Here's a video we shot in New Zealand when I was down there on a business trip. It totally exploded to, in a good way :) It has gotten over 3.6 million hits in less then two weeks!
Also here's a behind the scenes video on the making of it!
Thanks again everyone for watching, sharing, and even putting up with my videos!! Because of your support I am able to pursue my dreams!
-Devin
Monday, March 12, 2012
Wednesday, February 15, 2012
Epic Rope Swing!!!
Here's the latest!!! One of the funnest film shoots we have done yet!! And I have a behind the scenes video on it as well!
Behind The Scenes
Behind The Scenes
Friday, January 20, 2012
Behind the Scene Videos!!! Finally! :)
I'm going to start releasing new behind the scene videos every other week!! Sometimes they will even be weekly! :) Here is one I made last week, the next one will be coming out early next week! :)
Saturday, December 24, 2011
Puppy Christmas
Here's my latest video! I released it 5 days ago, and in that time it has gotten 1.5 million views, and it's been on what seems like every national television network, including CNN, NBC, and ABC! :) Here it is!
As far as the making of this video goes....
I really wanted to make a Christmas video for my youtube channel, and I was having a hard time coming up with an idea. While I jumped onto facebook, one of my friends, Xan, had posted pictures of her 4 little puppies she was trying to sell... Then I started thinking about how it seemed like a perfect fit for Christmas.
With my youtube videos, I generally try, not always, but generally try to come up with ideas that the majority of people will share, which makes them "go viral", and with puppies/animals, they are always something that people share.
So I jumped onto youtube and googled "puppies", and every video that came up had several million hits, so after I did my research/homework on the youtube puppy market, it seemed like if I threw in Christmas, it would help that much more.
As I was trying to think of how I could have them a part of Christmas, the whole idea of the story came in, with them in a Christmas present. Right after that I contacted my friend Xan, who said she would love to help me with letting me borrow her puppies.
I then would need a house that I could film in, that would feel like Christmas, so I posted on facebook that I needed a certain kind of house (I posted examples of other houses). Several people volunteered their house. I checked out several of them, but the one that fit perfect was donated by the Dyer family.
So I went to their house to scout it out that very day. I had only met the Dyer family briefly at a restaurant one day, so just by hardly knowing them, they were super helpful and willing to help in any way they could.
That night I went to Walmart and spent 75 dollars on Christmas things, like wrapping paper, stockings, and ornaments. The great thing about the house we were using though, is it was already decorated perfectly.
The next evening I got a couple of my friends to come help with the shoot. We wrapped up a bunch of fake presents, and Xan came with her puppies. We then filmed for a couple hours, and called it good. The puppies ran out of energy in the first 45 minutes, so then we had to improvise a little after that to help them have energy. They say that the 2 hardest things to work with, with movies is children and animals, and yes, that was definitely the case.
I then spent a couple days editing the puppy video. I then sent it to one of my composers, Elton Luz. He then had two days to compose the music. I gave him full creative freedom with the music, so he came up with his own original Christmas song.
We then released it the following day, and that's the story of how the "Puppy Christmas" youtube video came out :)
As far as the making of this video goes....
I really wanted to make a Christmas video for my youtube channel, and I was having a hard time coming up with an idea. While I jumped onto facebook, one of my friends, Xan, had posted pictures of her 4 little puppies she was trying to sell... Then I started thinking about how it seemed like a perfect fit for Christmas.
With my youtube videos, I generally try, not always, but generally try to come up with ideas that the majority of people will share, which makes them "go viral", and with puppies/animals, they are always something that people share.
So I jumped onto youtube and googled "puppies", and every video that came up had several million hits, so after I did my research/homework on the youtube puppy market, it seemed like if I threw in Christmas, it would help that much more.
As I was trying to think of how I could have them a part of Christmas, the whole idea of the story came in, with them in a Christmas present. Right after that I contacted my friend Xan, who said she would love to help me with letting me borrow her puppies.
I then would need a house that I could film in, that would feel like Christmas, so I posted on facebook that I needed a certain kind of house (I posted examples of other houses). Several people volunteered their house. I checked out several of them, but the one that fit perfect was donated by the Dyer family.
So I went to their house to scout it out that very day. I had only met the Dyer family briefly at a restaurant one day, so just by hardly knowing them, they were super helpful and willing to help in any way they could.
That night I went to Walmart and spent 75 dollars on Christmas things, like wrapping paper, stockings, and ornaments. The great thing about the house we were using though, is it was already decorated perfectly.
The next evening I got a couple of my friends to come help with the shoot. We wrapped up a bunch of fake presents, and Xan came with her puppies. We then filmed for a couple hours, and called it good. The puppies ran out of energy in the first 45 minutes, so then we had to improvise a little after that to help them have energy. They say that the 2 hardest things to work with, with movies is children and animals, and yes, that was definitely the case.
I then spent a couple days editing the puppy video. I then sent it to one of my composers, Elton Luz. He then had two days to compose the music. I gave him full creative freedom with the music, so he came up with his own original Christmas song.
We then released it the following day, and that's the story of how the "Puppy Christmas" youtube video came out :)
Wednesday, December 7, 2011
Massive Toilet Papering Prank
Here's our latest youtube video, with a couple statistics on it :)
We used 504 rolls of toilet paper!
It took 1 hour to make the mess.
8 hours to clean up the mess :( That's with 5 of us total.
We had two cop cars come and try and stop us, one while filming, and the other while we were trying to clean up (They thought we were tp'ing the house in broad daylight... yeah....
We used 504 rolls of toilet paper!
It took 1 hour to make the mess.
8 hours to clean up the mess :( That's with 5 of us total.
We had two cop cars come and try and stop us, one while filming, and the other while we were trying to clean up (They thought we were tp'ing the house in broad daylight... yeah....
Friday, December 2, 2011
Youtube Partner Epidemic
I'm not gonna lie, I'm really worried about the new youtube design/layout. In fact, perhaps a little terrified :( I really do believe it has the potential to wipe out several youtube partners who have made youtube there career, perhaps including mine.
Now my life isn't based on youtube at all, well... I kinda take that back a little, haha, but the truth of the matter is, just recently I decided to focus full time on youtube.... However, this may soon change..... (Dramatic music kicks in)....
Yesterday afternoon, Youtube released their new layout, which in turn, has begun the beginning of perhaps the youtuber partners death (for some, and the rise for others).
Instead of me tell you how it has effected people who have made youtuber there careers, let me show you. All the graphs I have, I got this morning off of vidstatsx.com which is a way to follow any youtube channel, hour by hour to see how fast they are rising, or in this case..... following....
Let's take a look at one of the biggest youtubers, MysteryGuitarMan. He on average gets 1,100 people subscribing to his youtube channel a day, that's an average of the last 30 days. However, as of yesterday, here is what happened at 4pm when youtube changed the way youtube runs.
Before Youtube layout (average subscribers a day): 1,100
After Youtube layout (last 24 hours): -722
Never in this youtubers career has he gone in the negative, not only is he in the negatives.... but a pretty substantial drop.
Here's a graph to show what happened!
Let's take a look at another huge youtuber, ShayCarl, here is his stats!
Before Youtube layout (average subscribers a day): 1000
After Youtube layout (last 24 hours): -1,357
RhettandLink who are also another huge youtuber, it once again is the same story :(
Now, I really believe Youtube wouldn't make these changes to kill all of there youtube partners, in fact, I would say it would be quite the opposite. Youtube is awesome with helping there content creators grow.. Show lets look at how some youtubers who have been effected positively.
Machinima, who is the number 3 most subscribed to youtube channel, having almost 3.8 million subscribers, here is what happened to them when youtube made the change.
Before Youtube layout (average subscribers a day): 5,500
After Youtube layout (last 24 hours): 24,069
As we can see with this youtube partner, there stats are off the hook!
As I have looked into why this is, when most other youtubers are on the worst decline of all time, I have come up with this....
The new youtube layout, it acts a lot like facebook, as far as news feeds go, so people who put out a lot of content, show up a ton in peoples news feeds, and people who put out vids once a week, don't have a great chance of showing up at all.
People like Machinima, who put out 5-10 videos a day sometimes, (its all video gameplay content), push out of the news feed all the other youtubers.
This is what I have gathers just from my own observation, I don't know if it's the only reason but I really do believe it is a huge part of it.
Which is sad, for youtubers that we looked at earlier, because the content is very time intensive to make, it makes it impossible to put out videos on a super regular basis. So it almost takes away all chance of them being seen.
In my own personal case as well, it's the same story. I put several weeks into my films for youtube, several days shooting, working with music composers, editing, sound design, and everything else that goes into it. It now takes away any chance of me being able to compete with any company/top dogs that have a huge crew/team.
Here is what has happened to my youtube channel within the last 24 hours.
Before Youtube layout (average subscribers a day): 352
After Youtube layout (last 24 hours): -72
And it's not just the people the subscribers that are changing, even how many hits the videos are getting.
Within the last two months, every video that I have released, because of the 130,000 subscribers that I have, I would always get at least 50,000 hits on the first day, even if the video didn't do amazing overall, I was always guaranteed 50,000 hits on the video on the first day.
The youtube video I released two days ago, it got only 10,000 hits in the first 24 hours. Youtube had already started re-ramping it's system, so it already had a huge effect on my video.
Once again though, several youtubers have been effected greatly by the changes, here's a look at a couple others.
RayWilliamJohnson, who is the most subscribed to channel on youtube, here is his stats!
Before Youtube layout (average subscribers a day): 5,998
After Youtube layout (last 24 hours): 18,526
Once again notice that with every change that happens for these youtubers, regardless if they rise or fall, it all happens right around 4pm when youtube started using the "New Youtube".
And lets take a look at another huge youtuber, EpicMealTime.
Before Youtube layout (average subscribers a day): 4,608
After Youtube layout (last 24 hours): 17,373
Here's another graph looking at there subscriber growth within the last two weeks.
I also have compiled down below a list of the top youtubers, and how they have been effected. I'm still trying to figure out why some youtubers skyrocket off the hook, while others totally drop.
Negatively Effected:
MysteryGuitarMan
ShayCarl
RhettandLink
iJustine
daneboe
WinterSpringPro
charlestrippy
devinsupertramp
Positively Effected:
EpicMealTime
RayWilliamJohnson
Machinima
freddiew
collegehumor
realannoyingorange
CorridorDigital
I'm having a super hard time drawing parallels with why some of these youtubers channels are going off like crazy, while the others are totally falling apart, I would love to hear any of your thoughts on why this is, so I can change what I'm doing wrong, so I can get back in the game, otherwise I really don't think I'll be able to keep up with the whole youtube thing :(
But, one last final statement. I know youtube has been constantly trying to better everything, for everyone. And change is always hard regardless, and I really do believe google/youtube will figure things out with this, even if it does take time, I just hope that it is something that can happen sooner then later :)
As far as this "New Youtub" goes, it's just a matter of figuring out the new system, and for those that figure out how to run the new system first, they are the ones that will prosper, grow the fastest, I just have to figure that out :)
-Devin
My youtube friend "Kalebnation" just informed me that the reason why those youtubers above are getting the boost, is because they are apearing on one of the main pages, because they are being promoted, otherwise they would be on a downfall as well :(
Here's the link to that, and a screenshot of that page.
http://www.youtube.com/channels?feature=foot
Now my life isn't based on youtube at all, well... I kinda take that back a little, haha, but the truth of the matter is, just recently I decided to focus full time on youtube.... However, this may soon change..... (Dramatic music kicks in)....
Yesterday afternoon, Youtube released their new layout, which in turn, has begun the beginning of perhaps the youtuber partners death (for some, and the rise for others).
Instead of me tell you how it has effected people who have made youtuber there careers, let me show you. All the graphs I have, I got this morning off of vidstatsx.com which is a way to follow any youtube channel, hour by hour to see how fast they are rising, or in this case..... following....
Let's take a look at one of the biggest youtubers, MysteryGuitarMan. He on average gets 1,100 people subscribing to his youtube channel a day, that's an average of the last 30 days. However, as of yesterday, here is what happened at 4pm when youtube changed the way youtube runs.
Before Youtube layout (average subscribers a day): 1,100
After Youtube layout (last 24 hours): -722
Never in this youtubers career has he gone in the negative, not only is he in the negatives.... but a pretty substantial drop.
Here's a graph to show what happened!
Let's take a look at another huge youtuber, ShayCarl, here is his stats!
Before Youtube layout (average subscribers a day): 1000
After Youtube layout (last 24 hours): -1,357
RhettandLink who are also another huge youtuber, it once again is the same story :(
Now, I really believe Youtube wouldn't make these changes to kill all of there youtube partners, in fact, I would say it would be quite the opposite. Youtube is awesome with helping there content creators grow.. Show lets look at how some youtubers who have been effected positively.
Machinima, who is the number 3 most subscribed to youtube channel, having almost 3.8 million subscribers, here is what happened to them when youtube made the change.
Before Youtube layout (average subscribers a day): 5,500
After Youtube layout (last 24 hours): 24,069
As we can see with this youtube partner, there stats are off the hook!
As I have looked into why this is, when most other youtubers are on the worst decline of all time, I have come up with this....
The new youtube layout, it acts a lot like facebook, as far as news feeds go, so people who put out a lot of content, show up a ton in peoples news feeds, and people who put out vids once a week, don't have a great chance of showing up at all.
People like Machinima, who put out 5-10 videos a day sometimes, (its all video gameplay content), push out of the news feed all the other youtubers.
This is what I have gathers just from my own observation, I don't know if it's the only reason but I really do believe it is a huge part of it.
Which is sad, for youtubers that we looked at earlier, because the content is very time intensive to make, it makes it impossible to put out videos on a super regular basis. So it almost takes away all chance of them being seen.
In my own personal case as well, it's the same story. I put several weeks into my films for youtube, several days shooting, working with music composers, editing, sound design, and everything else that goes into it. It now takes away any chance of me being able to compete with any company/top dogs that have a huge crew/team.
Here is what has happened to my youtube channel within the last 24 hours.
Before Youtube layout (average subscribers a day): 352
After Youtube layout (last 24 hours): -72
And it's not just the people the subscribers that are changing, even how many hits the videos are getting.
Within the last two months, every video that I have released, because of the 130,000 subscribers that I have, I would always get at least 50,000 hits on the first day, even if the video didn't do amazing overall, I was always guaranteed 50,000 hits on the video on the first day.
The youtube video I released two days ago, it got only 10,000 hits in the first 24 hours. Youtube had already started re-ramping it's system, so it already had a huge effect on my video.
Once again though, several youtubers have been effected greatly by the changes, here's a look at a couple others.
RayWilliamJohnson, who is the most subscribed to channel on youtube, here is his stats!
Before Youtube layout (average subscribers a day): 5,998
After Youtube layout (last 24 hours): 18,526
Once again notice that with every change that happens for these youtubers, regardless if they rise or fall, it all happens right around 4pm when youtube started using the "New Youtube".
And lets take a look at another huge youtuber, EpicMealTime.
Before Youtube layout (average subscribers a day): 4,608
After Youtube layout (last 24 hours): 17,373
Here's another graph looking at there subscriber growth within the last two weeks.
I also have compiled down below a list of the top youtubers, and how they have been effected. I'm still trying to figure out why some youtubers skyrocket off the hook, while others totally drop.
Negatively Effected:
MysteryGuitarMan
ShayCarl
RhettandLink
iJustine
daneboe
WinterSpringPro
charlestrippy
devinsupertramp
Positively Effected:
EpicMealTime
RayWilliamJohnson
Machinima
freddiew
collegehumor
realannoyingorange
CorridorDigital
I'm having a super hard time drawing parallels with why some of these youtubers channels are going off like crazy, while the others are totally falling apart, I would love to hear any of your thoughts on why this is, so I can change what I'm doing wrong, so I can get back in the game, otherwise I really don't think I'll be able to keep up with the whole youtube thing :(
But, one last final statement. I know youtube has been constantly trying to better everything, for everyone. And change is always hard regardless, and I really do believe google/youtube will figure things out with this, even if it does take time, I just hope that it is something that can happen sooner then later :)
As far as this "New Youtub" goes, it's just a matter of figuring out the new system, and for those that figure out how to run the new system first, they are the ones that will prosper, grow the fastest, I just have to figure that out :)
-Devin
My youtube friend "Kalebnation" just informed me that the reason why those youtubers above are getting the boost, is because they are apearing on one of the main pages, because they are being promoted, otherwise they would be on a downfall as well :(
Here's the link to that, and a screenshot of that page.
http://www.youtube.com/channels?feature=foot
Thursday, November 17, 2011
Zelda Medley
Here is our latest youtube video! It's for all the Nintendo fan boys/fan girls out there!! :)
First off, I'm a HUGE Nintendo/Zelda fan! :) Second off, with the youtube videos that I do, as often as I can, I try and pick "hot topics", and make videos on them, just so I can get the most exposure as possible :). In this case, the Nintendo video game Zelda: “Skyward Sword” is coming out this week, so it seemed like a perfect fit to make a video just to build off the hype that the game would already be getting. This was all considered months in advance.
So I got my violin friend Lindsey Stirling involved from the beginning. She had never actually played a Zelda video game before, but she did a ton of research on the game itself, and the music, and then she arranged her own composition based off of the Zelda world.
We did this whole process several months in advance before we were going to release the video. We then contacted my friend Dan who owns a recording studio here in Provo Utah, and he recorded the music for us. From there, we then went to my friend Stephen Anderson, who composed the backtrack that plays in the background.
I then contacted my friend Ben who I went to film school with. Ben is an awesome makeup designer, and he made the elf ears for Lindsey that appeared in the video.
If you love the music, you can download the song off of iTunes in the link below.
http://itunes.apple.com/us/album/zelda-medley-single/id481386691
My friend Melia Harris custom made the whole costume just for the video. In the video game itself, Link (the character who the game is based off of, not Zelda), wears a green costume. In the video Lindsey wears the same costume, but it's blue. The reason behind this, was I didn't want her to be compared to Link. I wanted people to know right away that she was a part of that same world, and in the video game Link does wear a blue outfit for a section of it, so we tried to put the best of both worlds in there, that was the logic for that.
As far as filming locations go, we shot this all in Utah, in a couple different locations. The first location, the Dungeon Castle, we filmed here in Provo Utah, where I am now living. All the mountain scenes were filmed on the Alpine Loop, when all the leaves were changing colors. The green forest was near the same location. For the snow scenes, we filmed those by Brighton Ski Resort. We filmed this video over a course of a month, just to make sure we could hit every "climate".
For the horse scenes, our friend Emily hooked us up with her friends horse, which we filmed those scenes in Spanish Fork Canyon.
As far as the technical side of the video, we shot this on our company's Red Epic camera, which shoots at 5K resolution. Sadly though, youtube has a hard time with all that information, so when we uploaded even in a low resolution version, youtube encoding made it significantly not as clear as it was shot :( But you work with what you got. But what I learned is that youtube can handle Canon footage significantly better than the Red Epic camera footage.
The reason the camera looks like it is floating, is because I do most of my filming with a Glidecam. I usually just use a small glidecam, a glidecam 2000 HD to be specific. But because this camera is significantly heavier, we just recently purchased a full glidecam with a vest, and an arm.
A couple other key players that helped make this happen was my friend Jacob Schwarz, he spent the first day of filming with me, just to make sure we didn't have any surprises with shooting with our Red Epic camera.
You can also check out our company's website in the link below. We started our production company together once we finished film school.
Mysterybox
All in all, most of the youtube videos I do, consist of just me, and usually the person being filmed. In this case though, it would not have happened without a full team behind me/side by side with me. Without the costume designer, makeup artist, sound recorder, helpers, background music, Lindsey, color correctors, and my other friends that helped with all the torces we had to make, this wouldn't have happened! So yes, make sure to check out Lindsey's youtube channel if you haven't already!!
Lindsey's Youtube Channel.
A couple other key players that helped make this happen was my friend Jacob Schwarz, he spent the first day of filming with me, just to make sure we didn't have any surprises with shooting with our Red Epic camera.
You can also check out our company's website in the link below. We started our production company together once we finished film school.
Mysterybox
Also, in regards to this video, and several other videos I have done lately. A decent amount of people have complained that they just want to see videos like the human slingshot video... My response to that is... Yes, those videos always do the best on my youtube channel, however it is almost impossible to come up with new videos like that each week. They always take several weeks of preparation, a ton of people, and a lot of other logistics. Also, my being a film maker, I don't want to be branded as just the guy that does "fun" things. I want to show that I can take on everything from fast and adventurous, to slow and thought provoking.
So for those who have asked, I want my youtube channel to show what I can do in every area, so I don't get branded as a one trick pony, so yeah, there you have it, feel free to complain about it if ya want, haha :) And your feedback is always helpful, but I do have to stay true to trying new things, and pushing myself in other directions just so I can move forward, and progress as a film maker.
-Devin
First off, I'm a HUGE Nintendo/Zelda fan! :) Second off, with the youtube videos that I do, as often as I can, I try and pick "hot topics", and make videos on them, just so I can get the most exposure as possible :). In this case, the Nintendo video game Zelda: “Skyward Sword” is coming out this week, so it seemed like a perfect fit to make a video just to build off the hype that the game would already be getting. This was all considered months in advance.
So I got my violin friend Lindsey Stirling involved from the beginning. She had never actually played a Zelda video game before, but she did a ton of research on the game itself, and the music, and then she arranged her own composition based off of the Zelda world.
We did this whole process several months in advance before we were going to release the video. We then contacted my friend Dan who owns a recording studio here in Provo Utah, and he recorded the music for us. From there, we then went to my friend Stephen Anderson, who composed the backtrack that plays in the background.
I then contacted my friend Ben who I went to film school with. Ben is an awesome makeup designer, and he made the elf ears for Lindsey that appeared in the video.
If you love the music, you can download the song off of iTunes in the link below.
http://itunes.apple.com/us/album/zelda-medley-single/id481386691
My friend Melia Harris custom made the whole costume just for the video. In the video game itself, Link (the character who the game is based off of, not Zelda), wears a green costume. In the video Lindsey wears the same costume, but it's blue. The reason behind this, was I didn't want her to be compared to Link. I wanted people to know right away that she was a part of that same world, and in the video game Link does wear a blue outfit for a section of it, so we tried to put the best of both worlds in there, that was the logic for that.
As far as filming locations go, we shot this all in Utah, in a couple different locations. The first location, the Dungeon Castle, we filmed here in Provo Utah, where I am now living. All the mountain scenes were filmed on the Alpine Loop, when all the leaves were changing colors. The green forest was near the same location. For the snow scenes, we filmed those by Brighton Ski Resort. We filmed this video over a course of a month, just to make sure we could hit every "climate".
For the horse scenes, our friend Emily hooked us up with her friends horse, which we filmed those scenes in Spanish Fork Canyon.
As far as the technical side of the video, we shot this on our company's Red Epic camera, which shoots at 5K resolution. Sadly though, youtube has a hard time with all that information, so when we uploaded even in a low resolution version, youtube encoding made it significantly not as clear as it was shot :( But you work with what you got. But what I learned is that youtube can handle Canon footage significantly better than the Red Epic camera footage.
The reason the camera looks like it is floating, is because I do most of my filming with a Glidecam. I usually just use a small glidecam, a glidecam 2000 HD to be specific. But because this camera is significantly heavier, we just recently purchased a full glidecam with a vest, and an arm.
A couple other key players that helped make this happen was my friend Jacob Schwarz, he spent the first day of filming with me, just to make sure we didn't have any surprises with shooting with our Red Epic camera.
You can also check out our company's website in the link below. We started our production company together once we finished film school.
Mysterybox
All in all, most of the youtube videos I do, consist of just me, and usually the person being filmed. In this case though, it would not have happened without a full team behind me/side by side with me. Without the costume designer, makeup artist, sound recorder, helpers, background music, Lindsey, color correctors, and my other friends that helped with all the torces we had to make, this wouldn't have happened! So yes, make sure to check out Lindsey's youtube channel if you haven't already!!
Lindsey's Youtube Channel.
A couple other key players that helped make this happen was my friend Jacob Schwarz, he spent the first day of filming with me, just to make sure we didn't have any surprises with shooting with our Red Epic camera.
You can also check out our company's website in the link below. We started our production company together once we finished film school.
Mysterybox
Also, in regards to this video, and several other videos I have done lately. A decent amount of people have complained that they just want to see videos like the human slingshot video... My response to that is... Yes, those videos always do the best on my youtube channel, however it is almost impossible to come up with new videos like that each week. They always take several weeks of preparation, a ton of people, and a lot of other logistics. Also, my being a film maker, I don't want to be branded as just the guy that does "fun" things. I want to show that I can take on everything from fast and adventurous, to slow and thought provoking.
So for those who have asked, I want my youtube channel to show what I can do in every area, so I don't get branded as a one trick pony, so yeah, there you have it, feel free to complain about it if ya want, haha :) And your feedback is always helpful, but I do have to stay true to trying new things, and pushing myself in other directions just so I can move forward, and progress as a film maker.
-Devin
Tuesday, November 1, 2011
Halloween Youtube Video!
I released this youtube video 3 days before Halloween, and it's gotten 260,000 hits in those couple days leading up to the Holiday :) It got featured on CBSnews.com, cnn, the huffingtonpost, devour.com, and it even got featured on red.com's official blog :) When videos are released, there's a lot of factors that go into the success of them, and timing is a huge part of it! Here is the video without any further ado, simple, but with a Halloween theme.
And my friend Stephen Andersen wrote the sweet music for this one, he had 24 hours to write it. And the creepy voice you hear in it, that's acutually not a childs voice, it's his, haha, he super manipulated it though to give it the creepy feel.
We also used our companies Red Epic camera to shoot this video, in 300 frames per second. Most of my youtube videos I shoot on my Canon 5D Mark II, but this content seemed to fit the epic camera just perfect.
Check out our company website here.
mysterybox.us
Also a super shout out to my friends who helped film/make this possible. Jacob Schwarz, Katie Crapo, and Lindsey Stirling. They helped on every aspect of this as well, including cleanup, ha.
And my friend Stephen Andersen wrote the sweet music for this one, he had 24 hours to write it. And the creepy voice you hear in it, that's acutually not a childs voice, it's his, haha, he super manipulated it though to give it the creepy feel.
We also used our companies Red Epic camera to shoot this video, in 300 frames per second. Most of my youtube videos I shoot on my Canon 5D Mark II, but this content seemed to fit the epic camera just perfect.
Check out our company website here.
mysterybox.us
Also a super shout out to my friends who helped film/make this possible. Jacob Schwarz, Katie Crapo, and Lindsey Stirling. They helped on every aspect of this as well, including cleanup, ha.
Thursday, September 15, 2011
No brakes, down hill, 55 mph!
Here's our latest YouTube video! I'll be doing a blog post about it in the next of couple days, but until then, enjoy the new video. If you read the description, I go over a lot of the making of the video there so you can get you’re fill from there for now. Hope you enjoy! :)
Tuesday, September 6, 2011
My Tripod - Film Equipment
I'm going to keep this blog post pretty simple. Here are the exact tripod "sticks" and head that I use for filming my videos and even for still photographs. Whenever you buy a professional tripod, you should always purchase the sticks and head separately (this is why they are not together). The tripod itself is a little heavy; fortunately, the pro to this is that it isn't shaky when taking night pictures at long exposures and it doesn't move when you’re filming. The other great pro about both of these items is that they are probably the most inexpensive tripod and head you will find for the awesome quality that they are. So, below I have provided links to the same place I bought them. :) Also, just as a heads up, I am never paid for any recommendation I will ever make on my blog; these are all things that I use and have chosen after hours, if not days, of research. I hope you can benefit from the fruits of my labor!
Here's the tripod "sticks" that I use.
Manfrotto 055XPROB Pro Tripod Legs (Black)
And the tripod "head" that I use.
Manfrotto 501HDV Video Head
So there you have it, these are what I would suggest you buy if you’re shooting/filming with a DSLR camera.
Manfrotto 055XPROB Pro Tripod Legs (Black)
And the tripod "head" that I use.
Manfrotto 501HDV Video Head
So there you have it, these are what I would suggest you buy if you’re shooting/filming with a DSLR camera.
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