motivation I really needed that.
I'm definitely a sorcerer. I usually don't even play video game tutorials (when the option is there to not play them), I just fuck around until I get through an objective. lol
samandniko Could you guys explain how you approach shooting a scene. Like how do you think of which shots you want to do? Of course this is very situational and differs with every artist but I would still like to hear your input!
Thanks for this and all your videos! They help me feel a little less intimidated and more encouraged to try things out on my own. FYI - I'm definitely a Sorcerer. Ciaooo.
Should title this to be "How To Get Cinematic Visuals" tbh since I could use the same advice for a DSLR, good job. Great to have technical info in the midsts of other material just telling you how to reflect meaning when you don't even know if your equipment can. Lol, the film student in me :P
I shot with my smartphone (note4) for a film and what I did to get a shallow depth of field was to take the clip into after effects... Duplicate the clip and use the mask tool on the top clip trace the object or subject i want to be focus. After I create the mask I track the mask...but make sure your object or subject makes minimal movements before you bring it to post....once its tracked...i put a blur effect on the second clip below feather it and you have an awesome depth of field
keep this up I love watching your videos and always wanted to know how to do them. can you show us more in-depth how the filters are applied using the programs you prefer which in my case would be great in premiere pro
***** all the filters were applied in premiere, I'm sure that I've responded in the comments somewhere or added it to the description already, explaining a bit more about it. If you don't find let us know I'll type something up.
I have almost no plans to pursue filmmaking, but I love watching these, because I like hearing you guys talk about your craft, and it can't hurt to learn more. Keep it up!
***** Thanks :)
***** same for me is it just nice learn from them :)
@@CorridorCrew You think you could use this as an example in some content about how far your quality and techniques and the technology has come in only a few years?
I love how you guys make tutorials for how to make film on a budget for people who are actually on a budget, usually when people do that their idea of a budget is "only" a few hundred or a few thousand dollars which is a lot for those just starting on RUclips. Bravo!
"Sound...what is Sound? I don't know." -Sam Gorski, 2015
Levi Stutzman Air particles bouncing each other in a wave pattern.
Miguel Guerrero Well yeah... But reeealy though
+Levi Stutzman that one and "Does things, thats the big thing with... things" cracked me up
For those of you that noticed the extra noise, here's a bit of an explanation-
We shot this at 3k (A quarter of what the camera is capable of. Four 3k patches of area make a 6k patch of area), between the ISO of 2000 and 4000. Why the super high ISO? Because we ended up being pretty underexposed with the cloud cover and the aperture and shutter settings used on camera. Even so, the color accuracy and tonal range of the Dragon held up, even though the footage got a bit grainy. We could have done noise removal, but the grain didn't really bother us, so we figured let it ride!
samandniko Thanks, I was curious about it!
samandniko great editing on this by the way, gets the point across great (cuts between the both of you )
samandniko i was going to ask about that noise, I didn't expect that quick answer xd
samandniko Curious why you did that tbh, if you could reply. Could have shot 5K, with higher compression, say 12:1, and it would still look cleaner with high ISOs than lower resolution (3k) with low compression. (Scarlet Dragon owner here! High five!)
I was wondering if you guys could do a video with some tips on getting permission/finding appropriate places to film? There doesn't seem to be much stuff about that, at least not that I could find.
nice tips, it's all about lighting when it comes to phone filmmaking!
Well.
I just learned more from this video than a week of lighting classes in school.
+mgs108tlou Hah yeah I went to film school but this helped it to finally all make sense!
mgs108tlou I feel like school teaches you the technical side, terms, and what not. Videos like this seem a lot better because they just worry about communicating the ideas, not so much the vocab and proper phrasing.
Just saw this. Still very useful. And if I may add-- for dynamic range problems, especially in extremely bright conditions, you can make your own DIY ND filter by cutting a small piece of car window tint and use that to cover up your smartphone lens. It'll bring out the clouds in the sky. Just don't get the heavily colored ones though. Something like black or gray tint would be ok.
do more if these tutorial vids...they're awesome. subscribed
"Do you know what the difference between a wizard and a sorcerer is?" That has to be the greatest hook I've ever heard and it's at the end of the video.
There's another way to stabilize movement. Just take the part of a selfie stick used to secure ur phone and attach it on a tripod, fig rig, or whatever has a bolt. I don't know if all of them have this, but the selfie stick my sister owns has a removable top secured by a bolt the same size a tripod does. I've tested it on a fig rig and it works really well.
after using DaVinci Resolve for almost 3 months now, I rate it No. 1 in colour grading software, not only does it have a large range of colour correction options but it has got one of the best free trackers for colour I have ever used in the past! I was very surprised to find such a great program to use that was actually free!
Great video guys! Keep it up!
seriously, thank you. layman's terms without dragging anyone into an a.d.d. nightmare and giving those trying to step in water for the first time (me), hope. I love a good, clear, no nonsense, rapid fire explanation that anyone can understand and you guys deliver. Subscribing now. Thanks again! :)
I am less inclined to start my movie project since I have only a dslr. I thank you for your kind instructions. You have the warmth of heart. ♥
if you're getting into photography, u definitely should watch this vdo as many times as necessary until you can grasp and implement all of it. Great job guys!
I'd say I'm a wizourcerer. Mix of both. Even when some of the info in this one is outdated due to cell phone progression, there are STILL fundamental tidbits that are useful/helpful to even those who have been filming for years. I love this old stuff of y'all's. 😄
I found this very helpful, since often I'm filming videos away from home and I only have my phone to work with. Thanks guys!
Thanks for these practical, well organized tips. These are ideas I'll put to use right away. The bottom line is, getting cinematic is about creating "art" and being "painterly," not just recording what's happening.
I just did an internship at a local TV station and although they obviously didn't go for a cinematic look or anything, I was surprised how helpful the information from your videos here was.
Especially knowing a bit about the basics of composition, lighting, colour and cutting was very handy.
And although I mostly wasn't allowed to do the final cut, I was actually kinda proud to see my footage being used on TV, and thanks to you it looked pretty neat. :)
These tips literally apply to like every camera, not just phones. Thanks for the great tips!
Your phone can be the first ever thing you use to film your first ever project. This is such useful and good video
Awesome video guys. Sometimes you think you know something but when it’s explained you find you can still learn something.
Thank you guys I'm currently on the process of colour grading and learning the Blackmagic cinema camera so this is very helpful to know that u can use a LUT to flatten iPhone footage to seamlessly merge raw and iPhone together!
Awesome tutorial and a really needed reminder for someone who ends up filming a lot on an iPhone. Thanks guys!
I think it's great that you guys are making these videos
There's no excuse for not making videos with friends in your spare time
This is so interesting and well explained and easily applicable to photography as well. THANKS!!!
Excellent resource guys. A lot of these would be really applicable for photography as well. I'm going to have to look into a comparable workflow for images to create those dynamic ranges you mentioned at the end.
What if my phone does not have a camera??
You download an app called camera haha
Andreas Michael You can just download it.
Andreas Michael Well............... buy a new phone?
CZTachyonsVN Download more ram while you're at it.
BoredGames u cant download ram u idiot only processors and graphics cards
thank you, you doing awesome. I will take somw of the points in my next video.
Guys- thank you so much for doing these videos. My son and I are going to be doing a summer project together using what we have learned. If you don't care, when we are finished, My son who is "14" would love some feed back fro you guys. We have done some fun Videos for Toyota and are looking to do some more. Again thank you.
The Chromic app is great for colour grading if you buy the extra filters/settings.
Thanks guys. There are some good things in here that I'll try and incorporate into my videos going forward which are just vacation videos - no moviemaking here (yet!). I have a Movi gimbal so I'm really looking forward to using that when capturing moments on our trips.
TONS of content here. Why have I not found your channel before? Love empowering people to start using their cameras, um, I mean phones to start shooting. I totally wish I had this technology when I was a teen-ager. So much fun.
Every single second viewed worth pure gold, awesome material for a beginner.
Very nice video. Great to see, that you guys value thoughtful and stylish visuals over pixel peeping and gear acquisition.
This video was great. So informative and helpful. Thanks guys!
very cool you covered this. Filmic Pro is also pretty awesome to film on the cell phone. It allows for much better control of the exposure than the default iphone app.
Thank you so much for this video! As a new rookie filmmaker using my iPhone 7 this is a huge help
This is an awesome video that taught me stuff I never thought of even though I don't shoot on a phone. Nice Tutorial guys.
I would say sorcerer. I would love to see a video about corridor digital's writing process start to finish, and how you decide which vfx gags are worth putting the hours of post into
guys you always rocks.
sai sunny thanks!
Man, thank you so much for this video guys! Im just diving into serious editing so the talk about color grading and the LUTS was especially awesome for me to learn about. Thank you, thank you!
i just did a lesson in the creators dashboard =) Thanks for the great tips!
good tips, quite useful for DSLR's too!
I do a bunch of random silly iPhone videos with crazy edits, and this really helped. Thanks dudes
What app did you use to color grade on the iphone6+? Pleaseeeee
Thanks for the video. It was just the right level of detail and speed of presentation. Thanks. I learned the rule of 1/3rds.
Definitely going to start using my iphone slo mo on my next live shoot. T2i is my main tool but doesn't have 120fps. good tips guys you've added a new cam to my process
Awesome video. I've seen videos where people always mention, "It doesn't matter if you don't have a fancy camera, use your phone!" but never give a visual idea as to how someone can film "cinematically" on their phone. This video's a great tool for anyone looking to film, regardless of their equipment. Personally, I haven't had much experience with proper color correction, so the mention of Lookup Tables and Vision-Color.com are a big help to me. Keep up the fantastic videos, guys!
I guess to be a filmmaker I'll need to become a full time sorcerer... Interesting episode, liked how the iphone lut was covered quickly, but definitely didnt dominate the show. cooool thankkssss x
Came to this video from the stock footage guide... both appropriate for me! Great work!
You guys should cover the 180 and the 30 degree rule. It will help tremendously with how people shoot things.
*At **0:04**, Sam is miming what?*
a. Milking Multiple Cows
b. Using a Ronin.
c. Being The Lead In a Gay Porno.
***** Um... milking multiple "cows" in a gay porno...?
***** First the Brotherhood then Samedi. Then Ronin.
Just shut up..
An in-depth tutorial about color grading would be awesome. I think it's safe to say that I learnt most of my video techniques from you guys.
Brendan Lim there aren't really any out there... sadly. We may have to fix that.
Nice reference to the LUTS. I "looked it up" and book marked vision color's site. Thank you for this tip. RUclips Creator Academy sent me here.
You guys are amazing. I learned more about my iPhone in 12 mins than I have in a year. Do you have any tips on noise on a phone other than to have more light in the shot?
come on man, do a color correction tutorial video already 4:10 , 3:53 & 0:48 of this video already. been w8ing for 6 months
This was so informative, I'll try to use what I've learned during this video the next time I'm taking a photo, thanks guys.📷 😉 😊
Color grading tutorial maybe?
Thanks, im starting out right now for RUclips, i dont have anything flashy or expensive. i'll definitely try this
thanks , i saw your footage 2-3times and was really helpful in learning. Thank once again.
loved this, so useful and concise. thank guys!!
Great tutorial! Thanks for posting this. We shot Scary Death House (a funny interactive horror spoof) on our iPhones last year, but didn't really use any apps or lighting to make it more cinematic. And although we tried to use lav mics, we didn't label the files well so it was a huge headache in post. We're gearing up to shoot our sequel, and this time we're gonna put more time into planning the shots so it's more professional. Your tutorial is a great first step!
You guys are my role models. I really look up to you
great breakdown, thanks!
Outstanding. Exemplary tutorials!
I'm learning so much from this channel. Thank you for your efforts. Really appreciate it.
thank you so much for making this video! I am fairly new to the whole cinematography scene and I don't have money to afford an amazing camera, so this will definitely help! I also wanted to say that I've been a fan for a very long time and I think the videos you make are absolute masterpieces!!! I don't know if you'll actually be able to read this, but keep up the good work!!!!
Thank you so much. I hope I can implement some your of principles when I'm going to make my very first short film with my iPhone 5s.
Hey I just started using look up tables on my footage but I would like to understand them more and it would be fantastic if you guys could do a more in depth video on LUTs and what your process is when using them. Thank you guys for making these videos they're helpful and fun
Thank you for this video! you help me a lot to see other perspectives for my next youtube videos! thank a lot!
really helpful coz i m gonna shoot a footage today with my mid range smart phone.. thanks guys!
I'm not sure if this was sponsored by Apple, you know, you were praising iPhones a lot... But I don't mind it! I learned a lot of things from this video and that's important. If every product placement videos looked like this, that would be awesome. Thanks for your videos Sam and Niko! I'm a sorcerer btw :D
I love you guys in Node, I love what you guys do on this channel!
Oh yeah! Color grading baby.. This was impressive, you guys sure know a lot & professionally. And as u mentioned there's really nothing that beats good sound, like tell me about it i am most of the of the time so ignorant about how my sound really sounds in my videos.
This color style reminds me of Breaking Bad. I dig it.
I'm making my first music video. I'm on an "I was furloughed due to the covid and can only use what I have" budget so I really appreciate you sharing your knowledge. I am a perfectionist and I see no reason not to settle for anything less than excellence even though the tactics at my disposal are limited.
Well done guys.
How about an old Video 8 camera? That's all i have :(
***** same principle honestly.
:D Thanks guys!
Thank you so much guys! This video gives me hope to do better. I'm currently working on a film project using my Huawie honor 5X. I can't afford a camera. My phone doesn't support raw but I found this app called Cinema FV. It's a pretty good application giving me many manual controls to my phone's camera. I even going to edit my film on my phone using KineMaster Pro. Watching this video I've learned pretty good ideas about lightning stuff. Thank you so much for this motivation I really needed that.
I vlog on my iPhone and this was so helpful.
Your explanation is top notch!
Direct example is the best !
very insightful, thank you guys!
Great video! I used your experience to make my video(school contest) and this LUTS is preety amazing!
I'm definitely a sorcerer. I usually don't even play video game tutorials (when the option is there to not play them), I just fuck around until I get through an objective. lol
This is very interesting and helpful. Thanks a lot!
This is more like getting cinematic in general. Great video. very intresting. Im gonna watch a movie now and look what i learned.
Great crash course!
Dangit! You guys know what you're talking about. Thank you for another insightful video!
Even five years later still a great vid thanks bois!
samandniko Could you guys explain how you approach shooting a scene. Like how do you think of which shots you want to do? Of course this is very situational and differs with every artist but I would still like to hear your input!
I love this videos. Thank you guys!
Thanks for this and all your videos! They help me feel a little less intimidated and more encouraged to try things out on my own. FYI - I'm definitely a Sorcerer. Ciaooo.
the best explanation video i have seen on yt! great work guys!
Should title this to be "How To Get Cinematic Visuals" tbh since I could use the same advice for a DSLR, good job. Great to have technical info in the midsts of other material just telling you how to reflect meaning when you don't even know if your equipment can.
Lol, the film student in me :P
Niko sounds really sharp. He really knows what he is doing!
can you guys do a full color grading ep where you show what works and what doesnt when coloring a shot? mine always seem to come out too contrasty
Great video! Could you perhaps make a video where you go more in depth with color correction and software related?
I shot with my smartphone (note4) for a film and what I did to get a shallow depth of field was to take the clip into after effects... Duplicate the clip and use the mask tool on the top clip trace the object or subject i want to be focus. After I create the mask I track the mask...but make sure your object or subject makes minimal movements before you bring it to post....once its tracked...i put a blur effect on the second clip below feather it and you have an awesome depth of field
keep this up I love watching your videos and always wanted to know how to do them.
can you show us more in-depth how the filters are applied using the programs you prefer which in my case would be great in premiere pro
***** all the filters were applied in premiere, I'm sure that I've responded in the comments somewhere or added it to the description already, explaining a bit more about it. If you don't find let us know I'll type something up.
Your little backyard is so beautiful!!