大好きなYoutuberのGawxがインタビューを受けていたのでとても楽しみながら見ました。
Gawxのビデオの最初の１分を解説していく流れなのですが、恐るべきほど細部にまでのこだわりが垣間見れます。
解説のあった動画はこちらの動画。
インタビューで印象に残ったフレーズを引用します。
but yeah, I like to have small details that I know not everyone is gonna notice but the people
and things in After Effect, how long does that take? - Well, I just used the tracking tool and then I played with Gaussian blur and a little bit of motion blur as well to make it smooth. It takes around 40 minutes to an hour for the title.
Are you hazing before you shoot? - Yeah, that's a fog machine. Yeah, it's a fog machine with a, I am lucky because my window has very good lighting.
- And then are you pulling focus or is this auto-focus? - This is auto-focus. - It's auto focus? - Yeah, it's auto-focus. - Okay.
So you wanted this to be the opening shot? - Yeah, I don't do storyboarding.
I kinda have everything in my mind and the only thing, well, the main thing I had for the video was this shot.
This looks like something from a Jean-Pierre Jeunet film, you know? It looks like "Amelie." (classical ensemble music) (thunder booms)
- I like, well, I like everything. I like dramas, I like some dramas. There's an Iranian director, his name is Abbas Kiarostami. A Mexican, Inarritu. Kubrick, oh, Kubrick is a huge inspiration, yeah. - Yeah.
I don't know what I'm going to draw. So yeah, I kinda go from there and if I need to fix something or maybe to film something more, I go back and forward with editing, filming, editing, filming. - Yeah. - Yeah. - Amazing. Okay, let's look at this lettering here.
Well, first I edit everything in Premiere. Then I export a ProRes file. - Yeah. - No compression ProRes file. - Right. - And I export the timeline to have the cuts.
Then I move that to Da Vinci, it's a mess, I move that to Da Vinci, add the ProRes file,
then add the timeline, copy the cuts. - Oh my god. - I color correct. Then I export it on ProRes again, bring it back to Premiere and do titles and finishing details and then I export to post on YouTube. - Okay, that's a ton of workflow.
- Yeah. - Which are the ones you like? - Well, my favorite is a YouTuber called serr.
He's great, he's from LA. - Okay. - [Gawx] His colors are absolutely incredible. - Wow, okay. - Yeah.
So I put the C-stand on the skateboards. - No, you have your C-stand on skateboards? - Yeah, yeah, yeah. - And you're moving the skateboards
Da Vinci when I color grade, I just move the blacks down a little bit more of contrast until I think the image looks good, and yeah.
- And then you go. - I don't really use the histograms. - Oh, you don't? Okay, you don't use metering or tools like that? - No.
I wanted like this light behind me. - Yeah. So sorry, what's this plus two thing?
- Oh yeah, what is it? Exposure compensation. - Okay. - Yeah. - And is that on the A-7S III, is that what you use?
It's almost like cartoony or something. - Yeah, yeah, cartoony. - Did you watch a lot of cartoons? - I used to, "SpongeBob."
My favorite was "SpongeBob" but I think this is more Wes Anderson style.
- Yeah, okay, so where are you getting that music? - From the music licensing platforms
mainly Musicbed and Artlist. - Yeah. - I use those. - It's so different again than everything else on YouTube.
Like what's happening there? - So I wanted to show this passing of time
and working on different drawings. That's why I have different lighting for each drawing.
- I see. - And I filmed that with a slider, a motorized slider, yeah.
- Okay, got it and is it a curved slider or is the camera just on a spinner? - Yeah, so it's a slider and you have two,
like one pole here which you can move and if you move it like this, the camera moves. - I see, right.
So the camera's literally going like this as it goes on the slider. - Yeah, like this. - Okay, so you've just got a little motorized slider
I've talked to different creators and editors and filmmakers about this. Some people really love chronology and some people don't work chronologically at all.
- Yeah. - And it just seems like it's whatever type of- - Maybe the people who don't work chronologically
they're more organized or they have their plan really well done. Because I saw the Casey episode, he edits chronologically.
What are your favorite YouTube videos on lighting? What should we watch to make Gawx-style videos?
- There's an Australian cinematographer, Lewis Potts.
He's great, he did a really awesome video on lighting. - Okay, great. - And also Danny Gevirtz. - Yep. - He's great as well.
It's a 17 to 28. Okay. Do you know what lens it is? Do you know who makes it? - Yeah, it's a Tamron.
Tamron, okay, okay, a 17 to 28 Tamron. - 17 to 28 and for the rest of the video, I used a 31.4.
まだ20歳であり、これから映画を作りたいと言っているのでとても期待したいです。
映画で頭に残っているシーンをモチーフにしたり、漫画やYoutubeからアイデアを得て面白いと思ったことを自分のものにしていくというストーリーはとても聞いていて面白かったです。
最近読んだ坂本龍一さんのインタビューにて過去の作品の引用が作曲であると言われています。
作曲の95％は、過去の遺産を糧にしています。作曲家自身の“発明”は、せいぜい1、2％程度で、最大でも5％といったところ。作曲の大部分は過去の作品の引用です。
だから、音楽にかんする知識がなかったら、作曲なんかできるはずがない。言葉を知らなければ小説を書けないのとおなじです。ボーっとしているだけで何かがわいてくるということは幻想です。
坂本龍一さんの本にて民族音楽を多く勉強してその背景まで含めて理解しようとしたとの話があり、彼の作品のインスピレーションになっていたのでしょう。
プロが作り込んだ映像作品を沢山見ること、その作品のインタビューを見ることなどが糧になるということが理解できるとてもおもしろいエピソードでした。
