So in this lesson we're going to talk about shooting video with your smartphone.
Now I have a iPhone and some of you may have other phones but I'm just going to kind of go over the
basics so we can get into it.
So first let's talk about settings here I'm going to go into my settings and we're going to look for
the camera apart depending on your phone you have different options for resolution.
You can do on this phone 720 at 30 frames per second at 10:30 at 30 10:30 at 30 and you can also do
for at 30 minutes per second.
The default best for iPhones is usually 10 ADP HD at 30 frames per second.
That's going to get your standard best video on this phone.
It will do slow motion and we can have 10 80 at 120 frames per second or 720 at 240 frames per second.
10:08 is the typical resolution for your standard 19:20 by 10 HD TV in your living room typically.
So we're going to leave it at 240 frames per second for some because I like that somehow.
And we're going to leave the 10:30 at 30 frames per second for the normal video shooting.
So let's go back to our camera and we got Phil here doing some woodwork for us.
We're going to swipe over to video.
So now we're in video mode on our smartphone and we're looking at Phil the main thing with video for
me is to make sure that your phone is horizontal because when you end up exporting this or you show
it on YouTube you want to get the full range and the full sensor of your phone if you're vertical which
a lot of people tend to do because you hold your phone that way.
It's just going to be a little sliver of video and it's going to be really hard to show that on full
screen.
So let's see we have Phil here automatically the phone is going to try and adjust to his face.
You can see that it's trying to look for your face and for this phone it's very much trying to focus
on that.
Most smartphones are all going to be autofocus.
There are a few where you can adjust it.
But generally because of the small lens it's going to do it itself.
So let's go ahead and record video and you can see I'm really kind of just using my ideas of rule of
thirds and composing a nice shot and I'm trying to hold it as steady as possible because it's such a
small iPhone you can see there's a little bit of shake and you're just going to have to kind of get
used to that.
And just like the focus you're just going to have to kind of get used to practicing it and making sure
that you can kind of hold it steady.
Another great thing with the phones is you can see how it's exposing automatically this phone's doing
it pretty subtly.
When you turn out here you can see how it just exposes greatly for the for the tons of software in a
garage right now.
And when it come back into the shade it does it automatically for this phone.
Also I can tap on a position and I can move the exposure up and down you can see the little sign going
up and that's making it brighter blowing fill out and blowing the sun out.
And then as I come down manually it's getting darker and darker and that may be.
Sometimes you need to fight with the smartphone itself because it's trying to expose it automatically.
But here I've exposed a little bit lower.
It looks a little bit nicer.
The shadows are a little deeper and the black so dark it's a little more dramatic.
So here's another thing for smartphones focusing.
It likes to do autofocus typically But here if you tap in a certain area it will focus itself I mean
it really close to this one block and you can see I'm tapping here and it's focusing directly on the
wood block as opposed to Phil's face.
If we tap on Phil's face it should focus slowly on Phil's face.
Again this depends on the model of phone you have.
This is an iphone 7 and it seems to be doing a pretty good job of that.
So let's try slo mo.
The big thing about Sloma is shifting over to it.
Here now are in slow mo and you can't really tell right now because we have a lot of light coming in.
But when you shift into slow mo you're going to lose a lot of light.
What it's doing internally is it's shooting more frames per second which means there's frames that are
in front of the camera for less amount of time which means the light is going to hit those less.
Phil's going to start to send this little piece of thing really really fast as soon as we start shooting
and we'll see what slow mo ends up looking like.
So checking out this clip it's really cool.
This is 240 frames per second and it's actually at 720 it's not at 10 80 shooting something that has
a lot of motion will look a lot better when you're shooting slow motion.
It'll actually show the effects more.
Keep in mind if you're shooting yourself for a vlog or for instruction you can always do selfies with
your video camera on your smartphone.
So remember there's a little button in upper right corner.
Now you see me and I'm looking into the camera.
It's nice.
Remember keeping our rules in mind but also paying attention to what's behind you and also making sure
that your finger doesn't cover the camera.
So right now I have a lot of white light coming and it's lots of soft light from a garage door if we
spin around we can see our crew back there.
There is Phil and Sam the same rules apply with the tapping we can tap to expose over here and we can
kind of manually tap as well as focusing in focus on me and the exposure or I can focus on these guys
back here by tapping.
So a couple of pro tips for you recording yourself on your own smartphone is one looking into the camera
on your phone.
It's much better and engages the audience as opposed to looking at yourself.
Another one is keeping the camera eye level keeping yourself centered.
And finally if you want to show some stuff framing up to see your friends and shop.
There's also lots of different things that you can get for your smartphone.
You can get tripods you can get stabilizers you really can set it down anywhere it really is a camera
that you're carrying with you in your pocket all the time.