Help me shoot a Review!

[Indus Monk]

I want to make a review of the xiaomi mipad and post it on youtube... The problem is that my editing skills are close to nil and that i cannot shoot B-roll properly... can i make a one cut review??? like this one:

 

[Guest]

@ShadowCaptain seems a man to ask for advice. 

 

One of his reviews: 

[ShadowCaptain]

I want to make a review of the xiaomi mipad and post it on youtube... The problem is that my editing skills are close to nil and that i cannot shoot B-roll properly... can i make a one cut review??? like this one:

 

 

 

I hate reviews like that, but its not hard, set up a camera, and start talking, not sure why it would be hard to do a review in one take? you could even have a script set up on a tablet or laptop that you read off, and you just hold the device in front the camera

 

heck ive managed to learn to edit and colour grade in just a few weeks for the reviews I did on YouTube, all self taught, and I think my stuff looks decent - up until my first review I had never edited a video before and had never used adobe premier, and never even really shot video on a camera

 

 

 

@ShadowCaptain seems a man to ask for advice. 

 

already here ;P

 

[LtStaffel]

Yeah, why couldn't you?  Use windows Movie Maker, you just put the little bar somewhere, right click it, click split, then delete the film you don't want.  That's how I make multi-scene I guess you could call them movies.

[Mohenjo]

just use windows movie maker, i use to edit, its actually pretty good for simple stuff like cuts and music 

[Indus Monk]

I hate reviews like that, but its not hard, set up a camera, and start talking, not sure why it would be hard to do a review in one take? you could even have a script set up on a tablet or laptop that you read off, and you just hold the device in front the camera

 

heck ive managed to learn to edit and colour grade in just a few weeks for the reviews I did on youtube, all self taught, and I think my stuff looks decent

so i can do that and step my review game up in the future???

[ShadowCaptain]

so i can do that and step my review game up in the future???

 

thats up to you, you can see one of my reviews posted above actually, that was like the second video I have ever edited in my life

 

I just dived in head first and it came out ok

[Indus Monk]

thats up to you, you can see one of my reviews posted above actually, that was like the second video I have ever edited in my life

 

I just dived in head first and it came out ok

It's actually an excellent review i must say... but i have a mere eos 1200D for a review camera...

[ShadowCaptain]

It's actually an excellent review i must say... but i have a mere eos 1200D for a review camera...

 

thanks, im still trying to improve, nowhere near what I want yet

 

1200d is perfectly capable of doing a good job

 

[flexluthor]

Are we looking at the same video? Because all I can see is a camera on a tripod focused on what he's doing.

 

The only way that this was a b-roll is that he didn't focus on his face while talking, that or he edited it by video taping him of using the phone and added a separate audio of him talking.

 

The zoom in/out effect could either be done while filming or he simply just changed the scale to like 110% then after a second, turned it back to 100%. (This could be usually determined if the zoom in/out effect has an auto-focus which would pretty much say it was done while filming although it could technically be done on editing by distorting the vision and applying a zoom/in/out sound effect, I see no reason for anyone to do it rather than zoom in/out while filming.)