Filming with a Smartphone
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Course Outline
- Introduction
- Phone Settings
- Filming with your phone
- Using third party apps
- Setting up microphones for the best sound
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Overview
Course Outline
Introduction
- Required and optional kit for filming
- Pre-shoot checklist before you go filming
- Preparing a shot list
- Fundamentals of video files and codecs
Phone Settings
- Setting your phone resolution and frame rate
- Aspect ratios
- Preserving storage space, battery life and reducing interference
Filming with your phone
- Choosing a lens on multi lens smartphones
- Stabilising your phone
- Setting Auto Exposure lock
- Setting Auto Focus lock
Using third party apps
- Filmic Pro
- BlackMagic app
Setting up microphones for the best sound
- Types of microphone and setup
- Where to place a microphone
- Controlling ambient sounds and positioning
Using lighting to enhance your video
- Lighting an interviewee
- Three point lighting
- How to control and position light
- Using a reflector
- Types of light and working with practical lights
Shot composition for interviews
- How to frame an interview
- Categories of shot
- Working with interviewees
- Off and to camera interviews
- Planning for your edit
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SEE COURSESUseful Links
- Guide to digital video from IAB – Digital video: Principles for creative best practice
- How to use video in Digital marketing – Great guide from Innovation Visual
- Guide To Digital Video marketing – Strategies for digital video marketing from Glide Agency
- How to make videos without hiring a professional – Great article from Marketing Digital Marketing Institute