WEBVTT 00:00.330 --> 00:04.020 So in this lesson we're going to talk about shooting video with your smartphone. 00:04.020 --> 00:07.950 Now I have a iPhone and some of you may have other phones but I'm just going to kind of go over the 00:07.950 --> 00:10.240 basics so we can get into it. 00:10.440 --> 00:14.640 So first let's talk about settings here I'm going to go into my settings and we're going to look for 00:14.640 --> 00:19.340 the camera apart depending on your phone you have different options for resolution. 00:19.380 --> 00:25.440 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 00:25.440 --> 00:27.490 for at 30 minutes per second. 00:27.690 --> 00:33.880 The default best for iPhones is usually 10 ADP HD at 30 frames per second. 00:34.320 --> 00:36.810 That's going to get your standard best video on this phone. 00:36.810 --> 00:44.220 It will do slow motion and we can have 10 80 at 120 frames per second or 720 at 240 frames per second. 00:44.360 --> 00:50.990 10:08 is the typical resolution for your standard 19:20 by 10 HD TV in your living room typically. 00:50.990 --> 00:54.700 So we're going to leave it at 240 frames per second for some because I like that somehow. 00:54.720 --> 00:59.480 And we're going to leave the 10:30 at 30 frames per second for the normal video shooting. 00:59.550 --> 01:04.490 So let's go back to our camera and we got Phil here doing some woodwork for us. 01:04.500 --> 01:06.390 We're going to swipe over to video. 01:06.600 --> 01:12.300 So now we're in video mode on our smartphone and we're looking at Phil the main thing with video for 01:12.300 --> 01:17.730 me is to make sure that your phone is horizontal because when you end up exporting this or you show 01:17.730 --> 01:22.230 it on YouTube you want to get the full range and the full sensor of your phone if you're vertical which 01:22.230 --> 01:24.870 a lot of people tend to do because you hold your phone that way. 01:24.870 --> 01:28.530 It's just going to be a little sliver of video and it's going to be really hard to show that on full 01:28.530 --> 01:29.250 screen. 01:29.540 --> 01:34.050 So let's see we have Phil here automatically the phone is going to try and adjust to his face. 01:34.140 --> 01:39.690 You can see that it's trying to look for your face and for this phone it's very much trying to focus 01:39.690 --> 01:40.380 on that. 01:40.380 --> 01:42.720 Most smartphones are all going to be autofocus. 01:42.720 --> 01:44.390 There are a few where you can adjust it. 01:44.520 --> 01:47.730 But generally because of the small lens it's going to do it itself. 01:47.730 --> 01:53.440 So let's go ahead and record video and you can see I'm really kind of just using my ideas of rule of 01:53.450 --> 01:58.260 thirds and composing a nice shot and I'm trying to hold it as steady as possible because it's such a 01:58.260 --> 02:02.850 small iPhone you can see there's a little bit of shake and you're just going to have to kind of get 02:02.850 --> 02:03.270 used to that. 02:03.270 --> 02:07.530 And just like the focus you're just going to have to kind of get used to practicing it and making sure 02:07.530 --> 02:09.440 that you can kind of hold it steady. 02:09.750 --> 02:14.550 Another great thing with the phones is you can see how it's exposing automatically this phone's doing 02:14.550 --> 02:15.690 it pretty subtly. 02:15.690 --> 02:20.190 When you turn out here you can see how it just exposes greatly for the for the tons of software in a 02:20.190 --> 02:21.240 garage right now. 02:21.240 --> 02:25.140 And when it come back into the shade it does it automatically for this phone. 02:25.140 --> 02:30.900 Also I can tap on a position and I can move the exposure up and down you can see the little sign going 02:30.900 --> 02:34.650 up and that's making it brighter blowing fill out and blowing the sun out. 02:34.650 --> 02:39.140 And then as I come down manually it's getting darker and darker and that may be. 02:39.960 --> 02:44.200 Sometimes you need to fight with the smartphone itself because it's trying to expose it automatically. 02:44.220 --> 02:45.750 But here I've exposed a little bit lower. 02:45.750 --> 02:47.330 It looks a little bit nicer. 02:47.640 --> 02:51.510 The shadows are a little deeper and the black so dark it's a little more dramatic. 02:51.510 --> 02:54.330 So here's another thing for smartphones focusing. 02:54.480 --> 02:59.880 It likes to do autofocus typically But here if you tap in a certain area it will focus itself I mean 02:59.880 --> 03:04.440 it really close to this one block and you can see I'm tapping here and it's focusing directly on the 03:04.440 --> 03:06.190 wood block as opposed to Phil's face. 03:06.240 --> 03:10.130 If we tap on Phil's face it should focus slowly on Phil's face. 03:10.140 --> 03:12.570 Again this depends on the model of phone you have. 03:12.570 --> 03:17.130 This is an iphone 7 and it seems to be doing a pretty good job of that. 03:17.610 --> 03:19.040 So let's try slo mo. 03:19.110 --> 03:21.580 The big thing about Sloma is shifting over to it. 03:22.310 --> 03:26.180 Here now are in slow mo and you can't really tell right now because we have a lot of light coming in. 03:26.180 --> 03:29.640 But when you shift into slow mo you're going to lose a lot of light. 03:29.750 --> 03:34.280 What it's doing internally is it's shooting more frames per second which means there's frames that are 03:34.430 --> 03:38.430 in front of the camera for less amount of time which means the light is going to hit those less. 03:38.460 --> 03:43.010 Phil's going to start to send this little piece of thing really really fast as soon as we start shooting 03:43.010 --> 03:45.310 and we'll see what slow mo ends up looking like. 03:49.150 --> 03:51.760 So checking out this clip it's really cool. 03:51.760 --> 03:57.340 This is 240 frames per second and it's actually at 720 it's not at 10 80 shooting something that has 03:57.340 --> 04:00.190 a lot of motion will look a lot better when you're shooting slow motion. 04:00.190 --> 04:02.480 It'll actually show the effects more. 04:02.500 --> 04:07.090 Keep in mind if you're shooting yourself for a vlog or for instruction you can always do selfies with 04:07.090 --> 04:09.170 your video camera on your smartphone. 04:09.190 --> 04:11.570 So remember there's a little button in upper right corner. 04:11.590 --> 04:14.230 Now you see me and I'm looking into the camera. 04:14.230 --> 04:14.850 It's nice. 04:14.860 --> 04:20.440 Remember keeping our rules in mind but also paying attention to what's behind you and also making sure 04:20.440 --> 04:22.600 that your finger doesn't cover the camera. 04:22.600 --> 04:26.710 So right now I have a lot of white light coming and it's lots of soft light from a garage door if we 04:26.710 --> 04:28.570 spin around we can see our crew back there. 04:28.570 --> 04:33.580 There is Phil and Sam the same rules apply with the tapping we can tap to expose over here and we can 04:33.580 --> 04:39.340 kind of manually tap as well as focusing in focus on me and the exposure or I can focus on these guys 04:39.340 --> 04:40.540 back here by tapping. 04:40.840 --> 04:45.640 So a couple of pro tips for you recording yourself on your own smartphone is one looking into the camera 04:45.640 --> 04:46.570 on your phone. 04:46.570 --> 04:49.810 It's much better and engages the audience as opposed to looking at yourself. 04:50.020 --> 04:53.350 Another one is keeping the camera eye level keeping yourself centered. 04:53.350 --> 04:58.270 And finally if you want to show some stuff framing up to see your friends and shop. 04:58.660 --> 05:01.440 There's also lots of different things that you can get for your smartphone. 05:01.450 --> 05:06.700 You can get tripods you can get stabilizers you really can set it down anywhere it really is a camera 05:06.730 --> 05:08.870 that you're carrying with you in your pocket all the time.