before getting started this is the biggest film I have ever made I mean it's longer than a feature film it's packed with so much Insight it took more than 400 hours of editing time it took more than 3 months to make so I hope you enjoy 20 years ago I picked up my first camera hello my name is Daniel ma since then I've traveled to over 100 countries made more than 500 films won a few Awards along the way generated more than 1 billion long form views and worked with some of the biggest creators on the planet over the past year being Mr Beast behind me is what a timeline looks like from a recent video I made with him in Nepal in this video I'm going to offload everything from inside my brain every single ounce of knowledge I've learned over the past 20 years of making videos and in doing so make the most comprehensive film making tutorial of all time ever on YouTube right now for free right now I'm going to be using this film as an example Going Back 2 months and taking you in real time through the entire process from how to come up with an idea for a video turning this idea into a compelling story preparing to shoot the video shooting it editing it which will be the most extensive part of this video making the music or selecting the right track doing the sound design grading animation and lastly how to best upload your video to maximize views all as a oneman band my neck okay look the last thing I want to be doing right now is sitting here wearing all of this stuff but I have to one because I love making videos and two well I I need to make the money I need to make videos to make money andless my friends is the biggest challenge as a Creator is to be able to make money doing what you love however I have found the solution for you and for me so I can actually I can take off all the stuff all right kajabi the solution kajabi is the ultimate all-in-one platform for creators and entrepreneurs no matter what your Niche kajabi makes it easy to turn your skills your 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Casey nistad one of the greatest critical thinkers and idea generators in the world what to do if you don't have an idea he said what's up D what you doing in here buddy dude I'm just frustrated I've got to shoot this movie and I I have absolutely no idea what to do writer block writers block does that [ __ ] ever happened to you let's have a talk Dan you don't have the idea right zero idea okay writer's block writer okay so then the key to pushing through writer block is for me you look at what you do have and out of what you do have will birth the idea that make sense yeah what do you have it was in this moment I realized it's all dependent on what you know and furthermore what you can attain for instance I would love to make a film tomorrow about how to use fringe science to create the time travel machine so that I can go back to the moment when I saw my wife walk down the aisle for the first time and really re-experience that emotion impossible maybe one day but tomorrow never when I ideate I like to get a group of friends together and play a game of sorts where we have 10 seconds to say anything that comes to mind and if that idea turns into a video that person gets compensated by whoever ends up making it committing crime on international waters with a gangster not being able to use your tongue for there I know I have weird friends but we're all filmakers and have a [ __ ] ton of fun I make sure that you surround yourself with smart people people that challenge you and your thinking people that you can run your ideas past and friends that will roast you when your ideas suck and then there's working for a client where the idea is given to you in some shape or form but the majority of the execution falls on your lap it falls on your lap to make it great through utilizing the medium of film to presented to the audience C no sorry this isn't working right in the beginning clients expectations can somewhat be a little bit unreasonable at times but make sure that you don't ever work for experience and not for money now once you have this idea locked in it's time to truly consider it consider if it's worth pursuing by asking yourself the following questions one can I financially afford to pull this off two if I can't afford it is the gorilla option dangerous or against the law and if so just don't do it three how long will it realistically take you have to consider time as your biggest expense is the juice worth a squeeze four am I advancing at the expense of someone else this is possibly the worst mistake you can ever make don't spend an entire day doing this it'll eventually just become a set of rules that you abide by you know it'll take around 10 minutes it'll take even shorter if you eat a brear oh so good I'll put the link in the bio to buy these so good oh my God Fu it's good oh [ __ ] I think broke my screen I think I've had a few too many of these for today they caffeinated watch out sorry about that now whether it's making a video for your YouTube channel a short artsy film for Vimeo a Super Bowl ad a corporate video for a startup or any video for that matter pool references this is a massive oversight by so many filmmakers you probably pull ideas from films or ads that you've seen in the past without even knowing but imagine spending the time scarring the internet 2 hours and building a bank of content that deals with the same subject matter within your IDE AA so many new ideas will spring from this camera techniques editing techniques ways in which you utilize Sound and Music yeah trust me just reference reference and of time you'll have such a rich folder of references like mine we'll get into this later but please make sure that you folder everything correctly because you have to be able to navigate your way through your files as quickly as possible I used to find myself staring blankly at the screen like my brain was rebooting when looking for something as there were so many different file paths that I actually forgot what I was doing in the first place step two the Whiteboard a whiteboard and an idea go hand in hand if you have a white wall or somewhere that you can paint that's white I suggest buying Moxy wall white board paint it essentially turns your wall into a whiteboard or you can just buy a secondhand whiteboard like this much like an detective trying to unravel a case I'm trying to unravel an idea to find the best way in which to tell the story this something about the artisinal feeling of actually writing something down I find it far less complicated than online tools that try to make it easier I actually learned this working at Beast we even travel with these which are portable stick on whiteboards which stick onto the wall wherever you are in the world so that you can write down your thoughts while on the [Music] go I've put the link to both the white wall paint and portable whiteboard below both of these game changers but there's a formula to the Whiteboard and I'm speaking specifically to YouTube videos here and how I ensure that every video we upload to Youtube gets at least 25 million views a log Line This is a simple one liner you can constantly return to if you ever feel lost it's a direct road map from idea to execution remember I'm speaking to non-fiction videos here so for the most part they are unscripted where spontaneous events may occur out of your control and this is the point of a log Line This is where the log line will help guide you most no matter what the circumstances you occur along the way this will ensure that you stick to the idea a log line in fictional film making world the traditional world would be used to sell your phone to Peak curiosity from a financial backer or a streamer and an our case for this video it's the full picture summed up into as few words as possible and here's a formula you can use to write your own log line problem intention to overcome the problem obstacle to overcoming the problem and solution this is me writing the log line for the video before I write this log line I'm going to eat this blue bar give me that strength [ __ ] 10 second roll I haven't yet gone to napole or embarked on this mission to tell the story in essence this is what I feel the film would encapture it problem which is no power in this remote Village which means medical care for 16,000 people is near impossible okay that encapsulates immediately this severe problem then the intention to overcome the problem this is obvious which should be to bring power to the village and to provide care and build a hospital the way we would tell the story to bring power to the tip of this mountain that's 10,000 ft above sea level and then on top of that build the hospital to power that hospital um it's just a more compelling way to go about telling the story and that will come through in this L line then we've got obstacle it's going to be difficult and harsh terrain it's going to be tough to get there it's very very cold temperatures what we've looked at is going to be like -4° C that is in Fahrenheit this amount there's a time constraint and this is really important for telling a compelling narrative always adding a time constraint to this obstacle this helps make the film more engaging uh to understand the urgency then eventually get to the solution but the main problem being Financial backing all of this needs to be funded in order to happen and that's what in the solution is all comes back to Beast philanthropy with a solution you want it to be inevitable yet surprising so the inevitable ending here is that we indeed power the hospital that's why people have come they've clicked on the video they want to see that but we have to unravel other stuff along the way and usually what I try and do when editing these films and and when filming these projects is to try and find these unsung heroes in the communities that have really gone out of their way to make a difference and provide medical care in this scenario to 16,000 people in the village and what we found through doing research is that there is a makeshift kind of clinic in this area where there are qualified doctors that have come there but they don't have the tools and the necessary medical equipment in order to help in severe cases like there's been a lot of miscarriages there's been been a lot of people that have had serious infections that haven't been able to get the medical care that they need so now I'm going to try and sum all of this up into a simple log line we've got all of this this will obviously be difficult for me to carry around written I like to have it written on a small piece of paper so I can just quickly open it up wherever I go if my phone battery dies or whatever the case may be so I'm going to restrict this into as few words as possible I've wrden a really long sentence now and it's mon a paragraph but this will now help me to use the art of reduction to get it into a more simple form I've managed to reduce it to 26 characters usually I'd like to do 25 characters but 26 is okay in a remote nepes Village 16,000 people lack electricity hindering medical access will'll battle the harsh terrain power The Village construct the hospital and Empower and cre locals and now that I've got this I have a compass a metaphorical Compass to follow when making this Fone the title and thumbnail so once you have the log line waxed you have to start thinking about the title and the thumbnail immediately yes this early in the game because the way that the thumbnail correlates with the title which correlates with the first line in the film all affects your CTR which is your click-through rate this is literally so important it will make the difference between getting 10,000 views 100,000 views a million views 10 million views and so on you can use subtle clickbait that's the world we kind of live in on YouTube right now but just make sure that this is solely emphasizing what your video is about obviously if you make something ridiculous that the video is just not about the audience is going to get pissed off and they probably going to unsubscribe here's a quick five-step phase of how we developed the thumbnail for the video I decided to title we powered a [Music] mountain now once you have this down it's time to move on to the hook when dealing with non-fiction films unscripted films like these it is impossible to write a script in its entirety before shooting because I don't yet know the Nuance or the environment that we're going to be shooting in however I always try to have a strong opening line written up front here's me coming up with the opening line for this video the key to a good hook is to immediately assure the audience that what they've clicked on is the video that they're about to see the thumbnail that you've shown them is now the journey the video that they about to watch but at the same time you have to Peak curiosity so if the title is we power a mountain the audience already knows what we're going to do we need to hook them we need to give them a reason to care right up front but also assure them that we are indeed going to be powering a mountain however we used hyperboy with this title because we only powered just the top of the mountain we powered a hospital at the top of the mountain and that's what we're going to try and unravel in this opening line in this one line using a oneliner like this wouldn't really work for this video one week ago this mountain looked like this because as I said the you know the whole Mountain obviously didn't change but if we did light up an entire Mountain if we did power the entirety of the mountain this would be a great opening line to have AJ the position to what it did look like and what it looks like now and then the audience kind of wants to understand what happened in the middle this is one of a whole bunch of different formulas okay I'm going to try and do this in 1 hour [Music] focused so we're going to go from problem to an interesting fact or new insight and then what the mission is this takes a long [Music] time okay we on to something we on to something we on to something this after 2 hours I finally came up with a hook that I think would work 10 days ago this Hospital on top of a literal mountain in Nepal looked like this what'll be really interesting is to go forward around 5 weeks and see if this line has changed at all spoiler it does this happens quite a lot when Jimmy and I are shooting we go back and forth and we try different lines but but they all are around the same idea make sure you take a picture of this whiteboard and keep it on your phone you don't know who's going to come along and wipe it off now that you have the idea the log line the title and thumbnail it's time to develop the story step three the story entertainment doesn't just mean to make someone laugh or feel Joy it could also mean to make them cry the point is to evoke an emotion so then what is storytelling there will be 40 different Google definitions as well storytelling is but I Define it as the process of guiding an audience through a sequence of events that lead to an outcome that can either be inevitable or surprising or even better both the purpose here is to transform human behavior through utilizing impact communication and then persuasion you have the ability with a really powerful story to impact the way people think and furthermore behave think of any video right now not one you watched yesterday or today think of any film a theatrical film a video on YouTube okay I'm going to give you 3 seconds to think here 3 2 1 and the reason you're remembering this film is because it actually had an impact on the way that you think it could have had an impact on the way that you behave it changed you somehow this isn't just me talking [ __ ] this was actually tested like probably by a neurologist where he measured audien's oxytocin levels in the blood oxytocin acts as a chemical messenger and has an important role in many human behaviors including recognition trust romantic attachment and bonding as a result oxytocin has been called The Love hormone or cuddle chemical Paul Zach is a neurologist and his team designed an experiment in which subjects watched either a video of an emotional story about cancer or a basic descriptive one the results showed that those who watched the emotional story had a 47% increase in oxytocin and gave more to cancer charity storytelling made people more trusting and generous in more tests Zach found that people people who watch public service announcements gave 261 more money to charity when their oxytocin levels went up Zach provided the scientific basis for what storytellers have known for a long time stories help people pay attention and build trust a key part of effective bridge building is the longlasting effects of stories it's the transformation that occurs from the changes in the brain stories can create lasting effects because we remember stories better than individual facts stories can be recall and used to influence people even after a long time has passed I learned all of this by reading a book by Kindra Hall called stories that stick look if you're not reading non-fiction or listening to podcasts you just not expanding your brain books are the cheapest form of knowledge and before any excuses start anyone that says that they don't have the time to read is just lying to themselves it takes the average person just over 8 hours to read a 300 page book and if you want to read a book A Week like I do it's more or less 1 and 1 half hours of reading time per day and that's excluding the weekends this is the same amount of time or actually far less time that I would spend or I used to spend watching Netflix when I got home from work and yeah being dyslexic I'm still able to finish a book from beginning to end every week and if you're interested in reading my top 10 favorite books to storytelling I've put them in the link below videos are so powerful that they have the ability to start fan Cults fashion trends jargons memes they connect you to something far bigger than yourself and that's why you sometimes feel the urge to click like to comment or to share like you're going to do with this video please share it and like it and comment please they can make you more sympathetic towards a tragic event that's happened somewhere else in the world that has nothing to do with you or rare illness or mental health condition stories can and will transform people to become volunteers or like we see on the Beast philanthropy Channel when the video evokes more emotion the more the audience tends to donate to that cause or stories can just purely help you escape for that moment in time but the more powerful that entertainment that captivation that you feel the longer lasting these effects of transformation will be but how do you tell a story not just any story a great story a story so great that it will be told for years to come you need four parts one identifiable characters two a significant moment or an event three authentic emotion and four specifics then you need to use the art of reduction to break this down into three simple acts Hemingway said that writing is architecture not interior design he also called this the iceberg which was later coined the theory of omission this is to Omit not the unnecessary from the audience but to intentionally do so through reductionism which simplifies the story but also layers it to leave parts for the audience's interpretation to break this down into a more new AG sort of YouTube way of writing I've broken it down into three simple acts we could call this a hybrid of sorts one is impact or attention two is influence which is conversation three is persuasion or transformation do not use Chachi BT ever ever to write a story I mean you can use it for other stuff like if you want to write something nice on Mother's day but don't use Chachi BT to write your form for you it should be flawed it should be almost intentionally flawed it makes it human make your forms human don't use AI in order to do so you can use AI to help amplify the visuals I don't know I'm just so anti utilizing AI tools to write something it's just write what you know but what's really important to mention here is never assume that you know it all or that you're ever going to master the Art of Storytelling knowing all prevents thinking you need to constantly be thinking you need to constantly be innovating bringing this back to how I write a story for my films is that all I do is right a simple two pager just two pages that focuses on these different acts I don't go heavily into specifics as to my point earlier knowing or assuming or prain thinking and in this case you need to be malleable you need to be able to adapt to certain scenarios what if your scene was supposed to be done in broad daylight and now it's pussing with rain you need to be able to adapt to this and sometimes it's serendipitous it actually makes the scene better because you got to seek out the nuance and that's why the script for the most part is written in post production which I'm going to take you through later okay time for another Brew Bar and then to the next jeez can't get enough of these link to buy in the description okay time for the next phase step four planning your shoot the first part about the preparation phase is to understand the budget now when looking at budget don't think that the bigger the budget the better the film bigger budgets actually make it harder to make films I know it sounds ridiculous when you have a smaller budget there's less pressure there's usually less people involved you have the ability to think outside the box a lot more I think back to a lot of the ads and the films that I've made that have been super big budget and there's been a lot of people talking a lot of people saying things so much gear so many options and it removes this internal artist it removes the ability to be able to think outside the box and think with just the tools that you have I once made a film during Co out of a [Music] brick oh because that's all that was there and I needed to make Foams oh another example is the very first foil the very first serious foil that I made called gift I I had a budget of $350 that I made cuz I used to sell jams out of the trunk of my car yeah saved up enough money and I had $350 I made this film and then that film went onto winning a young director's awarded can and a few other Awards and I don't know if I think back to it and I had that idea and then somebody had to give me a lot of budget for that film back then it would have ruined the idea yeah just don't don't get stuck in this in this mindset that big budget equals easier films that's not hard works but it's really really important to understand what the budget is because those are where your parameters are that's kind of where you can work within that space for every philanthropy firm I make for Beast there's a fixed budget and because it's philanthropy the budget isn't very high but at least I know every single time what the budget is and these films do become easier to make because I know the parameters I understand what I can and what I can't do as well as Mr Beast is super generous and you know if we do need something extra here or there and it does make sense within the film we do increase the budget next is research researching the country culture and people and the laws of the place you will be shooting is extremely important when traveling around the world I want to be respectful of other people's cultures traditions and ideologies this allows me to FM as much of the culture as I can and in the most respectful way possible another really good tip of advice is to always couple up with the local make sure you take some of your budget and you're able to pay this person to be able to take you around teach you these things about their culture as well as they will help you navigate your way through wherever you are and get the shots that you desire and take you to these places you didn't even know existed and what I found is you know Google only gives you so much and locals truly understand think about your own town or what you know from microt travel around your city how you understand it um this will also keep you out of danger and make sure that you don't go into dangerous areas this I find highly valuable when creating music from the cultures and kind of veering off from the team and going and shooting b-roll but I'll speak to that later in the shooting phase of this tutorial you also need to understand the legalities around filming people in public and using their face in your YouTube videos every person that features an abuse philanthropy video they have to sign a cast release form meaning that they've given you full permission to be in your video abiding to the local laws wherever you are in the world as well as abiding to the laws of YouTube is a must next shooting schedule this sometimes differs but I like to cap the shooting days to 3 days with a fourth day being a contingency day contingency meaning if we just couldn't get what we needed to get on that third day or second day we do have one more day to be able to capture this footage if we don't use this contingency day it's great because I can use it to travel around and get extra footage capture music raw sounds capture raw parts of the culture and just understand the area that I'm in so much better because I'll be boots on the ground in that area and I'm not just focusing on the story but I'm also focusing on the culture this will help so much in post production having three shooting days and an extra day also helps with the shot list because technically we could shoot these films within 2 days but now the shot list can be more interchangeable remember we making non-fiction films here we not stuck to doing 10 shots a day and we with hundreds of people on set we have to be able to adapt to unforeseen circumstances step five music I believe that music makes up around 40% of the film I know it sounds ridiculous but it really does the emotion everything you can control let me explain this is my studio this is where I like to make music if you're not a musician and you're not into making music or scoring for films then just skip past the section you can utilize multiple online sites to download great music um um if a stock Library wanted this resp of me I would have shouted you out here but I'm not going to I'm joking I'm remaining uh non-bias okay trust me when I tell you the right track will make your film like there's so many moments where in a beast philanthropy film it's the exact same scene with the different track it just doesn't feel right and uh then we come back to the drawing board and it's like okay and we feel something and then when that plays out like the whole fil changes the whole emotion it's it's [ __ ] incredible this forced door to turn to to for help the very first day I posted I did not get any views at all it took one song and that Mo video helped me to have my first follower which I moved from one to close to 4.5 million this on its own is an incredible feat especially without any access to electricity or reliable cell reception this forced Dora to turn to Tik Tok for help the very first day I posted I did not get any views at all it took one song and that small video helped me to have my first follower which I moved from one to close to 4.5 million this on its own is an incredible feat especially without any access to electricity or reliable cell reception now that I've got an understanding of the story and the emotion and like what I want the emotion to be I start to write music in a perfect world I can go and shoot with a few finished soundtracks that way I can obsess a little bit more we do a lot of traveling and we unass bues and trains and planes and whatever and uh I can put on my headphones and I can listen to the music and I can obsess a little bit more about the idea and it it brings me back to the the log line and it sort of starts to connect everything it also helps with shooting toward the edit don't do this with stock music we'll speak about stock music later what I find about stock music is that it's something that should happen in post stock music will alter uh your thinking around the way in which you you want to shoot your film somebody else has made it you've come across it and then your brain starts to go oh maybe I should shoot it like this because there's a Nuance that I found in this track and that's dangerous if you have the ability to be able to score music and come up with the melody yourself you creating that Melody around the original idea I do this for two reasons one is to be able to help me connect to the original idea and another is because what I do and I'll show you more in depth when shooting the film is utilizing dietics diagetic sounds are sounds that happen in front of frame technically okay with this pencil if I buy the pencil it's a pen I'm losing it oh I need another Brew Bar oh they like magic they just fly out of nowhere this is a diagetic and then a non-tic is a sign that will happen outside of frame so I could add of ambience sound outside here to position us next to a train station you know it would alter the way in which the audience perceives where the studio is that's ntic diagetic happens in front of frame so what I try and do is write some form of Melody keep it very very loose and then go and shoot sounds that instruments make in those locations and then recreate the track from those objects or instruments within whatever culture it is that we in because it helps the audience feel more connected to the film helps audence feel as if they were there and and that's really important I'll show you an example here now an Anthem made from all of us for me and you can do as you can see the processive stuff is a lot easier like anything you want to do with percussion like that's a percussive sound you know but finding Melody is difficult that's why also try create a Melody beforehand and then back shoot that you could go to a musician there and you can play them your Melody and you could say could you transpose this in a sense culturally to what would make sense in your environment oh it just makes it easier music also is a language that's spoken universally so I can just play a piece of music and and someone who can't speak English and I obviously can't reciprocate in their language I can play music to them through my phone and they understand um we got to and and then you know there's nothing more pure than being able to play music with somebody else when you can't speak the same language it's a really beautiful feeling so yeah I'm just going to try and build the motif and then the center track of the film so the the film will will move around a one track that has a similar motif throughout that we can keep returning to and what you kind of want to do is tease the audience with this and uh then you want to go into the resolve and that's where the kind of four chords come in the four chords are something that you return to they nostalgic they kind of remind you of something that you've heard before even though it may sound different and you may be playing an octave app or you may have added an inversion or You' you've transposed it somehow for Beast philanthropy I like to return to these four for example this is a piece from a previous [Music] film when we were speaking about oxytocin earlier that's what it does it pre-releases that feeling it reminds you of that one time time you were in love or you watched something that was beautiful that that made you feel special it's nostalgic it's melancholic it's you know the four chords can go anywhere in saying that we're going to try something here then what what I do is we'll come up with something record it possibly write it if it is too complicated then we'll take this recording we'll go to Jason and Jason is who puts it all together he knows how to use all the cool tools and stuff yeah he just makes it beautiful um I sit around here and just like plinky [Music] plunk me [Applause] [Music] [Music] cool I'll just do a voice recording yeah um this is a progression that um I think works same four chords you're going to hate me for it [Music] but and in the predicta bles [Music] oh F you get it though super rough let me know when I can come around and let's turn that into track let's go before we hit to Jason I just want to touch on a few more things about music what I'll get into in the edit is Showcase how to use Music correctly okay let me just phone Jason cuz we like running out of time and this video is taking forever to make okay well he didn't answer Jason just got back to me it's a little bit late it's 7:30 p.m. but we got to go to his studio now and uh make the music [Music] what's up R see R it's been a minute this is where Jason Takes Over completely I'm just going to sit here and [Music] [Applause] [Music] observe streets it's 1:00 a.m. Jason has as always carried the entire workload of the music okay here it [Music] goes [Music] hit work so well in the film that's H's done back to the office step six the shoot this is what I pack for a beast philanthropy shoot small camera lens bigger lens even bigger lens lens adapter Indie filter a drive another drive and another Drive sound gear more sound gear microphone batteries more batteries and some more batteries charging Cube DV cam headphones flashlight tube light pink blue and black gaffet tape power bank another power bank keyboard obviously Brew bars lots of Brew bars action cam empty card holder full card holder hyperdrive hyperdrive lepo mic notebook gorilla pod drone controller Pelican case and and backpack and then obviously clothes then there's a few items that have literally saved the day that have saved the shot that you should definitely pack in your bag they're non-expensive items but make sure that you have these at all times one is gaffet tape don't pack this in on your carry-on luggage they will take it away it's happened to me a few times far too many times the other is a multi-tool do not pack this in your overhead luggage either they will remove it Universal plugs I mean self-explanatory you need power and if you don't have power a power bank this one's got lots of little things that you can plug into it's a it's a cool one this you should pack in your overhead luggage if it's in the other bag they will remove it cuz it's like a big battery thing and they they don't like it a small light is also great Jesus in the dark this this can help in the pole there's going to be no electricity for most of the time and a light like this that can be powered by battery is so valuable cable ties definitely do not pack this in your overhead luggage this will create a lot of concern cable ties can do anything much like gaet tape and a multiplug with a long extension cord this is for setting up what you call a gear Bay as soon as I arrive I make sure that everything is neatly packed I'm very finicky when it comes to that sort of thing to make sure that just I've got all my items lined out as well as this can help you at the end of the day to kind of look at it inventory list and make sure that you haven't lost anything and make sure that your batteries are always charged now let me show you how I set up a gear Bay I need to make it abundantly clear that I'm not in the Pole right now the night before a shoot because let me show you what the neple setup looked like that is not the normal way to set up a gear bear at all we had zero electricity zero power I'm going to use this as an example where I've got electricity in a hotel room right now is the night before I'm shooting in Mexico even though I've been traveling for 32 hours straight I have to shoot tomorrow so no matter how tired I am even though I can go again I'm going to do this tomorrow I make sure sure I set up my gear Bay the night before right now I'm not too concerned about the lenses and the camera buddies mainly batteries always Bates first now what you want to do is make sure that you have enough dis distance between this [ __ ] so not everything's on top of one [Music] another now that my gear station's all organized it's time to take a look at my camera and how I set it up for every shoot day first I make sure that all my cameras are set to the correct date time and format these are countries that use pole and these use ntsc this will alter your shooting settings as well as your frame ratees pole being 25 frames per second and ntsc being 24 or 23976 but also if your camera allows for it you can get 12 120 frames per second over 100 FPS that you would get on P giving you that extra bit of slow motion I shoot everything at 60 FPS standard and then move over to 120 when needed as you never know when you might might need to slow something down a moment of Joy a moment of sadness Etc I make sure that my camera is set to shoot in Sony S log 3 this is the log picture profile on my camera and will allow me to retain as much detail as possible in the shot no matter what camera you shoot on if it does have the option to shoot log i' would suggest shooting in the setting as this will give you more latitude to grade and post essentially it retains more detail and gives you more maneuverability with color I also make sure to set the file naming convention in every camera I'm shooting on to include the date as well as the sequence number so that no files are duplicated as this would cause them to link incorrectly while editing and this is a very common mistake you probably know most of this but these are my shooting preferences in order to make things look more cinematic firstly has shoot on the most shallow depth of field is possible that obviously goes with how fast your lens is these lenses go to 2.8 the trick is obviously in broad daylight there's too much light and that's where an ND filter comes into to play generally Indies work in 3 six and N that's one stop two stops or three stops I like to use a variable indd filter but these if you overcompensate and go beyond nine Beyond three stops you're going to start getting crosshairs also remember that if you fully zoomed out you are going to get venting so you are going to have to crop in slightly and post the shutter speed then is an interesting one many different ways you can go about this if you want to kind of sit in the middle and make sure that your image is sharp but it's not too sharp but it's also not too slow low always make sure that your shutter speed is double the speed of your frame rate so if you're shooting 60 frames per second make sure that you're shooting 1 over 120 and if you shooting 120 frames per second make sure you're shooting 240 to make color grading much less of a nightmare make sure that you set your white balance your wi balance should be consistent throughout all your cameras so this camera that's shooting me right now is compensating for this light or else I'll just be orange I'll be an orange person here for example I'm going to change the wide balance to make it warmer and and yeah I'm going to change the wide balance to make it colder at standard 5,600 is known as daylight and 3,200 is known as night these numbers work in what's called culvin 3,200 covin 5,600 covin every camera has a native ISO the reason I don't like red cameras is because they just can't shoot in low light if you like red cameras good for you I like Sony's the reason I love Sony is they so good in low light I'm speaking to ISO here the native ISO so with the son cameras I shoot on the native ISO is 640 and 12,800 make sure that you know what the native ISO on your camera is so that you don't get gain all over the place in your footage it's just terrible I always make sure I have three formatted ssds the reason I use three ssds is for just extra precaution I had a situation recently with a really shitty company the shittest hard drive you can ever come across because it deleted and formatted everything and that company's name is SanDisk yes you SanDisk you I knew I was going to have to shoot this here so I brought this with as a prop just to show how much I hate it look okay okay one thing I'll give you sandis isz they're pretty ragged but they format all the time now because of the fear that's been so deeply embedded Within Me from losing footage I make sure that I Daisy CH my drives it just means plug them all in at the same time so the footage trickles between one to the next to the next I use a program called hedge to do this I'll link it below obviously then all my files are the same across all my drives but then I've got three different drives and I can put them in three different places when I fly back home in case the plane crashes I know well then all the footage will be gone but if one of my bags break and goes missing with one drive that's okay if I get stolen or go missing that's also okay yeah then if the other bag goes missing well then the project just wasn't supposed to happen yeah that's that's enough about hard drives now back to my office a day before I fly to [Music] Nepal okay now with everything prepped let me tell you how I actually go about shooting a bece philanthropy video okay first to track everything throughout the day I create edit logs this is a document where I write everything down every key moment from the shoot and then tag certain files such as interviews or boxies this is extremely handy when ever I need to refer back to what I shot this is from the film in Colombia and it's amazing to go through I keep all these edit logs yeah these are really special to me I've got a whole bunch of different books that I keep and I L everything it's it's just so important for post production The Narrative for all the Beast Fant be videos come from the interviews there would drive the story forward and allow me to extract the subject matter needed to make the film emotive as well as find out more about the project at hand through the subject's point of view a way to make sure that the audience understands that this is a conversation happening between one person and another and not that character to the camera they never stare into the lens I've created an X out of gaffet tape and the character looks at that not in here ey line is so important if this seems close to the camera and you may think that it looks like they're looking there trust me this actually looks pretty far off of camera the only people that look directly into the lens are Jimmy and Darren because they are the main narrators of the story they are speaking to the audience I also shoot two angles one from the front and one from the side this helps with cutting just in case there is a a stumble with words or a lot of ums and rs and then after the interview I like to shoot hands eyes those kinds of moments that that I can push into so in case they are fumbles with what the person is saying I then also to record the sound externally with LA mics and internally on the camera so this goes without saying you definitely know this but you don't need a a Clapper board but always just clap in before the interview to make sure that the two cameras sink as well as the mouth to the LA mic SN now that I've spoken about shooting the two camera kind of more setup interviews this is how I go about shooting the film the actual substance the subject matter these are my favorite things to do through the interview process you'll definitely find out about other characters within the community so about going and finding out more about these characters and hopefully being able to interview them and really feel their [Music] environment and then once you have this you'll have the ability to go back and kind of shot list or quickly on your phone or right then and there know what b-roll shots to get that will best amplify the moments diagetic sounds going out and hunting for music and hunting for sound and hunting for culture and dance and rhythm and music I've probably said music twice there because it's so important for me then these match cuts which have to be on a tripod there's nothing worse than match cuts and the ones this way and that and then you're sitting in post and you're trying to fix them all match cuts are used for multiple reasons I use them to Showcase scale so I use with people's faces match cutting through a whole bunch of faces or to Showcase a building before it was built and when it was built or before it was restored and when it was restored also multiple angles of things just add more more context it's what's known as the Misan sense gives you the environment that you are in time lapses time lapses can sometimes become a little bit redundant but they're great they're great to Showcase and kind of merge time and space and kind of progress you into the next day really quickly another use of time lapses are also to Showcase scales if we're doing a project where an environment is getting filled by thousands of people we can either do match Cuts Like I spoke about before empty to now full or quickly people filling a space then with every character I like to do front follows and back follows this I shoot at around 24 28 mm and I also try and shoot this either in morning light or evening light it's so great to get a little peak of Sun so you kind of you can look at where the shadow line is and then know where to get the peak of light to come out and you kind of move back in you can do this from a lower angle and then also do it eye to eye level shoot this at a higher frame rate as well as get that character within the environment that makes sense to what they are saying to look around look down if it's a concerning moment make sure that they look concerned if it's a moment of Joy make sure that they look happy get them to look up in each Direction remember again it's an unscripted film we don't know what we're going to have to use and post so overshoot here make sure that you overcompensate with Beast philanthropy films we deal with pretty harsh subject matter and this is a difficult thing you know this is there's a line that you can cross and we don't want to cross the line but you also need to Showcase these harsh realities for example if there's an area that doesn't have access to running water you can use iconography like a tap that just has one droplet of water coming out and then there is certain subject matter that's just it's tough to watch and you have to consider the audience here and this is where animation is a great tool a great way of being able to describe this in a a non kind of gruesome sense then if I have the budget I use a licensed drone pilot to just get some drone shots of the area again I'm not a massive fan of too many drone shots but this does help again with the Misan sense the environment showcasing where it is as well as you know there can be some quick and clever Cuts with this as well as match cuts from above from the side being able to access areas that you wouldn't be able to access I'm fine with using a drone I hate a gimbal never I you know you do you shoot the gimbal that's just not for me the reason for this is because the gimbal gets misused the gimbal now for some of the reason people want to just shoot stable shots of everything they moving shots moving through doors moving out of doors for instance when someone's running you don't want to see a smooth shot of someone running you want to feel the running you want to run beside them remember we are sitting in non-fiction films here we're sitting in YouTube this is the reality of what it is be shaky it's totally cool it's unexpected it sits outside of what's become now the norm these stable shitty shots then there are comedic bits which I'll show you an example from our recent film in Mexico we're walking through the park we just found a mariachi band and it's always been a dream of Darren to join a Mari band so hopefully I can make this stream come true sorry and my friend over there he wants to uh join the band okay we got you ahead [Music] I think we have to shut this down this is terrible that was one of the greatest experiences of my life that shows you how boring Darren's life is um these help make these videos less fatiguing so when watching it because it's such emotive subject matter you get the audience to a point and we want tears and we want people to feel that feeling and then you want to kind of break that feeling for a little bit and give them some humor give them something to enjoy I believe that all the dogs are scared of Darren cuz every time he tries to feed a dog they run away not every dog look at that one dogs like [Music] me as well as this also helps with what I spoke about earlier having returning characters within the video that help the audience build a relationship with either it's Jimmy Darren or myself within these moments that have this friendship and this Bond and you kind of start to understand the dynamic between the two or three people then also you have to consider your other social platforms so well in that environment also be vigilant for things that could work for a YouTube short or a Tik Tok video for instance when we were in Thailand and we built a dog shelter there was a small section of that of a dog named Goya that had the ability to run for the first time because we provided Goya with a wheelchair for her back legs and this made an exceptional short form piece of content and lastly what I've spoken about the obvious is the the unknown there's probably four other things here that I just don't know what I'm going to end up shooting and that's if I think again I'm getting stuck in this notion of I should only be shooting this I miss out all of this and that's through speaking to locals and and constantly being on the hunt for something a more rich story something that's going to drive you deeper so make sure you always have your camera I have this little like side small camera that I like to use that I can whip out at any point and kind of get those shots sometimes an iPhone works as well it doesn't matter cinematically if it if it doesn't match if it advances the story that's all that matters lastly never ever ever ever ever ever film somebody without their knowledge that you filming them we've had cases of this this I've had cases of this of people foaming me it's terrible people do this weirdly I have no idea maybe they want to catch you out saying something wrong or misuse a piece of information or dox you somehow there's nothing more disrespectful and me having people for me like that and people from my team like that just don't do it please just always make sure that you're telling someone hey do you mind if I shoot this and you roll it even if it's you shooting this way make sure the people that are speaking speaking here uh understand that you're rolling you're possibly rolling sound this may be people speaking about important things that are private to them could be stuff about business just make sure that people understand that you are shooting now time to pack a [ __ ] I need shoes yeah all righty off to Nepal let's do this after three flights and 28 hours of travel we finally arrived in Catman do but we still had to jump onto that thing that's a transport which is a really uncomfortable 9 and a half very rickety and bumpy ride all the way to the top of a 9,000 ft Mountain we even drove past the milcut mirror wall which is like filled with thousands and thousands of mirrors because of this really long drive Darren who is the executive director of Beast philanthropy got to sit down and talk about what goes into the shooting part of the process after all the planning has been done the truth of the matter is that this is probably the most difficult and most demanding part of the whole process and by the time we're ready to go to bed at 3 or 4:00 in the morning and we'll do this days in a row I don't want to make it sound like it's terrible it's incredible Adventure every single shoot is different but they're incredibly tiring and grueling things don't always go the way that we plan Darren and I fight about the concept all the time Dan and I fight about everything all the time I just said that not the concept I'm talking are you doing it again in all honesty none of this would have happened without Jimmy he has G The Rock behind everything that we are doing over here the fact that he has given us this platform to do this and the significant amount of money that he invests in everything that we are doing is something I'll never ever be able to express to him what it means and then as we drove on down around and rambled for hours as he usually does until he finally said something worth noting when we finished the project planning and everything that's when we head on location and start planning our Sho with Jimmy here's a quick example of how I shot Jimmy for the video we made in Mexico for Operation Smile while I waited for Jimmy to arrive I went through the printed version of the script to make sure that everything was perfect I always start off by getting b-roll shots of Jimmy walking through the field even though Jimmy is highly camera trained I like to do b-roll shots first first and share these kind of off camera conversations and some laughs which really helps when he is talking to the camera next I shot all of Jimmy's lines to cameras Mexico Operation Smile I put so much emphasis on making sure that Jimmy's Cadence is correct we go back and forth a lot just to make sure that this comes across the right way one of these patients is Emanuel am I happy or sad or just neutral yeah do neutral the reason I have to help guide Jimmy's lines to Camera and Video is because he has not yet seen the edit and somewhat is going into this completely blind I really do appreciate the trust he gives me to direct him with this it's during the reviews of the edit that he does sometimes request vo changes but very rarely does he request changes to the lines he delivers directly to the camera even though I script these lines Jimmy uses it very much as a guide which helps him understand the story and then he shapes the lines to make them more his own here let me do one like that that's a little shorter you don't have to use it I see all right for hundreds of thousands of kids in South Africa the only thing standing between them and an education is a simple pair of shoes let me explain what seems like a small Nuance is actually massive this makes a huge difference in the edit it was time for patient number 99 he did it just look at the relief on his face like that or perfect and let's turn one like just one down he did it just look at the relief on his face perfect that's amazing he did it just look at the relief on his [Music] face he did it just look at the relief on his face okay with all that being said back to Nepal we getting close to the location as the bus finally pulled up to its last stop the extreme altitude made it really cold but we soon found out we weren't even there yet Daren says it's a beautiful walk I say it's a treacherous walk we still had to walk 5 km with just 3 mil to get to the Village until we finally arrived in Kagan one of the most beautiful villages in rural Nepal for the next 4 days we were graciously hosted by an Incredible nepes family welcome my house thank you welcome thank you but there was a slight problem there were two beds and three of us and from past experiences Darren I knew that I needed a good night rest so how are we going to do this boy do what you know well luckily our neighbor was kind enough to offer Darren his own room and just before the sun was starting to set I got to profess my love for Darren it's supposed to be a heart I love [Music] it you're good you're good got this is beastful L to be hair makeup and now we have to walk like with the whole way to the top of that thing up there to meet the community the walk there was tougher than expected 1 thankfully we made it in one piece even though it was the first night I felt extremely welcomed by the community of love [Applause] and instead of immediately filming I got the opportunity to immerse myself in the culture make sure you create these strong bonds with people with the locals it's cold as [ __ ] we then headed home to get a good night's rest before the first day of shooting that's it from my side I got really hectic hay there the next morning with no time to waste I grabbed my camera and headed out to the Village to start shooting this is my movement order or shut list for the first day of shooting I started out by going to the neighboring family and then filming all of these details around me notice how I'm noninvasively directing the people that I'm filming this helps me ensure that I always capture the moment that I'm looking for and when filming a conversation like this it's important to understand and went to point the camera at the person speaking and then went to pan over and point the camera at the person listening this obviously comes with skill and practice and and just doing it a lot it will eventually become instinctual to predict what's going to happen next I then stumbled across this man playing the guitar because it's raw sounds like these that I can more easily turn into a track at a later stage Darren and I then got a lift in this pickup truck to the hospital once we arrived I started off by getting the opening shots I like to call these plinky plunk match Cuts these are great for showcasing before and afters it's just so impactful to see where a building started and where it's ended then I like to dive into the interviews just like when shooting Jimmy always ensure that the subject feels comfortable this isn't them speaking to a camera this is rather them speaking to you and you having this conversation watch this answer from Melissa as she reflects on her personal Journey with her organization the green prr and when I think about myself at 11 or 19 starting this I just I don't think I could uh have ever dreamed that we would be bringing people around the world uh who care so deeply and are doing such amazing work uh and just bring so much love and empathy and kindness to the work that they do I'm very lucky very very grateful to be here with all these amazing people this is why you guys are so good at what you do and this is how I ask the question tell me how you feel literally when you wake up in the morning here and you look over the valley you see this hospital and you realize that that's because of your work you know you made this thing happen lots of times you don't think like that so you're speaking about us a lot but if you had to mention you which is feels like a brag but it doesn't come across at all like a brag I then went on to shooting as many interviews as I could because this really helps me shape the story early on I then try and cram in as much b-roll as I can before the end of the day like Drone footage and time lapses this is like the most one of the most incredible views I think I've ever seen as you can probably hear my supposed hay fever was getting a lot worse I'm actually quite worried to be honest because I feel very and hi inside that was a bit of an understatement I'm not doing well I'm feeling really sick so I have to head over to the local medical post so I'm going to experience kind of what it would be like without the hospital being put in but we lucky enough that we get to drive there usually the locals were have to walk over these like intense Road okay let's go as you can see there's no electricity and it's all closed right now that's the harsh reality is if you severely ill in a village nearby you'd have to make a 7-hour trick to get to the closest big facility that can help we had to wait for the local nurse to come open up I'll be honest at this moment I felt like absolute [ __ ] so the the local nurs has just arrived the doctor and nurse check me out and luckily it was nothing lifethreatening just a infection of the FTI GTI GTI yeah gatio infection I've got a gnarly GTI I think got some medicine for my GTI infection and hoped it would get me through the night and through the next days okay just a check in it's day number two it's definitely tougher than it normally is that night I got to rest but at the same time I had to ensure I planned out the shot list for the final shoot day 3 2 [Music] 1 the next day the team was hard at work finishing up the construction of the new hospital while still not feeling great I pushed through the day and shot the last solar panel set up up I also had the honor to be able to sign the final solar panel along with the rest of the team that same night we were finally ready for the most exciting part the lighting ceremony just to give this context this is the first time these people will be able to experience light at night are you ready 3 2 1 that night we went to bed as early as possible because the next day was going to be really really special oh my God it's fing this is hecting it is 6:20 finally feeling better just packed up all our stuff we are headed to Mount Everest this morning which is really [Applause] [Music] exciting R we're off to Everest [Music] Darren and I are at the highest point we've ever been together it's been one hell of a year you know we've been working together just one year and look where we are on top of the world literally and figuratively and I wouldn't share this experience with anybody else man I love you on the top of the world and I'm starting to feel drunk how you feeling feeling exceptionally lightheaded and somewhat kind of drunk I couldn't help but faint in the helicopter once we landed I was told I was in a state of hypoxia which is the lack of enough oxygen to sustain bodily functions Dar and I just went up 17,500 ft but that Chopper went through 19,500 ft which ising up greater do you know what else is [ __ ] outrageous the next chapter of this video step seven the edit okay back from Nepal and it's time to get into the most beefy part of this video this is the most requested tutorial that I do which is the editing process the entire post- production process so I'm going to take you through in real time how I edit this video with every single technique this is this is going to be in saying I've never done anything that's remotely as comprehensive as what I'm about to do so let's jump into it remember if you're using resolve or Avid or any other program final card Pro totally cool I'm going to be using Premiere but the process is still the same this is a stepbystep guide on how to edit a video the way that I'll do it at least firstly we're going to go through setting up the project correctly this is so overlooked sometimes I look at other editors projects and the files are everywhere they don't know where to find Clips we going to focus on how to folder everything correctly it's a major major step in the process so so valuable if you do this correctly before we import everything into the project let's look at the folder structure within the drive this is what the nepo drive looks like now we're going to go through this this is exactly how I folder every single drive inside footage we've labeled it archival footage now as we were able to sort archive footage from the actual organization that has just been sent to us then there's a folder called Darren images cut to which is just like it's a random folder if it makes sense there's images that we can do like a quick cut then we've got day one day two day three day four day five as the main footage folders obviously what really helps this entire footage bin is our edit logs once going through all of them if if I'm confused as to what on which day which which we'll get into this will be able to drag into Premiere Pro in a in a rarely organized way we've then got freelancer footage an amazing guy that we got to work with in the pole someone else who came and helped out his name's Dusty he's awesome then we got the pickups he then went back and was able to shoot a bunch of stuff that we just couldn't get which is amazing and then all iPhone content this is just for real verticals that kind of stuff and if we got any little cutaway moments that we may need little foxies on iPhone goes there next is music as you can see now everything is the full mix sits here but everything else is what you call stems stems really help with editing in case you want to remove an instrument or if something sounds a little bit too intense you just have more maneuverability this way so I tend to edit with the stems from a full track or full mix I break those down into about five stems thepole tracks R is kind of where we started off those are ideas and sometimes may return to that and be like okay cool let's flesh that one out let's try that once we've sort of started to get to the end we put them in the nepo tracks as stems V1 as going through the post process we might have V2 V3 V4 as we may make changes to the music then sound which is broken up into two parts sound effects and raw sound recordings those are the sound recordings per day that was shot on the lav mics external to what was shot internal on the camera then underneath the sound effects folder is all the sound effects this generally happens by going through stock sites and sourcing sound but I've got such a rich library of sound effects already I just drag that in and pop that into that sound folder then what we do is we add a music diegetic folder in here which is everything instrumentation wise or diagetic sounds that we can then create a diagetic soundtrack out of or we may just want to use uh certain moments there's a track [Music] here my hands is freezing you know that's awesome so we we could take that and turn that into a soundtrack as well which will be amazing in the footage itself we may find moments of hits and kind of percussive sounds that we could use along the [Music] way the next is the additionals folder now this additionals folder is super important if you're working with a team even another person you're opening up a team's project so that the projects can sync for the additionals folder to make sure that all the media links and stays online it is important to categorize this by date from when you start the edit the whole way until you end the edit and then what you do is you take those individual sourced files and then put them into the correct folder that they should be next is exports this is where I would export the brand review a review for Darren a review for Mr Beast but usually what I find on drives and seeing on other people's messy drives which is scary uh is things are just all over the place so just export it into what's either here on this root folder or within this root folder here which is just terrible this here looks like just like I want to start editing it makes me really EXC excited because everything is so perfectly organized and I'll easily be able to navigate my way through here next is animation as you can see the files just empty now G effects the same thing that's just the graphic effects that are then added we will Source these externally and then we'll pull them back in the rest of the drive is pretty self-explanatory and I shouldn't have to go too into depth for this except for final exports if you need to open up the project in 2 years time everything will online there is nothing worse than having an offline file the red thing that says media offline that's like panic attack you don't want that this will prevent that so great that's everything I'm going to open up Premiere and then we're going to pull this in and we're going to start going through everything all my sequences will be at 23976 frames per second 4K and Rec 709 color space regardless shooting Pole or ntsc it'll work for both before importing anything I'm first going going to set up the sequences bin and I'm going to lay out all the sequences as per the edit log and as per my knowledge from what we did shoot and what sequences we're going to need I make my first folder called master in that is where the master story would go right now there's obviously no master story it's just a sequence that is sitting in there called Master Story one then two is the selects selects form arguably the largest part of the project this is where all of my footage will be categorized by shot type scene behind the scenes theme or event this makes it extremely easy for me to find footage when placing in b-roll or when I'm looking for a shot I'm like oh I wish I had something like that instead of searching through the footage bins I navigate directly to the selected sequences I need to search for the shot that worked the best three scenes this is where I first build out the string outs and then I just narrow it down and down and down until it becomes an individual scene something congruent a whole bunch of scenes will be placed in here and named by those scenes dependent on the project but then I can go to those scenes and it's kind of like a a puzzle piece I go like okay cool that scene works yeah that scene that scene that scene that scene and then I can flip them around and these scenes don't need to be perfectly cut because I will then move it into the master folder and the master folders well add music Etc so again these scenes are for longer string out and then it's just reduce reduce reduce reduce reduce until I've got a kind of scene that makes sense multiple different camera angles four is for interviews this is like I said before the narration of the film this is what drives the film forward interviews are split into three separate sequences synced cut and selected the synced sequence will have two camera angles and the audio sync together then in the cut sequence it's the entire interview still but with all the ums the RS it's my questions removed if I've conducted the interview it's kind of just also a long string out but there can be multiple different answers is within this it's not a perfect put together story what I do is go through and listen to the entire interview again and as I'm going through I like to then just chop chop chop chop chop that sort of makes the sync cut redundant but if I do need to go and get a moment and am on R whatever for who knows why the sync cut is there then finally the select interview sequence this is where I cut down the interview into just the best part and I start to move things around and and make sure that the sentence structure is correct and once you've done this your story is starting to come together there may be 20 different characters and you can start to place these on the master timeline and then you'll also know what that person says there doesn't really make sense or that that character doesn't really need to be in the video Even though onet well shooting you'll be like wow what that person said it really hits me hard by going through all the interviews you can see how to intercut these interviews together for it to make sense and for each sentence that everybody says to complement one another I've also got a BN called n 99 old this is where all my old duplicated sequences get stored it's almost like my trash can but it will never be deleted it allows me to keep my project neat and tidy this is super important okay now it's time to import the footage it's an exact duplicate of what was in the drive when this importer error pops up about your XML files it's totally cool just click okay and move on and then what's really imported is our nested folder any sequences that are nested we throw in here now the Project's ready to go and it's super late what I'm going to do is tomorrow have the longest day of my life ever I think and start cutting the selects and then the scenes I'll see you shortly okay it's day number two and uh no better way to start off the day than with a Brew Bar good okay let the fun begin this is the hardest part I'm going to go through all of the footage now and put it into these individual sequences that we've created okay so there's multiple ways of doing this I don't want to say it's boring but it is I want to understand the story and get through it and re remind myself of a bunch of things so I have to sit down and actually cut through all the interviews that's the very first thing that I'm going to sit here and do and then from there go through the different bins and slowly start with the footage so over here we're going to look for in our days we I'll return to the edit logs and be able to know okay fine on this day I conducted that interview on this day I conducted that interview etc etc and then I'm going to layer it all out so let's go so I've opened up my edit logs this is really important this will help me figure out where the interviews are and which day I did what day one we got travel shots day three we've got an interview up front over here then we've got Darren interview so on the third day seems that I did most of the interviews so what we can do is go straight to footage day three and in here we'll go through where we were we're going to go to sequences we're going to open up interviews we're going to go to Melissa and we're going to go to just the sync version now where we're going to pull in a duplicated sequence and while we here we might as well just create the others so first thing we're going to do is put everything into the sync so open that go into our footage we always look for the clap Mark Shuffle in a little bit there we go all interviews conducted are like sometimes even longer than an hour but you know minimum 30 minutes maximum kind of hour and a half a7s was camera 2 this is side angle as we can see and we're going to sync that with the front angle which was shot on the fx3 so now all we need to get is the sound file so what I usually do for sequences like this so if I want to put it into another sequence I've got interviews Mina now I want to do selected open this and I'll pull it down here and that makes it easy for me to then pull something one by one however in this case obviously it was just a copy paste so no need to do that so that's not all remained in sync it's going to stay there just like that I'm probably never going to return to that and now we're going to really start chopping as you can see here I'm busy removing just most of my talking and just all the prompts y responsible travel responsible Travel and Adventure and Adventure so you can see here she fumbled on her line we believe in empowering uh Future Leaders to We Believe In The Power of we're going to take her we from here because I asked her to start again so as you can see there's going to be a lot of repeat of what she's saying because I'm only in the Melissa selected sequence once it goes to the cut sequence that's when I've actually cut it up this is why you guys are so good at what you do okay we got a good cry moment here just pop it up one like this okay so I'm done with this first interview so as you can see I took something that was 45 minutes and it's already it's only on 5 minutes but remember this is not the Final Cut sequence this is just a selected so now I'm going to pull it into the cut sequence but I'm not going to cut it down yet I'm leaving it there I've banked all the knowledge in my head and I can remember what she said and then I'm going to start playing around with cutting and then building her sequence out for the cutting sequence but again so great to have all of these options so if I have to ever return here I can her interview if it goes into the film even we have decided sometimes a character it just doesn't complement the film it would Max be 40 seconds now what I'm going to do is you're going to see a hyper time lapse of me doing all the other interviews let's [Music] go okay uh I've finished a select sequence called Dan hospital and what I'm going to do is because I know that this is going to make the project I'm going to create the scene for this so what I'll do in here is create a duplicate down Hospital scene and then pull that into scenes now once I pulled that in there what I do is I pull this down below now I can go through here and each I watch a clip that I like I've got to go over to and then I can just pull it down this means that then up here I can just make my legs but this still keeps the full clip up top so if I want to I can pull that into there and then just select the moment that I like and it still remains up here untouched I'm going to now go through this and create a nice congruent scene out of this hospital it's a 10 minute long select sequence and I want to try and get it down to about I would say a 2 minute scene and then from there we'll cut it down even further when going into the master so the scene will then get smaller and smaller and smaller and smaller and smaller as we go along but I want to try and create it as a nice contained scene right now let's go I've made the D Hospital scene much shorter so it runs in a nice congruent order here which is ready to go into the project so now I'm going to do the same thing about another 40 times I'm going to go through all of these select sequences and then create scenes for those select sequences I'm going to finish that all tonight it's going to be a very very [ __ ] long night and then tomorrow I'm going to start off with building out the master which currently now is empty but that's okay because tomorrow morning I'm going to start off with a Brew Bar how's about that I'm just going to put put me right in actually speaking of ah F run okay before I go into the earliest night of editing another a bre [Music] ball okay let's do this [Music] okay God the time is now 5:38 a.m. and my alarm says it's going to go off in 30 minutes minutes that's like the normal time I wake up I will see you tomorrow actually yeah like today later today I'll see you later today today we're going to start building out our Master sequence our very first Master Okay as you can see it here what I'm going to do is try and build a chronological story right from the beginning to the end so for this I'm actually going to ride this script as they go along we dub our videos in nine or 11 different languages dependent on the video so when having everything written out on a script beforehand or as as I'm going makes it a little bit easier I don't have to then go afterwards and write it out word for word I can actually just make changes and then what I do is I record my voice in the place of where Jimmy's voice would go for voice over this is a great way to fill in the gaps within the story it's like oh I wish that person said this or I wish that this was said or how do we bring the gap between this and this this voice over will be done with my voice for now and then later on you'll see how Jimmy then records the voice over for this so I've opened up my script while going through the script then I like to also put in Parts like this where it's like kind of like editing prompts then I like to read the script out loud kind of in Jimmy's inflections and I have to put my glasses on because okay 10 days ago this hospital at the very top of a 10,000 foot mountain and one of the most remote parts of Nepal looked like this feels like it might be a bit wordsy as you can see I'm now altering parts of the way in which this is done so I'm just going to record my vo saying this and then if it doesn't work I'm going to come back and we're going to start again 10 days ago this hospital at the very top of a 10,000 ft mountain in the middle of the most remote parts of nepo looked like this it drop this [Music] oh one of the things to mention is that usually I'd be using headphones but for the sake of this tutorial obviously I'm not going to be using headphones another big thing is that make sure you are wired in with your headphones if you are using headphones there is a lag with the Bluetooth on headphones I'm sure most of you know this but when you're cutting when you're very specific to cutting to the music as well as sound sync on The Voice Bluetooth headphones don't go there the very top of a 10,000 ft mount in the middle of the most remote parts okay what I've realized is we've mentioned 10 and 10 again that's not a good thing the mountain is above 10,000 ft but I would always pull it to a rounded off number here we might have to go 9,000 just so it doesn't go 10 days ago 10,000 go back to the script this is the process people don't understand about editing is how much back and forth there is I recorded those lines I didn't even think about it until I put into sequence and I was like H okay it doesn't 10 and 10 doesn't sound right when as soon as you play it back once the viewer clicks on the video we want them to understand so to the thumbnail and title which we can see here we powered a mountain and you can see all the solar panels we want them to understand in this that we are going to see 10 days ago this hospital at the very top of a 9,000 ft Mountain so we speaking to this remote high mountain that has all these solar panels on it and that has to correlate with the hospital because that's the whole intention of this video is to bring power to the Village to bring power to the hospital and in going back and forth with the titles and thumbnails um we powered a hospital we power you know those weren't as clickable titles as the one that we landed with and the thumbnail as soon as people click on the video because this is Beast philanthropy people have come here to see Jimmy so we'll put him right up front in this section 10 days ago that's enough just to know that okay cool I'm clicking on a beast video and I've seen his face let's get this hooked down and then we're going to go into the rest of the story okay so now we know what we're going to do is open up the selects and then if we happy with those selects we then going to open up the scene that are created for those selects see an important part about segmenting these is I've got exterior Interiors Machinery then a scene that I need I needed to build out so obviously we want the contrast imagery here so we want the best match cut from great to something that's unfinished so we're going to go to hospital prior and we're going to see the match Cuts between the two we've locked the first 7 Seconds 7 to9 Seconds which is a great start what I'm going to have to do now is get on a plane go to India I'm not even talking [ __ ] and then I'm going to pick up this edit and continue it from there while I'm in India I'm going to also be shooting a project that we're doing there so I'm going to have to edit this in the night this is insane okay see you in India okay I've just arrived in my hotel room very minimal setup in India just my laptop I've got a mini keyboard just in case what I'm going to focus on tonight is trying to get to the 1 minute 30 Mark might seem unrealistic possibly is but I'm just going to go for it anyways this is very formulaic and this is how I break apart this first 1 minute 30 seconds we'll start off with the first 5 to 7 Seconds which is impact this is delivering a line that's impactful this is usually always said by Mr Beast Jimmy delivering to camera this gets a reaction from the audience then we have the 7 to 30 second Mark which is the hook so you go impact people look at it they go ah then the hook is giving people a reason to care it's a reason to wanting to stay longer and watch the film because this is a problem that they can somewhat relate to this is where I would start to introduce more Global themes things like the bare necessities electricity water food travel medical even though that may be right up front and impact I'll then still bring that across in the hook the first 30 seconds but remember the the goal here as well as to tell a compelling story we also need to keep the viewer here the average view duration I'm not just teaching you how to make a video that's people are going to watch forever about meaningless [ __ ] this is like a hybrid version of making cinematic artistic films with Integrity that are endearing but at the same time using a formula in order to try and keep the audience to watch the whole way through because with Beast philanthropy the higher the views the higher the revenue that's generated from the views and the more people that we can help and that's really important is to be able to tell really compelling stories that get high views as well that's something that's a very complicated thing and after time I've developed this way in order to do so three the 30 to 1 minute 30 Mark now we are establishing this is now where we start to communicate the story all the stuff that moves its way to to the hook till the 302nd mark as an audience I'm watching it and I go okay now I'm hooked tell me the story this happen so much and I think that not many editors speak about this and that's I I had some time to move away from the edit while I was on the plane and when I arrived here I took a look at the impact sequence that I had made back in Cape Town and it just wasn't good so now I'm starting again that's totally okay editing is something that either it moves really quickly based on the fact that you in some form of Flow State whatever you want to call it and you really feeling it and it works well and the story just comes to you all things will lag in the beginning and you kind of going back and forth and back and forth I like to really build my foundations I like to start off really strong and then I find from there it's smooth setting and this is the hardest part this first 1 minute 30 seconds once I've gotten over this hill perfectly fine then I know that I've got a golden film when I watched the intro scene the impact scene it just didn't get me so I'm taking these starting from scratch so I'm going back to the Whiteboard going to try rewrite that line 10 days this Hospital looked like this that's like the most perfect answer to that so if people click on the video we powered a mountain we invested because we understand mountain correlates with mountain it is the first and the first I couldn't have pre written this well I could have but I needed to try the other thing to know that this was the right way to go but I'm feeling good about this one now Okay so we've answered Mountain here now we've got it powered now we kind of speaking about a hospital in that hospital we want to sort of see solar know that power and Mountain both correlate in the first 7 seconds I wish I was smart enough to have just written all of this right up front taking you on that Whirlwind okay 10 days ago at the very top of a 9,000 ft mountain in one of the most remote parts of Nepal this Hospital looked like this feels better going to air drop to my computer into that late night grind okay so what I'm going to do now is combine the impact and the hook so I'm going to get myself to the 30C Mark I think that's what the struggle was in the beginning is is taking the impact and leading it into the hook I've got the story I've got the impactful part written and I've recorded my voice there that will be replaced with Jimmy's voice when we record his video but I want to continue that just to the 30 second Mark to the communication to just understand what comes after the impact and this I'll do also with music and I'll get myself to a point and then I'm going to start putting in the footage and the b-roll get to that point and then I'm going to go from 30 seconds the whole way to a minute okay now what we want to start doing is building The Motif into a kind of sad sense but then the track can move upward and there's a track here we made called Everest which has this kind of like uneasy feeling 10 days ago this hospital at the very top of a 9,000 what I love about this first track that we made is that it's really unsettling in the beginning but but when you start to get to when you get to this point here just feel how empowering this [Music] is It's unsettling but as you can hear it's empowering too it goes into this like really just makes me feel like it can take over the world that's not what we want to do right now we don't overpower the audience remember what's really important with music is that nobody should ever compliment how good the music is in the film The edit should amplify the story and in the edit is the music and the music should amplify the edit kind of getting these comments that oh wow the edit was so great that pulls away from the story as an editor as much as I would like to flex these things and and get told that oh wow the edit's so great that kind of means that I've done a pretty poor job in telling the story Cor cuz I've taken people out of that and then again yes maybe there are other filmmakers that are commenting on the edit and the way that it was done but the point of making a film isn't to make a great edit the point of making a film is to tell a great story I've got to focus on the story it's it's all about story and now we look at music remember when working with stems you can use a click cheack After Time editing you will just be able to count music it's very basic in 44 but if you really want to you can just keep your click there then we can pull in these stems now remember to pull in the stems from the first point so right at the start then obviously everything's going to so if you play with the bass it's going to make sense horns as well make sure you know which is which I kind of like to go from the most used instrument and then work my way down so it's usually like anything melodic um and then it goes to percussion and then anything else because strings are the most used we'll put strings right up front here and then we'll go to piano no percussion we've got some Rises we should have some symbols these are important I return to using symbols all the time to wean down from a track wean down from an emotion okay I'm going to take the gck track off cuz it's just going to irritate the [ __ ] out of me but you get the point once you've chosen a track that you want to kind of motif around this is what you want to tease the audience with you kind of teasing them with the melody right up front being what we've already heard so we understand this we can every time there's something unsettling we can return to that that also helps the audience not have to focus too much on the music because you're just reminding them of a feeling that they've already felt when watching documentaries or watching brilliant pieces of film like American Beauty like interstella like Shadow Island watch it normally and don't try focus on the music but then go and watch it and think about how the motifs have been used use these as examples much earlier in this tutorial I spoke about referencing this is really important music is so integral in in the editing process so we have our first 30 seconds that has our narrative locked off and we've got our motion because we've got our music now I can start going back and working from the beginning and getting us [Music] here okay [Music] I'm going to spend the rest of the night cutting as much as I [Music] can when we were there I filmed this guy just playing a simple truck and I think like as I come out of the intro cuz it's kind of harsh what I find works is kind of going into a diagetic soundtrack and he has a local napes man who stays in this Village who's also working on the hospital so when when I was there I asked him to play a track on his guitar what I'm going to try to do now is find the right Keys here there are programs like logic that can quantize for you meaning they can stick something in like a 1 by 16 basically it's just a simple bar structure that everything sticks on a mention own beat but I wouldn't worry about that I'll just get a click track this won't be on cuz he's playing live like this there's no ways that he would be perfectly quantized but what we can do is find segments and then figure out okay fine this is right therefore we need to figure out this key and then play something similar here and then I'm going to record something in do a voice recording send it to Jason then we can make a diic track the idea is to utilize the opening now to get us into the culture so we've seen from right up front the realities of where we are and now we want to kind of start to tease this beautiful piece of music in again I don't know if that's going to work there's a whole bunch of trial and error so what I'm going to do is take this put it in a different scene and just hold it there for now and then have different options available for this beginning section of the film so what we'll do always with music like this is you want to start off with a bar [Music] my hands is freezing you know that's fine okay so there's that part in it like that's like endearing you know where it ends and he's like my hands they're freezing you know and like to end it there like that's something that would be beautiful because it it breaks that that fourth wall it takes you through the understanding that this is not a fictionalized piece of film this is real you can also hear the voice from behind the camera and the reassurance that it's okay and it's also his vulnerability like he didn't have to be playing a beautiful perfect piece of music It's Beautiful by itself and in its rawness and we're going to take that and try and turn it into something so here from this lead and is what I [Music] like this song's from 1957 so I found some sheet music which is in Guitar it's for guitar solo we can just turn it into piano but I have to try and figure this [ __ ] out again the uh we got SE got a random e doesn't feel right got an e oh BR where am I but then would we come the wholeway down to a [Music] got a g and C we got an e okay you know what F that this is where you toss out music theory and we just listen CU that all sounded nice so if we go two 3 4 1 2 3 4 so it's kind of like we got six bars almost I figured out what that man was playing and I figured out the somewhat the piano that should accompany that and then I'm going to take the stem of the guitar this these different stems cuz the bottom here should be [Laughter] going we know we finish up on a on a [Music] Sizzle okay so we're just going to record something in and we send it to Jason [Music] ah you know what we're going to do we're going to call Jason instead okay just to just to get into it it can be introduced by an Ambient sound that is in key that will then help the so it's like two ambient keys so they like long like open wavy uh keys that then lead into the the guitar over it turn that into a song send it over let's go boy cheers my Brew love you working with musicians is an incredible thing and and like I'm super blessed that I'm able to do it again if you don't have the ability to work with musicians you can still make it work this way this is just part of my process you're coming on the journey with me so let's go this is how I make aing phone ah I'm so re tired just got to keep going there just got to keep [Music] going okay I just arrived in new daily as I said I'm busy with another shoot while editing this film but be with me I was able to finish the first 1 minute 30 seconds in the exact format I spoke about it works every single time and before I continue with this edit I'm going to turn this hotel room into my new editing Studio [Music] and it's 2:15 so I've put up my whiteboard and I'm not going to ride anything on it tonight I'm going to get back on it tomorrow been traveling the whole day you know what actually if there wasn't a deadline ever I wonder if any film would ever get finished the deadline is what's forcing me to push but it's also the internal conflict of going how efficient I'm going to be versus how Innovative I'm going to be how much art can I put into this with our completely just destroying my sleep cycle which is already completely destroyed making this tutorial I'm actually learning more about the fall making process than I think I knew there's a quote if you want to learn something read it if you want to understand it write it and if you want to master it teach it I'm not saying that this is me mastering it but so far over the last 2 months just by forcing myself to talk to the camera and explain the process I've in turn learned so much more now I'm getting like way deep this is procrastination I'm going to go to bed and then I'm going to finish this edit that's the plan it is morning of day eight of the edit the Whiteboard which is sitting dormant and blank behind me is now back in commission reason being is now that I've got that 1 minute th Mar I can let the story breathe a bit I can really go into detail into the different characters so I'm busy writing down the character arcs and where I can take it from here now that I've really got the audience hooked I can now really move into a engaging and compelling narrative this is where the puzzle piecing begins but this is also where the sad part of the edit begins which is sacrifice unfortunately when I was shooting something I may have thought this was a fantastic moment this is definitely going to make the edit wow what a great story but in the cont text of the overall story it's just not going to fit and saying goodbye to those scenes is really difficult at times but one has to constantly as spoken about before thinking about the log line the Heming way approach of telling a story in its most simple form is this going to make sense to the overall narrative and if not say goodbye as you can see I'm breaking down each of the characters here and now I'm busy with Darren's scene and yeah this is how it's done then what I also do is I've got a little bit of a whiteboard situation going on over here and this helps me be in arms length of the computer um so I can go and then come over here and jot things down and then I go over here and then I write things on this big board and I come here because I'm done with Melissa scine and I use this thing right here then I use this thing and I just got to this sorry this one hand Vlog thing may look terrible cuz I've taken it from the to here now I'm going to change that to Darren another thing that I do while editing to help me stay on track is I write down every hour or every two hours what I would like to complete in that time cool back to the edit so Jimmy just messaged me to say that he needs to see the film in 5 hours and that Darren wants to see it in person in 5 hours so the only option here is for me to absolutely give it horns on this edit I'm going to put the camera there and just time laps me editing for 5 hours it's going to be impossible for me to explain what I'm doing while I'm doing it and then I'm going to miss my deadline and then things are going to be catastrophic so a new development in this tutorial which in hindsight I actually think would have been better is that I complete the film and then show you all my decision making along the way however we've gotten to this point already and I feel like we've had a really intimate and amazing journey so I might as well keep on keeping on with what I was keeping on doing and also not showing you the filam until it's complete is really good for the AV for this video so that's another good thing it's currently 8:27 p.m. I've got just less than 5 hours wish me luck here goes [Music] I'm nervous uh now that the first draft of the video is done this is the scariest part of the process if you are making a video for a client this is what happens next this is the first review the client review I'm looking at this video and I'm thinking it's good it's it's okay it still needs work but there's a time constraint is a client that needs to be able to watch it we currently are on a beast philanthropy shoot so Dar and the executive director of Beast philanthropy who who has the ultimate say over the film over if it's good enough what he says matters most what he thinks so uh he's going to come around now he's going to watch it and he's going to tell me if he thinks it's [ __ ] all he is down always have a snack prepared just in case I'm coming why you running in yeah have a oh I'm keeping these thanks ah I don't know if D's going to be happy but anyway okay you're ready 1 month ago at the very top of a 9,000 ft Mountain while Dan got some rest Darren and the team were hard at work building the structure of the solar grid I can see doctors have to reform on the that whatever that instrument is playing right now can you bring that out like a little bit more bring it to the front it's awesome man I really think that Dan is a genius cuz every single step along the way Dan is a master at his craft from the storytelling to the directing to the videography to the editing to the music composing with subject matter that most people think is impossible to do and that is to make engaging videos about charity Concepts and positive Concepts this is really really difficult but Dan has figured out a way to consistently deliver we've decided to alter the script Darren and Jimmy are going to take a crack at the script for the next two days and kind of go back and forth and then it's going to come back to me hopefully it's not completely different I'll try my best that review actually went really good considering the time constraints it's ridiculous so I've been editing this on the go I've got a board of plane to Los Angeles tomorrow morning but by the time I get there I should have a list of all the ch es that need to be made within the video hopefully they're not too many and then we nearly at the Finish Line this has been the longest journey I wonder how long this video is I'm going to take a guess right now how long this video is and I'm going to say it's 2 hours and 10 minutes long where we currently are right now I don't want this video to be any longer than 2 and 1/2 hours I think I might just be a little bit too long if you are still hanging around thank you and I'll see you in Los [Music] [Music] Angeles oh oh that could have been bad L okay I'm in my Airbnb in Los Angeles I was able to finish most of these changes on the plane which is awesome actually I was able to finish the whole foil on the plane without giving away too many spoilers because obviously go watch the full film on Beast philanthropy which link below and there you'll see the full film the full finished product what I'm going to do now is take you through the decisions made on how I got to certain parts the most poignant Parts within this edit the decisions I made around music and and how I utilize the crescendo in the soundtracks the decisions I made around match cuts the decisions I made around the way in which I use Jimmy's voice over the way I use Jimmy talking to camera the different interviews the different characters essentially how I shaped the story to get it to a point which makes you really feel something hopefully I don't give away too much but hopefully I can give you enough uh so that you can learn from the set it at the same time enjoy it when watching the full film so just starting off what I'm going to do is I'll play the intro okay a few months ago at the very top of a 9,000 ft mountain in a remote part of Nepal this Hospital looked like this as I mentioned in the Whiteboard scene before which is really interesting to go back and kind of look at is the jaos shots this used to look like this and I didn't think that that would be powerful enough before going to nepo and then when coming back and looking at it it obviously rarely works with going from here like to there being made really strong a few months ago at the very top of a 9,000 ft mountain in a remote part of Nepal so on the top of a 9 ,000 ft Mountain very seay directly as to what it is in a remote part of Nepal you want to kind of start to feel the culture here this hospital this Hospital which now looks beautiful it's got solar panels it's amazing it's got paint like and then we show what it looked like and we have that impact on the sound boom oh how do I do this without showing the whole video this is going to be impossible for me to do without showing the entire film and ruing the experience of watching the full film so what I suggest is going and opening up a new tab right now and watching this film I've linked it below as I've said it's called we power Mountain just type in Beast forand be on YouTube We po Mountain watch the film and then come back here and then I'm going to break it down for you in depth I'm hungry anyway so while you do that I'm going to get some dinner cool now that you've watched the video Let's dive into it great starting again as you'll see right up top here this is a grade I'll get into the grade later it's just easier to watch for now with the grade I I'll explain it later if I obviously take the grade off we'll see it flat like this so this is just with the grade on it I will take you through how I grade very basically at the end of this let me take you through the story structure and why certain decisions were made in order to tell the story and really give you those emotions I hope you enjoyed the video if you thought the video was [ __ ] well then I mean there's no real point in in watching this noise there uh so if you did return awesome let's continue a few months ago at the very top of a 9,000 ft mountain in a remote part of Nepal this Hospital look like this okay so right up front the first lines that were changed was a few months ago this Hospital looked like this so what happened is when we arrived the hospital was a little bit more developed so what we did is we sourced footage of the hospital a little bit prior this so a few months before we got there so that the contrast could be a little bit more josed a little bit more harsh as you'll see with this here that really helps um obviously lining those up together really helps nicely that really gives it that that impact again just such a powerful line up front and then just to amplify that slightly it's just the sound if we just solo these sound effects a few months ago at the very top of a 9,000 ft mountain in a remote part of Nepal this Hospital look like this just simple impacts and some ambient sounds there just really help with the emphasis of that moment and then after that I still wanted to showcase the ruins and what the hospital used to look like then when we going into the next section here because of its isolation this community has no electricity meaning that local doctors have no access to proper medical equipment and often had to perform surgeries and complex procedures in the dark using only a flashlight and very basic tool if more so before speaking about animation I just want to go into over here remember when I was in India I spoke about how we utilize The Motif and how we move with the music and that's really important and as you can hear here when I just solo these music tracks [Music] [Laughter] [Music] I do even need to show you the visual there for you to be able to visualize yourself um the kind of feeling so if I isolate these and and you just hear the v a few months ago at the very top of a 9,000 ft mountain in a remote part of Nepal this Hospital looked like this because of its isolation this community has no electricity meaning that local doctors have no access to proper medical equipment and often had to perform surgeries and complex procedures in the dark using only a flashlight and very basic tool if more complex care was needed it would take hours to walk to a better medical facility the these limitations have resulted in many fatalities and miscarriages so that gets us to the end of a scene that gets us to the end of the 30C Mark remember when going through what we really wanted to focus on was this first 9 seconds so up until here then to get us to that 30 second Mark and then from there to get us to that 1 minute 30 second Mark and that's what I'm going to show you right now and how we are keeping the audience here how hopefully you were engaged throughout watching this piece and really keeping you questioning and and wanting more and trying to unravel the story yourself but continually being surprised with new insights and you know emotively being evoked right in the beginning here kind of the hardships the more harsh realities and for there to be a Nuance that's identified over and above there just being the fact that there's no electricity and way to be able to power this Hospital which results in a lack of medical care we need to go deeper we need to really dive in and find that nuance and that's where we're going to get to now we've got to the 30 second Mark hopefully we've hooked you with one a impact right up front and then the hook and now we're going to start to communicate another really exciting part about the post process is these kind of like aha moments it's kind of like [ __ ] yes this works really well and that's when things match cut with an unexpected match cut or how to blend two scenes together seamlessly and sometimes things just perfectly match and A Moment Like This in the edit visually is this moment here I go from this dark scene where you can see the Showcase of the iconography where a woman has to utilize fire one for heat another for light and then from there I can move over to a doctor with a torch so just watch watch how this moves together has no electricity meaning that local doctors have no these two things kind of seamlessly match cuts and just makes so much sense and this is where like the writing of the script and the visual starts to come together and there was a little bit of change here I know that I speak about don't alter the script based upon the visual but in this case the script didn't have to changeed too much and the visual really helped to amplify the script so these two really accompany each other well now I just want to speak about animation firstly before going into how the animation is done with peace philanthropy when I came on board a year and a half ago I wanted to redesign the way in which the animation is done I wanted to give it this kind of papery texture this feeling of an imperfect more textured animatic so it feels as if it's unfinished it feels like it was made out of paper this really helps match the tone of the whole piece the believability the realism if taking it far away and putting it into a 4D space or Unreal Engine and making it look like really great graphics it just wouldn't fit as you would have seen if you do follow the Beast philanthropy films these have gotten better in time as we've been going you know we've been working with animators to create it in a better way and and make it fit so just to talk about how the animations are done I don't do the anim at all we Outsource animations animations like this length they aren't too expensive to Outsource you can use sites like Fiverr or you can find an animator that that you work well with a 10-second animation like this would cost Max around $200 to $250 and another part about these animations is the way that I call it bleed in and bleed out maybe that's not the right way to look at it but or you can call it folding in and folding out it's using the alpha channels so that we can go from the one to the other a better example is how we exit this animation as you see over here to walk to a better medical facility these limitations have resulted in many fatalities and miscarriages so our long so all that happens is when I export I get it to a certain point where I give the animator an in and an out point and then they can take and just do this [Music] technique it just hopes put the animation in the same environment and what I really wanted to communicate there is the distance how far it would take for somebody who was in a severe circumstance to get from the top of the mountain to the bottom of the mountain where there is actual proper medical care shout out to the animator here his name is Kyle he's awesome you don't always need animation but and and if you can't afford to have animation there are ways around this as well I mean you can invent ways to to make this easier there are also ways of doing this yourself I can show you how I've done what I call stop motion scrapbooking which takes far too long where I literally sit and I cut out all these bits and Bobs and I put them on top of one another and it shows the stuff this is just a far easier more efficient way of doing it and working with great people and building this out together and it just becomes more and more seamless the more you work with the same person then here what I wanted to mention is this is a great example of learning when to sacrifice something that you put a lot of work into now remember when I was sitting in India and I got it excited because that man was playing guitar and I found Jason and we recorded that track and we made that track which actually sounds really awesome I'll play a piece of a tier we fleshed it out into like a full track with quiet cck tracks I mean [Music] [Music] so here I'm like yes I really want to use this this sounds awesome and listen to like when it goes into the break of the [Music] track beautiful and then and obviously ends with the part that I [Music] liked hands freezing my hands they're freezing you know and then with a laughter and that scene was going to go in here and originally it was in here and it just didn't work so I took it out and it hurt but again think about how you're going to advance the story not how you're going to make just a p piece that's like a flex because you put a lot of work into doing something and then it just turns out that it didn't work in the first place cuz that happens in every single film every single film so then instead I wanted to go bang right into it and go Dan and Daren went to Kagan and arrived and then start to showcase the environment the reason why we went in the first place is because it was the green program and give power that made us aware of this project and as you saw in the shooting scene before was so graciously invited into these people's houses the community's houses that I really wanted to show case this right up front part of napole that we were in was just so amazing but but we don't we don't have the time to really lengthen this out right up front but we can pepper in these beautiful shots throughout the edit so let's just watch that scene quickly and miscarriages so our long-term Partners give power who we have worked with in three previous Beast philanthropy videos ask me and Darren to join them on a track to the Village of caguan to help them solve this problem where they were given an incredibly warm welcome and undoubtedly one of the most beautiful places on Earth on the first morning Darren met up with a local so now we sitting around the 50-second Mark we understand what the problem is we understand why we need to solve the problem and we understand that we are now there and ready to solve the problem now we are hooked before the 1 minute mark That's really important now you'll start to hear the motif start to come in this is that beautiful soundtrack that back in the studio way before leaving this is that track now starting to come through which which you'll hear repeat throughout and this will help remind you as the audience kind of how to feel almost before you feel it you know something beautiful is about to happen and In This Moment here we'll watch it together and then I'll explain it on the first morning Darren met up with a local give power engineer named Sanjay who told him a tragic story about Nero a woman from the village who had previously lost her baby due to the freezing temperatures and lack of appropriate medical facilities and Equipment she had to travel in the Monson roads to the nearest buing Center and then since the buing center was Far Away sec to the buing center and had to lose the baby and due to a lack of government funding this Hospital would not get electricity until at least 20 30 if the hospital was up and running with the building facility the case with her would have been completely different Darren knew we had to act fast to prevent this from happening again so he also met Melissa so what what happens next in this scene is we start to identify with our very first character we've got Sanjay who we'll see as now as the audience we don't yet know that he becomes the central part of the film we meet Sanjay who then introduces us to nerra and her story it's really powerful and it it it hurts and it's it's kind of it's really hard to absorb especially for me as a new parent I guess it's like a this one really hit home now this is a great tip of advice in storytelling if the case was you were tasked to tell a story about how plastic pollution was affecting sea turtles and there was 10,000 sea turtles affected by plastic pollution instead of going plastic is a problem look at it going into the ocean there's these beautiful creatures 10,000 of them and then seeing a bunch of shots of sea turtles in this environment that lives have been put in danger now it would make you care less than really personifying humanizing a sea turtle identifying with one sea turtle and then taking you through that sea turtle's Journey and then ending with going and then there are 10,000 more like X the sea total this is just a really great way of understanding utilizing a singular to really be able to identify on an eye to eye level on a heart to heart level with one human being without completely throwing out a massive number that's going to scare the audience away rather showcase an individual's life that that has been affected in a in a particular way and then start to bring in the large numbers later and that's a really great way to get the message across to really get the emotion across so that's what I've done here up front we've looked at the facts and from a little bit further away and now we've jumped in through a local Sanjay and he's made this introduction to another local who's also speaking in the local tongue and we are able to really be be on the ground and be in this conversation with them like I spoke about earlier in the piece Don't Force the story be with a local when you couple up with a local he's able to find out about these stories um so that's the decision made there um right up until the 1 124 minute Mark now as an audience member I'm only 1 minute 24 in and I'm already emotively so involved in this piece it's only 1 minute 24 seconds and I'm really really searching for some sort of a solution I RAR am invested in seeing how this Hospital how electricity is going to help alter this community so from here we have a little bit more space remember I spoke about let's get us to the 1 minute 30 Mark and then from there we have time to really communicate and build out the narrative a little bit more I would have been completely different Darren knew we had to act fast to prevent this from happening again oh just just an important note here is that line that happens there Darren knew we had to act fast that remember now we are sitting at 1 minute 26 seconds around about where that line was said that's the urgency the nera's story gives us the ability to add in that line about urgency um we knew we had to act fast and let's transition into this next piece to understand from Melissa how she gets involved and why her story matters and how she's going to help make this process easier he also met Melissa the founder of the green program who brought a bunch of incredible students and volunteers to help finish this massive project when I was younger I was visiting my family in Malaysia it was the first time I saw the ocean it was the first time I saw the reef and and it was really the first time where I realized that if we had the opportunity to show people the beauty of Nature and the world it really unlocked something that makes us want to protect it too so we've essentially taken students from all over the world who care so deeply about making an impact and being able to expose our future generations to different perspectives is a way that we believe can really make the world a better place after meeting sanj and Melissa Darren was more inspired than ever before to get to work so the whole way up till now 2 minutes 12 seconds what's really interesting about this section we get to understand Melissa's Hero Journey tale we get to understand that it's not just helping the people from Kagan but it's also connecting communities from around the world it's taking Brilliant Minds and attaching them to a problem in Nepal and helping these people come together and fix and come to some sort of solution and that's really where we want to get to by this point now emphasizing from where we heard just before at the 1 minute 27 Mark we needed to act fast to make change to now we're going to go into to and this really inspired Darren to wanting to get involved and make this difference so we've got those two parts again both urgency Parts with a little bit of narrative that really helps you care I I don't know if you picked up on this but if you did well done I did actually end up using a little bit of the piece from the piece that was created from the guitar piece with The Guitar Man however it wasn't a guitar piece it was just bits of the piano so we used inspiration from that and I'll show you just which part that was over here as you can see here it's the guitar dietics and with the [Music] piano it's beautiful song so yeah but the whole piece the whole idea of it was obviously to connect us to the diagetic and the location through utilizing the man with the guitar and then coming out of the scene from that but we're able to use a piece of the soundtrack which is good cool inspired than ever before to get to work by installing a solar array in batteries to power the new hospital as well as provide all the equipment to outfit a safe and modern birthing center to serve this vulnerable Community okay the use of the second animation is because we've already teased it right up front with with a tiny little bit of Sizzle of what the ending of the hospital is going to look like what the resolve is going to look like we don't want to have to return to this and we also don't want to showcase and give away too much it also helps the audience to understand what it looks like to install a solar array and power the hospital in an animatic form so this is just a way of showcasing different iconography that will help Encompass without having to show every single nut screw bolt uh piece of equipment that's needed in order to do so animation helps really sum this all up in a in a beautiful way but again if you can't do animation it doesn't matter you can then do these kind of match cuts and get get through to that way vulnerable okay we're ready for day one 2 1 so the team was beyond excited to get to work by the end of the first day the team managed to finish all the digging and wiring I conr put my finger now this next scene should showcase what's going to happen on day one which is the first day of Construction Construction is boring so generally what I like to do is take certain moments and add in sounds that match the soundrack so it's just a generic uh drum track just a percussive track and so when it goes we can then have in different elements where yeah yeah we've got the Beast philanthropy let's go and it leads up and so the team was beond excited to get to work so you can hear with the sound effects ah yay why day the team managed to finish all the digging and wiring and then it quickly goes through I mean that that was a 15c 20 second scene of just showcasing something that's generally quite boring you don't want to watch people building stuff I mean you can show it in a way like that and that's an exciting way to show it it showcases people it showcases them having fun it showcases them doing it together and also adds in Sound and Music and blends it together and makes it a little bit more exciting what we have here now after we've got that we've now also been given some space it goes fast space fast space fast space the space that we get given here is for Darren to start communicating with camera we haven't really had a moment yet where Darren can talk to the Cameron and Darren is the main supporting role to Jimmy Jimmy is the opener he's the main character he is the owner of Beast philanthropy as well as he is the narrator of the piece then we listen to Darren and then I come on somewhat of a sidekick to Darren's character this is kind of a late part to bring Darren in you know usually we bring him in much earlier in the film but in this case it just made sense to bring Darren in here this is the 243 minute Mark so yeah it is lad to bring him in but this is his line here is so endearing and we needed to meet the Community First for this to make sense for his line what we're about to watch now to make sense I can't really put my finger on it but there is something about the people in this Village they authenticity their friendliness and their openness has made me feel part of their families in just a few days as we walked up to this house somebody ran inside and he L her find there's smoke coming out and we didn't know what was going on but he went to go BR some tea this is Himalayan black tea with ginger and it is really the best tea I've ever had in my entire life this is the culture over here these people are incredibly and welcoming and everywhere you go they want to take care of us they have literally opened up their houses and given us a bedroom in their house so that Dan and I have a comfortable place to stay but not longer okay so that scene is 30 seconds long and what it does it beautifully encapsulates a moment that kind of pulls you away from the project at hand and gives you some time to spend with the community and understand how beautifully warm and welcoming this community is it also speaks about tea it speaks about certain quick sacrifices that the community had to make in order just to get us tea which also in turn invites the audience again on the ground in the poll makes you feel like you are there remember because we we were moving the audience away from the hospital and now we we having time to communicate with the people with the culture which is so important because the two are so tightly net it makes you care even more so remember when I spoke about this is Nero who's one person from Kagan and he has a whole bunch of people from Kagan look how incredible they are look how amazing and I can honestly say that being there these people are so amazing so welcoming so beautiful just and I speak for myself here but this was by far the most beautiful trip that I've been on I just felt immediately a part of this culture and so welcomed and I really wanted that to be showcased within this film and this moment here with Darren really HED encapsulate that so now next because we've like I said we're going kind of slower hard fact slower hard slower boom so now what we going to do is we going to go into the next section which I'll just play for you not but not long after the construction began Dan started to feel ill I feel like super for six got to go over to the local post to get checked out which means he can experience first just how difficult it is to get treated in such a remote [Music] location as you can see everything's locked up here and that's the har reality is if you severely yill in the village nearby you'd have to make a 7-hour trick to get to the closest big facility that can help fortunately there was a first on site that was able to see him this is karuna a n in the local town of Kagan she's come to help me but because there is no electricity she can only do a very basic checkup she came to the conclusion that Dan had Gotti Gotti I've got GTI it's a rare disease actually it's just a minor cold okay so again now what's happened is like I spoke about earlier there does need to be some form of comic relief and yes at the time I was really sick and it felt like I was literally dying so I thought like you know I I had a GTI which is technically a cold story-wise it worked so perfectly it was a seamless way of me being able to showcase the harsher realities of what these conditions were like by using myself as a vehicle in order to do so this is very serendipitous yes I was sick but at the same time it was great for the story and for the narrative so it's a kind of a loss win win loss win-win situation win-win in post cuz I've forgotten about being sick then it at the end it gives us that comic relief when Jimmy says actually it's just a minor cold actually it's just a minor cold I try and add hyperbole to the situation by going I got GTI which is a rare nepes disease and try and make it a serious thing and then Jimmy just quickly takes it away from me and goes actually it's just a cold so that then again just breaks that tension it gives us some comic relief hopefully gives a a laugh or two I hope we more or less at the halfway mark of the film by now i' would like to note that this is our longest Beast philanthropy video to date totaling the amount of 10 minutes and 3 seconds that's our longest film by at least like a minute and 45 seconds or something like that which is great the goal with Beast philanthropy videos is to try and get them to be longer and longer and longer and longer um but obviously they've got to be engaging but for a community of this size there are often far more serious situations that required an immediate and comprehensive treatment that just are not available with so much writing on this project the team were already feeling the intense press so while got some rest they continue with the construction [Music] you could begin installing the solar hard work we were now ahead of schedule so Darren took the we had that comedic break at the 4 minute 18 Mark and now the hallway up until the 5 minute Mark we've added in that intensity we've added in that urgy we've reignited the story by going we really needed to act fast because from going from my GTI which isn't you know obviously a rare nepes disease and it's not that serious jimmmy then speaks to how there are much more severe cases reminding the audience of the first character that we met named nerra and the the severity of her case and that we need to get this project done in time one because obviously we need need medical attention as soon as possible but two we had also planned a big lighting ceremony that was going to happen 2 days after this so it was super important that everything gets done in time because the community people were going to travel for 8 9 10 hours to come and watch this lighting ceremony and see this Hospital lit up for the first time then what ended up happening in that day is the team worked really hard not me because I was sleeping cuz I was so severely ill but the team worked super hard and was able to actually get ahead of schedule you can see the hospital behind um Sanji here as he sits down and how it's transforming and this gives us a moment within the film to then go back to Sanjay and find out more about his story because what we found out when we were there was such a compelling element to Sanjay who works for give power a program that literally give solar power to places all around the world that we've worked with multiple times before he's also an incredible engineer and this is his story this is what he's done and I needed to find a place to put this in the film and this felt really fitting to put that in here when I was working and repeating the kumes in Upper Himalayas we find out this village with no l City at all and then when you get here I saw a baby was there in a wooden box you know and then there was a light bulbs on you know hitting it obviously the animated scene here is used because we don't have the stock footage of this therefore because we've done two animations prior to this this animation would make sense to do it yet if it was just suddenly one animation and it was OB it just wouldn't fit in and yeah it wouldn't feel right we would then just have him speaking to the camera directly here in order to emphasize what he's saying and help the audience imagine what he's speaking about it would make sense to have this animation that's why we have this animatic where it is it popped my mind and I think this kind of equipment can be you know built by ourselves and after that I formed a team out here in theal then we were able to make a b warmer and we call it Nano Nani in Nepali that means a warm child Nano Nani became such a success that it one of people's choic in the USA I think it's a dream come true for me because the vision is like to know build this kind of mmer and then to aware the people about the significance in remote settings and the remote Hospital like this in the background realizing the life-saving importance of simple I'll just like to note there remember that in the beginning when we met Sanjay you heard the same soundtrack that soundtrack was then brought back there medical equipment Darren decided to surprise Sanjay by buying 10 more baby warmers that he could give to other communities and similar needs Sanjay um I want to buy another 10 of those baby wers from you and let you just go give it to whatever hospitals or communities need them thank you very much that it miss a lot for for me and the team it is feel un real those moments that happened there where Darren and Jimmy spontaneously give away additional uh charitable donations I call Honey Pot moments in the film and these can also be peppered throughout the film these are the surprising elements these extra elements that also reignite the flame that you didn't know were going to happen in the film they're surprising and they they keep you feeling good as well as they keep this idea which happens in all the films which is that there's always some additional surprise waiting to happen now this final scene is the the big scene it's the with only one day remaining this is my favorite soundtrack out of the whole piece and you're going to hear how it builds and builds and builds and builds and it just breaks into this beautiful so this is almost like a in a way kind of like works together like a music video along with this beautiful imagery as well as this really deep and Rich storytelling so I'm just going to play the scene out and this scene is our longest scene cuz it takes us from the beginning and this is how you get a really powerful Crescendo is how long can you really hold on to the motif how long can you really hold the audience there until we can then take you to a point and hit this Crescendo and keep you up there and keep you high if the buildup isn't as long the drop of the track or the climatic elements of the track don't hit as hard this goes intention obstacle intention obstacle intention obstacle intention obstacle are you ready 3 2 1 [Music] boom with only one day remaining we were so close to finishing [Music] theol and the whole team gathered to sign the final solar and Darren had the honor of tightening the final Go Together We turned a broken building with no electricity into a fully operational hospital that will service over 16,000 people in this community I have so much gratitude for the fact that we are able to come in here and give them a gift that will make a meaningful difference to these people for generations to come it's getting close to night for now and it's nearly time to surise the community and I can't wait the whole village came to theit hospital to witness the lights turn on for the first time are you ready 2 1 seeing the lights come on for the first time in a community it never gets old and it's been absolutely incredible sharing it with this community the next again just the Goosebump scene that [Applause] happens this is the Goosebumps that you want to feel like you really want to draw this out and then he gives the moment for Darren to be able to communicate lights come on for the first time in a community it never gets old and it's been absolutely incredible sharing it with this community celebratory and now we can we can still keep you there and we've got another surprise which is the moment where we bring nerra back to the hospital so she can experience what the new hospital looks like so she knows that other woman in her community most likely won't have to face what she went through that's what you call a story book ending it really brings you from cover to cover introducing her and then kind of ending with her but because we know from these other honey pots that have happened throughout the film it might not be the end of the film there might still be one more surprise invited nerra back to the hospital so he could show her all of the new equipment including his baby warmers now she's very much optimistic that no one has to go through what she went through she's very happy and grateful for the birthing facility over here okay so here technically where it should be the end of the film we've got a brand read okay that has to happen just like I had a brand read in this video the brand reads have to happen the brand reads in Beast philanthropy videos 100% of the proceeds from the brand reads from any AD rev from merch sales any income stream go back into the projects that we are doing so building the hospital powering the hospital they go to building the orphanages they going they go back into the upkeep of previous projects they go into the food food bank there's so many places without the views that these videos get without the brand reads that these videos get we won't be able to do the amazing projects that we do yes it is difficult to obviously have to put a brand read within a video but it is what it is I'm going to skip through this brand read cuz it's kind of irrelevant this is also a reason to bring in that honey pod ending cuz we've got the brand read and we need the avd to want to stretch the hway to the end of the video that's why we utilize this final surprise and there's always a final surprise at the end of every Beast philanthropy video that's why you need to stay to the end of every video and this is what we decided to do for the final surprise which was awesome by the way hey let's get back into it when speaking to sanj we found out that although he is Napoles he has never been to Everest and it has always been a dream of his to see the massive Mountain so in the last morning we decided to surprise him with a once in a lifetime trip we're so close to Everest it just made sense that we go visit it we took sanj to the the highest point on Everest that a helicopter could reach the air was so thin Darren and San were only allowed to play like minut up there where they can get hxy of Black Box Darren and I are at the highest point we've ever been together I can't believe it's happening seeing Everest literally brought San to his knees with emotion it's so overwhelming it's Dre for me to come here and again I just want to thank our partners at give power and yeah I mean even for me watching that it almost brings me to tears cuz it like just reminds me of how incredible these opportunities are to go and experience these things being behind the camera and editing it really adds this Shield just the ability to witness that is like that's a once in a-lifetime opportunity I don't think I'll ever be able to experience something like that again and I'm just so grateful to Jimmy and Darren and to be able to see things like that and seeing Sanjay just fall down into his knees and experience such a beautiful moment um is kind of like this high power moment for Sanjay it was really um something very special to witness so we get we get there and this is now where the persuasion gets involved remember where I spoke about impact communication persuasion I'll act of persuasion persuasion sounds like a negative word impact communication trans transformation rather and but that is a persuasive act to transform and this is where we would ask the audience to either donate or to get involved or just thank the audience for their support or to subscribe or like because all of those things all Snowball the more views we get the more subscribers we get the more the brands are going to pay for the videos the more money we make of YouTube and the more good that we can do so that's a kind of a thing that's repeated by Jim at the end of all of these videos he did shout me out at the end of this video which is fantastic I don't need to play the whole outro but yeah you get what happens at the end just before finishing off and going into how I grade these videos I just wanted to touch on why this timeline looks like this and it looks all colorful and all over the place it's like that on purpose and it's planned that way it's because we can see how much screen time each character is getting for instance all Jimmy's vo is orange like this or Jimmy to camera is light blue like that all Darren is green all the yellow stuff is animation all Dan me is dark blue etc etc so that just helps understand when going through this timeline and obviously then this helps correlate with the script so if you quickly want to go somewhere you can quickly go through here and figure out where you are on the script um look how beautiful and pretty the timeline looks so now we're going to go into into the grade and how this is done for the grade I really don't do anything too extensive because all the footage is shot in Sony slog 3 as mentioned before in the shooting scene so I simply add a conversion lat which converts my footage into rec709 and this is the lat I use it's from an incredible YouTuber called Danny git if you don't know his work I suggest going over and checking it out it's awesome by the way I didn't get endorsed to say that and if everything is shot to the correct exposure and white balance this l does most of the work so once the conversion light is applied I simply add some contrast and saturation to boost the colors I found that the audience reacts best to a color palette that pops I do this for every single clip in the film to make sure that every frame is graded and is well balanced next part is really important and that is mixing the sound and the music so that you can actually hear what's being said and as well as amplify certain sound effects in certain areas and bring them down in certain areas as well as bring the music up in certain areas bring the music down in certain areas etc etc so here's a really quick way of how to do it Premier Pro has made audio mixing really easy with all their new AI updates remember that the vocals are most important music then com second and then sound effects so then what you're going to do is open up the central sound panel then select the audio you need in the mix like I said I always start off with the vocals make sure you then select dialogue in the essential sound window and click enhance and once it is finished enhancing you just have immediate better sounding audio then make sure this vocal enhancer box is ticked and then finally for the vocals adjust a gain so it sits around the -9 to 12 DB range this will ensure that the audio will not be peing when playing back a few months ago at the very top of a 9,000 ft mountain in a remote part of Nepal this Hospital looked like this a few months ago at the very top of a ,000 ft mountain in a remote part of Nepal this Hospital looked like this I do this for all the vocals in the entire film and then I move onto the music for the music I always duck it against the vocals meaning that the music will never overpower the vocals to the point where you will not be able to hear what is being said vocally and then for the music I set the gain to around -2 DB but again this changes in points where I really want the music to elevate a scene for example the crescendo scene a climatic scene are you ready 2 [Applause] 1 seeing the lights come on for the first time in a community it never gets old and it's been absolutely incredible sharing it with this community so the music can really be heard here and experience so that the audience can feel the emotion I again do this for all the music in the film I do this all before finally mixing in the sound effects and Ambience these elements are simply there to help support the audio [Music] again if there are some moments that need to be elevated I then up the gain of the sound effects to help with this usually with time-lapse scenes and when we transition from one day to another I do this for all of the sound design of the entire video step eight packaging and delivery and finally I'm just going to show you the export settings that I use it's super simple to best optimize your export for YouTube at 4K so that the viewer has the best possible time they can have watching the video this is what I have found to be the best way to export a video for YouTube I make sure that I export the film into the final export folder as I mentioned when going through the drive setup in this folder I have two folders one 4K for YouTube which is where the final YouTube export will go and two a 4K with no subtitles which is where the clean export of the film will go these are the best export settings I always match the source of my sequence the format is also always h264 then I tick these two boxes render at maximum depth and use maximum render quality all of the other settings stay the same but I make sure that the bit rate is set to 40 mbes per second and vbr one pass okay then I click export and once the FM is exported it is Absolut Ely crucial that you watch through it multiple times this is called a QC a quality check you have to Quality check the video because you never know if there's an export error or a black frame or a piece of media that is offline okay back to Cape time step nine the upload okay that experience was wild in total the entire process of just the edit excluding travel I would say it took around 7 days this whole process of making this entire film I would say took about a month to a month and a half I'm just about to click the upload button for the Beast philanthropy video but before I do I just wanted to say if you got this far in this tutorial if you made it the whole way here no matter if it took you 3 days 5 days a month please let me know below because you're the kind of person that I definitely want to work with in the future just a mere fact that you have the drive the dedication to get through a tutorial that's this extensive just shows that you've really got what it takes to one day or right now become one of the greatest filmmakers on YouTube I'm not at all saying that this tutorial is going to turn you into the genius of editing or the genius of film making but it definitely shows you've got what it takes in order to wanting to learn to grow to expand as a filmmaker and I take my hat off to you I've never in my whole life on every film I've ever made work this hard on a film or a tutorial it's been it's been one hell of a process usually I'm just sitting doing this whole thing without having to talk and explain to the camera at the same time while going along in the process so technically it took double as long um or I had to consider what I was saying the whole time too so yeah it was a lot of work therefore a mere share or a like or a comment would me in the world also if you're new here please subscribe and turn your notifications Bell on and then lastly uh the only that got me through was brewbar um you can buy a box of brewbar there's 12 in a box I'll link it below definitely just buy brewbar it is the greatest tasting caffeinated healthy snack on the market by Miles I don't know why it's like hasn't taken over the world yet but anyway you can help that become a reality okay just about to click upload okay just about to click upload there we go as it's uploading don't forget you're awesome brew and I'll see you soon