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Video Making with Your Phone: For Content, Events and Small Businesses

Hybrid Learning Solutions · e-book

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About this book

A practical, South African guide to making good video with the phone you already have: for your own content, for weddings, church services and school events, and for small businesses. Twelve chapters follow a Soweto student who films her gran's recipes and lands her first paid job for a spaza shop, a Bloemfontein plumber who makes repair videos and customer testimonials, a Cape Town church volunteer who films services, youth days and her niece's wedding, and the video-maker who mentors them: what makes a video worth watching, and what a phone can and cannot do; a starter kit from R0 to about R1 500; storage, battery and data; the settings that matter, including 25 fps to stop flicker under South African lights; holding steady, tripods, gimbals and camera moves; light from windows, sun and low-cost LEDs; clear sound with clip-on microphones and a second phone; shots, sequences and the hook; briefs, scripts, storyboards and shot lists; talking to camera and interviews; editing, captions and music on the phone; video for WhatsApp and social media, with disclosure of paid and gifted posts; filming events, products, walk-throughs and before-and-afters; and consent under POPIA (especially for children), filming permits, copyright and music, drones, quotes and pricing, and careers in film and content. 30 diagrams and photographs, worked examples, practice exercises with answers, a kit list, a settings card, a file-size guide, script, shot-list and storyboard templates, an interview question bank, an event checklist, a consent and release form, export settings, a quote template, a glossary, where to get help, and 144 Exam prep questions. A Skills Series title. Lecturers: a free Facilitator Guide (session plans built around a video portfolio, consent and safety rules for the class, teaching notes and every answer) is available to colleges registered with HybridE. To register your college, contact Thandeka on 073 431 6763.

What is inside

  1. Chapter 1: Why Video, and What Your Phone Can Do
  2. Chapter 2: Your Phone’s Video Settings
  3. Chapter 3: Holding Steady and Moving the Camera
  4. Chapter 4: Light for Phone Video
  5. Chapter 5: Sound: Half of Every Video
  6. Chapter 6: Shots, Sequences and Telling a Story
  7. Chapter 7: Planning: Ideas, Scripts and Shot Lists
  8. Chapter 8: Talking to Camera and Interviews
  9. Chapter 9: Editing on Your Phone
  10. Chapter 10: Video for Social Media
  11. Chapter 11: Filming Events and for Small Businesses
  12. Chapter 12: The Law, Pricing and Next Steps
  13. Appendix: Kit, Settings, Templates, Checklists, Forms, Glossary and Where to Get Help

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