tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-73286990496038744932024-03-18T04:25:11.745-07:00Adventures of Devin and other short storiesThe dreams we live! :)Devin Grahamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14571891492034020036noreply@blogger.comBlogger77125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7328699049603874493.post-74437076765192974632017-03-22T19:41:00.000-07:002017-03-22T19:43:47.517-07:00Wing Walker Jumps from Airplane - Wing Walking! - By Zane O'Gwin<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Written by Teamsupertarmp's very own Zane O'Gwin - <br />
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video was probably one of the funnest shoots that we have done as Team
Supertramp. We didn’t have any major problems to tackle. That being said
as with most shoots there still are little hang ups that we had to deal
with. More on that in a bit. </div>
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first thing that we do as a team is we start brainstorming ideas. We
came up with several but we wanted an amazing stunt that not a lot of
people have actually seen. Especially not the way that we would film it.
We pitched this idea along with several others and two of them were
chosen by Subaru. We were all very excited.</div>
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Now
that we had the idea and concept solidified we needed to find the right
people to execute the stunt. One name came to everyone’s mind and that
was Marshall Miller. </div>
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you ask anyone on the team about Marshall you will immediately get a
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only does he personify positivity and optimism he is very good at what
he does. He understands the importance of safety and will quickly figure
out all of the details and skills that it will take to execute the
stunt at hand. We have used Marshall in 5 other videos. Although
Marshall is an extreme athlete, he had never done wing walking before.
So when we first got to California, Marshall sat down with our pilot
Michael Mason of Mason Wing Walking. He provided and owned the Stearman
Aircraft you see in the video. and went over all the details and tried
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Everything
was set in place and we started shooting early that next morning just
as the sun was rising. We had some ice on the wing still and had to wait
for the sun rays to melt it off. Then we realized it was only in the
high 50 ° F and a lot colder up in the air. Marshall didn’t complain
once. We were able to get a coat underneath his shirt that helped him
out a bit.</div>
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The
first day was sunny skies and had zero problems with all our locations.
We had just finished at the first location, which was the airport Sants
Paula.</div>
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We
just arrived at our next location when we receive a phone call from
Marshall that he had just met Harrison Ford. We thought he was kidding.
Apparently Mr. Ford was having a plane built at that small airport and
was coming to check on it. The funny thing is when he first arrived he
went straight to the airplane that we were using because he loved the
model and the way it looked. The rest of the team was pretty sad that
they had missed Indiana Jones himself!<img alt="Inline image 1" class="CToWUd a6T" height="365" src="https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/?ui=2&ik=ede4128d15&view=fimg&th=15af7f84e21d9f23&attid=0.2&disp=emb&realattid=ii_15af7f3c8e0e76f8&attbid=ANGjdJ9SzGsrFFBd6QhANux-1syDf0x9HorfOY9l04I13BjN_J1K0QKwY8eqMzufguRw3lm_XJ5qM39SwouZEWjTW8cmePnbwtdeGkbdEWSpqUJ4Dj1KmVD9DgM5Ltw&sz=w1088-h730&ats=1490236392371&rm=15af7f84e21d9f23&zw&atsh=1" tabindex="0" width="544" /></div>
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The
next day of filming was all about the Shotover. The Shotover is a
gimbal that is attached to the bottom of a helicopter that stabilizes a
camera. This was provided by Tempt Media and Eric was our camera
operator. Some of the coolest people to work with and our Helicopter was
piloted by Kevin Larosa. A fun fact we learned about Kevin was that he
has piloted a helicopter on some of HollyWoods biggest blockbusters such
as the Marvel films and Transformers. Between Kevin and Eric we knew we
were in good hands once we first got up in the air. They just asked
Devin what he was looking for and they made it happen. <img alt="Inline image 3" class="CToWUd a6T" height="417" src="https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/?ui=2&ik=ede4128d15&view=fimg&th=15af7f84e21d9f23&attid=0.3&disp=emb&realattid=ii_15af7f517475f157&attbid=ANGjdJ9Q7LdDJ9XOax3R_KmxWFLTKkFYyBnqT0BDcmomqwkCsaxDTUmDpfPReUSIqKp1qTUhDfIqSkhhi-SQ4CGr3PohyXwruY8tiqQgkcHWvp06w6dlvl5ZjbYVPZ8&sz=w1088-h834&ats=1490236392371&rm=15af7f84e21d9f23&zw&atsh=1" tabindex="0" width="544" /></div>
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The
end of the day we were hoping for an amazing sunset shot like we had
the day before but Mother Nature said otherwise and we had overcast all
evening. So we made do with what we had.</div>
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We
seriously had a blast making this video come to life. We put so much
passion and energy in everything we do and want to give people something
to smile about. We hope you can feel our love. As we always say, over
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Devin Grahamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14571891492034020036noreply@blogger.com485tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7328699049603874493.post-78689044157267876732017-02-28T12:50:00.000-08:002017-02-28T12:50:30.265-08:00Zorb King of the Island! - Written by Sam Jones<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Lake Powell is a place where dreams come true and
bone-crushing body blows happen. The natural surroundings it provides should be
on anyone and everyone’s to go bucket list. When in Lake Powell there is a
never-ending possibility to what could be next. As seen in many of Devin
Supertramp’s videos.<span></span>
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Then the idea of King of the Hill with Zorb balls was
presented. Exciting, right? That’s what I thought when I willingly said I would
take part in this shoot.</div>
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There is one thing about Lake Powell that presents interesting
challenges. For this shoot we would need to find a good-sized island that would
provide easy accessibility and full 360 footage for the cameramen. This was a
challenge; every spot we would find was either to big, to hard to climb up to
or simply just not what we were looking for. Until, we found this gem of an
island on the last day of our weeklong escapade, a couple miles from camp.<span></span></div>
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The excited crew nominated a few lucky friends to begin the
king of the hill battle. As we got to the top with our zorb balls inflated an
equipped. We had no plan except it was a free for all and that we had to pummel
our friends into the watery depths below. The count down begins, three, two,
one! We all charge planting our feet into the rocky surface hoping our leverage
and force was better than our opponents. BOOM! Someone flies into the air and
knocks the person across onto the ground. People scatter brained franticly get
up trying to brace for another impact, but soon find they are to late and end
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I was apart of the Zorb Soccer video a couple years ago, and
I quickly learned how much more forgiving grass is than sandstone. Zorb balls
aren’t as protective when it came one on one with sandstone and all of it’s
sediments breaking and cutting almost all of us that came in contact with it.
Punctured zorbs, cut up feet and knees where the result of playing games here,
but this was a battle that just seemed not to end. There was no end because we
were all too competitive to even consider this a game. It was a full on
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After each round more injuries would surface, heavy
breathing accompanied everyone as we struggled out of the water. Slipping on
wet rock and falling back into the water was common. But as friends do we would
help each other out with hopes of putting them back to where they belong, in
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Despite the injuries, this was a fun video! Being able to go
back to playground with my friends is something I missed from childhood. But
this provided a little reminiscent reminder that it’s never too late to be a
kid. So get outside play games and maybe
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Devin Grahamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14571891492034020036noreply@blogger.com167tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7328699049603874493.post-44474395765527416482017-02-21T23:05:00.001-08:002017-02-21T23:05:33.335-08:00JETPACK! Rocketeer in REAL LIFE!<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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up to film this JetPack we had no idea what we were in for. We heard
about it and watched a few YouTube clips about it but seeing it in
person is a whole other experience. It is as loud as a jet airplane and
super fast. We knew this was going to be huge because it's something
that has never been done before. As far as filming a JetPack
professionally. There are phone video's but this is the first
professionally produced video of a JetPack and we are super proud of
it. </span></div>
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Our
biggest dilemma was how do we shoot this and make it look cool because
he was literally flying back and forth over the same lake over and over.
So we knew we needed to bring out all the cameras to add as many
different angles to the JetPack as possible. We brought the RED Weapon,
the Phantom Miro, the DJI Phantom 4, the Inspire 1, Canon 5D Mark 4, and
GoPro Hero 4's. We had two days to shoot this so we decided to make the
first day our trial and error day (which is how we typically approach
this kind of video) and use every camera then at the end of the day we
would review our footage and decide we like best and do as much as that
as possible on the second day. We found that obviously getting as close
to David (the JetPack pilot) as possible while he's flying looked by far
the best, but we were basically dealing with a Jet, which can be
dangerous. So the best answer to that was using the drones. We would map
out a course for David to fly so there was no way of him getting
confused with us and crashing into the drone. We would then fly that
course and David would get as close as possible to us without hitting
the drone.</div>
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flights the JetPack could do in those two days. The JetPack can only fly
about 4 minutes before it runs out of gas and then we had enough gas to
give us about 15 total flights (7 to 8 per day). So we had to know
exactly what shots we wanted for each flight so we could make the best
of them. How we did that is we would tell David what we were shooting
for each flight then we would tell him what we wanted him to do for that
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Example: I would have the boat drop me off on one of the islands with
the RED and Glidecam then Carter would be on the Phantom. So I would
tell David I want you to fly to the island, fly around it twice then fly
to Carter and fly by him for his shot. We would then tell him to do
something different each time he passed whether that was fly high or fly
low, fly fast or fly slow. It was all mapped out before he went up so
there was no confusion while he was in air.</div>
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far as the Intro for the video goes it is just a little different then
most of our intros. Other than it was shot during golden hour. I didn't
want camera moves to distract from how amazing this JetPack is. So my
thought was I just want a static shot with the JetPack centered and then
it just takes off without any camera moves. I wanted the JetPack to be
everything it is visually and let that be the show. I think it turned
out really cool and everything I was imagining and then just to top that
shot off I added a subtle digital zoom as he is taking off. Which added
a cool feel without taking anything from the JetPack taking off.</div>
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Me
and Carter are super proud of this video because like I said at the
beginning we weren't sure how we were going to make this video cool when
all he is doing is flying back and forth over the same lake for two
days. Plus only having a total of 16 flights. We got every shot we
wanted and even more. It was so much fun also working with the JetPack
Aviation crew. They were so helpful and so willing to do whatever it
took to help us make the best video possible. Super excited to see what
the future holds for this thing as they make more and more advances.
Maybe one day we will all have our very own JetPack that we can strap on
and fly to work.</div>
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Devin Grahamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14571891492034020036noreply@blogger.com277tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7328699049603874493.post-37220535174173296432017-02-14T01:16:00.000-08:002017-02-14T01:16:19.566-08:00Mario Kart Love Song - Written by Teamsupertramp's Seth Jone<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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had been wanting to do for years. Shoot I think he has been wanting to do this
video since before I even started working with him around 4 years ago. Mario
Kart in Real Life videos have always been a popular subject on YouTube ever
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For us at DevinSuperTramp this project started around 2
years ago when we did a Go Kart project for the new Mad Max video game. Check
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We bought and built all the Go Karts for Mad Max. After the project was finished Devin decided
that instead of selling or scrapping the Go Karts, he wanted to hold onto them
and use them as his Mario Kart in Real Life Karts. Well about a year goes by and it’s finally time
to get the Karts out of storage (aka Devin’s backyard) and transform them from
dumpy looking Mad Max Karts to the cleaner looking Mario Karts.<span></span></div>
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Devin put me in charge of making the transformations since myself
and a good friend named Andy Sims had been the ones to make the Mad Max Karts
in the first place. After doing a little
research on some of the different Mario Kart designs, I decided which karts
would be the best ones to transform and then got to work. For the most part a
lot of the karts only required a few cosmetic changes to get them how we wanted
them to look but some of the other karts took a decent amount of time to build
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Check out our video on how the karts were made here:<span></span></div>
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<span> </span>A lot of the kart’s engines needed some work to be done and
so I took a few into a local small engine shop to get worked on. We ran into a
little snag as it was taking longer for the kart engines to be worked on than
we were hoping, so Devin and I asked for help on Facebook. That’s when we met
our new friend Levi. He responded to a post that Devin made and so I reached
out to him and we found out that he had done small engine work for several
years and had been involved with building props in the past as well. Levi ended
up being the perfect man for the job and even ended up playing the Donkey Kong
character for us as well.<span></span>
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The next thing that Devin really wanted for this project
were some real life turtle shells as Devin knew that would be something that
could set this Mario Kart in Real Life video apart from other ones that have
been made by other channels. One of Levi’s friends is a wiz with fiber glass
and so we contracted him out to make a few real life turtle shells that we
could put on top of Traxxis remote control cars.<span></span></div>
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Next we needed to find a location to film and we reached out
to a local professional dirt bike racer named Bracken Hall to see if we could
film on the track that he uses to practice on for his races. Since these karts aren’t
quite powerful enough to go off his dirt bike jumps, Bracken decided it would
be best if he moved some dirt around and build us out a track to use for the Go
Karts. His father Sean owns the property and was generous enough to allow us to
stay in his guest house while we filmed on their track for a few days. The
Halls are some of the kindest and most generous people that we have come across
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Devin and I decided that it would be best if we stuck with
most of the usual supertramp crew to do the stunt driving and acting for this
video and so we ended up casting Bubba Quintana as Mario, Chris Romrell as
Luigi, Christian Busath as Wario, Levi Ellis as Donkey Kong, Strat Streetman as
Bowser, Lee Liston as Toad, Bri Straus as Daisy and Rachel Jones (my little
sister) as Princess Peach and of course Creighton Baird as Waluigi.<span></span></div>
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When it came time to film, we were blessed with a few cold
mornings but nice days in late fall of 2016. Everyone came together and worked hard
to make this project happen; needless to say it was a total team effort! And
the rest is history. I hope every toad finds his princess and every princess
finds a loving toad! As Devin always says.. “Over and Out”</div>
Devin Grahamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14571891492034020036noreply@blogger.com226tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7328699049603874493.post-34946645011386353842017-02-08T11:17:00.000-08:002017-02-08T11:17:08.581-08:00Shooting in 360 with the Google Odyssey <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Written by TeamSuperTramp's Zane O'Gwin:<br />
In Team SuperTramp whatever opportunities you want you get. Devin was awesome and let me completely be in charge of our latest 360 video “Murder Mansion”. To be honest it was a little difficult and I had kind of a bad taste with 360 videos. I thought they were clunky and not ever going to successfully be a tool in the narrative world. But I like a challenge and after this experience I learned that I was wrong and happy to be wrong too. <br />
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I watched dozens of 360 videos to see what works well and what does not. I found that some of the highest performing videos were immersive videos, the kind of videos where they just stick the camera in with a tiger or a family of gorillas. The other top performing 360 videos were all CGI, so they could move the camera wherever they wanted and stick the viewer into an amazing world.(I didn't have this option) But, what I didn't find a lot of was 360 narratives. Where there is an entire story with a beginning middle and end. So the challenge was real. <br />
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As I began to think of stories to tell that would allow the viewer to participate in the story and not just be a fly on the wall, I came up with a list of things I did and didn't want to happen: <br />
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<b>I didn't want the camera to cut and change positions:</b> Every video I saw this happen it felt a bit jarring as the viewer and took me out of the experience. <br />
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<b>I didn't want my actors to have to memorize an entire 5 min video with lines and blocking </b><br />
The reason is, if they did everything right until the very end where they mess up, we would have to start completely over, which would eat up a lot of space on the cameras and a lot of battery power. So, I needed something to happen in the story where it might appear that it is all continuous but would allow for the actors to only have to focus on one scene at a time. I was inspired by Alfred Hitchcock’s film “Rope”. <br />
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He wanted the movie to feel like one continuous shot so he would move the camera into someones back to black out the camera and then pull out from the same actor. Many films have done similar things but the challenge I had is I have a 360 degree camera and I can't move the camera SO I thought of a lightning storm. I could over expose the shot for a moment and allow a cut. I honestly didn't know if it would work but I took a chance and I think it did and it turned out to be a lot of fun. <br />
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<b>I knew I needed to cast an actor who was entertaining enough to carry the viewer through the whole story </b>Christian Busath was a no brainer. He is an amazingly talented actor and is very charismatic. Once he was onboard I knew that I didn't have to worry.<br />
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<b>I wanted the viewer to stay engaged the entire time </b><br />
I didn't want the viewer to just be a fly on the wall. I wanted them to feel like they were participating. So I came up with the idea to make the camera a character. I knew that making the camera a woman that Christian’s character was in love with would add a fun element of humor to it as well. It also makes you feel nervous when you are left a lone in the room with the killer. It makes you feel vulnerable and threatened as opposed to just watching it happen to other people. <br />
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<b>I felt like one arm was tied behind my back </b><br />
I love film making. You can express emotion and feelings by camera movements and with no words. Its called Cinematic Story Telling. You can’t do that with 360. So I went back to my beginnings. I studied theater all through Jr. High and High School and beyond because I knew that I always wanted to be a director and I knew some of the best directors were ones that understand how actors think. <br />
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In theater you lose the element of the camera shots to help the viewer experience what you want them to. In film, as the director, its my job to also help guide the eye of the viewer to specific things I want them to look at. This is a big challenge with 360 video because the viewer is free to look around anywhere they want. So I played with blocking my action and characters much like a theatrical play. I had everyone use big movements and also bigger facial expressions so the viewer would know exactly what is going on and naturally be guided to look a certain direction according to what the actors are doing. <br />
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<b>Lessons Learned </b><br />
This project was a fun challenge and I think it turned out to be a lot of fun. At the end of the day I am always reminded of one of my favorite quotes from Steven Spielberg.<br />
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“When I was a kid, there was no collaboration; it's you with a camera bossing your friends around. But as an adult, filmmaking is all about appreciating the talents of the people you surround yourself with and knowing you could never have made any of these films by yourself.” <br />
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I hope its enjoyable and I’m excited to work on more 360 videos in the future!<br />
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Watch the behind the scenes here to see the production process of working with a 360 camera:<br />
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Devin Grahamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14571891492034020036noreply@blogger.com139tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7328699049603874493.post-60466654705576003602017-01-31T11:08:00.002-08:002017-01-31T11:08:31.104-08:00The Human Dragon! DON'T DO THIS AT HOME - Fire and Ice!<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Our YouTube channel was created with the idea of showing the world things they've never seen before, in ways they have never seen it. It's what got our names out there, and that has always been a major focus of what we try and create. A couple weeks ago we got to work with someone who does exactly that, we got to work with Bryan Blaze, a fire breather.<br />
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With any project we take on, we try and take it to amazing locations, so figuring out a location that would show drastic contrast was actually fairly easy, the Ice Castles in Midway Utah we knew would be the perfect location for this. My uncles brother, Brent Christensen is actually the creator of them, and we've been filming at his ice castles for a very long time, since it's such an incredible location. The first video I shot there was actually a music video for Lindsey Stirling, the video currently at this time has 165 million views :) Here's the video:<br />
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This video was shot in early 2012, when no one had really been exposed to the ice castles, as far as a mass audience goes.<br />
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The Ice Castles have always drawn me back for multiple projects for the fact that they are such a unique location. Last year after the Ice Castles had closed down for the year, we did two other projects there. We didn't have to worry about destroying the ice castles since the season was already over with, it had been almost a month. Here is what we created last year with them:<br />
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From my experience last year of filming the ice castles at night with fire, I fell in love with how the ice lit up from the fire, so we thought this location would be the perfect backdrop for a fire breathing video, and that's how it all came about.<br />
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Levi, a new recent friend (since the Mario Kart videos), had met Bryan Blaze, the fire breather the week prior, at the ice castles, and had got his phone number contact, and gave it to me, suggesting he would be the perfect talent to film at the Ice Castles. When I got his contact I was going to be moving soon to Hawaii, so we had to act fast, a few days from contacting Bryan, we had already shot the video at the Ice Castles.<br />
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We filmed it on the Red Weapon and the Phantom 4 Pro for a few aerial shots to break things up. We filmed after hours. We started filming the moment it was closed, all the way until 5AMish, when we got home. It was all done with all natural light, with the Ice Castle lighting as well, LED lights built into the Ice. We did have control to light the ice different colors because of the LED, but I wanted it to be a more realistic look, so we kept it white.<br />
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Filming fire at night is a nightmare, first off. Trying to figure out the right camera settings is a constant struggle because once the fire lights up things, it over exposes the background. Yet if you want the background exposed correctly, then you won't have the fire exposed correctly.<br />
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Since we filmed this on the Red Weapon, the video image was Raw so we had a lot more flexibility in post, where I could shoot it at an ISO of 800, and lower it to ISO 200 without loosing any quality, and that's exactly what I ended up doing.<br />
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I also realized when we started filming, that fire breathing actually happens super fast, within a second usually, so I decided to film it at super slow motion, to make sure we would have a video longer then a few seconds. Fire breathing does look amazing, but in order to make the most visually appealing video we would need to break things up. So we brainstormed things we could do in slow motion besides just breathing the fire out. So Bryan breathed fire on the ice, different structures, and my favorite shot actually ended up being one where Bryan slid down the slides blowing fire up towards the camera, often dousing me in the flame. It's all about the shot though, so we had to put the camera closer then it probably should have been.<br />
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Having the drone ended up being very useful, despite not using it for more then a few minutes, it made it so we could cut to it and break up the edit, show a new perspective, and keep the pace/story moving.<br />
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To film a video like this, it was just Bryan (the athlete) and I, with Brandon shooting behind the scenes. Kept things minimal since we didn't need a full team for something like this. And then Tyson on our team took the edit and made it to what it is now, which you can see below:<br />
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Devin Grahamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14571891492034020036noreply@blogger.com62tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7328699049603874493.post-57110316282406169102017-01-31T00:06:00.000-08:002017-01-31T00:34:53.757-08:00Hawaii - My stomping grounds<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Oahu Hawaii is one of my favorite places on earth! I lived there for a year in 2010-2011 working on a documentary on an amazing surf photographer, Jon Mozo. While working on that project I had a lot of free time to do projects that seemed fun to me, and that's when I would film with all the local college kids, and some of our biggest videos, especially for that time happened then. Here's a few of them:<br />
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World's Largest Slip And Slide<br />
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Waimea Cliff Jump<br />
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Kauai - The Lost World<br />
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Those are a few examples of what I was shooting in 2010, with a Canon 5D Mark II, and my trusty glidecam. Hawaii became my favorite place to shoot, not for the obvious reasons of beautiful scenery, but because it was the place I discovered my own voice. How to become independent, confidence in myself, and how to lead others and make things happen. Before 2010/Hawaii days, I knew little about that, but I had yet to discover my voice until then.<br />
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Fast forward 7 years later, I just released another video I filmed in Hawaii. This one was another important one for me for the fact that I had come back to Hawaii to premiere the film I had spent 7 years working on (off and on). It had gotten accepted as one of the main films for the Hawaii International Film Festival.<br />
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While I was here for the film festival, I decided I would add some extra days to the trip, since it would be 5 days premiering the film, I would focus on filming Hawaii again, the place I had discovered my voice. This time was also different for the fact that I was now married, so I got to bring my wife on the trip as well. We were on the island for 8 days total, including traveling, so we didn't have a ton of time to show off an entire island. Megan and I went right to work, never missing a sunrise or sunset, no matter how late we worked the night before.<br />
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As far as equipment goes, we were filming on the Red Weapon 6K camera and the Phantom 4. Right when we got there the Red camera was having issues and the camera couldn't hold a battery charge. So I had to focus on the Phantom 4 for most of our shots. I was forced to learn the drone/camera. Every night I would come back and watch YouTube videos on how to get the footage looking better, and learning how to fly it better. It was trial and error learning at it's best :) We met a lot of amazing people on the shoot, and I got to have my wife with me for the whole adventure, doesn't get better than that.<br />
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As I began editing the video, I wanted to explore something I had never done before, or at least not very many times, having a voice over/narration through the video. I love watching TED talks, so I thought it would be powerful to have an inspiring voice over while showing footage that would be inspiring as well, so that is where the voice over came from. We have a lot of people contacting us, saying we can use their music, and one of those people had sent us a library of motivational speeches, and that's what you will hear in the video. But the thought process behind it was to try something new outside our typical "nature" style videos, and see if it could bring in a new audience as well. <br />
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You can see below the video we created, with the behind the scenes right below that (and just for the record, there's 3 behind the scene videos:<br />
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Devin Grahamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14571891492034020036noreply@blogger.com84tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7328699049603874493.post-76135209663709094732016-02-01T15:33:00.002-08:002016-02-01T15:33:23.578-08:00Dealing with Death and Loss in the Extreme Sports Community<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Our videos always try and show the greatest moments in life. Taking on the world. Living your dreams and working hard to achieve them. With that being said, we very rarely talk about the opposite side of the spectrum. Showing and dealing with loss.I feel it's very important to talk about loss, because there must be opposition in all things. Going through adversity makes the triumphs and the little simple moments have so much more meaning.<br />
This week two of our favorite people we've ever worked with passed away, both of them being totally unexpected. :(<br />
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Our video with Mandy: <br />
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We do extreme sport videos for a living, so it exposes us to a lot of these people who put their lives on the line. Because of that, we often hear about these deaths in the extreme sports world, and since it is such a tight knit community, there is often a chance it will be connected to us. Everyone of them hits hard, but especially this one since it was so close to home with people we have just filmed with.<br />
Last month we did a video for Christmas time where we found someone in great need, we had our fans suggest someone, and they had suggested a woman we had never met, Mandy. We were able to play a small part in her life, and she had played a major part in our lives. She was a single mother fighting a battle against cancer, had two children, and she had a chance of coming out okay, however that sadly was not the part of God's plan for her. Mandy passed a way a few nights ago, and hearing the news broke our hearts because of the experiences we had and the love we have for her. <br />
This morning when I woke up I had several emails from friends letting me know that one of my favorite people we had filmed with a year ago, Kelly McGarry had also passed away. He had collapsed while mountain biking in his home country of New Zealand. When we filmed with Kelly last year, he was one of the most talented, hard working and positive people I've ever worked with. We had only planned on filming one day with Kelly, but once we started working together we realized how well we worked together, so we ended up spending three days working together. He was all about doing whatever it took to get the right stunts/shots. Kelly hands down was one of the most genuine down to earth professional athletes I've ever worked with, and it makes me sick to my heart that he isn't with us any more, but despite the circumstance, I'm glad he was able to pass away doing what he loved.<br />
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Life never goes as expected, we are often time thrown for loops and surprises. I'm super thankful for the time I had with both Mandy and Kelly, they have forever changed my life. Take advantage of every moment you have with family and friends. Life is precious, you never know when it will end, so take every moment to seize the day and make the most out of every moment you have. God has a plan for all of us and I am so grateful that His plans for Mandy and Kelly included me in them.<br />
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Devin Grahamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14571891492034020036noreply@blogger.com288tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7328699049603874493.post-45915745619352798572016-01-19T15:50:00.001-08:002016-01-19T15:50:52.184-08:00The Division - The Ultimate Colab! <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Ubisoft is hands down one of my favorite companies we have worked with. They get social media, they give us opprotunities we could never have without a brand backing it up and they trust us with our audience, which is key and doesn't happen with every brand we work with.<br />
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We have been working with Ubisoft for over 4 years now. In fact some of our most watched videos we have made with them. Here's a few:<br />
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Assassin's Creed Meets Parkour - 52 Million views and rising.<br />
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Assassin's Creed Unity - 32 Million views and rising<br />
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Watch Dogs Parkour in Real Life - 8 Million<br />
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Far Cry 3 in Real Life<br />
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With that being said, we have an awesome relationship with Ubisoft. It has been a company I've always genuinely loved, even before I had the opportunity to work with them. This brings me to our most recent colab we did with Ubisoft. The preproduction for our latest colab started roughly 2 years ago. Two of my all time favorite YouTube channel's would be involved as well, Corridor Digital and Rocket Jump/FreddieW. Even when I first got involved with YouTube, it was these two channel's that got me loving the space. They were people I greatly looked up to. So I was stoked when I found out we would all be working together on this project.<br />
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Corridor Digital and Ubisoft came up with the idea that each of the three youtube channel's would show off a different agent from the videogame world of "The Division" and it would show how each agent was called to action. Then on Ubisoft's YouTube channel, there would be a 4th video that would show all three agents from each of our episodes coming together. This would make each video stand on it's own, yet it would also give you full reason to watch each episode, which in turn would not only promote each YouTube involved but give everyone a reason to go to Ubisoft's YouTube channel. It was a win win for everyone involved.<br />
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Sam and Niko at Corridor Digital were the ones that produced all 4 episodes. Adrian Picardi would direct the three episodes that would go on the other YouTube channel's, and I would direct the one that would go on our channel. By having Sam and Niko produce all 4 episodes it would ensure all 4 videos would stay consistent and flow smoothly. We would also film in the same city in Minesota as well, each episode back to back to make sure we could be cost effective. This whole process of the behind the scenes can be seen with this video that Sam and Niko created on the making of The Division series. Watch that below:<br />
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We filmed all these videos in February of 2015, over 11 months ago. The videos were going to come out sooner than a year later, but because the video game that our videos would be promoting got pushed back, our videos did as well.<br />
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The stories for all four videos were written by the Corridor Digital team, with the mindset of the channel they would be living on. Corridor Digital and I had gotten together before the writing process to discuss what would work for my channel. We try to stay away from too much violence, but we love action sports and we love showing the good in the world. So with that mind set, Corridor Digital took the world that The Division is set in, and wrote a story that would fit really well with our channel/audience. By staying true to who we are, everyone would win. The same was done for Rocket Jump, where their channel is based on the humor and their video set in the Division World has exactly that, more so then any other of the 4 episodes. Creating content that represents you, while working with a brand is crucial, and Ubisoft understands the value in that.<br />
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It really was an awesome experience working with so many YouTube powerhouses that I've looked up to for so long. I had worked with FreddieW before on a couple colab videos, but never with Corriodor Digital. It was great working/learning from all of them on a project we are all very proud of.<br />
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With that being said, here's all 4 episodes from this project, starting with my episode first.<br />
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Devinsupertramp Channel<br />
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Corridor Digital Channel<br />
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Rocket Jump Channel<br />
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Ubisoft Channel<br />
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Here's also the behind the scenes for the making of our video.<br />
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Devin Grahamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14571891492034020036noreply@blogger.com222tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7328699049603874493.post-58200438355409919282016-01-18T13:46:00.000-08:002016-01-18T16:08:27.373-08:00My Life Sucks! The truth is out there. <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Last week our channel got attacked hard. It got attacked in a way we have never experienced and we had no way of defending ourselves.<br />
Every year we release a video that represents our entire year of work. Filmed in half the countries of the world. More time, money and energy goes into this because it represents who we are and everything we have worked so hard for.<br />
We use this video as our reel to get jobs for the rest of the year.<br />
The first week of a videos release is always the most important and it determines the success of the videos life span.<br />
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When we released our best of video this year, we wanted to title it what we thought it represented, we titled it "People Are Awesome 2015 - ULTIMATE DevinSuperTramp Edition in 4K".<br />
On the day of releasing our video it had become our most "liked" video in 24 hours of all time. It had gotten 28,000 likes and over 400,000 views in the first 36 hours.....<br />
On the second day of waking up our video on our channel was gone. I had gotten several phone calls from companies we had sent the video out to saying "Where had the video gone?" We had no idea. When we looked at our videos that only our channel could see we saw this:<br />
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Usually on YouTube you have the option to edit a title or description. This was the first time in the 200 videos we have uploaded over the last 5 years that we had no option to edit it. It just said: "Video Removed: Trademark Issue". We had no idea why it had been removed. We owned 100 percent of the video content, we had release forms for the people in it and the locations. The music that we featured in it was by Boyce Avenue, who has an amazing YouTube Channel that we have always wanted to collaboration with, and they had given us full permission to use the song with the video on YouTube, with ads. Since we had full permission on every front, we had no idea where this was coming from.<br />
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We contacted YouTube and FullScreen, who is our MCN, aka Multi Channel Network (they represent YouTubers and help with a lot of things). We asked FullScreen to look into this problem for us, to see what had happened. They were shocked because they had never seen a video shut down like this without a single warning. They were able to find out the strike had been given to us by a company called Jukin. They had copyrighted/trademarked the phrase "People Are Awesome". Because of this, they have the power to shut down a video channel with what seems like a push of a button, without any warning. FullScreen was shocked that they had been so aggressive with instantly taking down our video. They had a good relationship with the company, so that's why this was such a surprise. When they reached out to Jukin, there was no comprise with the video, since we had titled it a phrase which they owned, which we had no idea. It was simple in the title, never appearing on screen in any way.<br />
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So where did this leave us? After spending the rest of the week to try and get an appeal, their legal team wouldn't give us any leeway. We asked if we could change the name to "People are amazing - Devinsupertramp edition", we then asked if we could keep the word awesome and change the word people, and even then they said it was too similar, so we couldn't do anything with the video. We couldn't even take it down to remove the copyright strike on our channel. After a full 7 days of going back and forth Jukin agreed to remove the copyright strike as long as we removed the video.... Even if we changed the name of the video completely, we still had to take down the video.... And at this point, truth of the matter is the video had gotten taken down right as it went out to all of our 3.8 million subscribers, and because it was blocked anyways, even if we were able to make it public we would already lose on all the momentum we had worked so hard with.<br />
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As we looked into this whole situation with the company that had shut down our video, Jukin, we found out that several other MCN's have had the same problem, Jukin coming at them and shutting down entire video's without warning as well, so this isn't just our problem with Jukin, it is across the board with other YouTuber's/MCN's as well. <br />
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We just now finally reuploaded the video, with a totally different phase, "My Life Sucks - Devinsupertramp Edition". We actually had to look into the phrase "My Life Sucks" to make sure no one had trademarked that phrase so this video didn't get taken down either.<br />
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The saddest thing about everything with this experience is Jukin/People Are Awesome have uploaded so many videos featuring our content on Youtube and other social media, where they never once asked for our permission and we never once had them take down the video... Yet they had no problem with taking down a video on our channel because of a title we had used. <br />
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This has been an awful experience and truthfully the worst experience I have had on the YouTube and as a content creator. In my opinion this is what needs to happen in the future.<br />
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- The creator must be warned and have a chance to fight back when someone else try's to take down their video. YouTube has this in place to an extent, but something like this we didn't have the chance to even voice an opinion. <br />
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- Phrases being trademarked is lame...ha. Not sure how you can trademark a phrase used so often by so many people. There needs to be a website that says every phrase that is trademarked, so we are not surprised later that you can't have something as a title. Sony last week tried to trademark the phrase "Let's Play" which would mean anyone who put a video with that as a title, they could take down and claim it as their own... Luckily they got turned down for that phrase, but word on the street is they just tried to appeal it. <br />
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- I understand YouTube has to stick with "what's legal" but I wish they had something to help defend their content creators that have invested their lives into the platform to help it grow. I did feel I got a little help from them, but I still felt abandoned and had no way of fighting back.<br />
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With everything said and done now, here is where we are headed. Our video is now re-upload (which is the same exact video we had to take down), it will never get the same exposure our first video did. The damage has already been done, which is sad when it was our most important video of the year. When people see a re-uploaded video very rarely to they click on it.<br />
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I hate confrontation more then anything, so writing this blog has not been easy for me in the slightest. I do feel it needed to be done though to let people know what truly happened and to warn others of the potential problems they will face. To give a voice to the voiceless or the people that have already been effected by this, but not had a voice to do so. The best is yet to come, Carpe Diem.<br />
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For more info on what went down, here's a video/vlog that explains it in even more details:<br />
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Devin Grahamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14571891492034020036noreply@blogger.com388tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7328699049603874493.post-47713213136070658242015-01-03T21:52:00.000-08:002015-01-04T17:28:54.006-08:00Failing To Succeed - Fighting For Your Passion<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Success comes from passion and a lot of experience- and by experience I mean a lot of failure. I just watched this video, and it is right on par with everything I STRONGLY believe in, fighting for your passion.<br />
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I feel that most people who follow me and watch my videos see me strictly as "devinsupertramp", and don't see all the discouragement, failure, let down, and everything else that happened to get to that point. I want people to see that this is something we all go through, and if you don't, I would love to know your inside secrets on how to avoid it ;)<br />
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Even for me, I failed countless times to get to where I'm at now with my career, and when I stop and look at the bigger picture, I myself haven't even started to scratch my goals and dreams. I want everyone to know that it is okay to fail, to be discourage. It's all part of reaching your full potential :)<br />
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Let me paint a picture of "key" discouraging moments in my life. By doing so, I hope that it will give others hope that you can reach your goals, and your full potential no matter how many hardships are thrown your way.<br />
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These aren't all of my hardships in life My intention by sharing these experiences with you is to list a few key pivotal moments in my life that put me in the position that I am currently at. Perhaps even more importantly, they will help me to get where I really want to be.<br />
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1. I was the shyest kid in school. I got picked on constantly. In fact, I was so shy my teacher thought I was a mute, and couldn't talk at all. <br />
2. My Junior year in high school, I was involved in a very serious snowboarding accident. I broke my back. I was bed ridden for 3 months straight (my entire summer break). I had to wear a back brace for a very long time to help me recover. Almost exactly a year later I broke my leg snowboarding, a compound fracture. They had to put a metal rod in my leg. During this whole time I was pursuing running with the hopes of getting a running scholarship for college.... that game plan had to change.<br />
3. I decided to make my first movie a couple years after high school, and released it in theaters. That film was called "Tallawah". I wrote, filmed, edited, and directed it. I was so proud of my accomplishment. I showed it in a local theater where 200 people showed up to watch it. What I intended to be a comedy film, didn't get any laughs and left the audience totally silent. Everyone walked out of the theater without even offering a sympathetic "good job". It was that bad! I went home that night crying - telling myself I would never make a film again. I redeemed myself a year later when I released another film to a packed theater of over 400 people. It made up for my failures in the first film and was a huge success! That film was called "Passion". Here's a couple pictures from the premiere :)<br />
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4. After the film I attended Brigham Young University. I knew I wanted to study film in school, but when I applied to be admitted into the film program I got rejected! It was heart breaking because I had gone to that college with one goal in mind - to get into the film program. I had worked so hard for it and failed! You could only apply twice before being denied forever. I succeeded in getting in on my final attempt.<br />
5. For the final senior film project at BYU, you have to pitch it to the entire faculty. That semester I was the only one that got rejected!<br />
6. I had two other YouTube channels before "devinsupertramp", and one "Vimeo" channel as well. All of them "failed" miserably.<br />
7. Once I decided to pursue YouTube, and after working really hard to save money for a camera and lenses to improve my quality, I had all of my equipment stolen on an airplane. I had no money left and no camera equipment to pursue my dreams.<br />
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So why am I listing all my failures? As depressing as it is (haha), I just wanted to remind you that every one of us has to face hardships in order to reach our true potential. I've learned through my experiences that once you've reached a milestone in your life, you have to constantly fight to hang onto it.<br />
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We get so many emails from filmmakers, passion pursuers, and people trying to learn how to film with the Glidecam. There are a lot of people that have a hard time learning to use it. My best advice is simple, and while it might sound too simple, it really does come down to never giving up with the things that matter most to you!<br />
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With enough persistence, eventually you will succeed!<br />
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And here's my final two cents, on fighting for your passion :)<br />
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The most common question I get asked is, "How do I film with the Glidecam? " Today I will address the second most common question I get asked, "What camera should I buy?"<br />
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I am going to answer this question for everyone! PLEASE keep in mind that this is only MY OPINION. It isn't fact, but it is based on everything I learned from film school. From actually filming with LOTS of cameras and doing everything I can to be educated on all the options out there.<br />
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Camera technology is ALWAYS evolving, so what is hot this year, might be outdated by next year. Most cameras in our generation have a functional duration of around 3 years.<br />
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The first and most important thing to keep in mind when filming (even more important than the camera itself) is the story that you are trying to share. Content is KING! Just because you have a really expensive camera, doesn't mean you will be successful. Some of the most watched films on the internet are from people filming on $100 cameras, with no training or experience. It goes to show that the story you tell with the camera is far more important than the camera itself. Once you can learn how to tell stories that connect people, then you can use a camera to capture the story the best way that you can.<br />
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So now that we have all that out of the way, let's get started :)<br />
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Look at cameras like different tools. You use different tools for different jobs. The same thing happens with cameras. Team Supertramp doesn't use the same camera all the time. Sometimes we will use a GoPro over the 5D because we can't tell the story any other way. When people ask what camera they should buy, it's always difficult to address that question because I don't know what story they are trying to tell, and I may suggest different cameras and lenses for different stories. For example, an action movie will be totally different from a drama. So my recommendation is for the most all-encompassing basic setup. <br />
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Every camera/lens we have ever bought, has been purchased on <a href="http://amazon.com/">amazon.com</a>. You can buy everything we own there, EXCEPT for the high end cameras (Canon 1D-C, and Red cameras (those you'll need to buy off their websites)). I will discuss my recommendations for the "basic" cameras below. You can click on the camera link and it will take you straight to the camera that I would suggest buying. It comes directly from amazon, it is the cheapest place to buy them that I personally trust. Clicking on these links, rather than directing your browser straight to Amazon will help support Team Supertramp. If you follow the link Amazon will throw a few bucks our way off the sale! You don't get charged ANYTHING extra for that, it's just a way to help us out. I just wanted to make sure I was transparent on that. :)<br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">Price Range:</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>$0 Budget: </b></span><br />
Borrow a camera from a friend, just be careful :)<br />
I'm sure someone you know owns a smart phone. Now days, phones have amazing capabilities. They work great as a beginner's camera to start/learn from. I personally would suggest using the latest iPhone.<br />
Here's a video Freddiew (a very successful Youtube filmmaker) made, using a cell phone. Here's the behind the scenes and main video:<br />
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Behind The Scenes:<br />
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Main Video:<br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>$500 Budget:</b></span><br />
<a href="http://amzn.to/1yC5ZNp" target="_blank"><b>GoPro 4</b></a><br />
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Pros:<br />
- They can film in 4K.<br />
- Film in slow motion.<br />
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Cons:<br />
-You can't put lenses on them.<br />
-Most don't have a screen on them to view, but you can use a smart phone to view the image.<br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>$500 - $1000 Budget:</b></span><br />
<b>Canon 60D or Canon T5i</b><br />
I haven't actually used the <a href="http://amzn.to/12bOkPR" target="_blank">Canon 60D</a> personally, but from what I've read, it seems like an awesome camera for this budget. When we started out, we were using the <a href="http://amzn.to/1u19p6X" target="_blank">Canon T2i</a> as our secondary camera. It is now the <a href="http://amzn.to/1u19p6X" target="_blank">Canon T5i</a>, so it's much nicer than the one we used.<b><br /></b><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>$1000 - $2000 Budget:</b></span><br />
<b><a href="http://amzn.to/1IhqEup" target="_blank">Canon 7D Mark II </a></b><br />
We used the <a href="http://amzn.to/1Iikpq9" target="_blank">Canon 7D Mark I</a> in our early days on Youtube. It worked awesome! It's great for photography as well. However, it doesn't have a "full-frame".<br />
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<a href="http://amzn.to/1AG4oVS" target="_blank"><b>Panasonic GH4 </b></a><br />
This camera is not Canon, so we haven't used it very much. It is 4K capable, and can produce amazing images. Keep in mind however, it is not amazing in low light. My friends filmed a video with it. Here is a reference of what it can do. This video was shot mostly in slow motion (another capability of this camera) and in 1080P. <br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: large;"><b>$3000 - $4000 Budget:</b></span><br />
<a href="http://amzn.to/12Plx4s" target="_blank"><b>Canon 5D Mark III</b></a><br />
Love this camera! Our entire careers have been built utilizing this camera, and it's older brother, the Canon 5D Mark II. It is a full frame camera. Amazing in low light!<br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>$30,000 - $70,000 Budget:</b></span></h2>
<a href="http://red.com/" target="_blank">Red Dragon</a><br />
I would definitely not suggest starting out with this one! :) It's something to work towards. This is currently our main camera. It has become a Hollywood standard for many of the movies you see on the big screen. The camera is much bigger, the small batteries only last 30 minutes. It ideally takes two people to run it. Examples of Hollywood movies that were mostly shot on this camera are:<br />
The Hobbit<br />
Jurassic World<br />
Exodus<br />
Transformers 4<br />
The Amazing Spiderman<br />
Thor<br />
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The list goes on...<br />
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<a href="http://www.red.com/shot-on-red" target="_blank">Click here to see a list of a lot of films shot on the Red.</a><br />
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Here's our first Assassin's Creed video we filmed with the Red. The biggest downfall, in my opinion to this camera, is it's much heavier, the batteries last half an hour, compared to DSLR cameras that will last most the day, and the camera stands out a lot more.<br />
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Here's another example as well, shot with the Dragon. This one is much more "cinematic".<br />
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Even though these movies were shot on the Red. The lenses they used were just as crucial as the camera. The Hollywood films produced today are shot with lenses that cost around $20K-$100K per lens. We use Canon lenses which are much cheaper and may not look as clean as these super expensive lenses, but keep in mind that it's not just the camera that plays a role.<br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>PHANTOM MIRO: </b></span><br />
Our last main camera that we own, and use a lot is the Phantom Miro.<br />
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This
camera is a very specialty camera. You would never use it to film an
entire movie, etc. It can film 1540 frames per second at 1200P, which is
a little higher resolution then 1080P.<br />
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This camera
package runs around 70K. Which is by far the most expensive camera we
own. The reason WHY we bought it was for several reasons.<br />
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1.
It would allow us to get shots no one has seen before. We are all about
"getting the shot no one else can get", so it fit in line with that.<br />
2. We wanted to evolve as film makers and this camera would push us.<br />
3. We film a ton of action sports, and this camera is perfect for that.<br />
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We actually just launched a brand new Youtube Channel called <a href="https://www.youtube.com/user/chronomotion" target="_blank">Chrono</a>.
We put up super slow motion videos shot exclusively on the Phantom Miro
Monday through Friday. Here' are a couple videos from that channel, so
make sure to subscribe :) We haven't launched the channel publicly yet,
so you'll be one of the first subscribers :)<br />
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Here's a couple videos from the channel:<br />
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We
also incorporate super slow motion shots into our main videos. Here's
an example of that, with Red Dragon footage mixed with Phantom Miro
footage.<br />
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Buying
the Phantom Miro was a big risk on our end. I wouldn't suggest anyone
doing it, haha. Unless you wanted to get in a very niche market.<br />
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I
think something that I would love to communicate to everyone. We do a
lot of "brand deals" on Youtube. The reason we do that is because it
allows us to grow as filmmakers, as storytellers. With anything that we
make, we have it go right back into our Youtube channel so that
evolution can happen. So THANK YOU for supporting us. I remember going
to film school, thinking how amazing it would be to film with a Red
camera, now we own two reds. I started out just borrowing my friends
small cameras though. So don't get discouraged about what you don't
have. As you work for it, you'll be amazing at the opportunities that
will come your way.<br />
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So to condense it all down. If your just starting out, and budget isn't an issue. These are the cameras I personally would suggest, in order:<br />
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1. <a href="http://amzn.to/1yCBJC0" target="_blank">Canon 5D Mark III</a><br />
2. <a href="http://amzn.to/12Q6I1J" target="_blank">Panasonic GH4</a><br />
3. <a href="http://amzn.to/1w02YEl" target="_blank">GoPro 4 </a><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><b>OUR CAMERA STORY:</b></span><br />
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Now that I've shared my personal recommendations for cameras, I want to let you know our story. I will share with you how we have evolved as filmmakers with our equipment and the reasons why we changed cameras. Hopefully this will help you understand why I made the above camera suggestions. <br />
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When we began our Youtube channel in 2010 we had ZERO dollars to make movies. The first five videos we shot were all filmed with cameras I borrowed from friends. I did not own a camera when I started my Youtube channel. So what does that mean for you? I hope the same thing :) You don't need to own a camera to succeed as a film maker. It does help, but it is not a requirement.<br />
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Currently our our main channel has 143 videos. Below is a rough breakdown of the number of videos we shot on each camera, starting with the first cameras we used, the Canon 5D Mark II and Canon T2i.<br />
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<b>143 Total Videos Filmed:</b><br />
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<b>First 50 Videos:</b><br />
Filmed on the <a href="http://amzn.to/1zzGR8e" target="_blank">Canon 5D Mark II </a>(films in 1080P, no slow motion)<br />
(3 of them we used the Canon T2i and the original GoPro1)<br />
(6 used the Canon 7D as a 2nd camera)<br />
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<b>37 Videos:</b><br />
<a href="http://amzn.to/1zzGR8e" target="_blank">Canon 5D Mark III</a> (films in 1080P and can film slow motion at 60FPS in 1080P)<br />
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<b>30 Videos:</b><br />
Canon 1D-C (films in 4K)<br />
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<b>26 Videos:</b><br />
RED Dragon camera (films in 6K)<br />
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So that's a break down on all the cameras we have used. We have always used a GoPro or a Contour as our action camera. We have used the best action camera possible (small camera). Currently right now, the GoPro 4, is our go to small action camera, as it is the only one we know of that can shoot 4K.<br />
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When I started my channel, I was filming with the Canon 5D Mark II. It was one of the first DSLR cameras that could film 1080P, and it was the cheapest camera that could produce the results that it did. You could put lenses on it, which was a huge deal to make things look visually "cinematic". I borrowed the camera from the company I worked with. I was the one who suggested they buy it originally.<br />
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I had found out about the 5D Mark II while in film school. I was learning how to film on the Hollywood standard movie cameras. While at film school, an amazing cinematographer came out with the first video to show off the Canon 5D Mark II. When I saw the video he captured I was blown away. It was the FIRST video to be so cinematic, while on a very cheap budget. The 5D when first released could only film in 30 frames per second, or 30FPS. When I finally got the camera, it could do 24FPS, which is what most hollywood movies film at. Here's the film by Vincent Laforet that inspired me, and showed me what the DSLR camera was capable of. This film is what influenced me in the direction I took.<br />
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On the first couple of shoots for videos on my Youtube channel, I used the Canon 5D Mark II, and my other friend, Jace LeRoy,brought along his Canon T2i, which the image wasn't as clean as the 5D, but it could still edit together really well.<br />
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Here's an example of one of our first videos we filmed that has a mix of Canon 5D Mark II footage, Canon T2i footage, and the original GoPro being used. When you cut different cameras together, even though the quality isn't the same, it usually isn't a distraction at all. Going back to what I mentioned earlier, the story, or content is always most important.<br />
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The biggest limitation with the Canon 5D Mark II is that it couldn't film slow motion, or 60FPS, so we would use the Canon T2i, and GoPro to do our slow motion.<br />
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Once the <a href="http://amzn.to/1zzHbE2" target="_blank">Canon 7D</a> came out, it allowed us to do slow motion at 720P at 60FPS.<br />
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Here was the second video I ever uploaded to our channel. Filmed with the 5D Mark II, with all the slow motion being done at 720P, at 60FPS.<br />
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Once the <a href="http://amzn.to/1zzGR8e" target="_blank">Canon 5D Mark III </a>came out a couple years later, it had several big improvements that have helped us. Here were the biggest selling points for me.<br />
1. It could film slow motion, at 720P at 60FPS.<br />
2. It had amazing low light abilities. I could film in 6400 ISO and still use it. The Canon 5D Mark II I could only use it best at 1600 ISO.<br />
3. The camera could record longer than 12 minutes (which was only what the 5D Mark II could do.)<br />
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Our Assassin's Creed Parkour video, our first one, was actually one of the first cameras I used the <a href="http://amzn.to/15WkqBt" target="_blank">Canon 5D Mark III</a> on. I actually waited for it to come out to film this, because I knew we were going to be filming with natural lighting, in very low light. I ended up filming a lot of it at ISO 6400, without any "grain" noticed.<br />
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To this day we still use the camera. We record almost every behind the scenes video with the <a href="http://amzn.to/15WkqBt" target="_blank">Canon 5 5D Mark III</a>. <br />
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As a filmmaker, we always have to evolve, and grow. As we have had the opprotunity to work with brands/companies, we began to save some money, and that's when we bought the Canon 1D-C.<br />
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This camera was a huge step for us financially. The main reason we went with this was because it was the only DSLR camera that could film 4K. We thought about getting bigger more "Hollywood style" cameras, but decided to go with the 1D-C because it fit better with the style of how we film. It allows us to keep a low profile and try to not grab too many people's attention. Here were the main reasons we went with this camera.<br />
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1. It filmed in 4K<br />
2. It could film slow motion at 720P at 60FPS<br />
3. It had amazing low light, could film around 12800 ISO, and still be able to use it<br />
4. It's menus were almost identical to the Canon DSLR cameras that we were used to<br />
5. Used the same lenses as Canon<br />
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Here's our first video we filmed with the Canon 1D-C, and in 4K as well, and it just happened to be another Assassin's Creed video.<br />
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Even though this isn't our primary 4K camera anymore, we still use it as a secondary 4K camera. We use it when bigger cameras are not allowed. For example:<br />
When we were in Jerusalem, and a lot of places in the Middle East, bigger cameras were not allowed (such as a Red camera), but we could bring in the 1D-C because it looked like just another still camera. So to this day, we factor that into what we film. If it's super "undercover", this is our best option for 4K.<br />
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The biggest downside though is the codec the camera records in. It does film 4K, but it isn't "raw". A big part of how we make a living and how we buy equipment is based on us selling "stock video footage". Companies would want to buy 4K footage, we would send them the footage from our 1D-C in 4K, and they said the image codec wasn't good enough. It was good enough sometimes, but not enough to keep on using the camera as our main 4K camera. So once that started to become a regular thing, we decided we would have to start saving our money for the Red Dragon, which could shoot 6K.<br />
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The Red Dragon is now our main camera that we film with. We film with it on almost everything we do, in 6K. We then use the Canon 1D-C, or Canon 5D Mark III to film the behind the scene videos. We use the GoPro 4 as our action camera, when we can't get the shot with the Red.<br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><b>LENSES:</b></span><br />
Now that we have gone over cameras, let's talk about lenses :)<br />
Once again, this is based off of my opinion. These are the lenses that fit best for my style. Generally speaking though, here are the two lenses I ALWAYS bring everywhere I go, in order of preference.<br />
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1. Canon 16-35mm F/2.8 L<br />
2. Canon 70-200mm F/2.8L<br />
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If you have a small budget for lenses, the go to lens I recommend to EVERYONE is the Canon 50mm F/1.4, which I'll talk about more in detail below.<br />
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<a href="http://amzn.to/1Iilf6d" target="_blank">Canon 50mm F/1.4</a><br />
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">WHAT LENSES I USE AND WHY:</span></b><br />
I'll go into more details of some of the lenses we use and why. I will post a couple still pictures that I
took with that lens to give you an idea of what the image looks like.<br />
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Also,
just a little tip about Canon lenses, if the lenses are white (only
telephoto lenses), or if the lens has a red ring near the front, they are a L series lens. That means they are the best
"glass" that Canon makes in that series/line up of lens. So if you are
looking to compete with the top dogs, having a L series lens always
helps.<br />
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However, on the opposite side of that, what's
most important in getting the best picture/image is not on the
lens, but on the person taking the picture, their artistic
ability, and how they know how to push that lens to it's maximum
potential.<br />
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<a href="http://amzn.to/1zzHiQ2" target="_blank"><b>Canon 16-35mm F/2.8 L series Lens</b></a><br />
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This
is by far my favorite lens. I use it 90 percent of the time. A big part
of film making/photography for me is about the location you use. So for
me, a wide angle lens captures that better than anything else. Any
other lens smaller than 16mm distorts the image and makes it become a
"Fish Eye" lens. I like things to feel "real", so that's why I generally
don't shoot with anything smaller than that.<br />
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I
am constantly shooting on a glidecam/steadycam. Wide angle lenses like
this lens are the only really options with a glidecam, otherwise the
image will get too shaky. <br />
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Another reason is that with wide
angle lenses, the wider the lens, the more that is in focus. So with a
lens like this, it makes it very easy to have everything in focus.<br />
<a href="http://amzn.to/1IilcYh" target="_blank"><br /></a>
<a href="http://amzn.to/1IilcYh" target="_blank"><b>Canon 70-200mm F/2.8 L series Lens</b></a><br />
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I
love this lens for capturing people. You will need a tripod for sure if
you are shooting video, or it will get way too shaky. Before I shot video
with Canon DSLR's I used this lens for every picture I took of people. I love the shallow depth of field and its "professional" look. This lens is always my first choice for photographing people :)<br />
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<a href="http://amzn.to/1BpwsQA" target="_blank">Canon 2X III Extender</a><br />
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This
isn't a lens. All it does is double the lens focal lengths. It only
works on my Canon 70-200mm. So when I attach it to that lens, it makes
it a 140-400mm lens. This is perfect for taking pictures of wild
life and surfers from a far distance. Adding an attachment to a lens
makes pictures not as sharp, but I haven't noticed a difference with video.<br />
<br />
<a href="http://amzn.to/1Iilf6d" target="_blank"><b>Canon 50mm 1.4mm</b></a><br />
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This lens is awesome for low light. Generally that is the only time I pull it out.<br />
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The
Canon 50mm 1.8mm is the BEST lens out there that ANYONE can buy for the
money/payoff. It's awesome for taking pictures and filming people! It
was the first lens I ever bought, besides the kit lens, when I first got
into photography.<br />
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Canon 100mm f/2.8 Macro USM<br />
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A
macro lens allows you to get super close shots where you normally
wouldn't be able to go with any other lens. In all reality though, I
haven't used this lens for any of my Youtube videos. I've only used it for a couple product shots where I had to take
pictures for commercial companies where they wanted super close shots to
show details in their product. It's a good option to have for showing
super close detail, but generally one I very rarely use.<br />
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So that's it! Those are the lenses I use and why :)<br />
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On my wish list, I have these on it.<br />
Canon 85mm F/1.2<br />
Canon 15mm F/2.8<br />
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The
last thing I will cover is filters, since I get asked a lot what I use.
I do not use any ND filters at all. I do however use a Circular
Polarizer. <br />
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This
makes a HUGE DIFFERENCE on the outcome of your pictures. It brings out
the blues and greens SIGNIFICANTLY! Especially the sky and water! Not
all circular polarizers are created equally though... I did a TON of
research on my own to find out the best brand. After my own personal
research I found the best brand was B+W. It had the highest
quality and brought out the colors the most. It also happens to be the
most expensive as well, imagine that, haha. But really it is
worth it. There is no reason to go cheap on your filters if you're gonna
be shooting with a nice camera and lenses. Here is a link to the one I
own. I own two, one that fits my 70-200 mm lens, and one that fits my
16-35mm lens.<br />
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<a href="http://www.amazon.com/77mm-Circular-Polarizer-MRC-Filter/dp/B0000BZLAD">Circular Polarizer</a><br />
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Devin Grahamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14571891492034020036noreply@blogger.com181tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7328699049603874493.post-65343580495753710922014-12-03T15:38:00.001-08:002014-12-03T15:38:58.485-08:00Guatemala - Land of Eternal Spring!<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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so often TeamSupertramp takes on a project knowing very little about
the destination or the people involved. The WEAVESLEEVE project in
Guatemala was one of those projects... We (Parker and Carter) met up
with Andy Thunel (Founder of Weavsleeve) in the airport terminal and it
was there that he shared with us the story of his friends in Guatemala
and his desire to help them out. That 5 minute conversation as we
boarded the plane changed EVERYTHING. What started out as just another
film trip turned into a passion-driven project that we all had our
hearts invested into. We realized that the idea of WeaveSleeve was SO
much bigger than just helping Andy start a wallet business, and that we
were going to provide a lifetime of opportunities for the Guatemalan
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As
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"The Land of Eternal Spring" before we arrived. The people, culture,
and sights that Guatemala has to offer left us completely amazed every
day that we were there. The trip started off with a bang as we loaded
up in a doorless helicopter to film the Mayan ruins in Northern
Guatemala. We decided to film with Defy's G2 Gimbal from the helicopter
as we thought it would give us more stable shots in that situation.
Andy and Carter would hold the two sides of the DEFY while Parker would
adjust the RED camera settings and control focus and zoom. The only
problem that we ran into was that the occasional G-Forces of the
helicopter would cause the DEFY to wig out a little as we'd make sharp
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flight back to our hotel only to run into the daily rainstorm. (It
poured every day around 4 in the afternoon into the night...) After
unsuccessfully trying to cross the lake our pilot, Carlos, was forced to
land in the closest place that he could find; a soccer field in a small
village of San Carlos. As you can imagine the whole village came out
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game. The two hours we spent playing soccer in the rain with "Los
Chapines" were by far the highlight of the trip and a moment that
neither of us will ever forget. There is something special about
immersing yourself, unplanned and unscripted into a culture and and
capturing real moments of enjoyment. It is moments like this that we
live for as film makers. All of the shots from the rainy soccer game
scene was shot using a Canon 70-200mm 2.8/f and the ground as the tripod
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are a part of the WeaveSleave project. We spent the next two days with
them filming the WeaveSleave process from start to finish. Everything
from buying fabric from a local vendor in the next village over, to
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families for helping him and decided that he wanted them to experience
something that they could not do on their own. He came up with the idea
to take his friends to Xetulul, a theme park near the southern coast of
Guatemala. The bus fare to the park is too expensive for these
families, let alone the entrance fee to the theme park. Andy rented a
micro bus and we fit as many people as we could in it. Every seat had
multiple people in it not to mention lots of kids sitting on their
parents laps, and one gentleman standing on the back bumper... To be a
part of and capture the excitement, fear, and pure joy of these people
as they experienced a theme park for the first time was really
humbling. It was an experience that they thought only existed in
television. After a couple of hours with them at the theme park we
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with a new appreciation for the purity in the simplicity and happiness
in the lives that these people live. They have next to no earthly
possessions, yet they are content, because they are grateful for what
they do have. They inspired us to have more positive attitudes and to
love and life life to the fullest. Their examples of humility have
given us a new perspective on life and we left that country as better
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learned and to deliver a positive uplifting video that would inspire our
viewers the way we were inspired, to be happy, positive, grateful, and
seek out the good and beauty in life.</div>
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If
you would like to support to the cause of this film and WeaveSleeve who
made it possible, pleases support them in their kickstarter campaign to
help give these wonderful Guatemalan families full time jobs :)</div>
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Devin Grahamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14571891492034020036noreply@blogger.com581tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7328699049603874493.post-38567732680438676212014-11-17T20:11:00.000-08:002014-11-17T20:12:01.384-08:00Far Cry 4 in Real Life<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
We just released our latest video we shot with Ubisoft, for their upcoming game that gets released tomorrow! Far Cry 4! We did one for Far Cry 3 almost exactly 2 years ago. You can watch that directly below.<br />
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We experimented with a bunch of new things on that one. Trying to film with a high quality camera, and use a green screen to put in the hands. We found out afterwards that we couldn't make it look as good as what was "ideal". We had originally thought about using a GoPro since we could strap the camera to the person, and that would tell the story really well, but at the time of our first Far Cry 3 video, the camera technology wasn't good enough, so we ended up shooting it on the Canon 5D Mark III.<br />
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Even though the video did really well, we had a backlash on comments saying they hated how we did the green screen effect on it. So we learned from our mistakes with the new Far Cry 4 video we did, and decided to do it with very little visual effects, and we made sure we stayed far from the green screen.<br />
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I had Jacob Schwarz produce this project. We actually worked on our first Far Cry 3 video together in Hawaii as well. So Jake did a bunch of research on how we could film with the GoPro and still have it stabilized, so it would look similar to the actual video game. That's when Jake discovered a gimbal made for the GoPro, and that's what we ended up using. Here's a link to that gimbal.<br />
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The process for this project started roughly 6 months ago when we knew we were going to be involved with this project. We began brainstorming with the Ubisoft team on ways we could incorporate what made the game unique, with things we thought our audience would like. The game features wingsuit flying, gyrocopters, and car chases, so we decided to try and throw in as much of that as possible. So I worked up a basic outline of how to incorporate all of that, with including one of the main characters from the game, Hurk. After that, we went back and forth with Ubisoft and making the story/video as strong as possible.<br />
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Devin Grahamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14571891492034020036noreply@blogger.com165tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7328699049603874493.post-20657868730298545692014-11-10T21:57:00.000-08:002014-11-10T21:57:15.336-08:00Epic Hot Air Balloon Rope Swing - With Citibank<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span class="s1">Anytime that a new sponsor comes into the picture and would like to make a video with Team Super Tramp, there is always a rush of excitement and an anxiety of knowing there is more pressure behind these shoots as compared to the ones that are done with out a sponsor. Most recently Team Super Tramp was given the opportunity to pair up with Citibank and do a promotional video for their new credit card. The concept was fairly simple, take two ideas that typically wouldn’t go together and then combine them to make something epic! Where this is not a television or commercial shoot, Team Super Tramp was given the creative reigns and were encouraged to come up with a stunt that they wanted to do but had not had the opportunity to do up to this point.</span></div>
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<span class="s1">Though the original stunt idea was actually much different than what ended up being the final product. Originally, Devin Graham had the idea to do a Tarzan style rope swing, where the stunt people would swing from rope to rope underneath multiple balloons until the person would reach the last rope and drop into a lake. The idea was fun and innovative, but after speaking with multiple balloon companies, it was found that the Tarzan swing just was not very feasible. Which then led to the second idea which was to drop from the basket of one balloon, swing under the other and then drop into a lake. Both Team Super Tramp and Citibank loved this idea, so they decided to move forward with it.</span></div>
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<span class="s1"><span class="Apple-tab-span"> </span>After reaching out to some of the people who organized the Wake surf world championship, he was able to get in touch with the Reflection Bay Golf Course, who then agreed to let the team film there. After finding a location the next thing to do was find a hot air balloon company who also wanted in on the action. After doing some research, he was able to find Las Vegas Balloon Rides, one of the few companies who have been trying to progress what can be done with a Hot Air Balloon. They were involved in a few previous stunts, including BASE jumping and Andy Lewis’ world record slackline it 6000ft. Seth then contacted Doug and Las Vegas Balloon Rides and they were excited to be a part of making this dream come to life.</span></div>
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Devin Grahamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14571891492034020036noreply@blogger.com150tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7328699049603874493.post-46915906043541265442012-12-17T15:10:00.000-08:002012-12-18T17:19:23.626-08:00My Passion Project - Halo First Person Shooter<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
So every so often I do what I call a "Passion Project". Basically it is exactly what it sounds like, me doing a project that I personally am super passionate/excited about, funding it myself because it's just something I really want to make! <br />
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Soooo, with that being said..... What most
people don't realize is everything I make off of making videos for
youtube, television, etc, I invest right back into my youtube channel,
with the hopes of making bigger and better projects long term, it's me trying to prove myself to the world I guess, with the hopes that the "big guys" will see what I can do, and then they in turn help me get to the next level :)<br />
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exactly what this Halo First Person shooter video was, I took all my
savings of what I have made, and invested it right back into this
project. In hopes that it could show people what I could do on a very large scale :)<br />
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I have been the biggest fan of Halo the game since it first
came out on Xbox back in the day! And I wanted to recreate as close as
possible the video game experience, but in real life! So I contacted my
friend Tim Winn, who makes AMAZING costumes, and he got a group together
from around the US to help with the project. I ended up flying in 8
people total (the guys you see in the costumes), to all be a part of the
project. And they ALL made the costumes they wore themselves! They were
all huge fans as well, I guess you have to be if your gonna spend
hundreds of hours on spartan costumes ;)<br />
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That's what I love about making
these videos!!! I get to work with super passionate people that love
what they do! Everyone you saw in the video volunteered there time, they
even took off work to be apart of this all. Yes, I paid for there
flights and hotel rooms, but they were willing to sacrifice there time
for the cause, and because I didn't have enough to cover hiring them,
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For this video itself, because it was costing a lot to fly everyone in, I wanted to make sure we got as much out of it as possible. So we actually shot two videos, in two days, the first one was a first person shooter, and the second video was a music video done to the Halo theme song.<br />
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For the first person shooter, I was hugely inspired by youtube star Freddiew's first person
shooter video he did on Call of Duty, which is his most watched video
with almost 25 million views. I had noticed that no one had ever done anything with Halo, in real life, as far as first person shooters go (I'm guessing because getting all the costumes is a feat within itself is why it hadn't been done), so I wanted to do my own take on the series.<br />
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Since I started making youtube videos, it has swalled almost 100 percent of my time and energy.... Which means I have no time anymore to play video games, so right before the shoot I had to remind myself of all the scenerios, so I had to play Halo online to remind me, haha. But I wanted this video to feel as close to the video game as possible, but in real life, I wanted to use a lot of the same scenerios you see online, seen in this video, such as "bad internet connections, lagging, people camping", etc. I wanted to use as many scenerios as possible that would connect with the mass audience that played Halo.<br />
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Also, this video was all planned around the launch of Halo 4 that just recently came out. I new that would help push the video that much further. Originally the plan was to release the video right before the game came out (we shot it one week before it's release), however the visual effects, and everything else took MUCH longer then expected to get right, so I had to sadly push back the release date a month to make sure we got it right. I figured since I had put my whole heart into it already, it would be much better long term to release the best video possible then something half complete.<br />
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So yes, there you have it, the behind the scenes story on how these projects happened!<br />
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Here's the behind the scenes video I just released that will show you the entire process it took to make the video happen.<br />
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What has been awesome about this project for me, is when I have showed people the almost final version, many people thought it was footage from the actual game, when in reality it was all real life, haha. So a big part of this video in my opinion is making sure people know all the work that went into it to make that "look" achieved. So I'll be releasing a huge behind the scenes video late tonight going over the entire process from everyone's responsibity on the project. And then later this week I'll be releasing the video.<br />
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As far as the Halo music video goes, that will be coming out later in January. The edit is totally done, we now have to get started on the visual effects. And by me, I mean jared Moench, my friend who did all the visual effects :)<br />
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Also, one other final note I will add... There has been a ton of Halo games released, Halo 1-4, and Halo Reach. Each of them have there own look, slight adjustments on guns, etc. My take on this project was to not focus on recreating one of the games, but to combine them all in a mix, to make it still stay true to the Halo universe.<br />
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Other then that, I hope you all dig the video when it's released, and if not, for a project like this, because I invested so much into it, I would rather not know about it ;)<br />
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And for those not familar with the Halo universe, go ahead and watch the trailer for the latest Halo game.<br />
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Devin Grahamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14571891492034020036noreply@blogger.com109tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7328699049603874493.post-88810819324983226232012-12-15T22:18:00.000-08:002012-12-15T22:18:07.398-08:00Zipline Catapult<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
So I've been trying to put out a video once a week... Which let me tell you... this has meant I don't sleep, and have been working around the clock 24/7. Not only am I creating the main video, but also the behind the scene videos, which is a full time job within itself... So yes, I don't sleep very often, haha.<br />
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Here's the latest video I shot a couple months back. In fact, I have shot 19 youtube videos within the last 3 months that I still have to release, I have a ton of content I shot during the warmer months, so I could release them each week, and be a head of schedule, but I often find that because I am a perfectionist, I don't have the videos done until the day I release them :)<br />
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These videos I did with my friends company at BlueHouse Ski Company! They provided the house boat, skis, food, and helped make it all happen! If you read the comments on a lot of the videos, everyone says that we must have rich parents, haha, when in reality, I'm able to pull off these videos because I get sponsors, and people that believe in what I'm doing, so they help pull resources together to make them happen, that's what happened with BlueHouse Skis. Here's the main video, and the behind the scene video below that.<br />
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Devin Grahamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14571891492034020036noreply@blogger.com50tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7328699049603874493.post-32987816417841510672012-12-12T16:03:00.001-08:002012-12-12T16:03:42.961-08:00Far Cry 3 in Real Life Youtube Video<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
I had an awesome opprotunity working with the videogame company Ubisoft working on a youtube video to help promote their game Far Cry 3! It was one of the best experiences I've had working with a brand, and I got a budget to film it in Hawaii, so I can't complain at all :) A lot of things didn't go as planned while filming, which ALWAYS happens anyways, so I go over the whole film making process in the behind the scenes video that I have included down below! Here's the main video, behind the scenes video, and a game trailer so you can see how it all came together :)<br />
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Devin Grahamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14571891492034020036noreply@blogger.com105tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7328699049603874493.post-83760854054235253522012-09-26T09:00:00.000-07:002012-09-26T09:00:39.410-07:00The power of Media<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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A couple weeks ago I released one of my latest youtube videos, "Parkour Meets Assassin's Creed in Real Life". It was able to hit 8 million hits in 2 weeks, making it my 2nd fastest growing youtube video, the first one being the human slingshot video.</div>
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Just last week though, my really good friend, who just happens to have my same name, Devin Dyer, he was driving down the road with his family when he saw two kids playing outside. One with a camera, and the other one was hanging off of a sign, haha.</div>
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He asked them what they were doing. And they responded that they were making an Assassin's Creed parkour video, haha, how cool is that? :) They had seen a video on youtube, and it had inspired them to pursue something positive :)</div>
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The reason I share this story, is because it's moments like this for me that make it all worth it. The endless nights of filming, editing, and traveling around the world. Just hearing how these kids were inspired reminded me the power that media has on the rest of the world, starting with this small community were these kids were making there own Assassin's Creed video. It's amazing to me how media has that power to change the world, for the better or worse.</div>
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And while were at it, here's the behind the scenes of our Assassin's Creed youtube video.<br />
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Devin Grahamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14571891492034020036noreply@blogger.com66tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7328699049603874493.post-37342563048247481632012-08-31T00:14:00.001-07:002012-08-31T00:14:41.508-07:00Shooting the Tube<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Here's my latest video! Just released it a day ago, and it has over half a million hits!<br />
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Devin Grahamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14571891492034020036noreply@blogger.com291tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7328699049603874493.post-67382431774412716922012-07-24T20:52:00.000-07:002012-07-24T21:55:42.442-07:00Camera Warfare!<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Here's many of several WWII Youtube videos I did with the cast and crew of the film Saints and Soldiers: Airborne Creed.<br />
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Here's the full credits to Camera Warfare:<br />
<br />Directed by Devin Graham<br />WWII Historian / Coordinator/Armorer/Costume/Weapons: Ray Meldrum <br />Produced by: Jacob Schwarz, Katie Crapo, Ray Meldrum, Adam Abel, Ryan Little, Devin Graham<br />SFX: CHARLES JOHNSON<br />Visual effects and Color Correction: Jacob Schwarz<br />Makeup: Ben Brooksby<br />Music: Stephen Anderson<br />Cinematographers: Devin Graham, Ryan Little, Jace Leroy, Chris McClain, Jacob Schwarz<br />Edited and Sound Design: Devin Graham<br />Behind the Scenes Video: Jared & Amanda Cook<br />Randy Beard Cast/Jeeps/Tanks/Weapons/Costumes<br />Cast/Motorcycle and side car/ Jeep: Loic Anthion<br />Cast/Jeeps: Greg Brubaker<br />Behind the Scenes photographer: Scott Jarvie<br /><br />For the rest of the cast and crew, check out my blog post below:<br />http://devingraham.blogspot.com/</div>Devin Grahamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14571891492034020036noreply@blogger.com290tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7328699049603874493.post-75251598217116843162012-05-18T14:13:00.000-07:002012-05-18T14:16:15.622-07:00Working with Brands as a Youtuber!<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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the last year I've worked with an assortment of different companies,
featuring them in my YouTube videos. Down below I will show the videos I
did for those companies, and then right below that I will explain how
that video alone affected their business. Keep in mind, all of these
companies were start-ups without any reputation to build off to begin
with. I will look into how different people were affected with four main
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: small; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">2. Brand Exposure</span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: small; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">3. Working with Musicians</span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: small; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">4. Collaboration is the Key</span><br />
<br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: small; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> So let's get started! </span><br />
<br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: large; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">1. PRODUCT PLACEMENT</span><br />
<br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: small; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Jet-Lev Water Jet Pack Company</span><br />
<br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: small; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">One
of the first "product placement" videos I did was with a company called
Jet-Lev. They build water jet packs, and sell them for $100,000 US.
Which, as I am sure you’re aware, is a very steep price for most people.
When we approached them, they were very hesitant about doing a YouTube
video on their product because they said YouTube’s audience is more of a
younger generation, not parents who have money. However, what people
often forget is this: since a younger generation does watch YouTube,
that means they have parents, and in many cases, the child will pull
their parent in to watch the video if they think it is cool, and through
that, that leads to a potential $100,000 sale. So when we approached
this water jetpack company we offered to make the video for them, for
FREE, as long as they would let us make it the way we wanted. </span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/im1iNq02Kz0" width="560"></iframe></span><br />
<br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: small; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Shortly after we released the video, the CEO of Jet-Lev emailed me this
response below on how their company was effected by it.</span><br />
<br />
<i><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">"Hi Devin,</span></span></i><br />
<i><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">I’d
like to thank you again for your excellent work. A surprising finding
was that comparing the responses from your YouTube video vs. those from
the 4+ minutes FOX piece that ran on several FOX stations, your YouTube
video generated much more serious responses. I think a big reason was
the excellent quality of your video, but it also speaks volumes about
the effectiveness of viral video to propagate among social networks vs.
the quick one-time exposure in a news segment which is very quickly
forgotten. I think the best combination is one or more high quality
viral videos on YouTube with traffic driven by traditional media from
digital news releases with video links. If one social network can
generate over a million hits, I can imagine the effectiveness of several
thousand social networks propagating the video at the same time. We
learn something new every day."</span></span></i><br />
<br />
<i><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">-Ray</span></span></i><br />
<br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: small; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">It's not just videos that I do featuring a product or an event have influence. Even if a product is seen in a video for a couple seconds, they are making sales as well. One of my most recent YouTube videos was an example of that. The video was showing off an event, but at the same time, I have very subtle product placement.</span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: small; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> </span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: small; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /></span></div>
<div style="color: white; font-family: inherit; text-align: left;">
<span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: small; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/Hh-o5g4tLVE" width="560"></iframe></span></div>
<div style="color: white; font-family: inherit; text-align: left;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div>
<div style="color: white; font-family: inherit; text-align: left;">
<span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: small; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> In the video I got a couple shots
where I attached a Contour camera to a stick that holds small cameras.
That stick is seen in the video for just a couple seconds(you can see the stick in the video at 20-24 seconds into it). Then in the video description on YouTube I mention the
company at the very bottom. Within
a couple hours of that video being released the company who makes the
sticks, Go-Scope, they sent me this email below.</span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><i><span style="background-color: transparent; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">"First off, </span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">THANK YOU</span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">!</span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> You have put GoScope on the map in so many ways. GoScope sales more than tripled today!" </span></i></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><i><span style="background-color: transparent; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> </span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">-Go Scope</span></i></span><br />
<br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: small; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">One
last example with product placement, let's look at my friends local
clothing company based here in Utah, Vooray. We have done several
youtube videos together, some of which you can see directly below.</span></div>
<div style="color: white; font-family: inherit; text-align: left;">
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<span style="font-size: small;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/ShFAeNdiEiA" width="560"></iframe></span></div>
<div style="color: white; font-family: inherit; text-align: left;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/gZQH7ZZoPZ4" width="560"></iframe></span></div>
<div style="color: white; font-family: inherit; text-align: left;">
<span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: small; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">I
contacted them shortly after the last video we did, and asked how their
clothing company had been affected as well. Here is what they had to
say about the impact the three videos had on their clothing company.</span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><i><span style="background-color: transparent; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">"It
has had an extremely positive impact on our business. The exposure we
have received from being featured in a couple of Devinsupertramp YouTube
videos helped grow our domestic sales by over 100%, enter international
markets (we have now sold to over 20 countries) and increase brand
awareness over 300%. We attribute a huge part of our success in the
past year to his work and ability to make videos a viral phenom." </span></i></span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><i><span style="background-color: transparent; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">-Todd Nyman (Vooray Owner)</span></i></span><br />
<br />
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: large; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">2. BRAND EXPOSURE</span></div>
<div style="text-align: left;">
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: small; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">After
we saw the success of working with a Jetpack company, and several
other start ups, I decided to pick brands to work with more regularly that I
thought fit my audience. One of the next brands I worked with was a
company that did a 5K Mud race. They call the race "The Dirty Dash".
Here is the original video I made for them.</span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/mk5rtyB84fk" width="560"></iframe></span><br />
<br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: small; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">After
I made that video, with help from several of my friends, I contacted
the company 5 months later and asked how the video affected their race.
Here is what they said.</span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><i><span style="background-color: transparent; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">"It's
been a fantastic marketing tool for us. Not only do we feature it on
our website to convey that feel, but we use it at race expos, women's
expos, in grassroots marketing--pretty much anywhere we can get people
to watch it, we do it. We feel like it is our absolute best way to sell
people on the race. We do what we can to get them to the website, and
we feel like if they watch the video, they're sold. Plus, we did a
customer survey at the end of 2011 to try to understand what had the
biggest influence on people's decision to run the race. The #1 answer
for over 20% of runners was: the race video."</span></i></span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><i><span style="background-color: transparent; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">-The Dirty Dash</span></i></span><br />
<br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: small; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Another
example of exposure can be seen with what I have done to show off tourist locations /countries. A couple of my bigger ones I have done on destinations are down below.</span><br />
<br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: small; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/uBLccEDmn40" width="560"></iframe></span><br />
<br />
<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/fJ4WsRolZ4E" width="560"></iframe><br />
<br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: small; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">After
I made the Kauai video, which I funded myself, without contacting anyone....
After I released it on my youtube channel I started getting contacted
by businesses all over the island of Kauai with them stating how it had
affected the actual state itself. The Kauai local businesses said they had people stop by
their restaurants saying they went on a trip to that island just because they had discovered it existed from my
youtube videos.</span><br />
<br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: small; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Even
when you read the comments on youtube on the videos above, you can see several people
saying that they saved up there money just to visit that island, because
they had seen the video on my channel! So once again, it was through
youtube that it had exposed these places, not through advertising on TV,
travel brochures, or any other form of traditional advertising.</span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><b>3. Working with Musicians</b></span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: small; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> </span><br />
<br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: small; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Now
as far as all these companies being effected through YouTube/social
media, the same thing happens to the music artist that I feature in my
videos. A band I often work with is called "Can't Stop Won't Stop". Here's one of our more popular videos I have featured them in. This video alone has over 10 million views which also means their music has been heard that many times as well.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: small; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /></span></div>
<div style="color: white; font-family: inherit; text-align: left;">
<span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: small; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/4B36Lr0Unp4" width="560"></iframe></span></div>
<div style="color: white; font-family: inherit; text-align: left;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div>
<div style="color: white; font-family: inherit; text-align: left;">
<span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: small; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">I
asked Dave Peterson, the lead singer of the group to email me how his music has
been effected because of these videos we have done together on youtube. His response:</span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><i><span style="background-color: transparent; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">"The
return on our collaborations has been phenomenal with our music being
featured in Devinsupertramp’s YouTube videos. It took Can't Stop Won't
Stop from a fledgling hip hop side project in Utah, to a career
opportunity that is viable enough to warrant my moving to California to
pursue it. I make a legitimate living on iTunes, which is a privilege
typically reserved for label-supported musicians, and most never
actually get there. Additionally, I have brought on an enormous base of
loyalists. Artists struggle to ever grow their Facebook pages up above
2k Likes. I am now at 35k, the page grows steadily every day, and
undergoes massive surges every time a new CSWS track is placed in one of
Devin's videos."</span></i></span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><i><span style="background-color: transparent; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">-Dave Peterson (Can't Stop Won't Stop)</span></i></span><br />
<br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: small; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">It
was also the same story for my friend Lindsey Stirling, who also just
happens to be my girl friend now, haha. When I met her originally she hadn't
really done m<span style="font-family: inherit;">uch with YouTube. She was on iTunes, and had only sold a
couple songs. Here is what she had to say in how our collaborations have
launched her career. She has since then pursued YouTube full time
because of what it has done for her as a musician. Also keep in mind
that she is a violinist, which makes what has happened to her career that much
more amazing. Down below is the first video we </span>ever did together. Since then I have shot every video for her youtube channel.</span></div>
<div style="color: white; font-family: inherit; text-align: left;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/Vp63nbOfxgs" width="560"></iframe></span></div>
<div style="color: white; font-family: inherit; text-align: left;">
<div style="font-weight: normal;">
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<div style="font-family: inherit; font-weight: normal;">
<span style="font-size: small;">In the last year, with videos featuring Lindsey on my channel and her's, she has gotten over 80 million views. I asked her how youtube has effected her as a musician, her is what she had to say in an email.</span></div>
<div style="font-family: inherit; font-weight: normal;">
<br /></div>
<span style="font-size: small;"><i><span style="background-color: transparent; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">"I owe all my success as a musician to YouTube.</span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> In
2010, I had the "opportunity of a lifetime" to perform live on
America's Got Talent. This was the summer's most popular show, and yet
after my performance, my itunes account remained stagnant. Several
months later Devin featured my music on his channel and my itunes sales
immediately quadrupled. One YouTube video with Devin did more for me
than the 11 million viewers that saw me on National TV.</span></i></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><i><span style="background-color: transparent; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Previous
to my collaboration with Devin, I had been told by the music industry
experts that my style of music was unmarketable; however, after a year
of doing YouTube, I have had a song in the #1 slot on the itunes
electronic charts, I have labels trying to sign me, and I travel all
over the world performing and doing what I love."</span></i></span></div>
<div style="color: white; font-family: inherit; text-align: left;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><i><span style="background-color: transparent; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">-Lindsey Stirling</span></i></span><br />
<br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: small; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">My
final example is from another musician I often work with, Stephen
Anderson. He does a great deal of composing for my videos that do not
feature singing/lyrics. </span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: small; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Stephen was actually the first musician I had
worked with when I started making these YouTube videos.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: small; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /></span></div>
<div style="color: white; font-family: inherit; text-align: left;">
<span style="font-size: small;">The video below is the first project that Stephen and I did together.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/IgAE9XJVIlk" width="560"></iframe></span></div>
<div style="color: white; font-family: inherit; text-align: left;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div>
<div style="color: white; font-family: inherit; text-align: left;">
<span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: small; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Here is a
note that Stephen sent me on how his career has been affected by the
videos we have done together.</span></div>
<div style="color: white; font-family: inherit; text-align: left;">
<br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><i><span style="background-color: transparent; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">"Just
about every director I've ever worked with, and continue to work with,
found me through YouTube. They saw a video for which I composed the
music, and clicked through to my website and contacted me. Now, having
finished school just one year ago, I work at home full time writing
music all day, every day, and it's absolutely awesome. I actually HAD to
quit my other job as a composer's assistant to be able to keep up with
all the work I've been getting. Though the nature of my music (almost
all underscore) is such that I barely sell any mp3's at all, I make a
respectable income just working for hire, and I get contacted by new
directors literally every day, which I love. Without the publicity I've
gotten through Devins channels, I would still be working my old day job
making next to nothing." </span></i></span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><i><span style="background-color: transparent; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">-Stephen Anderson</span></i></span><br />
<br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: large; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">4. Collaboration is the Key</span><br />
<br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: small; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">So,
this brings me to the whole point of writing this blog. One of the most
common questions I get asked in regards to my YouTube channel is this:
"How do you afford to film all the things you do, and travel to all the
places you do?"</span><br />
<br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: small; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Answer:
It all comes down to one thing. I work with brands and collaborate with
people with similar interests. That allows it for other people to fund my ideas, that makes it possible with a zero dollar budget :) What most people don't know is that
EVERY BRAND that I have worked for so far in my career, everyone that I mentioned above, as far as videos
that appear on my YouTube channel go, I have done for FREE. Even the
water jetpack video, the vooray clothing, the Dirty Dash video, or any other for that
matter. EVERYONE of them I have done for FREE! </span><br />
<br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: small; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">And
now you’re probably asking why I would do such a thing. For me, the way
I saw it, was if I could get someone else to pay for the production of
my videos, the quality would be much bigger than just me trying to do it
on my own. With the water jetpack company, they covered airplane
tickets and hotel for my friend and I in Miami. With the Vooray clothing
company, with the human slingshot, they helped organize the event, and
arranged the Slingshot.</span><br />
<br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: small; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">WITHOUT these collaborations there is NO WAY I would have been able to get to
where I am. It's the same story with my musicians as well, they let me
use their music for free, but I make sure to make it clear that they
were the ones that created the music. I benefit by having awesome music,
and they benefit from the iTunes sales and the exposure.</span><br />
<br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: small; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">I
feel in order for YouTubers, musicians, brands, companies and creatives
in general to get to the next level, they MUST work together in a
collaboration. As each party helps each other, they both grow
exponentially.</span><br />
<br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: small; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Now,
for those that are thinking to themselves, "There is no way a brand or
company would want to work with me." Just as a heads up, it was the same
story for me when I started. I first had to build a reputation of my
own, it didn't have to be huge, but enough to prove that I had a voice. I
did this in a couple different ways. I first made the Huge Bike Jump
video, which you can see in the link below.</span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/B3GribQCg6c" width="560"></iframe></span><br />
<br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: small; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">It
was technically a simple video that required no money, just my friends
time and talent. The video got several million hits. I made a couple of
these kind of videos on my own to build my own credibility, then that's when I
approached companies that I thought fit the videos I was already making.
We approached the water jet pack company, and the first thing we showed
them was my Bike Jump video. It was through my past work on YouTube
that they became convinced of working with me.</span><br />
<br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: small; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Now
just as a disclaimer against everything I have said above. Yes, I have
done all these videos for companies so far for free. But now that I have
proven that I can sell brands, and that I have established that I can
do it consistently, I am now finally in the position that I can charge
companies/brands what I want for them to get featured in one of my
videos. Yes, we are still collaborating, but also, now I can make a living off of it.</span><br />
<br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: small; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">As I have been saying since the start, in order to get to
this point I have worked non-stop for the last year and a half doing
these videos for free, to show what I could really do.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: small; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Now
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So for those who don't know, my girlfriend is a rock star! Haha, I have known her for exactly a year now. Within that short time frame, she has become this huge international music sensation!!! And it's all been through using youtube as a way to express herself and her music. Just within the last 90 days she has been in the top 20 most subscribed to youtube channels in the WORLD! And that has been consistently happening each day! No big deal, right? Haha.<br />
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It's been awesome to see it all grow for her!! When Lindsey performed on National TV in front of millions, for Americas Got Talent, she got "rejected", they told her she would never be able to succeed as a solo violinist..... However I think she is doing just fine with that ;) There is nothing that makes me more happy then seeing someone take on the world when they are told they can't succeed at what they love to do!!! Lindsey is the perfect example of that!!! And it's been awesome this last year seeing all her dreams start to unfold! And it's all been on a zero dollar budget!</div>
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Two days ago was living proof of that, Lindsey got asked to be the headliner for a show in NYC at The Studio at Webster Hall. It was a totally sold out show. The line just to get in wrapped around the building, and I think it's safe to say that Lindsey signed well over 200-300 autographs that night. Even before Lindsey got on stage her fans where yelling for her like crazy, as if it were a U2 concert!!! Some of the most loyal fans I have ever seen, perhaps I could even go so far to say even bigger then Justin Biebers fans :) Haha.<br />
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And just in case you haven't seen any of Lindsey's videos, here's a couple to check out.<br />
And I love the fact that Youtube gives anyone the chance to get seen by the rest of the world, it gives the underdogs a chance to compete with the big dogs! <br />
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We shot this video above two months ago and it has 15 million views already.<br />
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We shot this video one month ago and it has 5.5 million views! </div>Devin Grahamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14571891492034020036noreply@blogger.com48tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7328699049603874493.post-41074972125871776252012-05-01T14:19:00.000-07:002012-05-01T14:32:48.252-07:00United States Tourism Commercials<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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A month back Nickerson Research, Inc. contacted me about featuring some of my footage from my youtube videos on the official United State tourism commercial campaign that would be running this year! And guess what?? I said yes :)
This ad agency who made the ads, they are the ones that did this commercial below for Chrysler that played during the most recent Super Bowl.
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For the United State tourism commercials, they featured a bunch of my clips for the campaign. Here's a link to several of the videos. I think they featured around 6-7 clips total in the entire campaign, and they will be using shots from the video as well.
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The awesome thing about them contacting me was they told me that they had just discovered my youtube channel, and I just became there new best friend, and that they would be going to me as one of there go to guys. So it looks like down the road we will be working together a lot closer. It's been awesome seeing the doors youtube has opened for me, and for all my friends that have been involved.Devin Grahamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14571891492034020036noreply@blogger.com81tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7328699049603874493.post-90847538511701586272012-03-12T07:23:00.000-07:002012-03-12T07:23:48.720-07:00Latest Exciting Updates!I just spent the last two weeks in Africa filming a series of sweet new youtube videos that I will be releasing this April!! Stoked for you all to see them, here's a teaser from two of the shots I took!<br />
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Also, on another EXCITING side note, I will be speaking at VIDCON this summer, at the end of June!!! Which I'm super stoked on!!! :) VIDCON is the biggest youtube conference/gathering in the world, all the big youtubers will be there, and so will the biggest youtube fans. This is the third year they are doing it. I went the first year, and I remember thinking that the people up there speaking were so cool, and now I will be up there as one of them, haha, it's kinda intimidating, but I'm excited to be apart of it. I would have never imagined how this would all turn out.<br />
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Here's a link to the event if you want to come, which I think you all should, and make sure to buy tickets if your thinking about coming, because they will sell out!<br />
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Also on another really exciting note, my youtube channel has exploded in the last 30 days. In the last 30 days I've gotten over 100,000 subscribers, and just shy of 20 million views on my videos, here's the exact stats :)<br />
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So there you have it, the best is yet to come! :)Devin Grahamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14571891492034020036noreply@blogger.com42