Top Gear Style Filming: Canon 7D + Outils Wolf

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After watching some Top Gear, I was determined to try and emulate their style, but then add a bit of my own. The car is an outils wolf lawn mower.

How I did it/tips:

Well, there really isn't much to it, i filmed all my shots in 24p, i put my shooting style to as dull as possible to preserve dynamic range, just simple tripod panning shots, in terms of editing, find your music first, and then edit to that music. In terms of colours, I used red giant's awesome "Looks Pro". I desaturated, increased contrast, added a graduated filter darkening the top.Then of course, the iconic top gear corner vignette. To get the top gear style shots on the panning shots, i would pan steadily, then it editing, speed up most of it to 1000% of the original speed, and leave one part to be slowly, that gives the effect of a quick pan moving to a slow pan, which is very top gear. Take a look at the shot that is primarily red, of the gas-meter, that's the technique i used for that, and pretty much every shot. In terms of focusing, like where the drums enter and break the classical music, it's just trial and error i suppose.


Equipment Used

Canon 7D
Tamron 17-50 2.8 VC Di II
Canon 50mm 1.8
Canon 70-200 f/2.8L
Manfrotto 190XPROB Tripod
Manfrotto 701HDV Fluid Video Head
Glidetrack
Adobe Premiere Pro CS5
Magic Bullet Looks

Music:

Sergej Rachmaninoff's Piano Concerto No. 2
Halo 3 OST Track 11 - Finish The Fight
Personal Sound Effects Library Mix

Category:

Film & Animation

Tags:

• Top
• Gear
• Editing
• Style
• 7D
• Manfrotto
• Magic
• Bullet
• Looks
• Premiere
• Vignette
• Emulation
• Canon
• HDSLR
• 24p
• 1080p
• HD digital solid camera
• teaser
• trailer
• effects
• after
• editing
• montage
• widescreen
• car
• outils
• lawn
• mower
• engine
• panning
• tracking
• cineslider
• cinematography
• DOP
• sky
• dramatic
• clouds
• grass
• cut
• nikon
• gh2
• panasonic
• sony
• dslr
• 720p
• 1.8
• 50mm
• 17-50mm
• 2.8
• 70-200mm
• camcorder
• lens

[jtan163]

Really well done.

Any chance of a how to, describing how you did it and what elements give it that Top Gear flavour?

[RobBahouPictures]

@jtan163 Well, there really isn't much to it, i filmed all my shots in 24p, i put my shooting style to as dull as possible to preserve dynamic range, just simple tripod panning shots, in terms of editing, find your music first, and then edit to that music. In terms of colours, I used red giant's awesome "Looks Pro". I desaturated, increased contrast, added a graduated filter darkening the top. I'll paste the rest in the description, youtube won't let me type more

[Cyteq1]

Wait a sec. Is the music from WoW or Halo? im thinking halo

[RobBahouPictures]

@Cyteq1 it's halo, their is music is awesome and so adaptable

[RobBahouPictures]

@johnyma22 That's your opinion, it gives them their own style though

[Shady137]

You nailed it man! If the title would've been "Top Gear season 6 episode 3 part 4 of 10", this comment would be asking for the rest of the video. Good job man!

[Armixs]

any help on filming fast moving objects? I.E drifting cars?

I was filming today and it came out really horrible, and it was my first day.

I used canon 60D, which I suppose is close to 7D

[bigjon6565]

10/10. You could air that on Top Gear and no one would be any the wiser. I searched for (Top Gear Film Effect) and got this - exactly what I was referring to. Well done - you have a bright future (bright but with some vignetting) - stick with it.

[Filthstift]

Nicely done

[JEsposito729]

Great job man, Bravo!!

[TitanVlogs]

Is it weird if I say I want to drive this lawn mower now? Btw, your video was retweeted in a post by @TopGear_America on Twitter. Well done.

[AhmadKayyali1]

This is amazing bro

[orthusnet]

great video, very well edited