I've mentioned and done some posts about my model making stuff I do, and bought some equipment a while ago so I could film the process, but there were a few things missing.
Whenever I saw somebody doing model making on YouTube, I'd be wondering how they go their shots. I was trying to do mine with one overhead, and another with a tri-pod.
Then! Yesterday I was watching one and it hit me. It's a bloody chest mount!
I knew my dad got one not long ago, so I borrowed it off him to try it out.
Here it is, and while it doesn't look like much, it does the job.
Now I'll be able to have my phone mounted on my chest getting a shot from that angle, while I have my DJI? Or, potentially a Go Pro, or maybe even my Canon mounted overhead.
It'll be multi-cam, which will make it easier to cut around in the edit. Also, it'll give me coverage, just in case I move the sculpture out of one of the shots.
I'm so excited too, because I'm not just going to film it, but I'm also going to livestream the chest mounted camera on Twitch, and take that footage afterwards to then edit it down.
Here's a second piece of gear I got.
Rather than having a tri-pod set up, I can just clamp this arm onto the overhead mount and I'll be able to get a side angle shot without having to waste any floor or table space with gorilla pods or tri-pods.
It's going to be really fun, and I'm going to upload short versions of the model making with commentary to TikTok, and YouTube shorts. Then I'll upload the longer videos to YouTube there after.
It'll mean that the one channel will have multiple tendrils of content pulling people in and I think it would work out fairly well.
I have some other ideas, but for now, those two will be my main focus as far as the Off-World channel goes.