intention
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 3 พ.ค. 2024
- having intention behind your work in filmmaking, or in whatever industry you are in, is very useful.
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You're like the Rick Rubin of camera influencers.
😂 I’m honored. I love Rick Rubin.
The intention behind the hair cutting is giving us metaphor for the "trimming" and "grooming" you're encouraging by thinking about intention. Oh...Glad to see the dog.
😂 I do feel that. In reality.. I shot the portion of me on the couch. Started editing it, didn’t like it. Felt I needed a haircut. So I moved everything to the bathroom to re do it, but while cutting my hair. Then halfway through that I stopped bc it was too hard to do both lol.
@@BlaineWestropp1 It's ok to admit you're a genius, Blaine. No need to give us your IQ score, but yeah, I'm saying Mensa.
@@alloriginaltone 😂😇 thank u thank u
Solid practical advice that’s easy for everyone to apply, but often not applied. I always overshoot, because of a lack of intentionality.
I just finished a 15 day documentary shoot. This advice is gold! I wish I heard it before the start of the shoot but we live and learn. Will use this wisdom on the second half of the shoot.
Thank you for sharing this!
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my ultra wide appreciates your aspect ratio choices
It was all for you 😇
You became my favorite film TH-camr. Your content is the shit, it's underrated as hell.
Yo thanks a lot. I have been really loving making things for TH-cam. I have some big plans 😇
Blaine bro, this is one of my favorite videos. What you say is highly reflective of my thoughts on filmmaking and the formula behind individual drive and intent. Can’t wait to see your future film(hint). Good stuff brother 🔥🔥🔥
Hehe thank you so much! I’m glad you share the same thoughts.
You hit the nail on the head. When I worked in post, I tried to always make sure cuts were made with intention (tell the story, get a laugh, add tension, etc.). Sometimes, that was a pie-in-the-sky notion-a cut was made due to necessity. It did teach me how to make a cut feel intentional even if it wasn't-lessons from the trenches. Thanks for another excellent video - well done on the edit of the ending.
Hey thank you. I feel ya. More and more each day I’m trying to push harder for what I know things should be. Not always possible but good to push for it! I started in post, and still do work in post sometimes and that is a good place to learn this stuff because you can really develop a feeling for what works and what doesn’t and as you mentioned, how to make it work.
@@BlaineWestropp1 Starting in post is a massive advantage no matter what production role people gravitate toward. It shows in your work that post-production has been a part of your career.
I definitely am happy to have started in post, despite constantly trying to move to being a DP while working in post. Such valuable training that helps me as a DP today. Post is hard tho man.
@@BlaineWestropp1 It isn't easy. I can tell that it has helped you.
I had someone yell at me at work because I kept asking questions like this to our team. I reeeaaaaallllly wasn't trying to be a dick, but some people don't like to be challenged in their pre-production phases.
I love this video, and I feel like more people need to hear it.
You gotta be asking yourself the questions!!!
Your content is so real and needed, so easy to miss these core princioles because of the amount of extra stuff we're fed with
Hey thank you! Definitely hard to kind of keep that zen state with all of the stuff for sure.
👍🏾👍🏾Sage Advice, which has endless applications for all areas of our human experience! Many Thanks, my Brother.
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I’m a physic teacher. I appreciate what you convey in this video. It’s really the fact of changing and refining our definitions of working hard😊
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i just saw a video with my thoughts but in english version... @blaine westropp, thank you for this video. a lot!!!!! and the idea of letting others hit the record button if i dont like the shot, thats just great. ill do that too from now!
great video
Hey thank you so much! 😊
Great subject matter! I was listening to Deakins podcast and he said very often when he shoots stills he'll be out for the whole day and not take a single shot. He's looking for the right shot but is patient.
Love this! I feel very similarly. I think for those just starting out it is okay to shoot a little more. But this is also why shooting on film (motion and stills) helps. It brings the precision.
you've done a wonderful job of revealing the pyramid that you must respect on the way to finally getting a single video project success.. forcing yourself to ask every question along the way... do you know your camera settings, do you know why you'd change them, do you how to compose / expose a photograph, do you know what's in the way of a better photo composition, do you know how to compose moving pictures, do you know how to capture two sets of moving pictures that work together.. it's such a ground up build that if you don't know why your camera settings work all the way up to why two composed clips work together to create engagement, then travelling further up the pyramid is just going to end up with frustrated puzzlement as to the 'how', as you jumped over too many 'whys'.
Yes. It does take learning some things to the point that you no longer need to think about them. And I think that’s what style is. Which also takes time to achieve. But once you don’t need to worry about the camera settings and once you know what you like (style) then you start asking the important questions that make something good.
Great content, would like to see more of this from you! Btw, legendary haircut scenes 🙌
thank you :) I have more stuff like this I want to make.. stay tuned :)
dude i just literally ended last night on a low-budget short with a bad shot, we ran out of time having no AD. It totally fucked up my whole experience working on this film. Total missmatch with the director. Happy to hear you speak on this!
im sorry that happened.. but its okay.. it happens. on to the next!
I love how different and real you are compared to the other camera TH-camrs. If you notice, all they do is talk about gear. They also never share their work outside of backyard tests. So how do we know they're actually any good at what they say they do? Do they have set experience?
All that to stay, you stand out man. Keep up the creativity. Appreciate the authenticity!
Hey thank you so much, that means a lot! I do notice this on TH-cam. It is one of the reasons I started this channel. You can make a lot of money talking about gear though, and I do appreciate I can learn anything about pretty much any camera or technology on TH-cam, but I have bigger plans for this channel 😎
Nailed it. Lots of forums about “what lens is the best?”, “what camera is right for me?”, “what gimbal?”
You can shoot a feature with nothing but a camera and a tripod. Being intentional with decisions is a great skill to have in your filming toolbox. Thanks Blaine 🤜🏻🤛🏻
Yep yep! I even like sometimes having only one or 2 lenses.
Learn a lot from you philosophically❤
thank you! more to come :)
This was timely!! Asking myself why is easier in prep, but in the present wow man it’s much harder for sure. More practice!
Always harder in the preset. I try to remind myself to push to do it though!
@@BlaineWestropp1 gonna try my best to take this approach. Good looking out with this video!
Such subtle but impactful advice... I'll definitely think more about the 'why'!
Also, I wonder how many other kids did this while playing basketball. I can't recall the last time I played, but I still know my last shot was good!
😎 haha glad you have the same technique on the court. I assume a lot of people did that.
@@BlaineWestropp1 or at least, just the OCD kids!
Hahah yes
yes to all you just said! it goes without saying that this applies deeply to things shot on film, but i have noticed that whenever i ask someone else to go film something for me on digital, i can really notice someone that is experienced by the number of shots and the quality of each. the goal is really to have fewer shots, with each shot being usable in the edit. especially for social media digital content, i want to be able to drag the shot on my timeline and use it. i have also become very strict with when i press record. better for the workflow, better for the mind.
yep. agreed! I really like being strict about the record button. I almost view it as disrespectful to hit it without purpose.. but it took me a long time to get to that point!
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yes to this! and those green sweatpants are nice
They are great. The zippered pockets help when I’m biking around the city.
Whoa your basketball routine is similar to mine, my dad would make me just make sure I hit a shot before leaving the court though. I think usually at least mid range was good enough for me though lol Great advice as is often the case 👏 👏
edit - finishing the rest of the video, good point about transferring that no-bad shot mentality to the rest of the practice/shoot, I like the mindset 👍 I should do that more
Haha love it. Making any shot at the end of the day is fine. Sometimes I’d have to just make it be a layup 😂
AUTHENTICITY !
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This video inspired me to do short doc. The shot at 0:03 is nice. Will keep you updated. Title of doc: "A Reason Behind It"
love it! Keep me updated on how it’s going 😎
Standards are everything
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I like this dude
thank you 🫡
sos un capo, muy lindo video!
Gracias! 😇😎
I really struggle with intention having made a lot of my work on the fly and in the edit - I have committed to intention but it has resulted in realising I don’t have much of a knack for storytelling or planning -
I have relied on intuition and filming interesting people and getting by by the skin of my teeth however now making more organised work including business ads/narrative the ideas for the outcome is hard for me to conjure prior to “the day” and often results in something lacking compared to the lucky captures when I have just gone with the flow -
perhaps this means I am more suited to doco but there are also internal visions that I want to materialise which include dialog and other filmic narrative scenes.
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I’m sure I’ll break free from this stasis from prioritising intention. 16mm def changing things for this issue also.
I think finding good results with just going with the flow can definitely happen. You don’t need to always have a full plan. Part of your intention could be going with the flow.. there really aren’t any rules and everyone works differently. Styles and techniques and process also evolve and change. In the end you have to find what gets you the results that make you happy. It’s not always easy.
You seek for excellence. But sometimes good is good enough.
Yes! And also sometimes you need to sacrifice, maybe you don’t have enough time etc. but you at least push for excellence.
@@BlaineWestropp1 Always trying to push for excellence is the clue to keep in love with your work. You loose that and is the first step into hating it.
1:39 I hate it when I get that buzzing sound in audio too ;-p
Hahah it ain’t easy.
Doggie had intention on making you punch in to avoid inappropriate subject matter. 😂
Hahahaha 100% accurate.
Intention is everything. As primarily a wedding filmmaker (I know people will say just call myself a wedding videographer, which is what I am, but I feel like a film has much more intention behind it than just a video), I yell this from the rooftops to other wedding videographers all the time. There are so many wedding videographers that are high volume and produce vanilla films that are all the same and are boring because they lack intentional planning, storyboarding, active listening, chad set up and spatial awareness, use of lighting techniques, avoiding overshooting, and high quality audio with redundancies. When I started asking myself why I do anything, That's when my work started to look, sound, and feel so much better. One example of this in the wedding videography world is when a guy slaps a camera on a gimbal and just runs around all day with that. Every shot selection, every focal length, every white balance adjustment, every gimbal movement for static tripod shot, or handheld movement should be motivated with intention. The cool thing is this mindset can be applied to any filmmaking application and it will always make The end result better.
yep. fully agree with you! im glad you started asking yourself why and noticed improvements in your work. I know I experienced the same thing. weddings are particularly hard. I shot one wedding. I told them I would only do it if I could do it my way, and that they would have zero input. lol. they agreed, I did it my way, did not overshoot, and it was fine and they liked it. but I know not every client is like that. I think it really comes down to slowing down and just thinking and trying to make something good. also.. call yourself a filmmaker! thats what you are!
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We all like a oner in the wide. But when a dog barks down the street the audio is ruined and you must go again. Then the hair slips and you have to go again, then another dog bark, now a line badly delivered. Now we are on take four and have not got to the end of the scene once yet. and it is lunch time. Coverage will make you make the day and not pay overtime. And options to chop the lines down so the dramatic tension comes to a high just before the ad break at 14mins 58s. Its not for art - it is the commercial activity of making films on time and on budget.
And you cant get the boom mic in properly on a wide. And production didnt pay for two boom ops and kit. So you gonna lose some more takes trying to rely on lavs jammed down her crinkly shirt. The editor will be taking the CU audio and pasting onto the wide shot anyway. So you need to shoot a boom mic CU anyway or fork $5k+ for ADR and lose three days of actor time, and the actor is on another job for the next month so now your Chritmas feature will be edited by February.
How come the great films are oners on a wide? The greats got good audio by shutting the city block for sound and then scheduling three days to deliver a two minute scene. Fine if you have the money.
Yep. You are 100% right!
Omg the dog
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Why do you refuse to get a haircut? 😂
It hurts
But why male models?
I have 2 male dog models that yearn for face time.
First hahaha
You win!
But you really can you do whatever the fuck you want. Doesn’t have to make sense all the time.
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I just discovered the intention of your barber. He uses WYSIWYG. I’m curious, does he pull the side hair down over the ears and uses the ears shape as outline to cut around? If he does, consider him genius!
😂😂😂 yes!