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What's going on everyone?
I am your host, Claudio Zavala Jr.
Glad you're here.
How many of you use you
phones to shoot video,
take photos, work on cinematic projects?
Well you are in luck, because
today I'm gonna share with you
five more mobile phone
video and photo hacks,
kinda long there, anyway, that you can use
to take better photos and videos.
All right, so let's go ahead and begin.
I'm calling this one the
skateboard tracking hack.
So basically what you'll
do is use a skateboard
and take some really cool
tracking shots of your subject.
You can either set up a phone rig on it
or have someone sit on it and push 'em.
Now, it won't be Hollywood
professional-style,
but it will get the job
done and I think you'll like
the end results of it.
Filmmakers use these
elaborate rail systems
and place a cart on top with a cameraman
positioned there holding the camera
that move along the track
to follow the subject.
You can use an office chair
to pretty much get close
to the same type of movements and shots
that you would with a rail system.
So, the person holding the phone will sit
in the office chair while
a person behind them
will push them along, similar
to what a dolly would do,
move them up close, forward
or backwards, sideways,
and also take some type
of panning shots as well.
A really cool trick to use
with a simple office chair.
This next hack, I've actually done before.
I was sitting at a fast food restaurant
and forgot my gear, I had my phone
but I needed it to record a video.
Well what I did was I
took my french fry box,
dumped all the fries onto the tray,
cut some slits onto the edges of the box,
placed my phone there,
and I was easily able to
record a video as well as
take a selfie if I wanted to.
This is a really cool
hack that you can use
if you wanna go to the fast food place
and get cups or boxes.
I'm sure they'll give 'em away,
maybe even charge you a few cents for it.
Or just buy some fries.
But there you have an easy hack,
call it maybe, the french fry box hack.
I'm gonna show you a way
that you can get some
really cool panning
shots from left to right.
I'm gonna introduce the most innovative,
most high-tech filming tool
you've ever seen before.
It is the Lazy Susan.
All right, it's not really high-tech,
but it will help you get the job done.
Place the Lazy Susan on a flat surface,
whether it's the floor,
tabletop, countertop,
whatever it is, and then
stabilize your mobile phone on it.
It can be on the edge
or it can on the center.
And then slowly turn the
Lazy Susan to kind of get
that panning, tracking shot.
Really cool way to use
a really low budget tool
to get a really high-end shot.
You can also use the Lazy Susan
to get some time-lapse photos,
from tracking time-lapse.
You might be surprised at the result.
For this last hack you'll
need to own a tripod
and some sort of mobile phone rig.
With the mobile phone set up
in the rig and on the tripod,
I'm gonna take one of the legs
and turn it at a 90 degree angle.
And basically what I'm
doing is using that leg
as a sort of stabilizer so
I can create some movements
and carry it around, follow the actor,
do some up and down movements,
move forward and backwards.
So many different things you can do
with this really cool trick.
Those are five more mobile
phone video and photo hack.
Hope you learned something
useful from these tips.
Let me know what you
thought about this video
by adding a question or your thoughts
in the comment section below.
Especially if you try one
of these hacks, let me know.
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