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6 Camera Movements for Your Next Music Video
Jun 17, 2021
6 Camera Movements to Start Using in Your Music Videos! These camera movements are some of the most well-known shooting/movement techniques and utilizing them all in their own, unique ways can help bring raise your video production value. In this demo, we're using the Sony A7ii + Ronin S Gimbal Our BMPCC6K Gear (all affiliate links) BMPCC6K (body): https://adorama.rfvk.net/n11NE7 Sigma ART 18-35mm f/1.8: https://adorama.rfvk.net/3PPjZB Tilta Camera Cage: https://adorama.rfvk.net/NKKz4K Tilta Top Handle: https://adorama.rfvk.net/7mmyoy Small Rig Carbon Fiber Rods: https://adorama.rfvk.net/DVVQnn Cheeseplate for Battery: https://adorama.rfvk.net/e44qgj V-Mount Battery: https://adorama.rfvk.net/rnnGO3 D-Tap Battery Charger: https://adorama.rfvk.net/5bbAYN Samsung T5 SSD: https://adorama.rfvk.net/e44qgz Samsung T5 SSD Mount: https://adorama.rfvk.net/Aoom27 Base Plate: https://adorama.rfvk.net/JrrJ4E Tiffen Black Pro Mist 1/4 Filter: https://adorama.rfvk.net/vnnPee Step Up/Down Filter Adapters: https://adorama.rfvk.net/jWWRX0 Rode VideoMic Pro: https://adorama.rfvk.net/LP0mKY
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what's up everybody it's matt here again
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from filtergrade and today we're going
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to be going over
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six camera movements for your next music
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video
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um similar to photography how uh shutter
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speed can play a huge role
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in the motion of your image it's the
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same thing with videography movement
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will really really make or break your
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video and
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it obviously can depend sometimes you
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might want to go for
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a handheld shaky look other times you're
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going to want a really stable steady
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shot
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and making sure that you can nail down
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these camera movements will really help
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you to get to that
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high level of video so let's just go
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ahead and start out with these six
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basic camera movements for your next
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video the first movement that we're
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going to be talking about
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is panning so panning is when you're
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just moving from
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left to right and you're really just
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showing the whole the whole
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wide scene that you're getting with this
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gimbal today i'm using the dji ronin you
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can use
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the the joystick to actually just pan
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left and right and that'll give you a
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nice nice smooth
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shot if you're using a tripod you can
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use just the handlebar to
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go left and right and that's a really
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nice shot to kind of
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establish what you're looking at show
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the viewer everything that you're seeing
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and yeah just let people know where
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you're at so that's going to be really
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good for that
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number two on our list it's similar to
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pen and it's called
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tilt and instead of going from side to
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side it's going to be going up
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and down so with the joystick it looks a
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little bit like this
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just up or down smooth simple motion and
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that's going to show
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this is a really good shot for showing
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scale if you're looking at mountains or
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trees or
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or if you're even looking at a person
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from you know a nice low angle it's
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going to show that scale
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and that's another great movement to
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have in your in your little camera
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movements kit
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all right so next up on our list is an
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essential tool for all music video
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filmmakers um this is called the roll
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motion and
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although it does get overused in a lot
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of music videos
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i think it's essential to actually have
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it in your arsenal and
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and just to know about it uh i'm using
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the dji ronin today like i mentioned and
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that's gonna really help out with the
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roll motion you can do it handheld or
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with
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you know any other device but i think
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it's always gonna look better on a
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stabilizer
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so i have mine set to mode three which
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is for the 360 roll mode
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and you're gonna like just look at your
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subject and just roll it back and forth
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you can change the speed on your on your
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gimbal or stabilizer to make it go
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quicker
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or slower but really this is going to
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help especially if you're going in and
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out to just give it that
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cool kind of creative like artistic
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music feel to it
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but don't forget do not overdo this
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because it really can be cliche and just
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kind of just drag your video out and
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look like everybody else's so only use
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this really when you know you need to
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use it
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alright so next up on our list is two
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more similar movements that kind of go
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hand in hand and that's truck and
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pedestal
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so for truck just picture it like you're
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looking out the window of your truck
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you're not going to be moving your
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camera
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panning left and right like you would be
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with the pan movement
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but instead you're just gonna set your
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camera looking out your truck window
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and as your truck is moving you just let
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it capture the scene right
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but obviously that only happens if
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you're sitting in your truck
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you can still make truck shots happen
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when you're not when you're just
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standing or using a gimbal or whatever
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and what that means is
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a pan with a pen you're going to be
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going
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kind of a rounded motion or you're going
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to use your
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your joystick to get that full scenery
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whereas
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with the truck motion you're you're only
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going left to right
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as you're you're you're focused on one
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point so
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whether you're going left or right right
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left it doesn't matter but you kind of
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have to stay
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perpendicular perpendicular to the point
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that you're focusing on
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and just get that nice wide shot without
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panning from like
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far left what what my peripheral to the
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left or the peripheral to the right is
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looking at
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it's more so what's directly in front of
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me as i'm moving right or left
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and so that's that's one thing to note
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and pedestal is the same thing
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except you're going to be going up or
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down this is another great
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great thing to show for scale except i
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kind of like it better because it sticks
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with the detail of what
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you're actually looking at if i want to
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get i use this shot a lot for fashion if
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i want to start
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from the from the head to the toes or
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from the toes up
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you can get a nice shot of their shoes
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their shorts their pants their shirt
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and then just get a nice portrait of
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their face i think that's a really good
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motion
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and movement for portrait videos fashion
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films anything like that
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and it does work well with music videos
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too alright so another
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really common shot actually that you
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might do a lot but not even realize it
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is just called tracking
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you can do this with any type of
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equipment and really all it's going to
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be is
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finding a subject whether it's your your
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artist that you're shooting with or
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if you're out in nature it could be a
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train it could be a car it could be
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anything
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and you're just gonna follow it that's
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pretty it's pretty self-explanatory
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you just follow it you track it
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obviously when you're tracking a subject
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you could be doing
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pans or tilts or whatever any other
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movement
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but this is called tracking because it's
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an easier way to describe to somebody
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okay
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just follow the subject and that's
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that's pretty much as simply
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simply put as i can make it the next one
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up on our list is another great
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um camera movement that's actually not
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for the camera itself
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it's it's for the lens and what it's
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going to be is
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a zoom in or out and personally i don't
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like doing the zoom in or out movement
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when i'm using it with a gimbal or
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stabilizer
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i'd prefer to use that with a vhs or a
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super 8 camera because it looks more
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natural
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to that medium but it's a really great
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look to show
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just to zoom in and out it's i can't
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really describe it to you anymore it's
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it's good to start by showing a detail
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if you're zoomed all the way in
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and then pulling all the way out so that
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everybody can see like
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what that little detail actually was or
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if you want to start way far out wide
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give people the broader picture and then
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zoom in and focus on something so that
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the viewer knows
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okay this is symbolic in the video and i
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think those are two really great shots
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or movements lens movements if you will
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to really
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make something like just kind of have
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that old-school nostalgic feel
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okay so the last one on our list is
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another one that's kind of just a lens
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movement and not really a camera
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movement and this is called
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rack focus or focus pulling or racking
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focus whatever you want to call it
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and basically what that is is when
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you're
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going in and out of focus on your
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subject
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sometimes you don't even have to be
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playing with the focus you just
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either move in or move out for example
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looking on the camera right now
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if i'm close it's not in focus if i'm
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far out it's getting
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you can see just when it goes in and out
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of focus that'll really kind of
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just play with the the visual
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like thought that a consumer of your
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video has so
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that's another great tool to have and i
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think it really plays well especially
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with cinema cameras
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um this sony when you have cameras with
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auto focus or
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you know like just digital photo camera
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focus it just
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it's more sticky and you can kind of
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tell when something's in focus and then
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it switches to out of focus
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but if you're using a cinema lens it's
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really helpful because you'll be able to
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get that smooth
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gradual and like crisp focus in and out
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and i think that really really will make
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your videos stand out
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all right so that's about it for today
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that's six of our favorite camera
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movements for music videos i hope you
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