
select a camera with strong image quality, 4k at 60fps or 1080p, and low-light and dynamic range, and if budget is tight, use what you have and upgrade later.
Use a wide angle around 14–18 mm to make rooms appear larger while limiting distortion, then shoot details at 50 mm, and cover everything else with a 24–70 mm.
Choose a stabilizer to achieve smooth real estate videos; motorized handheld gimbals like the Ronin S offer faster balancing, reliability, and stable shots during lens changes.
Learn when to use a drone for real estate videos, weigh renting versus buying, and see why the DJI drone suits higher priced properties, with notes on legality and budget.
Ask for a property photo to estimate size, plan timing, and anticipate lighting. Clarify the agent's priorities, capture key features, and pre-pack gear—batteries, gimbal, drone, memory cards—the day before.
Learn five essential camera settings for real estate video. Optimize 4k uhd resolution, frame rate and shutter speed, ISO, aperture, white balance, and picture profiles for consistent, high-quality footage.
Develop a practical 5-step shot list for real estate shoots, emphasizing establishing shots, wide room and outdoor space views, drone footage at golden hour, and close-ups of key details.
Improve real estate videos by optimizing composition through chest to head height filming, keeping the horizon level, and minimizing distortion with centered framing; use slight tilts only for close-ups.
Choose manual focus for control over sharpness, avoiding unreliable autofocus. Frame the important part, focus there, then move the camera to keep that area sharp, even with wide angle lenses.
Learn the top five camera movements for real estate videos, including push in, foreground reveal, pan, parallax, and top-down/bottom-up shots, to create depth and engaging room reveals.
Leverage daylight and timing for better real estate imagery. Use indoor lighting around 3500 kelvin with white balance, and employ fast lenses at f/2.8 or lower to improve low-light shots.
Master the nine most common real estate videography mistakes, including framing, white balance, frame rates, lens choice, stabilizer balance, shooting time of day, music selection, pacing, and targeting high-end properties.
Learn how to land real estate video clients by building a strong portfolio on your own website, and use free shoots to win high-end properties.
Set real estate video fees by skill, shoot/edit time, and market, with Hamburg, Germany examples. Use drone add-ons and monthly retainers to build steady income.
Deliver high-quality real estate videos with fast turnaround and reliable availability to blow away clients and win repeat business, overdelivering beyond expectations, even by hiring a second shooter when needed.
Take action and be creative to make a living shooting professional real estate video. The instructor invites reviews and newsletter signups for future classes and welcomes ideas or questions.
Real Estate Video Production is one of the easiest and most common ways for new videographers to start out in professionally making videos and earning a living with it.
I have made classes on Editing Real Estate Videos before and hundreds of students learned how to take amazing footage and turn it into a real estate video that sells.
Since then a lot of you have asked for the Shooting-part of the process and here it is. In this class I take you through my complete process of how to Shoot Real Estate Videos.
Here is what you can expect in the class:
1. In section one I explain which gear you need to be able to produce amazing quality real estate videos.
Which camera is the best?
Which lenses should I buy?
Which stabilizers do you recommend?
Do I need a drone?
2. In section two I quickly mention a couple of tips for preparation
3. Section 3 is the heart of this class and we go through the complete and detailed process of how I produce my videos for my clients
The 5 most important camera settings
My personal 5-step-shot list
Composition and Focus
The top 5 camera movements you need to master
The 9 most common mistakes that I have made in the past and still see beginners and even intermediates do today
The problem of lighting in real estate videos
4. And then in section four, I take a bit of time and go through the business side of producing real estate videos
How to cold-email potential clients and actually get results
How to find clients in the first place
How to get amazing material for your portfolio before you even have a job
How to over-deliver to your clients and have them come back to you
As you can see there is a lot of amazing knowledge waiting for you. I have put a lot of effort into this class to equip you with the knowledge you need to go out there and start getting results in your creative career in video.
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Instructor Dennis Schrader
I am a fulltime filmmaker based out of Hamburg, Germany and I work with clients to produce real estate videos, documentaries, commercials and event videos.
For the last 1,5 years I have been teaching my video production knowledge to students all over the world. My goal is to teach my students the skills and mindset they need to fullfill their creative goals.