How to Film Inserts (And Save Time and Money)

[@stinkyham9050]

These guys inspired me to start doing some VFX shots in my basement with my 2 young sons. Its amazing how good $25 worth of styrofoam and cardboard can look with a bit of effort. Thanks guys.

[@sliceoflifefilm]

Oh great!!! So happy to hear that! Say hi to the kids! 😉❤

[@FAKUZONE]

This is a great lesson on filmmaking on a budget ! Bravo 👏

[@ZvilgantisKailis]

Big budget does some of those tricks too!

[@sliceoflifefilm]

Thanks a lot for watching!

[@TommyRosati]

OMG! Fantastic! How you guys don't yet have a million subs, is a mystery to me. Your content is not only funny as hell, but very informative. Keep doing what you do! 👍👍

[@sliceoflifefilm]

Thanks a lot! We're modest. Half a million subs will do. 😂

[@TheBonsaiZone]

Mandalorian on a budget, awesome shots!!!

[@sliceoflifefilm]

Thanks dude!!!

[@JacobCenteno]

"You're doing it Peter (Pan), You're doing it!" Couldn't be more stoked to see you guys executing your vision and cinema goals. Inspiring!!

[@welchworks]

This channel is such relaxing edu-tainment.

[@sliceoflifefilm]

haha thank you!

[@IndyStry]

So inspiring to see these low budget but high production quality shots! Also the joke at 9:40 was hilarious!

[@sliceoflifefilm]

Thanks 😉

[@peffken8834]

That's how you have to do it, with passion, creativity, ideas, abstract thinking, an understanding of impact and implementation with the available options. I might have done it the same way, but I didn't! Great work and thank you for sharing your work and experiences! Gold! 😘

[@sliceoflifefilm]

You are very welcome!

[@nyaneswaranmanogaran5925]

Guys, ya'll are the BEST! New Age G.O.A.Ts of indie filmmaking without a doubt! I am enjoying this detailed insight into the BTS so much. Never stop making this content for every single project you guys do. A humble request from your die-hard fan.

[@sliceoflifefilm]

Thanks a lot! ❤❤❤

[@brettsalter3300]

Insert me happy! (Love your shirts) You inspire me, not so much in specifics. But for your love of life! (Any way you Slice it.)

[@sliceoflifefilm]

hahaha. you should see me when I'm editing this for hours. No love for life at all 😂😂

[@Carteblanchefx]

yes! Yes! YES! This is a truly secret box with cool tips and tricks!!! Very useful and fun! 🐱

[@sliceoflifefilm]

Thank you 🤗

[@rocktober1957]

This is freaking FANTASTIC !!! GREAT JOB !!!

[@BlobLaw]

Terrifically helpful (and entertaining)!

[@MrTaco-ei5hl]

Entertaining, educational and fun! Your personalities really come across on screen. I watched this episode three times. Lots of fun.

[@sliceoflifefilm]

Oh wow haha. thank you!

[@ElkinsStuff]

You guys are an inspiration to our kids - to all of us! Best presentation of this stuff Thanks

[@sliceoflifefilm]

Thank you very much for the lovely comment! ❤

[@ElkinsStuff]

@@sliceoflifefilm Our kids are into film making. They are learning a lot from you, whilst being thoroughly entertained too!

[@Usr1240]

Very intersting, what you can do, without getting expensive things. Love your work everytime❤❤❤❤

[@watchthetasteoflove]

really love the passion and the way you present it.

[@sliceoflifefilm]

Glad you enjoyed it!

[@matsnilson7727]

Fantastic stuff! You guys never fail to impress with your work and clever budget friendly ideas. Gotta love the Nazareth t-shirt too. 👍

[@sliceoflifefilm]

Haha yea! Nazareth is THE band! 😂❤❤❤

[@Truth_Warrior]

Very nice! Keep up the great work!

[@sliceoflifefilm]

Thank you very much!

[@Truth_Warrior]

I have a list of shots for my project, so I fully understand how much work goes into it.@@sliceoflifefilm

[@jean-pierrejoubert2438]

Fantastic! Inserts are golden! You guys are amazing!

[@InCameraTV]

Love these videos on the making of Splashback...very inspiring. I tip my Puma cap to you both - JP X

[@sliceoflifefilm]

Haha, thanks JP! 😉

[@johnnykarlitch]

Vous êtes... euh... vous êtes... FANTASTIQUES. Yeah!!!

[@dougrobinson5706]

Damn! What an informative video. I love the monitor trick. I'm stealing it! Are you fellows back home yet?

[@Petskuta]

I've been following since you announced this film, can't wait to see it! Good job with these videos as well :)

[@sliceoflifefilm]

Thank you very much!

[@ChaosCanyon]

Love it. Some great tips and some awesome shots using the monitor. Love the humour in these bts vids. Can’t wait to see the final movie

[@sliceoflifefilm]

Glad you enjoyed it!

[@ZvilgantisKailis]

What an amazing know-how :) Thank you!

[@sliceoflifefilm]

You're welcome! Thank YOU for watching!

[@seunadatsi]

This is so awesome! Thank you for sharing this.

[@sliceoflifefilm]

Glad you enjoyed it!

[@radicalempire6599]

The Kings of Inserts!

[@sliceoflifefilm]

😂😂❤

[@JeffSandersFilms]

Very well done! Shots look amazing.

[@bradhouston4734]

Love it. Poor man’s Mando! Sooo good. I’m coming to be exploited by you guys one day!! 😀👊😀🏝️🇦🇺

[@jocelyndeguise]

You guys are amazing! Can't wait to see the movie!

[@carlosmarx2380]

given how good and stylized the shots look in this video, i'm almost a little sad that the film itself is black and white. i really love the look of the color shots here.

[@sliceoflifefilm]

Yea I know... Some shots made me feel the same. But BW is cool! 😉

[@brick72]

You are awesome cool filmmakers ❤❤🎉🎉

[@sliceoflifefilm]

You are awesome too! ❤

[@Thies_Gruenewald]

Just perfect Infotainment 😊

[@nicklatimeractor]

And Dino is a Liverpool fan? You guys just keep getting better and better.

[@sliceoflifefilm]

Oh he's a big time Liverpool fan! I'm not into sports at all but he keeps telling me all the new info on Liverpool as if I'm interested. I never watched a game in my life but I still know that Jurgen Klopp is about to leave and that they acquired that Endo guy recently... I don't even know who these people are, haha 😂😂😂

[@nicklatimeractor]

@sliceoflifefilm haha! When I’m talking football to people I always see the light leave their eyes about two sentences in. Dino and I are kindred spirits

[@pjhunton]

Love the insert shots, if you ever need an old, knackered Geordie photographer or camera operator hit me up!

[@sliceoflifefilm]

Thank you! 😉💪♥️

[@Sean-nv6zk]

Ok, as always, I learn something new from you guys. From now on, I will be stealing the "Poor Man's Mandalorian Techique" to describe this process. lol

[@sliceoflifefilm]

haha please do! ❤❤

[@vonnyrotten]

This was awesome to see all the tricks and clever ways to enhance the story! I know you had great storyboards and knew your shots, but did you do any new inserts after watching your footage? How many would you say are planned from the beginning and how many are realized during shooting/editing? Thanks!

[@sliceoflifefilm]

Oh absolutely, we added a lot of new shots. Let's say that we storyboarded 100% of live action shots, 50% of inserts, and 50% of miniature shots. So basically we "invented" a lot of new inserts and miniature shots as the film developed in the editing. For example we drew just one or two shots of the guy working in the warehouse, to establish his work day. But then in the editing we find a cool piece of music that fits, and decide to turn it into a nice little scene, and we shoot some more inserts, like a typewriter, close up of paper etc.. stuff like that. Basically adding to scenes to make them richer.

[@vonnyrotten]

@@sliceoflifefilm I assumed you guys would have come up with new shots and extras! Love this series, I do toy photography and am trying to glean all sorts of great info as I am wanting to make a new "comic" style short movie. Thanks for all the content you share!

[@tonydeb6793]

I love your videos.

[@sliceoflifefilm]

Thanks Tony! 😉

[@mckenziecreative]

So good!!!

[@arvvee1832]

Awesoms work! But it's so much additional effort to re-create / miniaturize each scene for inserts. For some of these, would it have been easier to capture the insert on the set, for a few additional minutes after finishing principal photography for the scene?

[@sliceoflifefilm]

Unfortunately it's never just a few minutes. The light you do for the wide shot never works for an insert, there's always something to tweak. And the moment you need to move light and camera and you need to coordinate 15 people (as it is on bigger sets), you lose 30 min easily. And on every filming day you are always an hour behind schedule anyway, so there's just no time to spare. Of course, you can schedule inserts too, but that would inevitable add a few more days to the schedule. That's our experience at least.

[@arvvee1832]

@@sliceoflifefilm Wow. Thank you for that explanation! (Who knew??)

[@breezabookings]

Welcome back from your trip guys!

[@sliceoflifefilm]

Oooh, thank you, thank you!

[@martinezfilmworks7880]

Great Info.

[@sliceoflifefilm]

Glad it was helpful!

[@mcemtpockets1775]

Yes on the healthy life style

[@sliceoflifefilm]

Very important 😂

[@DennisScullyzenith7]

Good stuff! A big challenge must be matching the lighting?

[@sliceoflifefilm]

not that hard actually. we just do it by eye, but color grading can always bring it to the finish line!

[@DennisScullyzenith7]

@@sliceoflifefilm Okay 👌 Yeah I'm a Director and have always tried to avoid what I know as Pick-up shots that were missed on shoot or that I ran out of time for. The times I've had to do it I have battled with matching the lighting sometimes, although yes grading does help! Did you guys run out of time for all the extra Inserts you needed to shoot?

[@sliceoflifefilm]

@@DennisScullyzenith7 No, we didnt even plan to shoot them with the actors because we would lose a lot of time on set. We always intended to film them afterwards.

[@plutons0productions]

Hawaiian shirts for days

[@sliceoflifefilm]

Hawaiian shirts 4 life!

[@labcat73]

Ok it finally makes sense.... Lots of french red wine... Lots if bottles... Lots of bouquet... Bokeh..... ✌️👍

[@sliceoflifefilm]

Exactly! 😂

[@kelvinsakala]

This requires time and dedication but would love to try it for music videos

[@PolycultureArt]

Insert this!!! Top notch as always. I really like what you did with the poormandolorian "volume". Its so incredibly effective, especially the shot of the Sony camera. Once you composited the screen over the top you would never know that was a "fake" shot, which is ironic because it still is captured "in camera". Ill say it again, learning more from every video than the last 3 years of film school. Much love, see you next week! Also thanks for sharing your trip to the USA. Even in Australia the stuff you are doing there seems so "exotic".. ha ha. I want to wear sick shirts and cowboy hats and eat burgers and shoot stuff! For like a week.. Then GTFO out of there.. Lastly your garage looks way bigger than it did in Slice, its still the same place yeah?

[@sliceoflifefilm]

Haha. Thanks a lot! Happy to hear you got some good info! Yea America is exotic to us too, and I agree, a week would be enough! We were there a whole month and it was hard to be away for so long. It's the same garage, albeit redecorated. We shot this with an iPhone. Perhaps the lens is wider 🤣

[@PolycultureArt]

Maybe because its not stuffed to the brim with toilet sets and cars.. If the camera adds ten pounds, then the iphone must subtract them he he..@@sliceoflifefilm

[@timcannon6814]

You guys make me miss smoking. I need a pack of slice of life lite 100s in soft pack.

[@sliceoflifefilm]

Hahaha! I wanna smoke now too!

[@saschamayer4050]

I want a pack, but I don't even smoke! 😁

[@dnadaramesh3297]

Nice

Luka's face at 5:08 & 6:01 just sooooooooooooo fits to him (sorry mate no harm),

[@sliceoflifefilm]

🤣

[@HappyDude1]

They little guy peeing Is very famous in belgium Its a life size statue in brussel called manneke pis

[@sliceoflifefilm]

Yes yes! Someone already commented. Great info!! 😉

[@Filmovi_s_Ruba]

I love the fact that all of you wear costumes for shots where the camera only shows your hands. 😁😁

[@sliceoflifefilm]

We are method! 😘😘

[@sbcinema]

Great work, but I noticed a minor mistake, the type of camera flash you used is too modern

[@sliceoflifefilm]

there's probably a 100 other mistakes like that in this film 🤣

[@elSegundoTF]

For the algorithm 🤟

[@SarveshPonnusamy-p7e]

when can we see the movie? Love from INDIA

[@sliceoflifefilm]

Not for a while. It's being applied to festivals. 😉😉

[@ninjawhippetproductions7411]

Why not "The Poor Man(dalorian) Technique"?

[@sliceoflifefilm]

Haha good one! That's better!

[@passion_proh-jects]

BEAUTIFUL! ps what's with the face hair??!!!! A nee Ah! Sies vuil VANTASTIES!

[@sliceoflifefilm]

Face hair is the meaning of ones true self.

[@passion_proh-jects]

I know...😞I'm sorry... I am wookie (or Village Person)... and loving it! ps There's a pump INSIDE the pee pee boy? Fabulous... That would have saved the family hundreds of thousands back in the day@@sliceoflifefilm

[@Wasserstoffperoxid2020]

10:26 film is reverse… takes one shot

[@llucasn]

Wondering what these guys could make with a fat budget

[@sliceoflifefilm]

We wonder the same thing. 😂❤

[@dejangotic]

the sheer amount of blatant lying and fakery morphing into beautiful shots is very satisfying to watch!

[@sliceoflifefilm]

I think so too!