As a busy business owner, I'm not always camera ready like this. In fact,
most days I'm usually wearing the same t-shirt as I was wearing yesterday.
My office is generally a mess and I just can't be bothered to wash my
hair and put my makeup on every single day.
At the same time I'm running a business. So I also can't just stop,
drop and film a Reel at any given moment. That is why I batch film my Reels,
where I can create up to 30 videos in one filming session. And in this video,
I'm gonna show you exactly how I do that.
So stay tuned because I'm gonna show you how to make more Reels more
consistently without having to be camera ready or needing to film every day.
Here's how to get ready for filming in five minutes or less.
So the first thing I like to do is put a little bit more effort into my hair and
makeup. This 'do because I'm filming for YouTube, this took about 30 minutes,
but usually my go-to makeup routine takes about five minutes.
The next thing I'm gonna do is find my natural light. So in this case,
I'm facing a window and I have a ring light on my face for additional light.
The last thing you wanna do is check out the background behind you and make sure
it's not too distracting,
or if there's a certain color or vibe you're going for,
set that up before you start filming. Next,
I've got a few key pieces of equipment I need for filming.
So the first is a tripod.
So I make sure that this is set up to go to hold my phone.
The next piece is of course my phone.
Then I have my laptop next to me in case I want to look at my pre-production
notes. And lastly, I have the Asana app open on my phone.
Let's open it, let's find it.
So because I used Asana in the pre-production phase,
I wanna have the app on my phone.
That way I can go into all of the cards that I've already planned.
Find the audio clips, open them up in Instagram or TikTok,
and then I'm ready to film. Now if you're like, whoa, whoa, whoa. Back up,
Elise. Where did you get all these ideas from? Check out my video here,
where I show exactly how I find all of my links and pre plan
my videos before I start filming.
And if you want even more done for you video ideas had to EliseDarma.co,
where I've put together six ideas specifically for you. the busy business owner,
that don't require dancing or pointing. If you don't want to.
Next step is the recording phase. This is where things get fun.
So I have my Asana app open and I'm going to the "To create" column.
And my very first card there says "Reel: three tips".
So because I've already done the pre-production work,
I can see the song link is already there.
So all I need to do is tap on the song link and it's going to open up in
Instagram. Next,
I'm gonna put my phone on my tripod and I'm gonna get set up for filming.
Okay? So here I have positioned it. Let's go back here.
A quick tip here:
because my phone is being used for the recording through TikTok or Reels.
I like to have my laptop open next to me.
And that way I can look at that same Asana card and review my notes.
So the things that I need to either say or do on camera.
So I have my laptop right next to me for that. So back over to my phone,
I am on the audio page that I'm going to use to film this three tips Reel.
So tap on "use audio" and then make sure that the camera is facing you by
tapping this button in the bottom right corner.
So you wanna have the camera on you, especially for this one.
And if you see me looking to the side,
I'm just looking at my notes on my laptop.
There's like three different places to look right now. So with this Reel,
I had planned to just simply point to three different places on the beat.
And then I'm gonna add the text afterwards.
So this should be pretty easy to film. So what I'm gonna do is tap the 60,
just make sure that's set to 15 seconds. Then I'm gonna tap the timer button,
which is this one right here.
And I want to actually stop the video after it hits the first three beats,
because the way I've planned this Reel,
it's only going to film me for three different points.
So let me show you what that looks like.
Vitamin A, vitamin B, vitamin C.
So we're stopping after she says vitamin C.
Vitamin A, vitamin B, vitamin C.
That's it. So I wanna to make sure that the timer is set to stop after that,
or I can just revisit my Reel plan and create more points that I want to
share on screen. So we've hit "set timer". And again,
I'm simply going to point when she says vitamin A, B and C.
Sleepin' in, takin vitamins, vitamin A, vitamin B, vitamin C.
There we go. So let's preview it.
Workin' out, sleepin' in, takin' vitamins, vitamin A, vitamin B, vitamin C.
So after previewing, this,
I have to keep in mind that because I pointed right near my head,
the text is probably gonna go over my face. If I'm okay with that. Great.
If I'm not, I would reshoot it. So let's reshoot it just to be safe.
So I'm back on the record page.
I'm gonna hit the timer again and I'm going to stop it at the 5.2 mark,
and I'm gonna hit set timer.
And I'm also gonna move myself over so that I have more room for the text.
Working out, sleepin' in takin' vitamins, vitamin A, vitamin B vitamin C.
Okay. Let's preview.
Working out, sleepin in, takin' vitamins, vitamin A, vitamin B, vitamin C.
All right. That version works for me,
but we are not ready to share this to Reels because we still need to edit it.
We need to add our text. However, we're not gonna do that right now.
We are going to continue filming. So you're gonna wanna hit "save to draft".
But before that go back and hit the down button
and save it. Even without audio,
you can always add the audio back to that recording.
That's a lot easier than having to rerecord again.
So now that we've saved a version, now you're gonna hit "save draft".
And if I exit out of this and go to my profile,
there it is, there is our draft saved. Alright,
we have just filmed our very first Reel. Congrats, but we're not done yet.
So we're gonna go back over into our Asana task. And if we want,
we can go ahead and say filming complete, okay, then we're gonna hit back.
And now we can actually drag this card over into the "To edit" column.
And I'm doing this all on my phone. Next,
I'm gonna go back to this "To create" column and I've got my next Reel already
lined up for me. So this one is called, wow.
What I'm gonna do is hit the song link and it's gonna open up in Instagram.
So again, we're gonna hit "use audio"
and I'm gonna reference my notes over on my desktop for what I'm going to do for
this Reel. So looking at my notes,
what this Reel entails is me simply mouthing, Wow. And then again,
I'm gonna add text on screen with different features that Instagram has come out
with. So pretty easy to film. Again, I'm going to hit the clock watch here,
the timer.
Wow. Wow.
I'm gonna listen.
Wow.
I think we want it to stop here.
Okay. So we're gonna set timer and now we're gonna hit the big record button.
Wow. Wow. Wow. Wow. Wow.
Let's see how I well I did.
Wow. Wow. Wow. Wow. Wow.
Alright. That's good enough for me. So again,
I'm gonna hit the downward button at the top. Gonna save without audio.
Totally fine.
Then I'm gonna hit next and then save draft and you can
see it's in the bottom left and I've got two drafts recently saved right there.
So this is the production process.
You can see that these are pretty straightforward Reels.
I'm not really moving around a lot, but you can always add more pizzazz to it.
You can put a hat on, put some glasses on, you can change your shirt,
whatever works for you. So in less than five minutes, I just filmed two Reels.
Let's continue on and do one more just for fun.
And I have a tip for you in case you're filming a Reel that involves you talking
on camera. Just one second. This is my tip.
This is a lav mic. So if you wanna have really clean,
crisp audio with your talking head tip Reel,
what you're gonna do is get a lav mic. And I use the Rode record,
No, just the Rode lav mic. And then I have an input for my phone.
So all I need to do is insert this into the bottom of my phone and then
clip the lav mic onto my shirt or whatever I'm wearing.
And now the audio is actually gonna be recorded through this.
So I do this every now and then if you see me in a Reel with this on it's
because I want extra good audio.
So use that tip if you do a lot of talking head based Reels.
Back in Asana, here is my next Reel to film.
So I'm gonna open this up and the Reel is called, I took nine. So again,
I'm gonna look for our song link right here. Alright.
So looking at my notes on my laptop,
the concept for this one is for me to reference how many takes I took
while all filming Reels. So I need to look breathless basically.
And kerfuffled, shuffled, curfuffled? Yes.
I need to look like I've been taking a lot of takes. So tap "use audio".
And for this one, I'm probably gonna like run into the screen. So again,
hit the timer.
How many of those did you take? I took nine. I took nine. Yeah. I, uh,
I did slightly over commit.
Alright. So that's my audio
and let's perform and see what happens.
I'm gonna take my slippers off for this one.
Did you take, I took nine. I took nine. Yeah. I, uh,
I did slightly over commit. How many of those did you take?
I took nine.
Let's review.
I took nine. Yeah. I, uh, I did, I think slightly over commit.
How many of those? Alright. Not the greatest lip sync,
but I'm still gonna save this and I still gonna save it to a draft.
You never know. It might still just be good enough.
That's sort of the mentality. Why don't I just crouch here and talk.
That's sort of the mentality we want when we're filming for Reels,
especially if you're someone like me who can be like a perfectionist,
you don't want perfect, A+ work; C+ is good enough.
People aren't looking for perfect lip syncs or anything like that.
So if it's good enough for you, it's good enough to post. Alright.
So exiting out of Instagram and going back to Asana,
we can always click and check off, filming is complete, feels so good.
And again, you're gonna just move it over into this, hold your finger down,
hold. Okay, there we go.
Hold your finger down and move it over into the "To edit" column.
You can do this on your phone or on your desktop.
So you can see we just filmed three. And once you're in the flow of filming,
it gets a whole lot faster. And this is how I can sometimes film 10 in an hour,
sometimes 20, depending on how extensive my Reels or TikToks are.
Now that you've got all your Reels filmed and of course you have backup copies
saved on your phone too check out this next video here,
where I'm gonna walk you through how to quickly edit your Reels so that you are
published ready in no time.