As I was looking at inspiration for workout/ personal trainer videos in my last blog I now wanted to look at how to film them so again I went on YouTube and started to look through videos to analyse.
This video below by Jono gives some very good advice on how to film workout videos, first of all he said being different and getting angles others wouldn’t get is what makes you different as a creator and getting those different angles make it more appealing, he shows a great example were when the guy is doing a pull up he gets infront of him and films his face and follows his face up and down as its a different angle others wouldn’t get and showing the facial expressions shows the reality of working out. He also said to film in slow motion as its more cinematic, the next point he made was to get angles that show the muslces so you can see the impact of what his workout is doing.
When watching this video I wanted to take some important information from it that will help me when shooting the videos. One important point he made was that getting low angles are important in workout videos however he didn’t say why so I will look into this for research. He also follows the movement of the weights a lot to add some nice transitions in, so he will follow it from one point to another and the direction it goes they will continue to move the camera that way and then in post production they will speed it up into another shot. I also notice that when he is shooting he gets a lot of different angles of the same workout so when editing he has a lot of different footage to play with.
These two videos have given me a really good starting point of what I need to do when shooting I now need to keep developing my ideas and also practice some of these techniques before I shoot the actual videos.
YouTube. (2018). HOW TO FILM GYM/WORKOUT VIDEOS!. [online] Available at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dNkR3rgR5QI [Accessed 26 Feb. 2020].
YouTube. (2019). How I Shoot EPIC Gym Videos!💪🏼🎥| Fitness Film Tutorial. [online] Available at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZK2KY5zWSPE [Accessed 27 Feb. 2020].
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