00:01Hello, Metro Garage. Can I help you?
00:05I don't think you're supposed to answer that.
00:07Hello? Hi. Yes? Hi. How are you?
00:15Miss Wilson?
00:18She's answering phone calls over here.
00:21Bye.
00:22Bye.
00:25Thank you. I did it as a joke.
00:34Bye, girls. Have the best last day of school.
00:39Bye, George. Bye, pig.
00:42So long. Thanks for my ride to work.
00:44Five stars.
01:01Hey, Casey. If you film all these shots yourself, how do you get those tracking shots when you're moving through
01:07camera?
01:08Funny you should ask. See that? See my office window up there?
01:13That little camera right there, the little white one.
01:16So that little thing tracks me and then I control it with this remote control.
01:20And I can, like, it auto-attracts me and it tracks me automatically and then I can actually control the
01:25camera.
01:26The camera's some seriously futuristic shit.
01:42All right. Did we go?
01:44Yeah.
01:50Jordan and I are going on a quick lunch break mission to do something I've always wanted to do but
01:56I've never, never done before.
01:59Connecticut plates.
02:00It's a secret subway station mission.
02:05Six train.
02:07Six train.
02:08Six train.
02:18Six train.
02:19Six train.
02:21Six train.
02:22Six train.
02:23Here's the mission.
02:24New York City's most beautiful subway station is one very few New Yorkers have seen.
02:29Here's how you get there that's illegal but free.
02:32Okay, take the six train downtown.
02:34That's what we're doing right now.
02:35When the train makes it to its final stop, passengers are told to exit the train.
02:40Stay on the train and duck down so you're not easily spotted.
02:45Okay.
02:46We're at City Hall.
02:47Last stop.
02:47Last stop.
02:48No more passengers.
02:49This is a bad stop on this train.
02:51Oh, I guess.
02:54Where is it going?
02:55No way.
02:57Okay, this is it.
02:58We did it.
02:58That was way easier than I thought.
03:02Let me try to make this make sense.
03:04When the New York City subway first opened on October 27th, 1904, it was the magnificent City Hall Loop Station
03:14with its arched Gustavino tiled ceilings and skylights that served as the centerpiece for the opening festivities.
03:24But by 1945, the new longer subway cars could no longer fit on the curved station's tracks, and that station
03:33was closed forever.
03:35Now, for whatever reason, the six train still goes around that curve.
03:40You don't want to take the four.
03:41You don't want to take the five.
03:43You got to take the six.
03:44Not the four train.
03:45Not the five train.
03:46Four, five, and six are on the same line, but only the six train.
03:49And it stops at the very that loop station, comes back around the other side.
03:55Everybody gets back on and goes in the other direction.
03:57So if you stay on, you can, like, get a glimpse of that old station.
04:02Do you see it?
04:03I don't see it yet.
04:04I don't know which window it's out of.
04:14This is it!
04:29The train stopped.
04:30Why did we stop?
04:31Why did we stop?
04:32We're just going to go back and do the ride again.
04:34Woah, you can't go back and do that again.
05:06All right, what's for lunch?
05:28How's a good little side quest?
05:29Yeah.
05:35This is my gear room.
05:41This is my gear.
05:43The gear room is not the secret.
05:46The secret is that I never use any of this stuff.
05:54My favorite thing in the whole world is making little videos
05:58and making them by myself.
06:00I'm with my friends, but I'm making the video by myself.
06:04And for these videos, like my YouTube, my little YouTube videos, my favorite ingredient,
06:08answering the phone at a parking garage, I can like, I can grab that little clip.
06:12That's fun.
06:13That's spontaneous.
06:13I don't think you're supposed to answer that.
06:15Hello?
06:16The challenge is how do you maximize the cinematography?
06:19So visually, it's interesting without interrupting the spontaneity of what you're capturing.
06:25The goal is always minimal camera gear that lets me do everything I need to do.
06:28This is the whole kit.
06:29It fits in half a backpack.
06:30I have main camera, tiny tripod, zoom lens, action camera 360 camera, tiny drone, selfie stick.
06:38That's the kit.
06:39That's the maximum spontaneity, minimal setup.
06:42That's the whole kit.
06:43But they're limited.
06:44Person with a zoom lens set up somewhere to get that like panning shot.
06:48And that's why this little cute WALL-E looking camera is now officially part of my kit.
06:52And the stabilization is so good.
06:54This is a video I made like last week.
06:56I shot a lot of this on the Luna Ultra.
06:58Like that's on the Luna Ultra.
06:59That's on the Luna Ultra.
07:01And then there's one shot in particular, right?
07:03That shot.
07:05Do you know how hard it is to get a shot, a stabilized tracking shot of a poodle with a
07:11tennis ball in her mouth?
07:13That was all in the Luna Ultra.
07:18Wait, there's one very imp-
07:20When people stay on to go see the old abandoned train stop,
07:25you know what I'm talking about?
07:27Yeah, they're allowed to ride this train through the loop and they can observe the old city hall station.
07:32So it's cool, you're allowed to do it now?
07:33Yes, you're allowed to do it.
07:34Not illegal at all.
07:35Also, I'm watching Pops all the time.
07:37I appreciate it.
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