Hi, my name's Zoe.
I'm the founder of Pickford Media and today I'm giving you seven tips to getting started
with video, a DIY video studio, in your own home, for free.
Got a couple of things that are around $20 but a free DIY video studio, so you can get
going with video in your own home like I've got going just here.
This is where I do my work, it's also where I'm shooting today's video.
I've got a little bit of equipment that's a bit more than what I've got in these tips.
I've got a few lights, I've got a microphone and I've got a camera here, but you can get
started really simply, really low budget.
You can going with video.
It doesn't have to be as big of an investment as you think it does, and it certainly doesn't
need to be as scary as you think it does.
So let's get started.
The first item on my checklist simply just to shoot on your phone or on your laptop.
We've all got a phone or a laptop and in the last few years the, the picture quality of
phones especially have gone up so dramatically with shooting on your phone it doesn't have
to look blurry, it doesn't have to seem like you've got low production values.
You can get a really nice image and I'm gonna talk about a few other tips to really get
the most out of using your phone or a laptop to shoot your video on.
So now that you've got your phone or laptop ready, what we want to make sure we do is
shoot horizontally.
A few years ago that would have been gospel, it's a little bit different now with Facebook
because you can get away with vertical, but know what platform you're using the video
on.
If it is for Facebook, that's okay, I'll let you get away with vertical, anything else:
Youtube or for your website, shoot it horizontally.
So, in terms of landscape but also in terms of keeping it upright.
Any kind of strange angles, you're gonna look a little bit odd.
The same thing with the laptop.
When we work, it's not always horizontal, it's not always a flat laptop.
We sometimes angle it back or forward so we can see the screen better or just personal
preference, but that can give us a bit of a strange angle.
So you wanna make sure that is straight up and down, flat.
My next tip, and this goes whether you have a camera, your phone, or whatever it is, is
to make sure you're putting it up at eye level.
That's the most natural level for us.
The camera I'm using right now, the lens, that's right at eye level.
Same thing with the laptop.
So you might want to raise it, something like I've got behind me, it's already raised.
You can, you know stack it up on a pile of books, you could get, invest in a little tripod
like this one to put your phone in, put that on your desk and that's almost exactly the
right height.
Something like this you can get on Ebay really, really cheaply.
It's not quite a free video studio but it's very close to it.
The next thing, this is more of a what not to do, and that is never zoom in on your phone.
What it, it doesn't really zoom in, it really just crops the picture and makes it bigger.
It looks like it zoomed it, but it's going to make it really blurry, so if you want it
closer, just move it.
Just use your legs.
Move it forward.
Don't ever use the zoom function.
All right, now you've got those basic out of the way, the next couple of things I'm
going to talk about are really going to improve your production quality and your production
values.
And that is sound and light.
I have people ask me all the time what's going to make the biggest improvement to their videos
and my answer is always invest in a microphone and get your lighting sorted out.
So, when I first started out making videos one of the things I would do is have a separate
phone or later on I had a little Zoom recorder, that I would sit separately really close to
whoever it was I was videoing.
So I might have them holding it just out of frame down here or I might set it on a table.
And I would record the audio that way and then sync it up to the picture later on.
But another thing that's even easier than that and again, it's not quite free but it
almost is, is investing in a little lapel mic.
Now you can get these, again really cheaply.
I believe Rode has one that's around the $70 mark but you definitely don't have to spend
that.
Might not be quite as good but it's gonna be such an improvement off just your phone
microphone.
Yeah, it's really unbelievable and it's something I would definitely recommend.
The next tip relates to sound as well and that is bringing things into your space that's
gonna stop echo.
So, it's things like couches, pillows, rugs, that's really gonna help kind of deaden the
sound so it's not bouncing all around off bare walls if you have them, and that again,
it's really gonna improve the quality of your sound and it's really gonna make your video
that much better.
My final tip, and that is probably the biggest thing, I think.
Save the best for last.
And that's lighting.
And my biggest tip: just use natural lighting.
Sit in front of a window, have the natural light on your face, it's gonna be the most
flattering, it's just going to look the nicest.
You're not going to have to worry big shadows in the background.
I would recommend not doing it in the harsh sunlight in the middle of the day, but morning
or afternoon, it's the best time.
And that's my biggest tip.
So there's my little checklist of things for your own studio, as close to free as I could
possibly make it.
I am going to link this checklist so you can download it and that'll be linked below, but
otherwise thank you so much for watching.
Subscribe if you liked it, we're gonna have more these types of videos coming out so thank
you very much for watching.
I'm fine, I love being on camera.
This is what I do.
Having a good time.
Hi, my name's Zoe and I'm the founder of Pickford Media and I just bumped the mic.
Could you keep it down.
Sorry.
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