what is up creators and welcome back to another video so after posting this video on my channel
it's actually quite popular you guys seem to really enjoy and find that video helpful which i'm
super glad about but i got a couple of comments on that video asking if i could make a similar
video but with more budget conscious options so today that's what i'm going to be doing we're
going to take it one step further and we are just going to use a smartphone this is my iphone xs max
it's a couple of years old now but what i'm going to be doing is taking a standard smartphone shot
a video shot like this taken just on an iphone and we're going from a shot that looks like this
to a shot that looks like this we're going to change nothing on the phone it's just going to
be the sort of external environment so if you just have a phone and a few different
pieces of equipment in your house you can create a beautiful looking youtube setup using just your
smartphone all right so the first things you're going to need are a smartphone and then some
way of connecting your camera or your smartphone camera to a tripod or some form of stabilization
i'm going to use this little accessory here this little tripod mount so i already have a
tripod and this this is just going to slot onto the phone and then mount on top of the tripod
okay so when we're working with smartphone video the first thing kind of like the most important
thing in my opinion is to move away from the native camera apps by that i mean like the i
default ios camera app or the default android camera app and download an app that gives you
more manual control over your video i'm going to be using an app called moment and this is a super
good app for iphone it really does let you control a whole lot or loads more than the native camera
app so most importantly we can control things like white balance iso resolution all of the things
that are really important for video production so after downloading moment what you're going to want
to do is head over to the video functionality we're going to switch the resolution to film in
the highest quality that your camera can do for me that's 4k i'm going to set the white balance
to around about 5600 kelvin and don't be alarmed if your shot is looking really horrible and orange
right now this will be fixed when we introduce some additional lighting into the shot we're
going to set the frame rate to be 24 frames a second and we want the shutter speed to be roughly
double that at the moment camera app does let you actually change it to 1 over 48 so we're going to
going with 1 over 48 and then the final thing we want to change is the iso we can slide that
up to be we want enough light in the shot that it's going to look okay so right about
that sort of like 200 mark should look quite good and then we're pretty much ready to go
audio is obviously massively important when we're talking about video production i'm
actually using a studio mic that i will sync when i'm working with an iphone shot because i just i'm
not a massive fan of having my mic mounted on an iphone there are a couple of other options though
you could use a little plug-in microphone that just sits next to your phone or alternatively you
could use a lapel mic as well both of these are really good options i would definitely
recommend checking out some way to control and just have a better source of audio quality
okay so lighting is obviously the main proportion the main way to make this shot go from a really
sort of like an ugly looking shot to a shot which is looking really really nice and in my last video
i was using more sort of studio equipment like the equipment or the lighting equipment that i
was using is probably going to run you 300 for instance so we wanted to see whether we could
actually really bring that down and a way of doing that for me anyway
was i thought we could introduce something like this this is a little led panel
from newer it's relatively inexpensive you can pick something like this up for around about a
50 mark and it even has bi color so this will let you control the temperature of the light
but we're just going to turn that on here and you can see the sort of
level of light that it's giving out super super bright and it is daylight balance so this is
around about that 5600 kelvin so this shining on my face in the iphone shot will look really
nice i'm going to take this light mount it on the right hand side of me roughly a sort of 45 degree
angle and you can see that that is already making a big big difference the colors are looking
much nicer but there is a massive issue and that is the fact that things are really garish really
really sort of bright and creating all kinds of hard horrible shadows this is called hard light
and we don't want this so the next step is that we want to diffuse this light there's a few different
options that you could even use something as cheap as a bed sheet if you don't want to spend
additional money what i'm actually going to recommend though is that
you go and invest in a five in one reflector these are super cheap like 15
and it's incredibly versatile and a super useful video production and photography tool what we're
going to use it for is a diffusion filter so we're going to put this in front of our newer
light and that is really going to soften out the light really make it just a much more natural
and pleasing look and you can immediately see the difference that we've gone from the original shot
to this shot literally just with one light a big big difference and then finally what
we're going to do is introduce some practical lights you can see them in the back of this shot
right here but we'll introduce that for the iphone shot as well so i just have a desk light behind me
we will switch that on and then the final light which i'm going to suggest as well
is one of these little rgb lighting panels now you definitely don't have to go for something
like this because it could literally be you know a case of using like another phone or something
just shining an additional something light in the background or another lamp or something like that
something that you just have lying around the house for free but the nice thing about this
is this is rgb controlled and again really really inexpensive so we can just have this propped up on
a shelf behind me and that's just adding a bit of visual interest to the background of both of the
shots this shot right here and also the smartphone shot for the smartphone shot i'm actually going to
turn this blue so we have a bit of color contrast between the orange and the blue on the shelving
there and there we have it that is a way to immediately level up your smartphone video any
smartphone video just by introducing one sort of main key light and turning off additional lights
really just a way to step up any video production that you're doing in almost like a youtube setup
environment i hope you guys have found this useful or helpful if you've made it to this point in
the video i would thoroughly appreciate it if you drop the video a like and i'll catch you next time