What goes into making a large scale YouTube video, behind the scenes for a YouTuber's new streaming series

[IronFilm]

First you might like to watch this video on Mr Beast's youtube channel, so you get to see what the end result looks like:

 

Then check out the behind the scenes, of how it got made:

Check out the camera plan (well, one of the camera plans) they show thirteen minutes into it (yes, that's one THOUSAND GoPros):

 

 

Two more BTS videos about this same YouTuber production series:

 

 

[eatstoomuchjam]

 

Don't forget the part where they denied people access to medication, etc.  What a fun TV show.

[sanveer]

God knows how he gets the limitless millions that he does. Many of his videos have him handing out money more than most game shows and lotteries. It's almost he owns the federal reserve. 

[eatstoomuchjam]

He gives out a lot of money, but it seems like a lot of it goes to his family, friends, gf, employees, etc.  But also, when you see the kind of money that he's taking in, it starts to seem like he's keeping a lot of it.  He's made millions upon millions just in crypto schemes where he got in on a prebuy for a shitcoin, hyped it, and then had his manager dump it as soon as the price spiked - and then he says "I never have even bought or sold with that wallet" - you know, because someone else does it for him.

[ntblowz]

I see they use a few dozen R5C for handheld cam, wonder why they decide not keep it all Sony? 

[IronFilm]

10 hours ago, eatstoomuchjam said:

What a fun TV show.

YouTubers making drama up about Bigger YouTubers. Normal par for the course, been going on since day one of YT history.

So far nothing seems that unusual such as you'd expect from any massively large scale reality tv series (especially survival / sports contestants) or even working on a normal AA narrative film title. (some of them just need to harden up, it's as if they've never worked a day before in their life as an Extra?!)

Seems like she's got a vendetta against Mr Beast, she's made a tonne of videos against Mr Best: https://www.youtube.com/@RosannaPansino/search?query=beast 

I bet if we heard the other side, such as from the 1st/2nd/3rd ADs, the story would be very different. 

7 hours ago, sanveer said:

God knows how he gets the limitless millions that he does. Many of his videos have him handing out money more than most game shows and lotteries. It's almost he owns the federal reserve. 

In the early years it seemed like he just poured close to 100% of whatever he'd make from a video right back into making the next video. 

 

6 hours ago, eatstoomuchjam said:

He gives out a lot of money, but it seems like... <snip>

Yeah I greatly admire him for what he's achieved with his YouTube videos (and now in the conventional mainstream media space too, doing a series for Amazon), he clearly has got it dialed right in and understands the YT algorithm better than anybody else on planet earth, but in the non-YouTube space I feel he might have done some kinda sketchy things.

5 hours ago, ntblowz said:

I see they use a few dozen R5C for handheld cam, wonder why they decide not keep it all Sony? 

It is curious why they wouldn't use Sony FX3/FX30 cameras for handheld cameras instead? (or were they already? Maybe they simply ran out of them and were trying to get their hands on as many cameras as possible!) 

Wonder what the ingestion process was for those thousand GoPros? I wonder in particular about how they handled timecode on those, if at all.

And likewise, what did they do for the handheld cameras such as the R5C? Did you see a TC box on them?

Honestly with a budget like that I'd even think about handing out a few Sony RX100 (or RX0??) cameras to key cast members, to act as their handheld vlogging cameras, as an RX100/RX0 on their budget level is so dirt cheap they're basically almost disposable cameras. But perhaps the footage gained wouldn't be worth the editing time. 

Am a bit tempted to get a Sony RX0 mk2 myself before I move overseas next year, as I reckon a Sony RX100 with a wide angle prime lens would be awesome. Which is kinda like what the RX0 is, has a 24mm FF FoV prime lens, with a "big" 1 inch sensor (same as the RX100 has). Makes it super small and pocketable, even though it has a selfie screen!

While watching the video again, I saw this:

As they're rechecking the date at 6am I have a theory that  they're not using Time of Day TC, but rather they're using Time Elapsed since call time each day (6am). 

I see they're recording onto a tonne of these:

https://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/1834930-REG/aja_ki_pro_go2_ki_pro_go2_multi_channel.html

Is quite sad that Video Devices / Sound Devices completely gave up on this market, and never made an updated replacement for the Sound Devices 970

[eatstoomuchjam]

5 minutes ago, IronFilm said:

So far nothing seems that unusual such as you'd expect from any massively large scale reality tv series (especially survival / sports contestants) or even working on a normal AA narrative film title. (some of them just need to harden up, it's as if they've never worked a day before in their life as an Extra?!)

I'm pretty sure that no level of "hardening up" will help with the insulin needs of a type 1 diabetic.

6 minutes ago, IronFilm said:

Seems like she's got a vendetta against Mr Beast, she's made a tonne of videos against Mr Best: https://www.youtube.com/@RosannaPansino/search?query=beast 

She does, and acknowledges it.  She used to participate in some of his videos.  In a hide and seek themed one, she was told she couldn't hide in a place, only to have the winner win by hiding in that place later.  It seems like that's when her eyes started to be opened.

At this point, her main thing is just asking that the unedited bts footage from BG be released to a non-biased third party for evaluation.  I suspect it would need to be a lot of non-biased third parties.

7 minutes ago, IronFilm said:

I bet if we heard the other side, such as from the 1st/2nd/3rd ADs, the story would be very different. 

Yes, employees who rely on him for income and health insurance are certainly less likely to speak out against unethical and dangerous behaviors.

 

9 minutes ago, IronFilm said:

in the non-YouTube space I feel he might have done some kinda sketchy things.

Like allegedly knowing that Delaware was a sex offender convicted of inappropriate actions toward children (on a channel that is most popular with teenagers) just before or after hiring him and then after getting called out for it, claiming to have terminated him, only to just move him to an executive role in another part of the company?
Or keeping Tyson around despite allegedly being fully aware of the creepy grooming stuff?
Or the racial and homophobic slurs?
(On top of the previously-mentioned crypto stuff)

[Andrew Reid]

I don't know how the fuck he affords this shit.

[Andrew Reid]

9 hours ago, IronFilm said:

In the early years it seemed like he just poured close to 100% of whatever he'd make from a video right back into making the next video. 

Yeah I greatly admire him for what he's achieved with his YouTube videos (and now in the conventional mainstream media space too, doing a series for Amazon)

There is no way he spends the kind of money he says he does, it's all corporate handouts and sponsorship deals.

He does not go and buy so many GoPros, doesn't make sense not to rent or get them from the company themselves for free in return for the publicity, so that's his bullshit busted on that front and it's similar in many other ways.

That said I haven't watched what you've posted because it's a load of bollocks and I don't see really what your love affair with Mr BEST has got to do with this forum anyway.

[IronFilm]

This forum is about filmmaking? He's doing literally the biggest scale filmmaking there is right now in some aspects (such as the most cameras ever). Of course people might be naturally curious about how it works behind the scenes. 

On 12/28/2024 at 2:55 AM, Andrew Reid said:

doesn't make sense not to rent

Yes, it's very normal for productions to rent equipment. 

(although they do such a high volume of productions, I'm sure there is a lot of equipment that they also own in house themselves) 

[Andrew Reid]

It's not filmmaking, he does gameshows.

Anyway, this whole thread is a pile of crap and is locked so that it sinks into the gutter where the guy belongs, bye bye.