8 GREAT DIY Filmmaking Tips!! - Knoptop

FULL list of the Audio and Video Gear I use:

Here are 8 filmmaking tips that everyone should know about!!

Here’s the list of the tutorials mentioned in this video:
Crappie Pole (boom pole/ shock mount) - DIYCameraGuy
Lens cap/body cap storage - Peter McKinnon
Battery Bands - Knoptop
Lens Bands - Frugal Filmmaker
Blue Tack - DIY GoPro mount - Hardik Patel
DIY Square Light from canvas/frame - Krista Koivuranta
Cheapest/ Most compact DIY Slider - Chung Dha
Shoulder Rig - Audio Gear Holder - HeyJustJ

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Here's a full list of ALL the video gear I use in my videos:

Thanks for watching!

[knoptop]

How many times to I say "Awesome" in this episode!?

[OutaTimeFPV]

Thanks KnopTop! Your channel really inspires me. I signed up for my high school film class and all the cheap DIY tips will definitely come in handy! Thanks man!

[chipbrandstetter]

The Crappie pole is the best. Made one a few years ago. It works.

[DIYCameraGuy]

OMG why didn't this video ever show up in my feed. Thanks for the channel love man. Those grip ties are so useful, I keep them in all my bags. I do have a new way of using them for a shock mount though.

[artb]

cool stuff bro, when can we expect to see a short film of yours?

[TheHomeFilmmakergpage]

I love the finger counting. happens to me all the time and it's just a sure way of being correct

[heyjustj]

Thanks for the shoutout! Looked at my youtube subscription feed yesterday and was super surprised to see my face in a thumbnail! Been watching you since I think even before BFX audition days. Think I've also seen you in some Flite Test stuff. Great group of guys on that channel!

I promise my channel isn't dead... just sleeping for the past few years while I've focused on other projects hahaha. BUT those projects are ending in the next few months so I'm hoping to resurrect my channel here soon. Keep up the great work!

[lkfxfotografiavideo]

How about remove the clamp in a clamp light 💡 pick a mini ball head put a 1/4 inch nut and mount the light to the ball head, I figured the nut is about same size of the piece of metal at the tip of the clamp!! Then you can turn or tilt light everywhere 👐👐

[Samtagri]

Thumbs up only for going two levels deep with the PIP effect in the closing scene.

[PremierPrep]

Great video! Hope Scott from Frugal Filmmaker comes back!

[MikesCarInfo]

I swear I had that exact same TV in my room in the early 1980's! It uses a bunch of D batteries or can be plugged in.
Man I stopped the video after 6 seconds from the nostalgia.

[nyedca]

I am almost tempted to go find his video on using rubber bands to designate which battery is freshly charged just to see how one could possibly make a whole video on the subject... longer then... and one that could possibly cover more then... what was immediately conveyed in the tip presented in this list. "Almost" but not gunna do it. I think I "get" it. :)

[brocktechnology]

So when you're done shooting and you cap your lens and your body, you just Biff those memory cards in the woods?

[WillPattenden]

I'm such a nerd, I got angry on the continuity errors between you turning the channel knob and the close up of the TV :P Great video though. Another tip you could add to the list is from The Film Look where they spray paint the lens caps so you know which one goes to which lens

[BadKarma]

I would like to make a video with you if your ever in Garden Grove California I am not far from Disneyland

[OneCheapEric]

Stopped making something to watch this. Then felt overwhelmingly guilty when you told me to go make something. I'm a failure Dave.

[davidtaylorsr]

Don't know what lit you're fire lately, but I like it! Hope you're not like me, slow work with more time on your hands.

[feletrejo]

jesus christ this is the type of class special ed students would have in the basement of a film school

[christopherramos]

My phone rang after I watched the end of this video...

[hiusnow]

I thought you taught me to save my SD cards in my camera lens caps.... if not you and i never heard of that other guy then who was it?<_< >_>