Really insightful video here! It’s always great to see these short docs being produced to shine light onto intuitive, humane subject matters. Great work man! Love watching your videos.
Thanks my friend! In the world of tech it’s nice to produce these types of short docs to ground humanity back to the understanding of where our food comes from and the culture behind it 🤙🏽
New follower here, stumbled on your channel and I think I’ve watched 70% of your videos without realizing it. I do have a question, on this video you mic’ed people on their skin under their shirt. What tape did you use to do that. I’d love to see videos from you showing techniques, framing, how you expose, mic people etc. I like your videos a lot, thank you!
Are the Meike your favorite budget lens? I'm trying to pick a good lens. I like clean, but am okay with a little character. I'm down to a zoom dzo lens, nisi prime, or meike prime
I was waiting for this one! Super insightful, love the analogy to a musical conductor. The lighting on the interviews looks super natural, the average viewer wouldn't know they are lit. Out of curiosity, what lav's and recorders are you using (or wireless transmitters)?
Thanks Matt! The lav that day was the tascam dr10L with the included lav mic and the recorder for the shotgun was a zoom h4n (I need to update that one haha)
@@drew.schettlerCool thanks Drew! Still a solid setup. Audio sounded great :) I have a similar Zoom recorder and lav. Just deciding if i get a wireless setup, would be handy for some jobs.
Nice! Just watched the doc too, great stuff! One question I have is about your interview questions. He had some really compelling things to say about farming (culture) and seeds, how did you phrase the questions to elicit those responses?
Great question! Prior to the interview I wrote out some basic questions like "what is your greatest desire on the farm?" "What are the biggest challenges you face?" Since I'm not an expert in the ag space I had to approach the interview with curiosity and then navigate the interview like any story - discuss their greatest goals, desires, and obstacles they face. Usually those questions branch off into other topics. It's also good to establish the context by asking some general questions like how they got started into farming, etc. The culture thing was actually the last thing he said in the interview and then was elicited simply by me asking "Is there anything else you'd like to add?" Sometimes you just get lucky and end up with some interview gold. I find the challenge is trimming it down without cutting really good content.
Thank you so much for this bts! Really accessible and inspiring insights. I'm actually quite impressed how you and your team (?) managed to shoot such a high-quality doc AND bts, chapeau! I'm also loving the handheld camera movement and angles you use throughout documentary. May I ask in this regard, did you apply a stabilization in post or is the motion 1:1 from the camera? And another question would be, how you plan and make decisions for shoting broll at higher frame rates to slow down later. I'm always struggeling to decide whether I want a shoot spontaneous situations in 24/25fps natural motion of emphasize on it in slow mo. But maybe thats also "just" experience or a question for an own video. anyway, thank you! keep the inspiring work up!
Some times it’s 1:1 with natural cam movement but it depends on the shot. Sometimes I do use post stabilization. When shooting with Blackmagic, there’s an HFR (high frame rate) button so at any moment I tap that and shoot 60fps. So making the decision on the fly is super easy
Thanks man for the kind words! Appreciate it. There is some stabilization on a couple shots but for the most part all 98% of the shots are not stabilized. As for when to shoot slowmo and when to shoot 24fps it really comes down to story and like you said experience. Each scene presents its own characteristics but for the most part when shooting a doc you want to be in 24fps. As I mentioned in the video you don't need as much broll as you think which goes to show that if you're telling a story focus on capturing shots in real time and then for epic moments like establishing shots or transitional shots crank the shutter to get that slow motion.
