- Is this thing on?
Wait a minute, that doesn't look right.
What's going on?
And why is the lighting so terrible?
Sidney, can you give us a hand?!
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- Hey guys!
Welcome to How to Shoot a YouTube Video 101.
My name is Sidney Diongzon and I'm a filmmaker and YouTuber.
I make a lot of film-making tips, camera gear reviews,
and behind the scene vlogs.
And so, I'm gonna teach you everything that I know.
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- Cameras, cameras, cameras, cameras.
There's a lot of cameras out there and it can be confusing
as to which camera to get.
Do you get a mirror-less camera like this over here
or do you get a DSLR camera?
And the answer to all that is any of them,
any of them works fine, no joke.
Even with the phones out today, you can capture
some really nice high-quality visuals even at 4K.
I'm gonna talk about this in another lesson,
but the secret to a high-quality video is actually audio.
That's right.
But now that we're done talking about cameras,
let's talk about lenses.
Now, a standard zoom lens is usually the kit lens that comes
with your camera and that lens works just fine.
There's also the wide angle zoom lens,
which has an advantage over the standard zoom kit lens
because you get a wider perspective.
And also if you're vlogging or making a tutorial,
you don't have to hold out the camera as far because
with a wide angle zoom lens, you can actually hold it
a lot closer making your mouth closer to the microphone
therefore capturing much cleaner audio.
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Audio.
Now, here's a little secret.
Audio is much more important than video
when it comes to making videos.
And the reason why is because you can forgive bad visuals
but it's really hard to not get distracted
if the audio sounds really, really bad.
For example, you're looking at a very well-composed shot.
The lighting is great, but if the audio sounds bad
and I'm trying to explain to you something important
then you're gonna miss out on what I have to say.
And it's just gonna be very, very, very distracting.
Right?
Just like camera bodies and lenses,
there are different types of audio mics out there
but the two very common audio mics
that a lot of YouTubers like to use are
either shotgun mics or lavalier mics.
Shotgun mics are usually the audio mics
that you see that are on top of cameras.
The mic that I'm using right now is a shotgun mic.
I've kind of rigged it up on a C stand,
where it acts as a blue mic.
Lavalier mics or lav mics are those tiny,
little microphones that you can clip to your jacket
or to your shirt.
And what that does is that it allows you, the subject,
to walk around freely, talking about
whatever you want to talk about in your video
while capturing good and clean audio.
And you're now filming your YouTube video,
yet when you play back the video
the audio still sounds bad.
Why?
Make sure to consider the environment
that you're filming in.
For example, the audio that you're hearing
right now sounds pretty good because
I'm pretty close to the microphone.
It's about, maybe eight inches away from my mouth.
But, if I were to step away like at this distance,
then you might hear some reverb and my audio
might not sound as good as it would right over here.
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The filming is about to begin.
But before you actually grab your camera
and start filming although you can,
maybe try planning it out a little bit.
If you do plan on making a vlog and say
that you're meeting up with some friends at a coffee shop,
well maybe think about backup locations
to meet up with your friends just in case the owners
of that coffee shop say, "hey, get out of here, YouTubers."
No YouTubing around.
If you're making a different type of YouTube video,
like maybe a tutorial or a product review video
then of course you're gonna have to prepare
by making some sort of bullet points.
Maybe not as specific as a actual script,
and read it off a teleprompter,
which I highly advise don't do,
but at the very least jot a couple of things down
so that you know what to talk about when you're filming.
Try to plan as much as you can.
Hope for the best, and then plan for the worst.
And the reason why you want to plan for the worst is that
if things get disrupted while you're filming,
then at least you won't be too disheartened
when things don't go according to plan.
If you want to make sure that you have enough batteries.
If you can, try to bring a camera bag
and that way you have space to store your camera
and camera accessories.
Also, gear is really heavy.
You put all that weight on your back,
you get tired real fast.
Real fast, and hungry.
Pack snacks.
Okay, so you've got your gear, everything's prepped,
you've got your extra batteries,
you are good to go.
You are ready to film, great!
You press the record button and now what?
Filming yourself, especially out in public can be a very,
very intimidating, insecure thing to do.
But the thing to do when you start experiencing
that is to keep filming.
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- Well, wait a minute, what happened?
Was really getting into that.
We're getting to learn a really valuable lesson
about just dangling your microphone off the shelf
makes it sound so much better.
Seriously though, Sidney is one of our expert educators
over at the vidIQ Academy.
And if you want to access a full course,
which is over an hour long,
and includes a lot more lessons,
click on the link in the video description.
The vidIQ Academy is already full of dozens of lessons
and hours of content aimed at helping you grow
your YouTube channel.
And we open up some of our courses for free
every single month so check it out,
even if you are a free vidIQ user.
Now, if you don't mind me, I'm gonna go do some vlogging
down at the local park.
- Hey, get out of here YouTubers.
No YouTubing around.
- Bit harsh.