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what's going on guys Ron parita here from technobuffalo and we've done a couple videos in the past sharing our camera set up for these TechnoBuffalo videos however I do a little bit of documentary filmmaking out on the side and I have a different set up for that so today I want to walk you guys through what that setup is and what you guys can do as many beginning filmmakers or beginning documentary filmmakers so first off we have our bag here and the most important thing is always obviously going to be your camera I like to use a panasonic gh4 it's very small it's very compact you get built in 4k on SD cards it's all good stuff the SD card that i use or it's not in there are usually sandisk cards you can figure out how fast of cards you need the lens i have on here right now is a void klandor 40 2.5 millimeters so because the gh4 has a two-time crop on the sensor this is actually cloven to about an 85 millimeter or precisely in 85 millimeter this is one lens than I do carry with me for portrait work for close-ups and these lenses actually have such a close focusing distance they're almost functions macro lenses and so all manual manual aperture manual focus great lens standard manfrotto tripod plate on the bottom moving onward we oh and one other note the reason I also like the scan for doctrine or filmmaking is the batteries are insane the last forever this is a sennheiser mic for your iphone so it uses a lightning port this is more of a backup solution for me obviously i would prefer not to get audio with this may be more higher quality mikes which we'll get into in a second but if you have nothing else to record audio and you need something very quickly and you have your iphone on you can plug this in and put this in the pocket of your subject who you're interviewing or if you need to do some voiceover yourself you can use it for that so that's fantastic as well moving on we have two filters i use two filters from tiffin there's a circular polarizer this is a fader ND i use the fader indie way more than the polarizer over the polarizer helps when shooting through windows if you want to bring the vibrancy of the the sky down and a sort of wide shot or something you can play around that and see what you like but the fader ND is an absolute necessity when shooting with dslrs next we have hard drives because we're filming we have to be able to back up what we're doing so once or SD cards get full usually go on a laptop and backup footage we have two drives here i have the samsung t3 which you guys have seen in of mine before I usually work off of this drive this is about a 512 I believe so and this is the drive where I really back up a lot more stuff this is a little c4 terabyte hard drive you want something large obviously depends on what kind of file type you're working with as well moving on very important is headphones doesn't really matter what headphones you have as long as you have something to monitor audio coming out of the camera that is crucial during interviews or even during regular filming just to see whether your audio is popping with your getting clean dialogue all that good stuff continuing with audio when you're doing interview work you want to lav up or that's how I prefer to do it at least so that you're getting a clean audio track without getting too much ambient sound I'm a big fan of this lab kit we've talked about the San Hydra laughs gets before but this is the road filmmaker kit you basically have sort of two components to it you'll have a receiver this goes on top of the camera with the hotshoe plugs in via 3.5 millimeter and this goes on the subject they work really well very simple very straightforward and give a good consistent signal next we have our other lens this is the void klandor 17.5 millimeter f 0.95 so this is sort of a sister lens part of this set there are other lenses these are my two favorites because this is a 35-millimeter equivalent this is an 80 error rather an 85 millimeter equivalent so these to cover me off pretty good a backup camera that I like to have is a GoPro this is the GoPro Hero 5 just came out I don't use this camera primarily for too much stuff but it's mainly if we need to shoot shoot some backup stuff some underwater stuff and it's really like a rescue camera where I can't necessarily put a camera of this size of you know in small areas and what not even like head mounting it or chest mounting it so depending on what you're doing if you have it planned you want to mount or rather bring the straps and mounts with you so next we have the Panasonic gh4 battery charger I do carry extra batteries with me however I like to have this in case I do need to charge any of the batteries if we do run out of juice which is very very rare as I mentioned those extra batteries this is 1 i'll usually carry one with me and if I'm having extra long shoot I will have a couple extras then in addition to that we next have some double a batteries this is for I carry a zoom h6 which we'll get into in a second and if you're Mike packs these mics for example run on double a batteries so those are for that continuing and finishing up our Mike situation we have the Sennheiser 440 I believe it is it's a very odd-looking mike i use it for the first time recently this last week it's a MK ii 440 and this is probably one of the most directional Mike's I've ever used it picks up very very little ambient sound will be doing tests with this in the future if you guys would like we can actually do a review of it big big fan of this continuing onward stabilization is super super important we have this manfrotto tripod as you can see it is very very tiny it uses the same manfrotto plates we have on here which most men photo tripods do that's why I like it super light super small super portable fits in one backpack you can obviously with a lot of this gear go more complex bigger or smaller you don't need all of it depending on what your needs are but these are mine continue onwards we have the front pocket here in this backpack and this has been through absolute war so please bear with me on this case but this is the zoom h6 n in here with various attachments of XY Mike forget what this mike is called and a shotgun attachment so you can also attach different XL ours if you want to run multiple audio setups in interviews usually I like to run an on camera mic than a lav mic so I can sort of mix the two and get the best of both worlds if I want some ambient sound and a clear voice track and last but definitely not least one of the most important things always is a laptop you always have that just to back up to these hard drives and footage and that's really my setup for documentary filmmaking it's it's pretty basic I like to keep it light because usually from shooting by myself or with one other person we'd only be lugging a ton of gear around we don't want gear to run into or rather stop us from capturing the story we're trying to capture so documentary film making is all well and good when you can get everything you need in camera but of course that's not always possible and a lot of commercial filmmaking situations corporate filmmaking or videos that you even just want to post on YouTube sometimes you will run into licensing issues this is where I adobe stock comes into play it's a stock library but what makes it better than other stock libraries is not only their huge selection but how integrated adobe stock is into the other adobe apps so here TechnoBuffalo we edit on Adobe Premiere Pro so in my favorite pieces of software we also use Adobe After Effects we use a whole suite adobe stock is built into premier very very intuitively and makes it very easy to use so by hitting libraries at the top I have this panel popup on the right immediately I have a search bar that has searched OB stock I can look for any sort of images that I want or anything that I want if I switch camera I'll have a bunch of images of cameras pop up all sorts of stuff once you find what you're looking for I can drag it into the timeline and as you can see is a usable clip just like anything I would have shot and imported myself in fact it even comes up in my project folder off to the left the only issue being that it has a watermark on it saying adobe stock all i have to do however to get rid of that is actually licensed the clip so once you've edited in whatever you want you can actually play around the clip see how it fits make sure it's exactly what you are looking for and then to confirm it you just hit license clip and by licensing it it doesn't move anywhere in the timeline adobe simply replaces it with a non-water marked file you don't have to mess around with anything in your timeline anything in your video it's going to be just the way you wanted it and if you want to pick it up today you can download it from soft cat a UK distributor as well as Adobe go ahead and check out the links down below in the description if this is interesting to you I personally think it's a great resource that every creative should have on deck whether you're a graphic designer a photographer it comes in handy just when you need it but let me know what you guys think what would you guys add to this set up what do you guys use you know if this helped and leave his comment down below gives a thumbs up if you like this video thank you so much for watching