How To Film Yourself Drawing With An Iphone

This commodity is for those who desire to make art videos with your telephone. By art videos, I mean recording yourself drawing, making an art tutorial, sit-in or recording any kind of crafting process.

These are the essential equipment you need.

ane. Tripod
A skillful tripod is one that's stable. Don't get those clamps that clamp to the side of the table because they will wobble easily when the table moves. Shaky video is bad.

2. Phone holder/clamp
The phone holder is to help attach your phone to the tripod and then that you tin point your telephone at your fine art.

3. Phone
Any phone with a camera will do.

four. Lavalier microphone
This allows you to record you talking while you lot draw. It would be expert if you can go a lavalier microphone that can connect to your telephone as well as your computer (via an adapter).

If your lavalier microphone can connect to the computer, you tin can do narration or voiceover.

Tripod

Tabletop tripods are cute but you lot can just use them on a table.

Become a tall tripod that'south at to the lowest degree ane.5m top. Y'all'll need to point down towards your cartoon then you need the tripod to exist tall.

Tripods accept extendable legs which may be locked in position with clamps. My Velbon tripod uses twisting machinery to lock the legs which are more than convenient than using clamps.

Tripods may or may not come up with the tripod caput. Two common types of tripod head are the ball-head and the pan-caput with handle (made for video recording).

Ball-head is easier to utilise. The handle tin get in the way sometimes.

The tripod head will come with a plate (to be fixed to the phone or camera). If you plan on using multiple devices with the tripod, find a tripod head where yous tin can buy replacement tripod plates. I have two cameras and a phone, and I take ane tripod plate for each device so that I don't have to unscrew from ane to set onto the other.

Phone holder/clamp

The phone holder or clamp must be able to hold your phone securely without wobble.

Make sure you go one large enough to clamp the width of your telephone with phone case.

Go a telephone holder that allows for tripod mounting.

The one that I'one thousand using is the Manfrotto Twistgrip. It's pricey but it's solid, well congenital, and tin can final forever, and information technology has tripod mount on the bottom, and a hotshoe mountain at the top in case you want to attach extra lights.

Y'all tin can also twist information technology to keep it flat, making it piece of cake to bring around. Information technology big enough to hold an iPhone 11 Pro Max (6.5 inch phone) with example.

When attaching the tripod plate to the phone clamp, make certain it'south tight. Actually, when securing anything, make sure everything is tight because y'all don't want the anything to fall over and impairment your phone.

When setting up your telephone and tripod, brand sure the camera is close to your art. You may have to flip your phone 180 degrees.

If your camera is far away, the video await as if it's filmed from an tilted angle.

It'due south nice to utilize a tripod with horizontal tripod arm simply that arm is actually quite expensive. And information technology'southward a hassle to setup and keep the horizontal tripod arm. You want to go along your setup simple.

When recording, always place the camera abroad from your cartoon hand. If you're right handed, identify the photographic camera on the left and so that your hand will not block the camera from your fine art.

Best video quality is achieved with best low-cal. If in that location'south low light, bad light, or night, even an expensive camera can't save your recording.

The all-time lite to use is natural light, sunlight, merely not nether direct sunlight. Information technology'south best to work near a window and the sunlight will fill the room equally fill and reflected light. Cloudy days may piece of work as long as the solar day is still brilliant. Rainy conditions or dark clouds are bad weather condition for recording videos.

Usually I'k seated backside the tripod. I effort non to hit the tripod because it will create shaky video. If your telephone has a zoom/telephone lens, you can extend the tripod higher so that your head volition not accidentally hit the phone.

If you want to tape videos regardless of external lighting conditions, you volition have to spend money to get lighting equipment. I have a few of those bright portable LED lights (with rechargeable battery) because ane does not offer enough coverage. And fifty-fifty with multiple artificial lights, sometimes they may cast unwanted shadows onto the paper. That'southward why make full light from the sun is the best. Oh, and you demand space and extra tripods to fix those artificial lights. More equipment means spending more money.

Lavalier microphone

You can actually use those headsets that come up with phones to record audio. The headsets have earphones and a microphone but the recording quality is normally not that good because the headset is cheap.

It'southward all-time to get a dedicated lavalier microphone that you lot can prune to your shirt.

A brand you can consider is PowerDeWise which has lots of good reviews on Amazon. PowerDeWise has lavaliers made for iPhones and Android phones.

It'southward good to choose a lavalier microphone that can be used with both iPhones and Android phones, and hence should have the lightning port adapter or USB-C adapter.

At that place are wireless microphones bachelor for phones. The ane that I use is the Saramonic Blink 500 which has adapters for iPhones (lightning), Android (USB-C), DSLR and mirrorless cameras (3.5mm sound jack).

Wireless is convenient since at that place are no cables to deal with. Downside is you lot have to make sure the battery is e'er fully charged before you lot record. You don't want the battery to run out halfway while recording merely to find out when you're editing the video. The battery is rechargeable just not removable and so the unit of measurement will die eventually. That's one thing I detest well-nigh built-in batteries.

If yous use cabled microphones, brand sure the cable doesn't show while recording. At home, I utilize cabled microphones considering I don't want to worry almost bombardment life.

When recording, it's best if there are no loud ambient racket, e.g. roadworks, traffic, planes flight, fire warning, grass cutters, ambulance, police, yous know.

Apps for recording video

I apply an iPhone currently and my favourite video recording app is Moment. Another popular app is Filmic Pro. I adopt Moment considering it has expert manual settings and there's also a timelapse recording functionality.

You can use any video recording app you like every bit long as information technology allows yous access to manual controls, more specifically the auto/manual focus and frame rate (FPS).

If y'all know of skillful third political party video recording apps for Android, share with me and others in the comments section.

5 things you demand to check earlier recording

1. Resolution
1080P is sufficient resolution. People who watch videos online don't really care about 4K or 1080P.

4K files will be huge, and take longer to edit and export. You'll also need a more powerful computer to edit the videos.

Apps for editing video

For MacOS, iMovie and Concluding Cut Pro are pop for editing videos.

I don't use Windows to edit videos. If you know of any skilful video editing apps on Windows, share with me and others in the comments section.

There'due south one good one called Da Vinci Resolve which is free (one version older than current) and should practice the job for bones video editing.

2. Gear up to manual focus
When recording, switch to manual focus if you can. Non all phones or apps provide manual control. You don't desire auto-focus because you don't want the focus to bound from your hand to the paper and back continuously. The subject coming in and out of focus is extremely distracting. People don't want to picket that.

three. Set to the appropriate frame rate
Frame rate is of import depend on what you're recording, and the atmospheric condition under which you are recording. If you recording yourself drawing on paper, the frame rate or FPS is not of import and you can cull any FPS (ordinarily 24, 25 or 30FPS).

Displays on tablets, phones, lights that run on electricity all run on a certain frequency.

If you're recording yourself cartoon on a tablet, or recording indoors with ceiling lights, you'll need to choose a frame rate that matches the frequency of the tablet or ceiling lights. Otherwise you lot will record the pulsating or flicking effect which volition make the video unwatchable.

The photograph to a higher place was shot at very high frame rate which is not in sync with the phone's display, and that's why you lot run across those unwanted light strobe effects.

iv. Turn on airplane mode and silent mode
You don't want your phone to vibrant while recording, or your telephone to band while you're taking.

v. Make certain your microphone is connected properly
Plug in the microphone all the way.

Information technology'due south e'er expert to tape a few seconds of footage to check if there are whatever audio issues or visual problems caused by FPS (for drawing on tablets or with indoor lights).

When recording

But frame your scene properly to show off your fine art or process. Frame is then that people can see the details.

Mix close up shots with wide shots.

Other things to note

You lot don't actually need music if it'southward an instructional video. Don't create a video with only music as background. Timelapse is only good if there's education.

But if you need music, you tin become free copyright-gratis music from Youtube Audio Library which is located inside Youtube Studio. Obviously you lot'll need a Youtube account to download the music.

Decision

Having the all-time lighting is more than of import than having the all-time phone.

Having good sound quality is a must.

If you merely have a phone, then you'll have to spend coin to go a tripod, phone clamp and lavalier microphone. That should gear up you back Usa $150. It's a lot of coin but purchase proficient ones (the ones I use) and they will final for a long time.

If you accept any other questions, let me know in the comments section beneath.