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The easiest way to film yourself in 2024

teacher avatar Misha Manko, Digital marketing strategist

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Topics include illustration, design, photography, and more

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Lessons in This Class

    • 1.

      Introduction

      1:37

    • 2.

      Equipment recommendations

      8:28

    • 3.

      Best video quality

      6:16

    • 4.

      Light and sound

      3:35

    • 5.

      Recording software

      4:36

    • 6.

      How to Brainstorm

      4:45

    • 7.

      Tips

      2:12

    • 8.

      Be-Do-Have strategy

      2:53

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Unlock the secrets to creating high-quality video content with this comprehensive course designed for aspiring content creators, educators, and professionals. Whether you’re filming your first online course or creating video content for your business, this course will guide you through every step of the process. Learn how to set up your equipment for optimal results, including camera, lighting, and sound, with a focus on using the Insta360 Link 2. Discover how to record professional-grade video and audio with minimal effort, utilizing software like Screen Recorder for seamless screen and camera integration, and enhance your audio for a polished, noise-free finish.

In addition to technical expertise, this course emphasizes practical tips for structuring your content, including how to brainstorm and organize your ideas with ChatGPT. You’ll also learn the importance of starting with simpler, general content before diving into more advanced topics. I’ll walk you through the process of improving your camera presence and confidence, and you’ll discover why it’s better to film the middle or end of your course first, saving the introductory video for last when you’re most comfortable. By the end of this course, you’ll have all the skills and knowledge needed to create and publish engaging, professional videos—setting you up for long-term success in the world of video content creation.

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Misha Manko

Digital marketing strategist

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Hi guys! My name is Misha, and I've been doing digital marketing for a decade already.

I'm a digital marketing strategist behind a few brands you might know about.

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Level: Beginner

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1. Introduction: Guys. This course is for someone who want to start filming videos. May be dt videos, may be token head videos, educational courses adopted. Something like that, basically, in a very small apartment with very limited equipment and not willing to spend more than $500 really for everything. And so this is equality you can achieve really if you follow my instructions, my guidance. I hope you will be happy with result. Yeah, I'm looking at my let up right now, so ignore it, if I like a check. I don't want to be inoc. So, and the quality, the quality of the sound, Very easy, very straightforward process. I will explain everything, what kind of equipment, what kind of equipment you need to get basically to just one pies. I will explain how to stop your lighting, what kind of lighting, if you have a budget you can buy and everything. Also, I think I will show you my apartment like this right now. So we'll understand like the difference from the image from the pictures from the videos that you can see right now and how everything is like looking in reality. It's not a word topic ground. It's like I will show you. So yeah. Follow me. I hope it will be helpful. 2. Equipment recommendations: L et's talk about equipment. I will show you for things that I'm using personally and recommend you to use. It will cost you around $600, depends. I was buying everything for 500, but it was like amazon discount. Anyway, F first, this is a webcomi IS 360 link two. Yeah, it just the quality if you like the quality, this is the quality qualities, just awesome. Of course, you can fill everything on the iPhone. Of course. But the problem with iPhone that if you are First of all, filming is. It's not very second, the biggest problem because of the camera, camera is here and you filming. Like this, you need to when you're looking at the camera, it looks like you are looking like in a very strong direction, really. Not in a basically, very often. It's It looks strange. Basically, another problem, webcom is a webcom. You just I don't know plug type C to your Mg book or know what kind of system you are using. I'm using my book. Basically, I just plug SBC into a webcom and I plug it into my book and it's working just as a webcom every tool, every program, every is working native like a webcom but equality. You can see equality is way way way better. I strongly suggest you to just about this camera. Web comm, easy, small, very comfortable. Next, about the quality of sound time using the webcom already have quite good microphone in side. But it's very it's picking a lot of noise that we don't want to pick like Right now I have a swing and this is a small room with not very good soundproofing. I like it's noisy and webcom will peak noise. You can clear it in pros production if you needed. I can show you how if you want to invest only in a webcom. But if you're willing to spend another $60, I suggest you to guard this mic. Maybe any other lapel mic will work, but I have this one. I'm very happy with results. Again, this is type C. Basically in one slot on my mark, I have a web comm. Another slot is this microphone. That's all. That's like all the set up and I'm placing it here. I know that a lot of people place level earmark here or maybe like somewhere. It's it's wrong. You can test it by yourself. It should be placed right here. Basically, This is a gesture that you can use and you can measure where exactly your mic should be placed. Lower er, mice and to pick the best quality of your audio. That's all. Anyway, I will show you, you can see that right now my background, I have this guy. Basically on the background, I have this guy and I think that my battery is just gone. Yes. So As you can see. I'm sure strike scrawl 1 minute maybe to the back and compare the background. You will see like the ground was different. I'm using this guy for aground light. Basically. It's gB light. What does that mean gB light? Basically, it's a light that you can set up any color you want. It like a lot of other different functions, it's bla, can do a lot of other things, but they are not important for us. You can set up any color on a background and yeah. It will look more I don't know, not cinematic, not bad. It will look different. I'm sure you know what I'm talking about. This thing is very, very optional. I can't tell you that you really need it. I may be like You will really need this one and another thing, I will show you what exactly you will need. But this one is optional. Maybe if you want, you can buy it. I have it. $129 right now. The most important part is the light source. Basically, you can fill on iPhone. I can't recommend it. Quality will be not as good and everything will be, not as good, but the most important part except your camera is your light source. I have the small guy. This is a very, very small light. It's basically like it's like a couple of iPhones to. It's very light, very portable. I think I will film right now. A video like this my seta basically. Yeah. Right now, when a file I'm talking, you see how exactly it's looking. Maybe if I will decide. Maybe that check it. This is a person. This is very small light. It's very small. Right now, you can see me and slide in my face in front of me and it's just 10% power right now. It's more than enough. Yeah. You don't need a very big light from dux or something. We are not doing professional photoshoot for big fashion magazines publications. I don't know. This is very good. Quality is incredible. Basically, all you need. All you really need to have is this. And I suggest this slide. Yeah. I suggest additionally to gut this microphone. If you want to be very cool, also gut this one. L to have a ground. Yeah. That's all basically about equipment. That's really all you want you have to get the professional quality. Three. I will open insta 360 lin controller like a program that control camera, I will show you a very a lot of very cool tricks why I actually recommended. Right now, you can't really see it the features this camera provide, but I will show you. Also if you like, s, if you like this screen and video and everything is glue together and like all the animations, I will show you how to do that easily easily, I mean seconds. It's not even minutes, not sour, will not need to eat anything. It will be seconds. Yeah. Stay with me. 3. Best video quality: Hi. You can see me in different spots right now. I will show you how to set up your Ist 360 to produce the best possible quality for videos, and it will be super easy. Let's start. First of all, we need to install Ist 60 link. Controlling program to your device. I'm using Maas, Mac Buka, so everything looks like that. For you, it will look the same basically. Yeah, you can see me right now, you can see me here. You can see me right now basically. Four things first. These two have a lot of different features a lot. I will just show you essential that we will really use. First of all, we need to set up here quality of our picture 244060, 424 It's Much better than was before. Next, I really like a bock. You can see it like a boke looks like from a very expensive sony liens. Maybe like from 50 meters 1.8 or something. Anyway, I know the things you shouldn't know the things. This is a bock background. Without bocket, we like that. We can it's very sharp. Sharp is good but not always. And in order to make the cloud blurry, Insta 60 have this buche. Right now it's intensity on 10%. I like how it looks but we can make it way more. You can see way more. B. This is basically one of the things that we will really play. I suggest to play with it, we can blur it. But blur is like it doesn't look natural. I think Bo looks better. We can use like grounds or if you want. We can alot our own grounds. Maybe. I don't like it. I don't like it. Again, if you are a goal, maybe you will use make up things. I'm not using it. I'm using. The filters I'm not using they are a little. You can play by yourself. They are a little strange. From my point of view. What exactly I suggest you to tax. Right now, check this. We have exposure to manual and IO to 500 if I will set it to Otter, it it will not change anything really. Theoretically. Theoretically, if you to be exposure will be after, it can over expose or underexpose our image. We don't want to do that. I like how it looks on 500. I think it's like a very good, may be six. Maybe it is I think too much. Let's leave it on 800. Basically, this is the only things that tie suggest to do. Just in case, if you will move a lot, if you will do something, I don't know something crazy. This como have a tracking feature. Basically, Sure. Pom pom. You know, I can move somewhere, I can and it will track me. Very cool feature. I don't need it. Oh, you can see my. Sorry. I have to tom tom. I will set up it Yeah. How it was before? In a center. Great camera. Great tool, great, great. Everything is just great. Also. As I said before, audio from the camera is very good. Again, my background it is like doing it on propose. Maybe I will turn it off. Actually, I like the picture better without the background, so not important. Super easy to set up super vis to do everything. That's all. Basically, all you need to do is plug in your camera, install this industry 60 lien controller, set your exposure to manual and play with the ISO to achieve the look that you want to have color colors. Very good from my point of view, colors just stunning and set up bo for your video. 10% for me, working rate. That's all you literally can do that in. I don't know how fast. I instruct the 60 for you, you will download it, but a couple of minutes, and it will be like and you will do this. Yeah. Next, I know. Let's have to the next lesson. 4. Light and sound: Now I will show you how to set up lighting can sound for a video, and let's start from the sound. Again, all you need to do is this sizer Lavalier mice, and there's nothing to set up. All you need to do is to just plug it into your laptop or your device and the toll, I will film you right now. Han guys. This is me. I will let this no. No, I start filming vertically, I'll film it horizontally. So Hey, this is the lower ear mark, Mike, this is the setup. That's all. Basically, that's all. That's all. Nothing to set up. Nothing to set up. You just plug and play. And you will get equality. You will need later to do an extra step to improve the quality because this mike is picking everything very good. But it's like on a volume like a little lower that we want to have, and I will show you how to increase it easily. Yeah. And like I I'm not like cleaning everything on propose. I will show you my apartment right now, so you will understand how it's looking, how small it is. So this is the camera. This is the camera. As you can see, it's very small, very tiny, Just awesome. I have it like on a tripod. You can place it here. I like an attachment. I I just like you know, the way it is. And I need to my light turn on again. I forget to turn it off. Anyway. This is the main light, again, nothing to set up here. You can see how small it is, how just in general, how everything is looking. Sorry, I get ignore everything. This is the setup. This is the set up. This is how close I'm sitting to my camera. This is my light that I have eye glasses. I'm wearing eyeglasses and you know light you can see sometimes reflections. This is my room, and this is my light. The turninon and turning of. Basically it's a very small light, and very easy to set, very small, small, very compact, very easy to set up everything. This is a very small room. You can film as videos here. Yeah, I will return to the frame. There's nothing to set up here. Basically, to set up a lighting, you just need to plug it into a wall y to set up a mic, you just need to plug it into your laptop. Yeah. I forget I will close it because it's like we doing ny things. 5. Recording software: In order to reckon our screen and web comm, we need to have something that we actually record from two sources webcom and the scream make sense. We need a specific program for that. Personal museum screen studio. I try a lot of different programs and I found it like the best possible. We can here select our source of video from a webcom this is a source from our Lapel Mike right now. All we need to do just click display and start recording. Let's wait. Yeah, I will show you why I like this program so much. I'm like browsing something in my notion document about this course clicking, something somewhere. You know, maybe here. Let's open. This one, I will click here, I will click here, here, I will scroll. And yeah, it will be enough. Let me show you why I really, really like this program. By the way, I tried a lot of different programs, and this one is just the best, really. Yeah. After you record everything not Let me move the mic. As you can see. I think you can see, it's looking like edited video. Basically, this program is capturing every movement. It's like in and out where I should be zoomed. If I'm scrolling, basically just like, it looks incredible. Oh, sorry. Sorry. Sorry. This is my girlfriend Colin. I hope he will not be really mad at me that I ignore her, she will not. Yeah. I was not doing any it video. You can see it's already awesome. We can set up a lot of things here, we can add background blur to a video. We can add shadows, we can add gradients. I don't want to we can change the style of the course, we can change a camera, make it bigger or smaller change position of the camera. We can like roundness. We can do a lot of things. I like everything on default. I'm very easy. Es going person really, easy to please. Let's say you want. I don't even know what we want to change. I don't even know what we want to change, really. I think it's already awesome. I suggested to use this tool and you can edit video here, you can dream. You can do anything here. Also, I was telling you that quality of the Audio from the mic is not very super esome. Like the quality is good, but the volume is not very bad. All we need to do actually when we film in this video is just to click here, improve Microsoft microphone audio. That's all. And, that's all. Nothing. You can play with all the. Here, I really don't think you need to change a lot. Maybe up to you. Yeah. This is the screen studio. Really great. I think maybe I will fate link. I hope we go go ke you guys. Maybe I will just paste a link. You can just google it, but I will af. I'm not actually even sure if they have affate program, but if they have afate program, I will a afate. Anyway, let's have to the next video. 6. How to Brainstorm: In this video, I will explain you how you can use AI to bring storm your ideas, to package everything and just follow me. I think that you have a lot of information that you can share, and it's quite a challenge actually to package it in a meaningful logical order, and you. You always forget something, you want to add something things like that. What I suggest to You should just open Char GPT and start recording your voice. Basically, you are just like Doing like this. To, to, to. Doesn't matter you can be anywhere. You're just opening aG PT. Yeah. Come on. And click in voice recording. Come on. You're basically just talking like, i, I want you to I'll start I want to write a course and I want to package it into a logical order, these chapters and everything, and this course will be about how to fill courses. I will start talking right now. Yeah. You basically start talking. I want to talk in this course about different equipment that I should buy that my students should buy about lighting, about cameras, about audio, about microphones, I don't know how to brainstorm ideas, how to package everything correctly. And you continue I will stop and I will show you the result right now. Yeah. Basically put Tom tom. Come on, it's not a focus. So yeah, basically, it start to organize. You can be I don't know, restaurant or just outside working out or who knows? You're just dumping all your ideas. You're just talking talk talk talk and continue talking. Yeah, I suggest you to test it and try it. It's working great for me. CPT and in general lamps right now. They are not very good at a lot of things, but they we good in systemizing and summarizing, analyzing data. So use it to your advantage. Oh. I suggest you not to write to talk for more than 5 minutes. Because sometimes from time to time, GPT losing not a connection. So basically to more than 5 minutes. It can write you I didn't cage you can repeat it, like come on. If you don't want to do that. And if you're recording it less than 5 minutes, I have zero problems really. If it's six and more, then I have a problem encounter a problem. All the time. I hope CGT will fix it. It definitely will be better. Yeah, just dump your ideas into your smartphone or to your laptop, I don't know where CT is located and that all? Great way to brainstorm everything. And not forget anything. It's really great. I was like idea about him in this course. Come came, come to me when I was in a restaurant, and I was eating and I would just open my phone and start talking 5 minutes of talking, then I get a very good list of things that I should not forget. Then I like Tokoh deputy, that please write this down that I need to talk about Mike, about camera, about this, about that. And I have everything in order. All I need to do is just start like flip the camera and start talking really. So highly recommended. 7. Tips: On mai from a person that filming course is folly basically and educational videos. An two videos. Never start filming your if filming course. Never start filling it from the beginning. Introduction is the most important, and you will be not as comfortable at the beginning, sitting behind in front of the camera and it will be the low. Start filling from the end actually or maybe from the middle, you will be way more comfortable sitting near the camera, you'll start talking your energy will be very different and only when you will be fully relaxed and you It's easy. Only after that, when you will have this feeling, you should start filling introduction videos and the first part portion of your videos in general. They are the most important. Your students, people will first impression is important. And you don't. You know. Something like that to happen. Also, you shouldn't think about my English is not perfect. I'm mainly typing, really. I'm not actually talking a lot, but sure, you understand quite well and nothing so discourage you. Don't be very hard on yourself. You know, If you deliver a great result, if you will avail you a great product if it's engaged at least to some extent, you know. Not everything should be engaged in, especially educational dus path. Just do it. And you'll be better and better and better, just do it. 8. Be-Do-Have strategy: Yeah. Another I open in discovery for me and I want to share it with you. Basically, Majority of people are living in a B principle. I will explain. So you think that you need to have, for example, a camera or something like I don't know, something. So you need to have something in order to do something, for example, filming, start filming in order to be a Tub filmmaker course creator, and it's roman it's completely different. You need to be D B have. No, you need to be B do have, sorry. You need to be a person that do this like filming videos, for example, in order to have a like equipment resulting in easic, you can start filming with just your camera. IPhone camera is great. It will not be ideal. Sound will not be ideal, quality will be not ideal. Maybe it will be a shaky, may be like. It will not be ideal, but you need to be do not have do B. It's super important. If you're in topology and everything, the one of the biggest predictor of success is a duration between idea and some actions that will make this idea come t. You should have an idea and you should start instantly doing something. Right now, maybe you think should I start filming courses or not, will it be like you just overthinking all of things? And you can't even know a correct questions to question, not even about an answers. As soon as you will start doing things, you will like, how should IK, how should color graded? Why should place microphone, how you should set up the light and all the things. I explained to you, this course is great. I explain to you the most straightforward way to do everything, like awesome camera, great quality sof sound, great lightning and great program to edit everything and that will basically edit 95% of everything for you. Yeah. You are very lucky. I hope it was helpful and see you maybe on one of my other courses.