Great content! Here's a summary of the advices: 1. Avoid eye level, it's boring - go low, change composition 2. Camera movement - move in / high / side, or go very low. Imagine the camera on gimbal or slide and replicate that move with your hands. Detail shots, experiment with frame rates (slowmo). 3. Link your shots - lock focus, end /start the frame on blury background for seemless transition to wide shot or detail 4. Check horizon - incorporate horizon to your shots for sense of depth and viewer orientation 5. Timelapse - creative way to liven up your video with interesting movement (grass, clouds...) 6. Lighting - play with light (reveal the sun, use flickering thru leaves and lens flare)
Sir, the place where you record the video is already a beautiful place. Regardless a boring angle it still looks great. Please try some odd place and make us teach how to record even in a bad place.....eagrly waiting for that. Thank you!
Notes 1:48 Avoid eye level 3:10 Camera movement 6:48 check your horizon 7:48 timelapse Tip if you dont have much time ( slide it camera close to the ground) 8:24 lighting
I have been watching your videos for a while now and I have been applying the techniques you show and my videos have gotten way better. I record my hiking and backpacking trips and looking at my footage now compared to a year ago is like night and day. I look at everything in a more creative way. Now I can take a somewhat boring shot and turn it into gold by adding different angles and movement. You are a great teacher and your videos are easy to put into practice and I look forward to watching more. Thanks Steve.
Love your tutorials, they're always so well explained, very simple and yet very effective. I particularly appreciate when the shots are handheld and without fancy camera accessories because you can't always walk around with a backpack full of camera gear.
I am guilty of all the “Mr. Boring” actions since I am just using my mobile phone to shoot my vlogs 😭 Thank you so much for this video 😭 I’m definitely applying it on my succeeding videos.
Me, too. I am too ashamed of what I have in my phone. After watching this, I gain a better perspective on how I can make my videos amazing using his tips. 👏👏👏
I can't believe you're doing more than this professional I think you're going to be an extra professional creator I just want to say that you're amazingly creative actually describing your work No words to do 🥰🌹
Beginner: "Hey, look how I'm enjoying my vacation!" Creative: "I'm filming a movie here!" IMO the creative had a totally different atmosphere from a tourist on vacation. I'm Mr. Boring but I feel it would have much more "vacation/tourism spirit" depth with slower movement of the camera and more relaxing music rather than high beat dramatic one. :) Thanks for the tips, those will be helpful
im a music producer since years back and now i want to add video and photo to my music these tips just made me realise how big this world is and im very excited to get in to it thx great vid 🌬
You are fantastic! I know nothing about cameras, filmmaking or anything related but want to start making interesting videos capturing my travels for my family, and I know that by watching your videos my videos will be so much better than they could have been 😊
Extremely useful video. It was so clear, no fuss, I like the fact that it’s so straight to the point and so easy to follow through and understand. Would love to see more videos like this. Thanks so much. :)
Another perfect video of you. I love all of these and your helpful tips for me as a beginner. You even manage to make an epic film out of two rocks and a tree.
Большое спасибо за Вашу работу! По больше таких видео, где вы показываете свои приёмы съёмки, они помогают взглянуть свежим взглядом и даже кое что применять в своих работах! )))
Outstanding! I’m consistently amazed with what Steve does and how he does it. To produce this amongst what looks like a burial ground for large boulders is absolute creativity. I’ve been experimenting with my iPhone and my cameras. ...I wish I had a separate phone and cloud space just for video recordings. Awesome product as usual. Be well.
One of the best channels for learning how to shoot videos I have seen! I am a motion design student at uni for this semester (last subject for a Diploma of Graphic Design) and I am guilty of being the boring eye-level videographer! Not anymore, such great tips and that edit with sound you did and those great transitions was superb. Really grateful for this channel and your commitment to creating such instructive content. Awesome!
I've tried using your techniques I've been learning ill admit my videos are much better but I'm having trouble with shakiness, and moving smoothly and evenly hoping with practice ill get better. Thanks for all you do
As a Cross Country Cyclist I really live taking Shots of beautiful sceneries with my Phone and Of course Creative Shots Thank you For this, This will really Make my Cross Country Rides Much more exhilarating to reach every breath taking Sceneries
Can't believe I went this long without knowing these tips!! Sometimes I would try to go low cause it felt good but didn't know there's some "science" behind that haha. Thanks so much!
Steve: "Boring location. There's nothing but this tree and this rock." Meanwhile me: "Oh, what a nice camping site! And with bouldering possibility even!" :D
Nice video and great suggestions. One thing I would do differently here is try to keep the same kind of movements as mr boring. If he does a pan, show us how to make that pan shot more interesting instead of doing something completely different. If he walks forwards at eye level and moving the camera up and down with his motion, show us how to make a great push in or out shot that looks better. That way, I would feel like the examples where you switch between mr boring and great shots actually connect. Now it feels like you want to show us one thing and use a random different thing for mr boring. Still, I get the message and love your ideas. And that environment, while seemingly boring, it’s still looking great compared to where I live. All we have here is fields of grass. No rocks and very few trees. 😉
I've learned about how to make cool shoots in 10 minutes than in a 1 week online course to tell me how to turn on the camera! Thank you, thank you, thank you.
You give great tutorials my man!!!! Very simple and to the point.what video editing app would you recommend for not only iphone but android as well? Thanks!
*Outstanding! What Steve does and how he does it never ceases to amaze me. It takes a lot of imagination to create this among what appears to be a burial ground for large boulders. I've been playing around with my iPhone and cameras... I wish I had a phone and cloud storage space dedicated solely to video recordings. As usual, an excellent product. Take care.*
You know your craft very well. Well thought out narrative by using contrast to highlight the correct way. Thank you for sharing your thoughts and experience. I particularly like this segment by how well you demonstrated an outcome without the aid of another tool.
Hey Steve, your videos are pure gold for us that want to start with mobile filmmaking. Quality tips well explained. Maybe I've missed it, but can you do some videos evaluating additional lens for phones? All the best from Serbia and keep it up!
I just found this video tutorial and I'm very much excited to apply this tips for the improvement of my channel. Thanks a lot Steve!! You got a new subscriber here. 💪🤙🤙🤙
Great video! It's amazing at just how much better and clearer a shot can be by slowing down the camera movement, especially "noisy" subject matter like rocks & plants.
Ya thats a pretty damn epic location for photography. Not sure how he thinks its boring. Hed have a rough time in the midwest if he thinks this epic location is boring. Lol
My students love your videos. I had this class that just engaged in nothing and now they are turning into genius photographers and videographers! (Some, anyway 😂)
Thank you so much for sharing such great tips in such a fun, easy to understand, straight to the point way. I loved this video and also loved that the "no no" sound effect isnt too loud, however the "red arrow" high pitch sound effect is significantly too loud in my opinion. Amazing video regardless thanks again and please keep going!
"oh there he is again Mr. Boooring" LOL! Another awesome video, loving your channel. The amount of info you relay in such a short amount of time is amazing
As always Steve thank you 🙏 I am learning from a lot from professional filmmakers and your videos are amazing thank you for sharing your in depth techniques and diffrent styles of genres of capturing film 🎥
"... where nothing exciting is happening", he says, standing right in the middle of one of the most stunning spots I've ever seen. 😂🤣😂 I have to add, though, your tips are again second to none. I'm only a recent subscriber, but I'm currently binge watching your videos. Great work and very generous of you to make it available to the "needy" like me. Thx, mate! 🙏🏽😎
Tree & rocks might not be exciting to some...but to a geologist..well that's a whole other level 😉😂 On another note, thank you for the tips 😊 Was browsing youtube & stumbled across your channel, I have subscribed. I really appreciate that you break it down into layman's terms, for us amateurs. Thank you 😊👍
Amazing videos !!! I never thought one can make cinematic videos like these using only cellphones. I will try your tips on my travel next month. THANKS A LOT !
My Mobile Videography Course:
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Great content! Here's a summary of the advices:
1. Avoid eye level, it's boring - go low, change composition
2. Camera movement - move in / high / side, or go very low. Imagine the camera on gimbal or slide and replicate that move with your hands. Detail shots, experiment with frame rates (slowmo).
3. Link your shots - lock focus, end /start the frame on blury background for seemless transition to wide shot or detail
4. Check horizon - incorporate horizon to your shots for sense of depth and viewer orientation
5. Timelapse - creative way to liven up your video with interesting movement (grass, clouds...)
6. Lighting - play with light (reveal the sun, use flickering thru leaves and lens flare)
Step 1: get an iPhone 😀
Thanks for writing it down
Took a screenshot to remember this thing🥰
Thank you so much for explain it so well
Thank you for your Great Content 😉
Sir, the place where you record the video is already a beautiful place. Regardless a boring angle it still looks great. Please try some odd place and make us teach how to record even in a bad place.....eagrly waiting for that. Thank you!
Ya this location was epic…Ive never even seen a setting like this in person…
Agree
Yes, but he made it look even more epic and beautiful. I appreciate it.
Fatastic request!
Very easy bro: Just take your mobile phone. go into you 1 squaremeter storeroom and apply these tips.
ODD place, shot creatively, done.
Notes
1:48 Avoid eye level
3:10 Camera movement
6:48 check your horizon
7:48 timelapse
Tip if you dont have much time ( slide it camera close to the ground)
8:24 lighting
OMG. Call me 'Boring Girl'. LOL. Now I know how to shoot (not boring) videos! Thank you for the tips and tricks.
Great location and an even better tutorial, thanks.
Itˋ's so easy !!
Now I just have to keep your tips in my head and implement them.
Thanks so much for your tutorials. Greetings from Cologne, Germany
You’re very welcome Erika ☺️🎥👌
I can't wait to see this channel get to 1 Million subs cos I Learn so much with every new video and thanks Steve for the Skillshare link ❤🙏
Thanks for your support Kreative KB, I appreciate you 🙏
Amen.
Almost there
Oh he will soon !! He does a great job 👏🏼
You look now!boom
I have been watching your videos for a while now and I have been applying the techniques you show and my videos have gotten way better. I record my hiking and backpacking trips and looking at my footage now compared to a year ago is like night and day. I look at everything in a more creative way. Now I can take a somewhat boring shot and turn it into gold by adding different angles and movement. You are a great teacher and your videos are easy to put into practice and I look forward to watching more. Thanks Steve.
I'm in tears the words "bloody boring" now i learned a lot of ideas from this amazing opportunity to improve my vlogs....a million thanks
Love your tutorials, they're always so well explained, very simple and yet very effective. I particularly appreciate when the shots are handheld and without fancy camera accessories because you can't always walk around with a backpack full of camera gear.
I am guilty of all the “Mr. Boring” actions since I am just using my mobile phone to shoot my vlogs 😭 Thank you so much for this video 😭 I’m definitely applying it on my succeeding videos.
Me, too. I am too ashamed of what I have in my phone. After watching this, I gain a better perspective on how I can make my videos amazing using his tips. 👏👏👏
Good work sir!!!
it is amazing that you get these wonderful shots done just with a phone!
This is exactly what I was looking for.
Happy to find this 👍👍
Learn a lot...
I can't believe you're doing more than this professional I think you're going to be an extra professional creator I just want to say that you're amazingly creative actually describing your work No words to do 🥰🌹
Steve, fantastic lesson! You make it so easy to see the errors and how to correct them. Love your channel!
Beginner: "Hey, look how I'm enjoying my vacation!"
Creative: "I'm filming a movie here!"
IMO the creative had a totally different atmosphere from a tourist on vacation. I'm Mr. Boring but I feel it would have much more "vacation/tourism spirit" depth with slower movement of the camera and more relaxing music rather than high beat dramatic one. :)
Thanks for the tips, those will be helpful
Great I love your great informative video 😊 love from 🇳🇵
im a music producer since years back and now i want to add video and photo to my music these tips just made me realise how big this world is and im very excited to get in to it thx great vid 🌬
omg - I am that boring person 😂thank you for this video, I promise I will do better from now on !
Brilliant video Steve, thanks for posting this!
You are fantastic! I know nothing about cameras, filmmaking or anything related but want to start making interesting videos capturing my travels for my family, and I know that by watching your videos my videos will be so much better than they could have been 😊
Thanks For This Video, hope my Shots Gets enhance by following Your tips
From 4:23 on how to move your camera during the individual short vids and link them to make a longer film is gorgeous, thanks!
Extremely useful video. It was so clear, no fuss, I like the fact that it’s so straight to the point and so easy to follow through and understand. Would love to see more videos like this. Thanks so much. :)
Another perfect video of you. I love all of these and your helpful tips for me as a beginner.
You even manage to make an epic film out of two rocks and a tree.
Большое спасибо за Вашу работу! По больше таких видео, где вы показываете свои приёмы съёмки, они помогают взглянуть свежим взглядом и даже кое что применять в своих работах! )))
согласен
I just upgraded my 3 year old phone into the s22+ and i'm super stoked to finally take good photos. Thank you for making this video for me
Awesome I did this too, but in photography, with iPhone Xs Max, not so bad in 2023.
I can learn to make great videos from here
Thanks sir
Excellent! Love these techniques, always watch a few times and take notes. Thanks for the knowledge 🎉
Outstanding! I’m consistently amazed with what Steve does and how he does it. To produce this amongst what looks like a burial ground for large boulders is absolute creativity. I’ve been experimenting with my iPhone and my cameras. ...I wish I had a separate phone and cloud space just for video recordings. Awesome product as usual. Be well.
Awesome content! Could you maybe have a follow up on the editing and thought process of pulling it all together into a visual story?
One of the best channels for learning how to shoot videos I have seen! I am a motion design student at uni for this semester (last subject for a Diploma of Graphic Design) and I am guilty of being the boring eye-level videographer! Not anymore, such great tips and that edit with sound you did and those great transitions was superb. Really grateful for this channel and your commitment to creating such instructive content. Awesome!
Steve ... I just watched dozen number of Your videos ... and ... I need to admit ... I love them ... well done !
Excellent tutorial, very useful tips and well illustrated. Thank you for sharing.
Another great video. I love the way you explain and demonstrate the technics. Now I just need motivation. 🥴😎
I've tried using your techniques I've been learning ill admit my videos are much better but I'm having trouble with shakiness, and moving smoothly and evenly hoping with practice ill get better. Thanks for all you do
As a Cross Country Cyclist I really live taking Shots of beautiful sceneries with my Phone and Of course Creative Shots Thank you For this, This will really Make my Cross Country Rides Much more exhilarating to reach every breath taking Sceneries
That last sequence had me on the edge of my seat!
Can't believe I went this long without knowing these tips!! Sometimes I would try to go low cause it felt good but didn't know there's some "science" behind that haha. Thanks so much!
Steve: "Boring location. There's nothing but this tree and this rock." Meanwhile me: "Oh, what a nice camping site! And with bouldering possibility even!" :D
You deserve 10M+ subscribers.
Brilliant. The final edit looked great, the music added to the build up
Awesome thanks mate👌👌👌
It’s amazing thank you so much for your creative learning 😍🥰
So insightful. Thank you, Steve!
As always amazing advices that open my mind to try new shoots.. Best channel to learn.. Thanks for your efforts!
Thanks Your Idea😊
This is the best one in Yuletide that teach UA-camers to start up their channel ever. Thanks a lot for everything you have done.
Steve, I've learned more in a few minutes than in hours with other video lessons. I wish you 1M subscribers!
The final result is mind-blowing, loved it!
This was very very helpful. Thank you!
Man, you are in a magical place, it is impossible to see him bored, I understand the point, but whatever you do, it looks good!!
Nice video and great suggestions. One thing I would do differently here is try to keep the same kind of movements as mr boring. If he does a pan, show us how to make that pan shot more interesting instead of doing something completely different. If he walks forwards at eye level and moving the camera up and down with his motion, show us how to make a great push in or out shot that looks better. That way, I would feel like the examples where you switch between mr boring and great shots actually connect. Now it feels like you want to show us one thing and use a random different thing for mr boring. Still, I get the message and love your ideas. And that environment, while seemingly boring, it’s still looking great compared to where I live. All we have here is fields of grass. No rocks and very few trees. 😉
This is Amazing!
I learned a lot of video shooting techniques from you
You are a great teacher, thank you so much.
I've learned about how to make cool shoots in 10 minutes than in a 1 week online course to tell me how to turn on the camera! Thank you, thank you, thank you.
This is so great! Thanks, I need this for my hobby. Hehehe
WOW; the creative way is breathtaking!!! Amazingly beautiful!
You give great tutorials my man!!!! Very simple and to the point.what video editing app would you recommend for not only iphone but android as well? Thanks!
Thank you, Steve! Will try to use your recommendations with my next video. I like most of examples, just not sure that blurred one is good
*Outstanding! What Steve does and how he does it never ceases to amaze me. It takes a lot of imagination to create this among what appears to be a burial ground for large boulders. I've been playing around with my iPhone and cameras... I wish I had a phone and cloud storage space dedicated solely to video recordings. As usual, an excellent product. Take care.*
Brilliant tips.. simple camera with right movement and angle, we can get amazing results.. Thank you.
This is superb! Thank you very much sir!
You know your craft very well. Well thought out narrative by using contrast to highlight the correct way. Thank you for sharing your thoughts and experience. I particularly like this segment by how well you demonstrated an outcome without the aid of another tool.
That is amazing , please can you make another video talking about linking footage .
Thank you again for this sir
Totally different perspective! It's much better! Thank you.
Hey Steve, your videos are pure gold for us that want to start with mobile filmmaking. Quality tips well explained. Maybe I've missed it, but can you do some videos evaluating additional lens for phones?
All the best from Serbia and keep it up!
Amazing thanks for sharing host
You have amazing skills.
Thank you for the tips. I’m going to try these tips for my future videos. Let’s see what will happen
I just found this video tutorial and I'm very much excited to apply this tips for the improvement of my channel. Thanks a lot Steve!! You got a new subscriber here. 💪🤙🤙🤙
Thanks and welcome to ‘The Sub Club’ my friend 😉 🛎 🎥👌
Great video! It's amazing at just how much better and clearer a shot can be by slowing down the camera movement, especially "noisy" subject matter like rocks & plants.
The “ass end of nowhere” looks pretty appealing to me! Love your videos, Steve! 👍🦘🇦🇺
My thoughts entirely! x x
@Enzo Ferrari & Furreccio Lamborghini No, I am in the UK
Ya thats a pretty damn epic location for photography. Not sure how he thinks its boring. Hed have a rough time in the midwest if he thinks this epic location is boring. Lol
Love it! Thx Steve! Greetings from Hungary!
My students love your videos. I had this class that just engaged in nothing and now they are turning into genius photographers and videographers! (Some, anyway 😂)
WOW AND THE PLACE IS STUNNING
Thank you so much for sharing such great tips in such a fun, easy to understand, straight to the point way. I loved this video and also loved that the "no no" sound effect isnt too loud, however the "red arrow" high pitch sound effect is significantly too loud in my opinion. Amazing video regardless thanks again and please keep going!
"oh there he is again Mr. Boooring" LOL! Another awesome video, loving your channel. The amount of info you relay in such a short amount of time is amazing
As always Steve thank you 🙏 I am learning from a lot from professional filmmakers and your videos are amazing thank you for sharing your in depth techniques and diffrent styles of genres of capturing film 🎥
I really want to take video editing seriously. And I’m glad to have found your channel. Thanks a lot
Amazing! I never thought about classes like this on Skillshare. I am a member so will start immediately! Thanks!
"... where nothing exciting is happening", he says, standing right in the middle of one of the most stunning spots I've ever seen. 😂🤣😂
I have to add, though, your tips are again second to none. I'm only a recent subscriber, but I'm currently binge watching your videos. Great work and very generous of you to make it available to the "needy" like me. Thx, mate! 🙏🏽😎
I know everyone here saw themselves in Mr. Boring😅
You're not alone. 😂
We are on the same boat😅
😅
Hell yeah
I am not boring bro 😅😂
Tree & rocks might not be exciting to some...but to a geologist..well that's a whole other level 😉😂
On another note, thank you for the tips 😊
Was browsing youtube & stumbled across your channel, I have subscribed.
I really appreciate that you break it down into layman's terms, for us amateurs. Thank you 😊👍
You’re very welcome and thanks for watching 😀👌
Thank you so much for your help dude ☺️
Amazing tutorial, watching more of your contents
Surely a no nonsense video. On point thank you
This was incredibly helpful. Thank you.
This advice was very helpful thanks for sharing. I’m so excited to use some of the strategies you shared.🎉🎉
Amazing videos !!! I never thought one can make cinematic videos like these using only cellphones. I will try your tips on my travel next month. THANKS A LOT !
That a beautiful place, some flat but beautiful and peaceful. Thank you for the examples !!!
Great tips and techniques. Thanks for the easy breakdowns.
Simple but remarkable. 👍👍👍.
Wow! Awesome! I'm learning! Thank you very much!!!
I just copied your technique and Wow! my shot looks awesome. Thanks for sharing 😊👌
Great content thanks ! ❤
Thanks for teaching us this tips!!!! Really useful!