Tutorials

Tutorial Review: How to Film Underwater Using a Fish Tank

If our current Mobile Movie of the Week “Submerged” makes you want to shoot underwater, here’s a BBC Earth Unplugged tutorial to help you get started. While the 6-minute video offers a variety of clever, low-cost tips, the most interesting one is to use a small fish tank. This will enable you to get split…

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Tutorital Review: “Shooting a Mini-Doc”

The mini-doc rests on the truth that every single person is worth getting to know. In practice this means that if you want to make mobile movies, there are plenty of subjects in your world. If you’ve never shot a mini-doc and want some basic tips, check out Bud Simpson’s “Tutorial One.” In 6 minutes, he…

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Tutorial Review: “The Difference Between Beginner and Pro B Roll”

You can find many YouTube tutorials on every aspect of filmmaking. If your time is limited, sometimes it seems as if they are too many choices. To solve that problem, we’re going to preview tutorials for you and recommend those that we find most helpful. When we find several of value, we’ll let you know…

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“Snowbrawl” Gear & Shot Breakdown

“Snowball” is Apple’s hugely popular iPhone 11 demonstration video directed by David Leitch. It was our first 2020 Mobile Movie of the Week feature. Looking in from the outside, master mobile moviemaker Blake Calhoun deconstructs the two-minute snowball fight movie, focusing on cinematic techniques and the gear used during the shoot. While “Snowbrawl” is a…

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LumaFusion Tutorials

Editing is a crucial activity whether you’re documenting a straightforward event—like a birthday party—or producing a complex music video. While mastering the art of editing can take a lifetime, today’s editing apps make it easy to handle the fundamentals such as choosing shots, rearranging them, trimming the shots, and adding transitions, visual effects, and sound.  iMovie covers the basics, and its price—$0.00—is appealing.…

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Epic Guide to FiLMiC Pro Eases Camera App Mastery

The iPhone’s built-in camera app works for casual shooting, but it offers limited control of important issues such as exposure, focus, white balance, and frame rate. That’s why experienced mobile moviemakers prefer to shoot with a third-party app. Of these, the most popular by far is FiLMiC Pro ($14.99). While it’s true that FiLMiC Pro’s…

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