360 video of inside a Bee Hive - Samsung Gear 360

Bees are essential to our environment but their numbers are worryingly in decline. This 360 video takes you inside a hive to see these incredible creatures close up!
This was made for The Golden Company, an enterprise in East London to get young people involved in projects to help themselves get started in life.
I filmed this with the Samsung Gear 360 and stitched with After Effects and Mettle SkyBox Creator.
It was lit with 2 small LED panels inside the hive, daylight above and Aputure Lightstorm LS below.
Full blog post which details in depth the shoot, the set up, the challenges and the post production. Worth a read if you are thinking about trying out 360 video: philipbloom.net/blog/360video/
My dedicated RUclips 360 channel is here: / @philipbloom360
thegolden.co

[@tche633]

Finally, a creative implementation of 360 video!

[@dbmontefalcon]

Would this be a good camera to shoot B-roll?

[@mysterioususer572]

best photographer of this generation 👌

[@tonyleeglenn]

Fantastic use of a Gear 360. My wife is a beekeeper. Will definitely share with her. Thanks for sharing this Philip!

[@anton_roos]

Amazing video like always

[@Time2FLYAlDiaz]

Amazing capture

[@ErikHill1]

Awesome use of this medium.

[@brucebrucestofiston5554]

I clicked on this while half asleep. I am watching on my tablet and was thinking your camera work was a bit shaky (face palm). What a clever way of using 360. Once again love your work

[@Singmelodyliu]

Great job

[@Remo-media]

Fantastic!

[@charliebreen1870]

Philip, this is excellent. Should be in a gallery. Perhaps my favourite bit of visual media I've come across in a long time. Excellent work.

[@samyulsyed6741]

Such a sweet video....

[@flowsunmedia6311]

From being at a Bayer's Crop Science bee care center. To just watching the most relevant black mirror episode s3e6. Bee's are way more important than we can imagine. Thanks for this creative view.

[@djorgen]

Very neat! Thanks, Philip!

[@SorayaMoolchan]

The sound is actually very relaxing. Like a thunderstorm..

[@aerospacenews]

I hope you had an assistant to help with all those model/talent releases.

[@Moh8anzi]

Nice sounds 😂😂

[@OceanFragments]

God, I dunno if this was just me, but the sight and sound of those bees suddenly had me smelling honey...and bees nest. You know that smell?

[@hovermotion]

I am gob smacked as I have never seen anything like this on RUclips or the bbc etc....bees are as you say essential to our environment. .....amazing footage. .......jim

[@himalacharya6649]

I really want to be a film maker because of you!