Tips for making Lego videos

[Lego Fanaat]

Recently I decided that I want to dig up my old Lego sets and make stop motion videos of building the sets and of the sets in action.

As a special twist to these videos I decided that it might be interesting to film it from different angles simultaneously.

I made a test vid with a set I had laying around (TMNT Kraang lab Escape):

Any ideas, tips or other kind of comments are very welcome, before I start working on my old castle and robin hood themed sets (since these are significantly larger)

[Darth Dino]

Hi

two things: Background and lightning. Keep you backgroundS as clean as possilbe, white, grey or black. Second: Whitebalance your images.

Dino

[AusAFOL]

I agree with Darth Dino, I would also look at adding some music to liven it up a bit also (look for creative commons music to avoid copyright strikes on your channel though)

[Lego Otaku]

Ditch any camera that don't have manual white balance and ISO setting. Otherwise your video would have varying white and brightness level. Like the old film from hand cranked camera a century ago.

Fixed ISO, fixed white balance, and fixed focus to keep each frame consistent.

[stevkir]

Use a tripod. Nothing worse than getting sea sick watching a youtube video with a constantly moving camera.

[Lego Fanaat]

Thanks for the fast reply with great tips!

I also figured I need to use a ground plate in order to keep the current build in its place.

I am especially happy to find out that you can use music for videos without fearing copyright infringement.

Now to find time to build all my childhood sets