Mobile Filmmaking 101: Capture Stories With Your Phone
Improving Your Camera Skills
A course by Cassius Rayner , Filmmaker
About the video: Improving Your Camera Skills
Overview
“Here, I will introduce some basics around framing your shots, gimbal tracking shots, shooting an interview, and three-point lighting. ”
In this video lesson Cassius Rayner addresses the topic: Improving Your Camera Skills, which is part of the Domestika online course: Mobile Filmmaking 101: Capture Stories With Your Phone. Learn the fundamentals of mobile cinematography to create captivating videos that tell a story using your iPhone or Android.
Partial transcription of the video
“ Improving Your Camera Skills In this lesson, we'll look at some camera skills and develop our skills in different areas using the mobile phone as our main camera. We'll look at three-point lighting setups. While doing an interview, we'll look at how to frame our shots for those interviews. We'll also explore some natural light setups and how to get the best out of natural light. Later on, we'll delve into gimbals and tracking shots and movement shots and how all that works. Hopefully, it will be a good lesson for you. We'll do three-point lighting. I'll ask Georgie to come onto the set fo...”
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Course summary for: Mobile Filmmaking 101: Capture Stories With Your Phone
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Photography & Video -
Areas
Film, Film, Video & TV, Filmmaking, Social Media, Video
Cassius Rayner
A course by Cassius Rayner
Cassius Rayner has been working in the film industry for over 25 years. Throughout his career, he worked as everything from a TV runner to building music video props, until finally finding his calling: becoming a filmmaker. He went on to become a camera operator for clients like the United Nations, local TV news channels, music videos, comedy programs, and commercials.
He directed his first film, JUNK, in 1997, which featured pop legend Adam Ant and went on to win Best Independent Film. He continues making documentaries for broadcasting stations like ABC, Sky, PBS, and BBC. In 2014, he decided to take his filmmaking in a different direction, and started shooting exclusively with his iPhone, making documentaries, music videos, branded content, and more for clients all around the world. Since then, he’s gone on to win 14 international film awards.
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