Five smartphone video basics to remember
Judd Slivka, Reynolds Journalism Institute’s Futures Lab,A simple but enlightening collection of tips for shooting video with your phone: Landscape orientation, using airplane mode, dealing with mics, paying attention to light, and stabilizing your shot.
None of these tips are rocket science. They just bear repeating. We can connect $1,500 of lenses, frames and sound equipment to our mobile equipment. And if it’s narrow video or video with audio that’s unbearably soft or has weird “you’ve got mail” sounds in the middle of it, all we will have done is annoy the audience.