Don Rob

A travel YouTuber (@DonRobShow) who works alongside Harry on shoots, credited in the descriptions of the videos he appears in. He turns up twice in the bundle so far, in very different roles.

In the Philippines he is on the Capiz prison shoot for the full 48 hours, recording longer interviews with the same inmates for his own channel while Harry films his. He barely appears on camera; the collaboration is visible mainly in the fact that two creators were given the same access.

In Bali he is the second camera and effectively a co-host, and this is where he says things worth keeping. His line on equipment is the best statement of the pair’s approach anywhere in the bundle: if you want to be a great photographer or videographer, it is not about how technical you get with your gear — it is about standing in front of more interesting things.

His working method, given in the same video:

• Edit as soon as you have the footage, and carry the machine into the field, because if you review a shot on location you can reshoot it, and if you don’t you may have lost it.
• Use the small camera. A compact camera is less confrontational than a large one and gets a more natural response from the person in front of it.
• Shoot both orientations at once — long form and vertical — since the footage has to serve both.
• Cut hard but keep the raw moments. He cuts at least half of what he shoots, and deliberately leaves in the unpolished bits so that the pair are the same on camera as off it.

Obs: the Bali video is sponsored by a laptop manufacturer, and much of his dialogue in it is product demonstration. The craft points above are the parts that stand independently of the advertisement.

He and Harry have history beyond these two shoots — a boxing match in Nigeria is referred to in passing — but nothing about it is recorded in a bundle source yet.

Appears in

• Inside a Brutal Filipino Prison 🇵🇭 — filming his own interviews with the same inmates.
• The Side of Bali You Don’t See | BTS with the ProArt PX13 — second camera and co-presenter for the day.