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- On this episode of Salt Lake Insider, we're getting
some video making tips from my videographer,
Cory Bowcut.
Hey what's up everybody, welcome to Salt Lake Insider
episode number 12, I'm here with this guy
that's making me look
very short today.
Cory Bowcut with Bowcut Productions.
Cory's actually my videographer.
If you've been watching Salt Lake Insider, for any
period of time,
you've seen over, like the last four or five episodes,
it's gotten much better, better video quality.
And that's because of Cory.
He's the guy behind the camera, and today
we're bringing him out to find out, we're gonna get
some video tips from him on how you, whether you have
whether you're using your iPhone, or if you have a big
budget, how you can take better video.
And what you need to consider to make that awesome video.
Now you could always hire Cory, like I did, which is
a very wise investment.
You could always do that, but if you want to do it
yourself, we have some tips for you.
Okay, so Cory, so many people will not get started
and they won't, they wanna do a show like this, or
they wanna do some sort of online show, and they don't
do it because they think that they need to have
all this fancy equipment.
They need to buy a 20 thousand dollar camera.
First off, do they, is that accurate?
Do they need this fancy stuff?
Or you know, what can you tell someone who
just wants to get started doing some sort of show?
- Yeah, I would tell anybody who was wanting to get started
you know, making shows like this or whether it's
filmmaking like making movies, short films, or you know,
shooting weddings.
Anything really.
You don't need to start off with a big budget.
You don't have to.
I know plenty of people that are shooting on iPhones,
and just little dinky DLSR cameras, and they're producing
some amazing content.
So, my first real tip for you guys would be, don't
let the idea of a nice camera hold you back from making
something that has good content.
Really, content is king.
So, if you have a GoPro, or if you had
just a little camera on your phone,
those things can set you apart from
so many people, if you're able to bring to the
table good content.
So, rule number one, content is king.
- And, I don't know if many people remember this but,
the reason Justin Bieber is Justin Bieber is because
somebody filmed him with their smartphone playing
the guitar, I think it was.
- [Cory] Yep.
- And it just went crazy on YouTube, because he's good.
And it wasn't a professional video, but look what
doors that's opened for him, and that
just shows you that it's the content, not necessarily
the production value that is most important, so.
Great advice.
- Yeah, and I would even say to, you know, double that,
if you shot a video of your dog just sleeping for
20 minutes, nobody's gonna wanna watch that.
Doesn't matter if you have a 50 thousand dollar camera,
or if you have an iPhone.
No one's gonna wanna watch that.
But if you can take your iPhone, and video your dog
skiing down a hill all by himself, like, that's gonna
go viral.
- Like, this doesn't happen.
- I'd watch that.
- Yeah, you know what I'm saying?
- Like all those damn cat videos.
- Yeah, exactly.
- So , before I hired you, I was using my iPhone.
And you know, it was, I thought I did a decent job
with it, it's a good quality camera.
But, the biggest struggles I had, was lighting and audio.
What can you tell people for getting the lighting
and the audio right?
- Yeah, so I think this goes for anybody.
Like, it doesn't matter if you're making a show, or
doing what Dustin's doing.
Like, you can utilize where you're at, to help
with your lighting and audio.
So, for lighting, like right now, you wouldn't believe
it but we're actually shooting into the sun.
I'm not shooting, so the camera's actually pointing
towards the sun, we're not shooting away from the sun.
What happens is, people think that the face has to
be lit up the entire time when you're filming.
Not necessarily.
I actually like shadow, complete shadow on the face
when I'm shooting.
Because, I can expose
the lighting, for my subject, where I want the camera
to be pointing, where I want people to focus on.
So I get their shadows, and I turn up my exposure,
so if you have an iPhone, if you tap on someone's face
and you turn up the little sun dial,
it'll turn up the exposure.
So, if you put someone into the sun, or the camera
pointing at the sun, turn up the exposure.
You'll get them exposed right, your background will be
a little brighter, but your content will look good.
So, for lighting, point at the sun if you're outdoors,
and, when they're little phone or anything like that,
just make sure you've got the little dial turned up.
so you can actually expose it right.
- Nice.
And most people just use the auto settings on the iPhone.
I did, I don't know how to use the manual ones.
But, I keep hearing that it doesn't take that much time
to learn those manual settings, and then you have,
you can basically make the iPhone camera this,
the
amazing camera that we all hear that it is.
- Yeah, absolutely.
And there's apps you can download, five to 10 bucks.
I'll put a link here below, just so we can
redirect you there.
- And then audio is really important, too.
And that's something I struggled with when I was
just filming this show with my iPhone.
Is how do you get the audio right?
I was, I was using a little Samsung podcasting mic,
and I would just have it like, between the two people
or right in front of us, and it worked okay.
But, for those that want to get the audio dialed in
so that it sounds right, what do they need?
- Really, you can do a lot of different things with audio.
There's just so many options out there.
But, something that we do that's really simple, we
actually have just a small recorder.
I'll actually pull it out so you can see it.
It's just a little recorder, and it's got a little
wired mic that runs to my shirt.
So right here, I've got a little mic, we just set
it, press play, and it just records both our audio.
And in post, we just sync it up with the video,
and it works like a charm.
And I think the mic cost me, used, like 50 bucks.
- Nice.
- So, audio can get pretty pricey.
For good audio, you usually spend around 600 bucks.
So 50 bucks is actually a steal.
- Yeah.
600's not.
- Yeah.
No, not at all.
- Awesome.
And then, equipment wise, I noticed it, if you have your
iPhone, if you're just holding it, it's gonna be shaky.
And you can tell, and sometimes if you're vlogging,
you may want that.
But if you're trying to do a show, do you need a Gimbal?
Do you need a stabilizer, tripod, what do you suggest?
- Yeah, so I actually use two of those things religiously.
One for the show, I use a tripod with a fluid head.
So a fluid head, I'll show on the video here, it actually
when you turn the camera, or the iPhone, it actually has
a really fluid, smooth, buttery motion.
A lot of tripods don't come with those type
of heads, they have like a jittery motion.
So if you find one that's got a fluid head, you'll
get really buttery, smooth shots, and a tripod
just gives that natural stability, so you can frame up,
you can get composition right, and it just looks clean.
- What would somebody need to spend for a decent
tripod like that?
- I spent around 350 bucks
for my tripod.
So, they can be an investment, but there are some you
can get online that are actually great deals for
about 150 bucks to 100 bucks.
So around that range.
And another thing that I use, is called a steadicam
or a glidecam, I'll show some video here, too.
But, it actually gives you really smooth, floating motions.
- [David] Is that the big Gimbal that you use?
- [Cory] Yep, I'll show it here.
- So when somebody's filming, what do they need to
do to make sure that they have the shot framed right?
And you know, isn't there, what's this rule called?
You keep mentioning this rule.
- Yeah.
- I don't like rules, so.
- Yeah, so it's actually really simple.
I'll show a little grid here, it's called the
rule of thirds.
The rule of thirds has
four lines, which creates nine boxes.
So, kinda right here, if you can see it.
Basically, you wanna frame your subject on
one of those lines.
So, if you're working with the vertical lines,
and you have one person in your shot, I'll show
an image here.
Frame them right here, have them look this way.
And it goes for the other side as well.
And if you're doing like horizon, you have someone
on this line right here, the horizon.
We'll see if I can get some here, and yeah.
Just kinda play with those,
look that up, you'll figure it out.
It's really easy.
- So you don't really wanna just center somebody
right in the middle of the shot?
- Not always.
- Okay.
- A lot of the times, you wanna use rule of thirds
cause it's just, looks nice and people like symmetry.
- Sure.
- And it's kinda what it does.
- Sure, cool.
And also, I really want to, I kinda want to empower you
guys, if you, if you've wanted to do your own show.
If you've wanted to start doing your own videos, you
don't have to wait until, you don't have to rehearse.
You don't have to practice a million times.
You know, just, just go out there and start doing it,
and if you can't tell, I'm an absolute mess.
My intros are never the same, I don't have a script.
I just show up and and I do this show, and a lot of
times I forget to even introduce myself.
So, you know, but, I just want to get the show out there.
And, get it out there.
Just start creating content, and as you're doing it,
you can, you can improve.
You can tweak certain things, you can,
you can learn what hasn't been working, and
improve on it later.
But you have to be actually putting out the content
first to do that.
- Yeah.
And I would just say, just don't be afraid.
Just go do it.
If it's something you like to do, and you want to
have fun with it, do it.
Don't be afraid.
- If I can do it, anyone can do it.
And Cory knows better than most that I'm an
absolute mess.
- No, you're great, man.
You're great.
- No, honestly though, that's just my personality.
I, with this kind of thing, I don't like scripts.
I don't like to rehearse.
I just show up and do it, and that works for me.
If that doesn't work for you, practice a little bit.
Totally fine.
But just, just do whatever feels most natural to you.
So Cory, thank you very much for giving us some tips
on how to do better video.
Hopefully we get some people off the sidelines,
and into the game and doing their own content.
Whether you're in Salt Lake or not.
It's just fun putting, putting content out there.
This show, Salt Lake Insider, I just decided I'm
gonna do a show.
I didn't have to go to some news organization.
I didn't have to go to, you know, News Corp or
any of this, and ask for permission.
You just get a camera, and start recording.
And put it up online and you have yourself a show.
So, if you've been wanting to do it, I challenge you
to do it.
Cory's a great person to learn from.
He gave us some awesome tips, so thank you for that.
So, thank you very much for watching.
This has been Salt Lake Insider episode number 12
with Cory Bowcut of Bowcut Productions.
Did I get that right?
- You got it.
- Awesome.
See, no script.
Thanks guys, have a good one.
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