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[Music]
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Hi. Have you ever noticed how in film
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making and especially in online film
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making trends tend to come and go like
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fashion and what's cool today is
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probably not going to be cool in 3 or 4
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years and what was cool 3 or 4 years ago
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is not all that cool today. And this can
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be a little bit tricky when it comes to
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finding a style that feels authentically
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you. I know that was the case for me.
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[Music]
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Why is this bridge just waving at me?
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[Music]
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[Music]
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[Music]
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There were a few years where I became
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relatively well known on the internet
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for making these high production value
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Instagram stories. And in those stories,
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I used a lot of inc camera transitions,
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probably too many of them. And as time
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has gone on, I've pretty much stopped
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doing them all together. But I don't
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think you should. And in this video, I'm
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going to tell you why. and why I'm
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probably gonna start using them again.
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Welcome to the updated in camera
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transitions video.
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[Music]
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I've never done well with expectations.
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In fact, I just don't like being told
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what to do. So, the moment that
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something to me starts feeling like a
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rule is the exact moment that I feel
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like I need to break it. And that's
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essentially what happened to me when it
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came to inc camera transitions. They
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became what felt like to me an
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expectation. It felt like if I wasn't
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including them, I was somehow letting
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people down. I know that sounds silly,
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but that's what it felt like. At first,
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I really loved them. They were fun and
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quirky and more importantly, they were
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really easy to make, like a really
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simple tool that I could use to make my
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videos feel more alive, more engaging.
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But eventually, what was fun and quirky
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and engaging felt more like a constraint
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that I was stuck to it. And so
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eventually, I did what I always do when
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I feel boxed in. I pivoted. Hello,
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Spider. Come here. Come here. Here he
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is. I started to make videos that felt
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larger to me. They had bigger camera
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movements. They had more complicated
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visual effects. And in a certain sense,
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I felt like I was trying to prove myself
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that I wasn't just some guy who could
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whip a camera back and forth. and draw
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mask lines. I wanted to show that I was
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more than Oh, he's still attached to me.
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And it was through this process of
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trying a bunch of different styles of
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videos, let's say, that I started to
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notice a thread that ran through all of
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these videos, regardless of the style or
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the technique or the visual effects or
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the the anything really. It was always
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there. And I started to realize, I guess
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that's what my style is. Adre time for
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Thank you for watching. Okay,
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transition.
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Oh
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yeah, he came off.
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I don't think I have a super firm grasp
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on what my style is visually speaking. I
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think my style or what other people
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might see as my style is actually born
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out of the process that I go through
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when making videos. And a lot of that
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for me is the process of exploration.
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Trying to pull off a shot I've never
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been able to pull off before. And a lot
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of it comes out of the process of
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editing and just seeing what feels
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right. As somebody who would say that
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music is my favorite thing, at least is
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top three favorite of all things in
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life. A lot of what I do in my edits
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especially comes down to creating a very
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musical and a very rhythmic edit. So
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whether I'm playing with today's trends
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of shutter drags or yesterday's trends
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of in camera transitions, those effects
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for me are still always going to get
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married with the music in some capacity.
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That doesn't mean cuts on the beat
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necessarily, but they are going to be
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woven together in a way that when I make
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the edit feels satisfying. And so while
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no, I'm not making inc camera
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transitions the way I was years ago,
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even the new types of videos I'm trying
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to pull off, whether they're practical
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effects or visual effects, I'm still
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very focused on creating those visuals
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in a way that feels rhythmic and
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satisfying to me while I edit and
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hopefully to you while you watch.
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[Music]
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This video isn't specifically an inc
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camera transition tutorial because I
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made that already,
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not once, but twice. And you can see
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those videos here. And here, one of them
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is a pretty in-depth walkthrough on how
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to move the camera, what to look for,
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what to avoid, and the other one focuses
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more on cleaning it up in the edit. What
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this video is is more about the thought
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process and my ethos surrounding
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developing a style. And you know that
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because that you already saw that part
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of the video. I think in general if
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you're learning, hopping onto trends is
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totally fine. I think it's a great way
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to practice your skills and to see what
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you like and what you don't like. So you
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should be learning as many different
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styles and as many different techniques
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as you can so as to better suit your own
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professional career over the long run.
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But as long as you're not doing like a
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direct onetoone shot forshot copy of
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someone else's work, hopefully you'll
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find little bits of yourself and your
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personality come through. I think it's
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easy to spend a lot of time on the
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internet thinking like
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I need to find my personal brand, my
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personal voice, my personal yada yada
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yada. And like I guess that's fine, but
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the reality is if you're going to be
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making work for clients, for brands, for
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commercials, for whatever, you're going
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to need to be able to do a bunch of
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different things so that you're not just
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repeating yourself over and over again.
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It's going to get stagnant. It's going
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to get boring for you and for your
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clients.
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Another thing that's changed a lot for
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me in my film making journey is that I
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value polish a lot more than I used to.
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I polish the be Jesus out of my edit
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every step of the way.
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Y
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over the process of trying to refine my
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work, a lot of that came through fixing
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little things through better sound
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design, through better stabilization,
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through using ND filters. And it's all
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these little steps that have helped kind
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of create an image that I'm much more
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proud of than I used to be. Now, those
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steps do take more time. So, I'm making
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less videos than I used to, but I'm
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happier with the videos that I'm making.
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If you've seen some of my other videos,
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and especially if you've seen a lot of
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my videos over a long period of time,
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I'm curious if there are any specific
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transitions that you remember that stood
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out to you. Which ones made you say,
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"Wow, Jesse, I wish you were my dad."
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Thanks for watching this video. I hope
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you had a good time watching it. I hope
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I will have a good time posting it
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because now I'll go to bed. Thanks for
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watching. Love you. Goodbye.
