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1. iPhone Videography Trailer: There's a saying that the
best camera to use is the camera that you have on you with the notoriety
at the iPhone, most of us probably have a
camera on us at all times. And that's very true because
many times we're out in certain events and times and we want the
camera to shoot with. And maybe we're thinking about which camera would be
best for this situation. But really, it's the
camera that we have on hand because that's a
camera that can shoot. And most of us probably have access to an iPhone
at all times. This course we're
going to talk about how to shoot better
iPhone video. I want to start by teaching
you how to navigate through the functions and
settings of the iPhone camera. Then next we're going to go through the different
explanations on the different parts of an
iPhone's camera settings. And then finally, we're gonna
go through the in-depth, step-by-step on how to
take better shots using your iPhone camera and
making advantage of all the different types
of lenses that you have. So if you're ready to
make your iPhone videos, really good and cinematic, I'll see you in the next video.
2. Setting up: iPhone Settings: Hello students. So first of all, let's talk about the settings on your iPhone because the
settings is what you need to have an order so
that you can shoot the proper videos if you
go and shoot some videos with the completely
wrong settings and it's probably not going to turn
out as good as it can. Now in this course,
I'm going to be using my iPhone 12th here, 12th Pro, since the settings
are pretty universal, but there are some
things like having a wide camera and lens that the older iPhones
might not have. But other than that, all
the other intricacies are basically the same like the
core concepts are the same. So let's begin by going onto
the settings of our iPhone. So to do that, you go
on the Settings and then I will just drag
down in search of camera, then press on the cameras. So then I can go
at this settings. And there's a couple of
things to look at here. First is formats. I like to do most
compatible because with high efficiency
and might do some type of interesting
video settings that don't quite
work with Premier. And I edit on Premiere, so I do like to do
most compatible. Then with record video here there are a few
cameras settings, so let me explain those to you. So at 720 HD and 30
frames per second, that is the old standard. It's 720, so it will
use up less space. But at the same time you're
sacrificing quality. And the next one is 1080
at 30 frames per second, which is pretty good. It's what people would
like to do these days. Like ten ADP, you don't really
need much more than that, but we are seeing a lot more for k videos come
into the scene. So potentially you can decide
between four K or ten ADP. Now the next one is
pretty interesting is 1080 P high-def at 60
frames per second. Now I like having my own
default at 60 frames per second because if I
want to slow motion it, I can slow motion it. And if I want it to play at a cinematic time of frame rate, I could still do that too. It won't cause as much kind of like jitteriness as
if I did a 120 FPS. But it's still not as
perfect as 30 FPS. But still, I think it's like a kind of a
balance where I could sacrifice that little bit of
liquidity like the fluidity, to have the option to be
able to do slow motion. Now the next one is for K
at 24 frames per second. And we'll group that in with four K at 30 frames
per second as well, which these are the two
standard frame rates for cinematography type videos. So you have the option of
shooting at for k and for k is good because that's
like 4 thousand pixels. Let me technically
is 3,800 something, but it's close to four k, So we all call it four, okay? And for k gives you the
opportunity to crop down to a smaller size if you need and still retain the
high-definition. So for example, if
you are joined to export your video at ten
ADP and you shot in for k. You could crop down that
for k video and go to different parts
of that video and still retain a lot
of quality in it. Then also, down here is for
k at 60 frames per second, which is really amazing because
I remember years ago you wouldn't even have for k
cameras shooting slow motion. So with the fact that
you're able to shoot for k at 60 frames per
second. That's amazing. You can use this 60 frames
per second to make the clips slow motion if you want or
if you want to make it, like I said, kind of the cinematography look,
then it's fine too. But if you are for sure knowing that you're not
going to slow this down, I would recommend
shooting at 30 FPS. So there's some more functions
here like HDR video, which is the high
dynamic range video, which means it puts
together different kinds of light exposure settings
so that if you're shooting, for instance, where
I am right now, like it's shady here but
very sunny in the back. It kind of meshes it together in a way that all the
colors work well. And so these are some
of the settings on your iPhone camera that really maximizes your ability to
shoot mobile videography.
3. Getting Exposure Right: In order to shoot some
really good iPhone videos, one of the key things to
remember is to nail exposure. So nearly exposure is pretty
important on this because your iPhone sometimes
would focus on the wrong things and then your exposure to be completely off. Now one of the key
things to having good exposure is to have
everything be shown. So a lot of times you might
notice with amateur type of videos at some of the things
are completely blown out. Say for example, I'm in
focus and I have colored, but the back is
completely white. What that means is
the exposure is off. Now this is easy to do
with the iPhone camera because it's typically
always on automatic. Now for you to actually
control your exposure, you have to go on
a manual setting. Okay, So let's go on
to camera and then I'm going to go to
a manual setting. Okay, So here we
are now with this camera ready to record
and I am going to film. So right now I'm going
to fill in this camera. So I will fill in this camera. And as you can see,
Okay, here we go. As you can see as I'm
filming this camera, you notice that behind
the camera is all blown out and you
can't see some of the details in the
upper left-hand corner. Now, in order to have
a good exposure, what you need to do
is to make that show. So you could do
an easy way is to tap on the left-hand corner
and it may immediately, that would make
everything else dark and have the corner be
properly exposed. Now, in this situation,
it looks kinda alright. But in some situations that
would make the subject, which is the camera here, be completely dark and
that doesn't work. So a good way for you to manually control all
of this is to hold, like to hold where you
want to focus. Okay. So you've held that
folks down and it has the AF lock pop-up. And then from there you
can start to drag down and drag up to control
the exposure settings. So here I am dragging up enough just to have the
camera show back up. Okay, so now I'm going to
actually focus on the camera, but we'll have the
camera in-focus. And then we're
going to bring down the exposure a bit so that the back is kinda showing and the camera is also in focus. So now you have details on
all parts of the video. Now, of course, this is actually a very
difficult situation because both the
exposure and the back, and this exposure is very
completely differently lit. So that makes for a really
tough video to film. Now, actually, if we
flip this around, now, once we flip this thing around, we can have the camera properly exposed and the background
properly exposed. Now one thing I like to
do to win there is like the color is a bit like
washed out like this, is to bring the exposure
down a little bit. What do you do that the details are added back into the color. So then now you have this
kinda like detailed shot. And here is our
well exposed shot. So being able to control the exposure manually
with your iPhone, you're able to bring out the best colors and
the proper focus of whatever object you're
trying to highlight and whatever you're trying
to shoot with the camera. And that adds so much more to your production value because everything is properly exposed versus something that is
not properly exposed. Making the video look like
an amateur production.
4. Project: Film a Short : For this class is project. Are we going to walk around in a neighborhood here
in Bali, Indonesia? And we're going to shoot
a bunch of videos and put it together into a small
little cinematic edit. And I'm going to show you
exactly what I do and what my whole thought process is as I go and shoot
it with my phone. It's about sunset time now, which is about the
perfect time to shoot is my favorite type
of shoe because the light is not too harsh. Light kinda creates a
nice shadow at this time. And everything they issued
tends to look pretty alright. And I'm going to run you
through what things to consider so that as you
go and shoot your video, it's going to end up
looking pretty good and nice and cohesive once
you put it all together, a good exercise to do
that everyone should really be doing is going around your neighborhood and shooting some videos with the things
around your neighborhood is something that anyone could
do because everyone has a neighborhood
that they can walk around and just
shoot and discover. Because this is a good
way to practice and it's a good way to just
hone your skills down and notice a lot of the different things that
you should take into consideration as you're going
out and seeing new sights. And as we go now to document and photograph
or video graph some really cool new scenery. Okay, Now first of all, we
are on this hill and there is a ton of different
sites on this hill. And one thing that I always
like to start off with and to know and for you to consider is that as
you're making a video, you need to set the scene
for whoever's washing it. A good shot to take, like right now is
caught a landscape shot which is building
out this scene. So what I would do
is I would shoot a wide shot of this because I'd grab a camera out and
then shoot a wide shot, but I would bring the exposure down a little bit so it's
not blown out or anything. There's also these flowers that I think are really cool too. So before we go, I'm gonna shoot a bit of this
so that we have some more B-roll to put
into our video later. Now good thing to notice
with these shots is that this is very nice shot to do for something that is in-focus in depth with it. So I like to call this
the zoomed-in shot. So as you do a zoomed-in
shot on these things, you can have a blurred
out background. So it's just focuses on this. And when you do that,
this is kind of like subjected to just this. And it really brings
out the flowers because these flowers have
really awesome color. Okay, Cool. So I just shot a
little wide shot. And I think there's
more down there, so we're gonna go down
and shoot some more. Okay. So behind me is like
a village kind of area. And I'm on a hill
overlooking this village. So I'm standing here seeing this village and thinking, okay, this is a nice shot
to do a scene shot. So I will do a wide
landscape shot that captures what
this area looks like. So then when somebody views it, they have a scene of this. Okay, cool. And since we're
here, we'll capture some details that
are around as well. Like I noticed, there are trees moving on top there,
leaves over there. This makes for good
B-roll and this makes for a lot of scene
building because you want to immerse people into the situation and the scenery
that you're in right now. So I'm going to
shoot this as well. Then one thing I also like to do a lot is to zoom all the way in with the telephoto
lens on my camera, which if you don't have, you
can just use a zoomed in lens and then we can
go and see from there. So I'll zoom in on this palm tree and just
shoot some of that. Alright, so every cinematic
edit needs to include some houses and the details of the things that's going on. So here I am looking at these houses and I see
like many different, like cool architecture and things that bring out the details of this
neighborhood that I'm in. So I'm going to use my zoom in, which is the camera on this. And then I want to shoot
some of the buildings and then put those together. So it completes a full
scene of what the houses, the architecture, and the
vibe of this place is like. And there's also some leg, traditional buildings over there to sell ownership that as well. And I also notice there's this beautiful
little plume area tree, so it's good for details. I'm just going to
shoot a zoomed-in shot up this clue Maria tree, and capture the little
flowers that it has. Now for this one, I'm
actually going to utilize slow motion so that it does a cool slow-motion
kinda wrap around shot. Alright, so I did
this slow motion and there's just
so much around it. So let's walk around
and shoot some more. Okay. And as I was walking back, I noticed that this
would make a cooler edit wherever sweep up from here. It would be a cool shot
that shows the flowers and the palm leaf and then
also the other palm tree. So let's go and shoot that. So I would go and
shoot slowly from here and sweep up the
show all the details. But I would also maybe do
it the other way around. That way the exposure is good. So I would sweep up and then down to show all these details. Okay, so that concludes our little walk around
this little village. I took a lot of shots. And if you notice
too, as I'm shooting, I tried to add a bit of motion
to every shot that I take. That way it keeps my
audience were engaged. It gets people like
interested because if you are just shooting pain shots and
with no movement at all, people will tend to lose
their attention really fast. I mean, you could do that,
but not for every shot. So for all my shots, I tried to make it as
engaging as possible so that people's short attention spans these days are still
focused on my video. Now as a recap of what we shot, we did three shots
in particular. The first one is the
wide shot that covers the entire landscape that
shows people what is going on, what we're here in, like, where we're at. And then the second shot is a shot that zooms
in a little bit, shows some of the details that completely zoomed
in on the detail, but like shows a subject and what that subject is and just where that subject is in relevance to
everything around it. Then finally, we did a very zoomed in detail
shots of fruits, of flowers and just objects
and the details of it. So ultimately it really is just three important shots that covers the entire scene
so that your viewer has a full understanding of
what is there and what they can expect to feel more
immersed in the scene.
Arnold Trinh, AI Artist & Creative Director
