Smartphone Video For Beginners - iPhone Filmmaking Course
What you'll learn
- Plan a smartphone video production from start to finish
- Understand why certain types of videos work better than others
- Master the fundamentals of telling a smartphone video story
- The 6 shots that make it easy to film and edit mobile video
- Edit videos on your smartphone with free apps
- Make short films and smartphone video documentaries
- Make corporate videos with a smartphone
- Where to find high-paying freelance jobs making smartphone videos
Requirements
- No previous video experience is required. No technical knowledge is needed. This course will walk you through every step.
- This course shows you the gear, apps and techniques to quickly make great video and short films using a smartphone.
Description
May 2020 UPDATE: iPhone and Android video refresh!
Mobile video editing tutorials in the first section.
What a VN video editor project looks like
VN video editor - Video lanes
VN video editor - New project
VN video editor - Editing a picture story
VN video editor - Text over video
VN video editor - VO narration
VN video editor - Audio tracks
VN video editor - Apps for music
VN video editor - Add music to video
VN video editor - Edit a Music Video with beats
VN video editor - Export video
VN video editor - BONUS Advanced editing technique
VN video editor - BONUS Manual control over audio fades
"All is covered for minimalist filmmaking, and not only iPhone. Android is pretty well covered here. The course is very detailed, with examples, names of brand, prices. All kind of situations are covered: outdoor, studio, interview... name it. Also all about sound and light is detailed, with hardware options. I feel really it's worth the price, bravo!"
Elvin Eldria ★★★★★
This masterclass includes many projects and video exercises to quickly build your skills and confidence.
The tutorials and projects are carefully delivered in a proven sequence that has resulted in thousands of satisfied students.
This top course is always kept up-to-date with fresh tutorials for learning smartphone video storytelling.
“Thoroughly informative and very enjoyable. Answered the many questions that I had. I would highly recommend this course to any one starting out.”
Mike Hardley ★★★★★
This is the masterclass that is frequently shown on Udemy as a Best-selling course.
"This course by Robb Montgomery is packed with rich content and information on how to create videos. Each lecture provided instructional materials and tools to help you make video production easy. This is a course not to be missed. "
Jane Lee ★★★★★
The refreshed course now includes :
Several video editing tutorials for Android users
The art of filming creative shots
New case studies and behind the scenes tutorials
New video project exercises!
This course teaches the video fundamentals and how to make great video story with any smartphone. The instructor shows examples shot with the latest models of phones, but also includes tutorials that feature older models. This is intentional.
If you are specifically looking for tutorials that feature the iPhone Pro Max, or deep-dives into LumaFusion and Filmic apps, then you may prefer these two courses: "iPhone Filmmaking: Travel Video & iPhone Photo & Videography," and "iPhone Filmmaking for Beginners: Filmic Pro & LumaFusion app."
This masterclass in filmmaking is designed to teach the evergreen techniques.
The method for learning the language of video and filmmaking storytelling.
You will be able to learn the art of filmmaking with any smartphone that you happen to own.
"Once I started the course, I could not quit until I had completed it. Each segment was interesting, informative, creatively presented and edited with precision. I loved the course and learned a lot from it."
Randy Hendricks ★★★★★
The instructor has won 21 international film festivals with documentaries shot with an iPhone 6S+.
That is validation that the techniques shown here work in the real world.
"Wow! Great content! One of the best courses I have taken!"
Danny Sparks ★★★★★
We know people hang on to older models of smartphones and also many people can not afford the latest model every year.
You will see humble Samsungs and iPhones used in many of the tutorials in this course and that is intentional. The key thrust of this masterclass is to help people learn that the 'music is not in the violin.'
“This course is perfect for beginners like myself. Great tips and useful tools to help me create quality videos.”
Carlos Montelongo ★★★★★
Learn the art of filmmaking with just enough technical detail to get the best quality results.
No previous experience is required.
"Robb's teaching style is very engaging and he does a great job of presenting the material in a easy-to-learn manner."
Daniel Clifton ★★★★★
The learning modules in this course progress from making simple camera settings to advanced multi-track video editing.
Pro filmmaker and journalism professor Robb Montgomery uses real-world examples to show you how to create compelling video stories with just your iPhone.
Read the hundreds of five-star review comments.
In this course you will learn how to:
Film and edit video on the smartphone
Make short films and documentaries
Plan and produce short form video
Turn your phone into a pro video camera
Substantially increase the quality of your videos
Enroll now and get started today!
Who this course is for:
- Learn smartphone video and filmmaking techniques using the camera you already have with you.
- This course is suited for communications professionals, media instructors and communications students.
- Media organizations use this course to train journalists, correspondents, and reporters in video production techniques.
- Social media professionals can learn the techniques to produce social video.
- Journalism professors are assigning this course to students who are taking multimedia and video courses.
- Teachers are taking this course to learn techniques for using video in the classroom.
- Broadcast producers are using this course to train staff on video production essentials.
- Freelancers are using this course to earn extra money by making video with their iPhone.
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Course content
- Preview00:57
- Preview01:28
- 01:18A free video editing app worth looking at
- 06:15Case study: What a video project looks like
- 03:36Video editing: multiple lanes of information
- 05:39Video editing: Starting a new project
- 03:52Video Editing: The Picture Story
- 05:12Video editing: Text over video
- 05:39Video editing: Recording Narration
- 05:01Video editing: Audio tracks
- 04:29VN video editor - Apps for music
- 02:40VN video editor - Add music to video
- 06:16VN video editor - Edit a Music Video with beats
- 06:00VN video editor - Export video
- Preview06:29
- 03:44VN video editor - BONUS Manual control over audio fades
Instructor
- 4.1 Instructor Rating
- 1,378 Reviews
- 15,822 Students
- 17 Courses
Filmmaker | Author | Professor
Based in Berlin, Montgomery has earned more than 1,000 Five-Star reviews from learners on Udemy.
He is an author and award-winning film director who leads mobile journalism and mobile filmmaking training in over 30 countries.
Robb is a top-rated instructor for Udemy since 2014 and he is the Lead Trainer - Mobile Video Journalism for Thomson Reuters Foundation, United Nations, Red Cross, BILD, Radio Free Europe, Journalism CO UK, WAN-IFRA, Mediacorp & more.
-------> http://robbmontgomery dot com
His documentary films have won the top prizes at film festivals in Hollywood, Moscow and Berlin.
Montgomery teaches mobile journalism classes at journalism schools like the Scripps School at Ohio University, Stockholm University, American University Cairo, and the EFJ school of journalism in France.
-------> http://smartfilmschool dot com
Robb Montgomery founded the Smart Film School in 2014 to make remote training courses for reporters at media outlets. He is the author of two textbooks: Smartphone Video Storytelling and A Field Guide for Mobile Journalism.
He is a former editor for the Chicago Tribune and Chicago Sun-Times and his online certificate training courses are used by reporters at CNN, WAN-IFRA, Mediacorp, BBC, Journalism Co UK, The New York Times, BILD, Russ Media, 24Sata, VRT public television, TV8, RTL, TVN, the United Nations, and Reuters.
He was named the Ashoka Storyteller in Residence for 2015.
He holds a b.a. in Journalism (1990 - Eastern Illinois University).
Robb is @Videojournalist on Twitter.