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let's talk about sequences which
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in my opinion is one of the most
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important foundational things that you
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need to understand for
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filmmaking video editing content
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creation really any type of visual
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storytelling
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at all and in my opinion
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this is where most internet videos and
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amateurish films fall apart a poorly
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built sequence is gonna either confuse
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your audience or they're just gonna get
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bored and click away okay so then what
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is a sequence well functionally it's
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just a few shots typically around three
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to five that are strung together in
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order to help move the story along the
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assembly of filth and how
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it can be changed what's interesting is
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that depending on how you structure that
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sequence depending on how you move the
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story along it can drastically alter the
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tone of the video and your audience's
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understanding of your characters and
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their motivations etc etc
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let's assume
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he saw a woman holding a baby in her
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arms
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now we cut back
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to his reaction to what he sees
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and he smiles
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he's a kindly man
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he's sympathetic
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now we'll put in a piece of film of a
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girl in a bikini he looks
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girl in a bikini
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he smiles
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what is he now the dirty old man
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he's no longer the benign gentleman
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who loves babies
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so the first thing that i want to talk
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about here in regards to sequencing is
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this idea of questions and answers and
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so what that means is that each shot
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should either be instilling a question
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into your viewer's mind somewhat
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subconsciously or it should be answering
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some of the questions that you stated
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previously in those other shots these
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are simple questions things like who is
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it what are they doing why are they
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doing it very simple subconscious
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questions so for example at the start of
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this video we want to set the scene and
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here in hamilton we've got a lot of snow
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recently and it was coming down pretty
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good so we shot a nice long lens shot
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compressing a lot of that snow together
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to make it seem
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cold like a an environment that you
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would want to get out of
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that might give me just enough contrast
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and it's also the location that we're
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heading to so it's somewhat significant
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and also maybe helpful i'm gonna go this
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way i'll be right back and from that
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snowy shot we cut right away to some
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winter gloves unlocking a lock now we
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don't know who's unlocking it we don't
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even know what the thing they're
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unlocking is the first time we shot this
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i actually had my hood down and i
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realized oh we see right away that's me
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so we decided let's reshoot it put the
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hood up and obscure the image of myself
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finally we have the last reveal which is
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you now see the tires of my van rolling
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in which then punches out once more to a
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nice wide shot where we see this large
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warehouse and finally we have one last
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shot from the front of my van where you
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get to see it is i jesse driving into
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the location where you would eventually
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uh see me here delivering these lines to
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hello
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so
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one of the things that i like to pay a
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lot of attention to and it's just
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important for sequencing in general is
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that there is a strong resolution to
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your sequence now we know it was
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kristoff he was cutting a hole but not
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only was he cutting one hole he was
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cutting several holes into several
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shipping containers
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resolution if you saw our last video
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then you'd know what this is all about
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which is that we were recently evicted
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from our studio and in a last-ditch
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effort to figure what to do next we
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decided to buy a bunch of used shipping
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containers and we are now in the process
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of building out our dream creative space
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and so obviously we're shooting a lot of
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sequences bringing in containers cutting
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insulating
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every step of the way is gonna have to
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get sequenced
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also this video is taking so much longer
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to shoot than we had anticipated we are
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very quickly losing light and we ended
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up having to shoot this now with a 120d
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in the fresnel we've got a
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p60c
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up through the skylight we've got hi
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dave
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we've got another p60c over here
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um making videos takes a long time
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jesse driftwood
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if you uh if you pay attention those
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lights actually take quite a long time
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to turn on so the sequence what it does
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is it shows the passage of time the
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first shot you start seeing a glowing
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ember you're not sure what it is and
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then suddenly
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lights are turning on you see a finger
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switching the breakers and that brings
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us
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back here where kristoff's in the
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background turning the lights on for me
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because
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we took too long to make this video
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one final tip i wanted to throw in here
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isn't necessarily just about sequencing
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and it's kind of directed at all of you
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internet video creators the vloggers the
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tick tuckers which is this idea that's
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commonly referred to as show
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don't tell because filmmaking video
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making is a visual storytelling medium
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we don't always have to use visuals and
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dialogue in order to move the plot
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forward i can't tell you how many times
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i've watched someone's video where
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they're like oh i've got to go to the
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grocery store to pick up bananas and
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oats for this new banana oat recipe i'm
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working on and then the next sequence is
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them at the grocery store and you're
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watching them buy bananas and you're
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watching them by oats and you're like
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yeah i know you already said this
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whereas i think it's a much more
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powerful way of telling that story to
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start at the grocery store and we're
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wondering who is this what are they
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shopping for oh why did they get that
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and then maybe when we get back to the
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house you can tell us like this is why i
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got these because this is what we're
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going to do but you still want to leave
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space for intrigue you want to leave
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space for your audience to ask those
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questions because it feels good when
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they feel like they found the answers
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that they came to the conclusion on
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their own they're not constantly being
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spoon-fed
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thank you so much for watching this
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video i i really hope you did learn
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something you had some type of takeaway
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um if i had to boil it all down to
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something it's make sure your sequences
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not just your whole story but even your
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sequences have a beginning
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a middle
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and uh
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and then and an end
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that's what film can do for you
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or
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you for it as it were
