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@@rezaka116 This is a quote of a character of Bleach called Mayuri with basically the same concept. : "The average person admires perfection and seeks to obtain it. But, what’s the point of achieving perfection? There is none. Nothing. Not a single thing. I loathe perfection! If something is perfect, then there is nothing left. There is no room for imagination. No place left for a person to gain additional knowledge or abilities. Do you know what that means? For scientists such as ourselves, perfection only brings despair. It is our job to create things more wonderful than anything before them, but never to obtain perfection. A scientist must be a person who finds ecstasy while suffering from that antimony."
Enemy number 8: your camera’s automatic color/exposure/focus. Mostly for the Gopro/iPhone end of things, but seriously, do yourself a favor and turn off auto on as much as you can. Enemy number 9: shutter speed, especially on DSLR. Set the shutter angle too small/shutter speed too high, and the movement will stutter.
I'm in my 3rd year of film school, and I've learned a lot, but the way you guys broke down lighting and fundamentals was very clear and helpful in a way that I haven't considered before. You guys are amazing at your craft. Thank you for sharing your knowledge with us!
Corridor sets itself apart by their obvious enthusiasm for teaching and sharing what they have learned. It’s not just, “look what we can do!” Its, “look what we can show you how to do too!” That’s what great creators do, they help others create!
They do it to promote a paid site though. I have no issue with people enjoying these guys for their personas but it's clear that they do everything to get views and money. Hopefully they get joy out of it in the process, but the way they're usually either doing brand deals or outright steal IPs to promote their brand instead of making their own stuff from scratch doesn't really scream creativity. It's actually kinda sickening how much they've talked about how they made it big on RU-vid, how many videos have gone viral and the whole nine yards, never mentioning that the reason they got noticed in the first place was that they slapped Minecraft, Modern Warfare, Assassin's Creed and loads of other IPs on their videos. They ride the coattails of companies having payed millions of dollars in marketing to get exposure for free. I'm not saying the videos are bad, but unless you make a deal with a company it's unethical not to say illegal to just use their stuff without paying or asking for permission. It's one thing if it's a small project for fun, but the guys keeps doing it (renaming Anime Self-driving Cars to Fast and the Furious and Portal Gun to Half-Life Alyx: The Movie to give them a boost in popularity). I know original stuff doesn't get traction on RU-vid and that it's easier to get attention through well-known trademarks (duh) but after ten years of "stealing", their brand should be strong enough itself to make people click on their videos even if they are original works. Despite this they continue to almost exclusively promote their work with what others have created. Just looking at the bar to my right the videos include Avatar, Super Smash Bros, Tron, Harry Potter, Avengers Endgame, Pixar, multiple instances of Star Wars and that's not even counting all the thumbnails. The ten most viewed videos on Corridor are World's Longest Light Saber (Star Wars), two Prim-Tech videos (Primitive Technology, another RU-vid-channel with more subscribers), Bosstown Dynamics (Boston Dynamics), Shadow of Mordor (although that one was official), The Glitch (Mario), Nerf Team Fortress, Minecraft: The Last Minecart and Real GTA. I'll give them that World's Largest Laser Gun isn't tied to any particular IP but one in ten isn't a very good statistic. Go subscribe to their website if you want, but if it was down to pure enthusiasm they 1) wouldn't hide the content behind a paywall and 2) would create more original stuff instead of fishing for views with other people's stuff. I wonder if they're still mad at getting caught using Star Wars music without asking
@@eliassall8791 It's their job--you can't blame them for wanting to get paid. Expecting creators to do things for free is not OK. As far as the "creativity" argument goes, it really sounds like you're a little jealous at you're not out there doing awesome stuff. They make a ton of videos that have no connection to other companies' content (including this one). Also...if you don't like it, why are you here?
@@eliassall8791 you do have to realize they are running a studio, an actual production company that has the capacity to make short movies you do also realize that most production company does not make films for free you do also realize that most production company has timeline that stretch for at least a year you do also realize that most production company usually only have one or two flagship project running concurrently in economic terms, corridor digital is an impossibility, yet here they are
@@TheRainqueen333 Had it only been the case of making brand deals to make money I wouldn't have a problem. I'd probably think that it's a boring, capitalistic way of looking at an artform but if they wanted to do it for the money then it's fair game. What I have a problem with is that their whole platform and fame is built upon stealing other people's work. No one would give a shit about their shorts if they hadn't stolen so many IPs in the past without asking or even paying after the video blew up so I think it would only be fair of them to admit to that when talking about their success
@@aronseptianto8142 Yes, I do realize that and my problem isn't with the money. Sure, I think they're growing needlessly large as a business if all they wanted to do was make shorts out of creativity but to each their own. "in economic terms, corridor digital is an impossibility, yet here they are". Exactly, and do you know why it's an impossibility for most? Because most people don't steal other people's work to make money. Either outright making a short using already established IPs as the foundation or naming the video after one is not "being smart". It's disregarding the money and time others have put into making those IPs well-known in the first place. Just because you add onto it doesn't make it "transformative" and "fair use". What would happen if actual movie studios started making actual movies based on IPs they didn't own? Why would they ever buy the rights to a book if they could just make it anyways? Why wouldn't rival studios not just remake a film to be the same "but better" based on audience reviews? If you've made something of value you have to be protected from people using it as they please. Copyright is not a money thing. It's a way for creators to control in what ways their work is portrayed and to *otherwise* get payed as compensation. After gaining fame making fan films early on Corridor have realized that people don't care about their original stuff and so they keep stealing just to stay afloat. I realize they have people to pay, but if you can't make money doing something without cheating, maybe you don't deserve to make money doing it?
Why did my mind get so blown by the realization the they're called "Movies" because they move?! It makes so much sense, why have I never made the connection? It even sounds like an old timey term for moving pictures someone would have coined when it was new.
OMG it was so unique and we can tell that you guys spent a lot of time in preproduction to make everything glu together like that. Really unique i liked it. And Niko is so completely right throughout the video. This is the video everyone should watch when they decide to shoot videos. Good job.
It's short for moving picture. 60 years ago, that was what they called movies/films. They were also called films later on because movies were shot using film.
That zone system is very specific to creating an SDR image. Nowadays, a lot of stuff is moving to HDR color grading, and that's a whole other beast. Ideally shadows and mid tones should look fairly similar to what they would look like in SDR, but highlights should look realistically bright, which means many highlights will look far brighter than SDR allows. Things like the sun and fire and bright reflections should be VERY bright on a good HDR display (assuming doing that fits well with the visual language of the shot). Your point about not clipping highlights becomes SO much more important here. If you clip them, even those bright studio lights behind you, you won't be able to make use of the expanded dynamic range to display them accurately in HDR. There's also a wider color gamut that allows for certain highly saturated colors that couldn't even be captured by SDR technology. When grading for HDR, ideally, HDR should be done before SDR, because doing it the other way will likely result in limiting what you can do with the HDR grade afterwards and resulting in an inferior HDR image. A lot of movie studios still aren't doing this right, and the result is an HDR image that does not take advantage of the wider dynamic range of color, even when it would be completely appropriate to the cinematography to do so.
Literally, after two minutes into this video, I have gotten insight I didn't have from diving into video making for the past two years. "You can get a good, emotionally compelling image from any camera, but if you have a specific look in mind, not every camera is appropriate". Yes please, thank you.
Honestly it’s absolutely criminal that people like Niko exist and yet AAA movie companies continually drop bombs because of industry embedded processes. Like imagine if Corridor made a Fantastic Four movie.
A lot of people working on big budget movies used to be just like Niko. But once the industry gets a hold of you and bombards you with deadlines, budget cuts and constant supervision from producers and other penny-pinchers all of your creativity and enthusiasm goes out the window. The industry is the problem, not the employees.
Finally mustering up the courage to start a RU-vid channel, and in the process recording my first video. I know next to nothing about cameras or filmmaking, but have had a DSLR building up dust for the past 5 years. I’m incredibly excited for this series and to learn from one of my favorite RU-vid channels! You got yourself a student!
Video idea: attempt to make scenes with different cameras and different genres that are randomly chosen. Like make a moody scene with a GoPro or I crazy action film with a Dslr
I was confused for a second as to why I was subscribed to a crypto channel then I realized that you guys got hacked, hope you manage to get the account back as soon as possible.
I'm in a film class but yet I learned more in this video then I did in 1 year of film class Edit: this was so educational I was thinking about taking notes
I have a feeling videos like these will be played in Media / Film classes. You guys have made a very indepth, well presented and easily accessible guide that would rival any film school.
Have you been to film school? Lol. This was a cool video but this is like Intro to Video and Film level stuff lol. This is like the most basic cinematography philosophy. Still really important but like not groundbreaking by any means
@@CorridorCrew Somehow RU-vid thinks your reply is older than the comment... but yeah, I agree! I'm subscribed to the site and binging all the previous content when I first joined was fun!
bro the sam opens the door stuff just blew my mind ,its like u opened a new compartment in my brain , now i visualise stuff even better , bruh u r op XD , ty
These courses really helped me up my game, and I finally broke 500 subs on RU-vid channel all about my favorite film: Waterworld! Thanks you for releasing the full episode!
Niko as an Animator I truly appreciate this knowledge it's interesting learning new things from you guys and this was taught phenomenally! Gives me alot of ideas for using my 2D camera 🙏
Thank you for this. I don't know if I'll ever be an artist, but I have some ideas I want to shoot, and this is wonderful info for someone like me who's going to be starting out soon.
Hey dan! I just made a cool video on airplanes. I'd really appreciate it if you could check it out: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-D3GADVrDVEw.html
Wow, what an amazing masterclass, very surprised corridor put his up for free, this was terrific. Been a long time supporter of this channel and still blown away by the content you guys produce. An amazing in-depth analysis of filmmaking and photographic image capturing. I spent like 21k studying this stuff at university/college and never was it presented to me as such an easy to understand package. Well done, hats off guys, one day I hope to work with you guys as an image retoucher/photoshop wizard.
17:35 One minor point: dynamic range is actually defined as the range between light and dark in a given scene. The range your camera actually captures is referred to as exposure latitude. So your highlights clip when the dynamic range is greater than the camera's latitude
This video was [SAM] really informative and truly [JAKE] shows how passionate Niko and the Corridor [SAM] Crew are about filmmaking. Maybe I will spring for [JAKE] a subscription to their website [SAM].
Can you react to some of the naruto fights idk if they are motion capture or some how cgi but for example naruto vs pain kakashi vs obito or the final valley battle thx
this is great stuff, even for a decades-served veteran of broadcast tv like me. nico's slightly exasperated enthusiasm, the whole "ok, I'll slow down a bit & explain, but hurry up, you guys!" is perfect teacher-voice, & the pace is right, somehow for beginners & advanced students alike. you'll find yourself going between "but of course" & "wow! did not know that!", which is the joy of any teaching situation. if someone asks me about getting into any sort of film-making, whether it involves VFX or not, "these guys". what nico & sam & the others have done in their work is make the electronics serve the greater purpose- start with an ACTUAL story, a narrative, & consider how to deliver that effectively- the choreography, the setting, the audio... the digital effects that a lot of people came here for initially are just one crew member- no more or less important than any other crew member. plan. go over the resources you have, & the ones you think you'll need. adapt. do it, make mistakes, learn from the mistakes, do it again, better. show people, & see if the reaction is what you intended.
I've been a still photographer most of my life, but using my DSLR I've been dying to make a short film, but I have a couple of problems. One is I have very little cash, so no budget. And two is I know of no one who is capable or willing to help or act so I'm all alone in a two room apartment. And I have a mental block. I need story ideas I can produce under these conditions. I've watched all the solo filmaker videos I can take and haven't learned anything new. It's this inability to come up with workable story ideas. Anyone out there willing to give a guy a jump start story idea?
Great video! _Functional filmmaking_ is a success! Informationally dense, simple clear and demonstrative....not a single second is wasted....great guidelines for those not in the know....budget agnostic and pan genre principles for starters and experienced ones alike. And short.
Ok if you guys aren't gonna react to leera the soulmate movie (Bollywood movie) trailer im unsubbing ... No wait blackmail isn't the way to go about this but seriously you guys will have so much fun
Ha! Saying out loud the information you are communicating! I am a web developer and when I animate slides in a carousel I always read the text in a slide in normal speaking tempo. If the slides transition while I am still speaking, the timing is too fast. It usually is too fast because that looks flashy, but you will not communicate most effectively with your audience. It is an excellent tool, great to see it in the context of timing shots. It is so interesting that we humans operate at a certain pace and working with that makes you both a better film maker and a better web developer :)
hey i got an idea for a future video, you guys should make a 3rd person camera in real life, but not like what everyone else did to where its a camera locked to your back, but to where its on a gimbal arm, and a vr headset controls its direction, if you made it to where it can move on a 110-120 degree turning angle it would be more then sufficient, and if you made multiple ones you guys could all do a 3rd person nerf fight.
Got say niko this is best, i always want to learn this things but didn't find interesting,but when u guys made it,I'm like okay this is gonna be cool,and it is,btw the new way of promotion cool too.great video.
Just imagen this video as a college class with all the same elements. Jake is crashing through the door for the ad and tiny sam is chasing him out. That would be awesome. Love the great tips! Awesome video!
Love al the work they out into all this!! They alway keep it real and genuine and really have a passion for what they do and want to share the knowledge and experience with us. I love tbis 🙏🏻🙏🏻
Just because you CAN composite Sam into this video a dozen times doesn't mean you SHOULD. You have a website. We get it. I'm trying to pay attention to the content.
I don't understand how you can give a thumbs down on educational videos unless the information is dead wrong. How does this have almost a 100 downvotes lol
Its honestly all about lighting. You could be using the most garbage camera, and your shots could still come out looking great if you get your lighting down perfect first.
Just a little thing here completely unrelated to the video, but it makes my heart skip a beat Niko preferrs the bungee ring loop for holding a phone over all the other garbage. I look like a freak being the only one i know and see that has one of those.
hay guys ijust want to say that you are all amaizing you made start editing ! editing is now my faivorite thing. i try to do it every day and if im not editing im at least learning how to do it at the moment im not amaizing ' but i do have dreams ! i want to work at a studio like you'rs! that is my dream job thank you for being awsome
Yo guys, react to the FACE MORPH tech that was shown in Michael Jackson's "Black or White" music video. That stuff blew my little 6yo brain when i first saw it.
