♪ All by myself ♪
♪ Don't wanna be ♪
- Nobody wants to be all by themselves
but sometimes you have to.
Today I'm gonna show you how to film yourself.
For those of you who don't know me
I'm Amanda Horvath and I help you use video marketing
to grow your brand.
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In case you were wondering, yes I did get a haircut
and yes I am standing in my new studio.
But, I have not set it up just yet
so white curtain background it is,
but soon I'm hoping to reveal it to you guys.
Due to the move and my procrastination
I haven't filmed my video that I'm releasing tomorrow
at seven a.m.
It's seven p.m.
Don't do that folks.
So right now I am filming by myself and I thought,
why not give you guys some tips for how to film
on your own.
Tip number one is to be sure you can see your image.
For simplicity's sake let's start with those people
that are shooting on their iPhone.
So when I say, see your own image,
it's going to be obvious that you should likely
shoot in selfie mode.
Now, I have two things to say about this.
If you are shooting in selfie mode
it's gonna be really tempting to actually
look at your reflection, rather than at the lens
of the camera.
So be sure that you're looking directly in the lens
rather than at the screen.
So this is what it looks like if I'm looking
at my screen.
That's what it looks like if I'm looking at the camera.
Same is on your iPhone.
Your audience is gonna feel like you're not really
paying attention to them and you're paying more attention
to yourself and you definitely don't want that.
Now, the second note about shooting on selfie mode
is that the front camera is not as good as the back camera.
So, if you want to maximize the quality of your video
then what I would recommend doing is setting up
to shoot with the back of your camera
and then putting a mirror here so that
you can actually see your image.
Once again be sure to look at the lens of the camera
rather than at your own reflection.
It just started raining so if you're heading rain
or whatever that weird noise is in the background
then you know why.
Super curious to know if you can pick it up or not.
Tip number two is to make sure that you're in focus.
The big question here is whether you use auto focus
or manual focus.
I personally use manual focus
and that's because I feel like with auto focus
it can do this weird thing where it goes in and out
and because I'm not actually looking at the screen
while filming I don't know that it's doing that.
So the only time that I'm going to know
that it's doing that is if I either rewatch
all of my clips, which I'm not gonna do while filming,
but I will do during editing
and if you notice it during editing it's usually too late.
So the way that I do it is I set it on manual
and what I do is because I'm close enough to the camera
I kind of put my foot where I wanna stand, right?
And I kind of lean forward like this
and I focus it, so I'm gonna actually pull it
out of focus, and then I kind of focus it back
to where I'm looking at the screen now
and I can see right about there is where I am in focus.
And then I just step back, and now I'm in focus.
So that's one way to do it.
If you're a little bit too far to actually be able
to lean back to the place that you are when filming
then another way that I recommend doing this
is you just hold out your hand.
So like, okay I'm standing right here,
my hand would be right here.
Okay, so this kind of takes a little bit of coordination
but the way that you do it, plant your foot
where you would be staying so you know
where to come back to.
Keep your hand here, take a step closer to the camera
and then what you're gonna do,
so I kinda already messed it up right,
so keep your hand here, take a step closer to the camera,
keep your hand, keep your hand.
And then you can kinda, so make sure your hand
is over your foot.
And then like that, and then you stand up
and I should be in focus.
It's gonna be kind of embarrassing if not,
but I think I am.
(bell dings)
I've also seen other people put like, teddy bears
or other things like that wherever they're standing
or sitting so that you could actually focus on that
inanimate object.
I just think ideally you're close enough to where
you can actually pull your own focus
to make sure that you're in focus.
Y'all, this rain is seriously getting louder and louder.
Go ahead and comment below, rain,
in all caps if you can hear it.
Now, if you're going to use auto focus,
no big deal, it is pretty valuable and it's going to depend
on the camera that you have.
So each camera is gonna be really different
in terms of how quickly it auto focuses.
So what I would do is I would run a couple of tests
on your camera to see how fast it would focus.
So, what you do in order to do this
switch the camera to auto focus and then just kinda move
around like this and see how quickly it will refocus.
So, I could actually do this right now.
Flip my camera to auto.
Alright, so now we're on auto, so I could lean here,
could lean here, could lean here,
lean here, it's kinda fun right?
And then just rewatch the video and make sure
you're in focus.
If you feel like it's catching your focus really well
then shoot in auto.
So it really is gonna depend on your camera.
I'm personally gonna flip it back to manual.
Tip number three is to use tools.
My favorite is the GorillaPod.
You can use it like a selfie stick (laughs).
Or you can even put it somewhere and have it look like
someone else's is filming you.
I did this a lot.
This was actually my exact setup when I was at
Machu Picchu filming my channel trailer.
So what I did was I would put it on the ground,
I'd focus it wherever I'd want it to focus so at one point
I was walking up the stairs and I wanted to capture
my foot as it hit the rock.
So I put my foot down, I focused the camera,
I left the camera recording.
I walked out of the frame and I walked back into the frame
and out of it again and that's how
I was able to film myself while hiking.
What's cool about this is that you can like,
wrap it around stuff, and so I wrapped it around
this one railing in order to get my hand
actually touching the rail and then walking up the stairs.
So you can get really creative with this
so that it doesn't actually look like you're just
standing and talking to a camera.
So have fun with it.
Alright, that is it.
Hopefully this was helpful for you.
If it was please give me a comment in the section below.
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and I'll see you in the next video.
Thanks for watching.
Tip number two is to make sure that you're in focus.
Here, or here,
I think that's fine.
Today, nope.
That's not what I'm supposed to say right there.
(laughs)
♪ All by myself ♪


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