 Hello and welcome everyone. Following up to our last video we'll be doing a breakdown of music videos I like music videos because they're a lot more creative. It's almost like the The perfect point for where everything goes so this would just be an informal video not as we'll walk through several scenes in the music video we'll be looking at and Hopefully you can take one or two things and apply it to your own scenario and the video we'll be breaking down today is Yoga the recent one by Ashake So we'll just dive into into it So first of all, let's just scroll through the video and see what's available. Okay So first of all, we see him. He's going on his spirits Johnny. Now he's meditating and we have some group of women going through a dark alley Meditation continues The women has arrived at the show bank with gifts in their hands. He's still meditating connecting to his spirit mother It's in our spirit. Whatever the team of the video is and yeah, the director of video teacher Murray the very famous director Now we have the masquerade scenes and they continue for a bit a couple more bureaus of The arrival the name of the video We'll see more bureaus and we'll see more bosses then you see some performance and some performance again and Yeah, that's about it of the video because it's just Different scenes being recored. So we'll just go through all the scenes and see how it was lit. Okay, so let's go back to beginning again Okay, I'll be using a black man zones to explain how light is distributed rather than first color The reason why we use a black man zones is a black man zone displays things in stops like you can see on my screen Neutral gray is gray. Half stop is there. We have one stop and they all color coded The reason why I prefer black man zones to first color is that if I go to first color, right? And I say, okay, let's use first color I'll enable it on my other nodes, right? And You can see it's just displayed in IRA values You can't really tell the difference in the stop dynamics between Whether this side of the image is one stop brighter But you can just say, okay, this is now 50. I already know your waveform is now 70 I what does that mean in terms of stops of light because we are cinematographers who work with stops of light and not IRA values, that's for like the camera engineers to go figure that out You get when you're a cinematographer when it's when you tell you that this is to stop brighter You're doing that. Okay for it into the stop brighter And means it has double the brightness or double the intensity to be able to gain one stop So two stops brighter is like four stops you get. So if we go back now, let's go back to using A black man zones, okay, and like you can see For the first entrance scene where he's like just working and it's like sunset This is right probably around 5 30 or so depending on where you are because the sun behaves differently The ground is the middle gray area The white that he's wearing you can see it's about four stops of exposed and all these details held basically this way the airy camera shines through with the entire full 14 stops of dynamic range it has and To the right of the frame you're supposed to probably get more neck but I can tell that there is a mirror source coming in because You would see you can see how elevated it is is three stops Which is like using mirror had like to bounce the sun that will probably feel into the shadows had and why to be able to pick up That much exposure suppose the cover that you can see that's been hit by the sun that you can see to the Left side of the frame here this cover take and see how it's neutral grade That's what the normal value should be and probably one stops on the expose as opposed to This side of his shoulder where you can see it's like three stops over exposed already you get so yeah So this combination goes for like A sandwich between the sun the character and some mirror bounce that's filling to the shades Then we continue where we get to see more of the Alexa strength directly looking to the sun and you can tell if we turn on first color you can see the sun is like four stops of exposed against The one stop on the expose where his face and his skin is which gives you a contrast ratio of five to one like One stop five stops darker than The main key like you barely touch middle grade as just on the white hat and his face is like one stop on the expose okay, maybe If the shot was a little bit if they frame the sun a little bit out of the frame They would have been able to manage the exposure more because it would be closer and the contrast ratio gap would not be as high as it is Um, yeah, so yeah, we continue and we get to this shot now this shot is interesting because um If you go forward in the video where you get to see the reverse shot You get to see that the sun is actually coming from somewhere this side of the frame Somewhere this side like to the other side of screen. That's where it's coming from hitting again and because um the girl's skin is lighter to his skin she becomes a stop brighter And you can tell there's some kind of diffusion that's there that's actually just softening up the light and Now his face is exposed that um neutral gray and she becomes way more hotter And as you can see from the sun direction, if you look at the um buildings um in the corner The shadows will tell you where the sun is coming from But against the sky this guy is now set at three stops of exposure um which Is interesting. This is what the cinematographer or the creator was thinking when they were thinking of Shooting this and you can see how the white is blazingly hot You get And i'm guessing they massaged it a lot more so I could come down to this level because the white is like close to like clipping Because it's just white. There's not there's no range in there. It's not like he's wearing a um A t-stain shirt or something that's off white or something that was like being able to be brought down or so you get so maybe a Double net now that they would have used to target just the body above the head But would have probably knocked down that white by one stop to make it a little bit more um In range, but yeah all the same beautiful shot Um, so we'll go to these women in the alley Now this alley plays strictly to contrast and alleyway lights whereby the sun is not in the sky Which is why they're in shade So it's just the clouds that's actually lighting them Where you get and the sun's probably come from the right side of the frame when you give the shadows That you can see into the distance so it creates this contrast that the focal point of the image is somewhere around the center, right? And you just have skylights that's just opening the shadows So you could expect like the women if we check first color There'll be like two stops on the expose or one stop on the expose like you can see Even the greens around them are now like four stops on the expose really digging Into the shadows you get as to contrast the scene you're coming from that's super bright so um Yes, we continue again with side profile shot that same shot by the new angle Because the sun is coming from the left side of the frame somewhere around this side You can see that this is the dark side you can see the contrast ratio on him It's not one stop on the expose to his face as the As opposed to the other side this side of the face that is about one stop hotter So there's like a two stop gap between the values that are here and the values that are here But there's also like a mirror bounce that is edging the lady out of the shot Um The mirror bounces you can see it on her shoulder When you look at false color you can see how it brings up the level there even at the back of her ears because If we go forward in time and you get to let's just skip forward to some other point where by that shot came up here If you get to see it here, this is the true levels of what that should have looked like Like if you if you are like staying within the cinematic universe of film But this is music videos anything goes we just wanted to catch our Viewers attention make it pop make it beautiful. We usually don't pay attention to reality. So yeah There's that so you get to see when I say there's a mirror bounce Because technically to be impossible to get like or to be difficult not impossible To get like an 18k into the solution and the logistics to manage this golden hour and how quick it goes will be extremely difficult so we continue and Here's another situation whereby we have the sun just above the camera Like it's barely above the camera here um And we can see how It's keen the lady but every other person is like into the shadows Right because when we get to a close-up I say there's another shot as a close-up of this Like if you check for scholars, you see she's on the expose And because the white shot we still get most of the field targeting some of the people But when you go to the close-up of this shot, yes here now you get to see Some vignetting on the lens because we have dark corners. Maybe it's created in post or it's the lens, but I'm guessing My bets on post Given how it's looking You get but you can see her now. She's now keyed at neutral gray On the right side of her face The left side is one stop on the expose You can see the background where the sun is totally looking out because you can see it's now six stops over exposed Where you have like the sun literally hitting the water, you get so yeah It would have been nice if this was not the hottest part in the frame To make her the hottest in the frame so our eyes go here first because When we look we just look directly into it was the brightest thing that we can see You get and everybody else is lost in the shadow and this is like Um, there's nothing like the sun you get like you can compete with that source Like you probably spend 20 k of of power and probably a couple more hmi To be able to create this kind of high powered look and maxi brood spare the sun on the mirror You could cook this up on your own very skill like you could replicate this on your own skill um, so yeah Then we have this masquerade When in doubt and you're in a music video and you don't know what to do Just roll the camera and use a steady cam you get that's what we have in coming here The sun is actually coming from the right side because we're still using more natural light I like this video a lot because it shows what you can do minimalistically without a lot And also be able to achieve beauty The sun is coming from the right side of the frame we can tell because of the shadows that's being cast by these pine grasses and It's not really toppy So there's some shape to it and because the max are white the bounce of the coral or this ground would quickly catch some Wide soft light. So it's uniformly beautiful Complimenting with the color contrast that you can see in the sky that is not super exposed So yeah, that's all mixed for a beautiful shot. So we have this black hat. We're supposed to be like bad old men and we continue with more um spirit of the gods and there's a Steady cam move that goes into him and he catches the spirit and the spirit continues and we have some bureaus one nice bureaus Now we see the beginning of the film then these are like bureaus Of his journey more bureaus where you see people doing this and we continue Oh, yeah now here's another interesting shot on the alleyway This shot is interesting because this is where you actually use the sky as your soft box Like before just as the sun is the top of the sky Which is somewhere here and just going behind this beauty and you have this shade in the alley That'll give you the exposure that's more looking like to what the girl looks on this side But if you have a mirror You can use that to bring in your a large American bringing your own Um key into the frame and becomes like your new 18k just simple mirrors and put it higher But you get this shadows like if you check your contrast ratio You can see this side of the face This side is like one two stop under with some patches of neutral grade has come from mirrors But which is what it should look like in reality because if you see this side is what The exposure in the alley looks like but the mirror brings in some exposure and you can literally lift up the levels of these people You get and you can see that the sun is actually Just over the building as you can see from the sides are clipping at like four stops overexposed Which is like somewhere here that tells us that the sun is somewhere here Um, then we continue we have more performance shot where the sun is like a sky Um, it's on the right side of the frame and you have this visual interest whereby you're seeing these lead lines that are here to create this then, um, we have Light exposure on the dark background, which it trees are giving us in this side Then dark exposure on the side on the light background then we have the women's in shade So all it's just creating visual interest You get now the sun is probably getting lower in the sky from the shadows you can see in this face but also As you can see when we get the close-up you begin to see things like mirror bounce that they used to lift up This side of the shadows Um, yeah, so we continue Right now I was looking more like a bounce board not like a mirror, but I'll show you a side where there's a mirror Um, yeah, we'll continue with the mirrors in the alleyways and overhead shots great um Now the spirit model is not communing with most spirit models So that's cool and we have like a celebration shot, which is really awesome I really like the shot because it really looks beautiful Um, so we continue with more of the bureaus and performance shot Then we get to this place where he's actually working and performing and just as his performing you get to see um I'll show you just in a bit. We'll get to a point whereby the performance still continues to um here This is the telltale sign of that's a mirror You can see the levels here if I turn on first color You see how here is now at neutral gray here is one stop brighter Which is not supposed to be because if we go back Right, you can see um somewhere around here Is actually one stop on the expose. So I guess There's a mirror on the other side who that doesn't get to catch it until he Goes in I can see the reflection on the leather jacket How it actually catches the mirror from the hind side of the shirt like I guess it was designed to edge him Why the normal bounce was just supposed to feeling from the sky you get And yes, and you can see the mirror telltale sign here also Very obvious Still a beautiful shot. Then we'll continue with our normal bureaus. This is like an overcast day There's no sun. There's no interest just an overcast day. They'll have more bureaus and That continues we cut back to the masquerade shots and just do some camera rolls It's getting difficult to roll the camera more african dress facing the sunset beautiful shot Just like where the sun is not like the key Against the sky because that gets like lift the levels and we have like bounce that's filling to the side of her chain So this will probably be a stop or two over where the skin is set Exactly it's a little closer three stops over Which elevates the shadows that because you have raised the entire scale of exposure and yeah You're able to achieve more of this mob bureaus Um that happens then we arrive at this shot where the sun is backlit in the city and the drone shot Then we have we'll close with this end frame Right by he's sitting on the canoe and the sun is probably just above The camera and we can hold the blue sky and it's actually giving him this um Contrast ratio and the lead lines of the shore creates visual interest plus the Plus the beds in the background so So I guess we've come to the end of this breakdown Of this video. Um next week we would look at another video. I hope this has been creatively useful to you how You could learn that using mirrors using lead lines and some other stuff If you haven't joined in our contest, we have a thousand dollar contest that will be announced at the end of july You can look in the description below if you like this video, please leave a thumbs up share to somebody and subscribe That's the only way you support us you get and be a part of our committee Also, if you have other videos, you'd like me to break down commercials films or whatever Just send in the recommendation and we'll do our very best to get to it and hopefully the entire community benefits from it So until next time improvise adapt overcome