Simple Steps To Shooting Quality Video With Any SmartPhone

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1 7 Simple Steps To Shooting Quality Video With Any SmartPhone Where football is never out of season

2 The Got Next TV Network is a sports network geared specifically for the adult developmental football leagues. Its main purpose is to give more exposure to the leagues as a whole and to the players. What we have is the ability to reach a local, national and international television audience, while assisting you with one of the most daunting task marketing and promoting. We re providing a way for your team and league to air your submitted football footage on television (games, championships, highlights to player highlights) that will air 24 hours a day, 7 days week. This is not online. All you have to do is submit your team s football game footage, game highlights to championship games and leave the rest up to us. Allow us to give the developmental football leagues and its players the exposure it deserves. Build your branding, your fan base and sponsors with the help of Got Next TV. What s our main goal? It is to help drive next level prospecting for the players, teams and leagues. We re speaking of colleges, indoors, overseas to the pros. Helping to bring awareness to quality teams, to excellent games, and to hidden diamonds in the rough players.

3 Are you ready to shoot amazing videos with your smart phone? Here is your step by step guide to creating professional videos that speak to your audience using your smartphone. Perfect for shooting interviews from the players, coaches or even your fans. What you will need? Of course your smart phone, a tripod (or something to prop your phone up while you shoot), good lighting, a quiet space to shoot. Step-by-step process to shooting your next great video: 1. Decide on the message you want to deliver that will engage your audience as well as deliver your desired message quickly, so when your video is finished they will know one thing they didn't know before they watched the video. 2. Find your set or place to shoot your video that is well lit and where you feel comfortable. If you have a clean wall that is white or a solid color that you can stand in front of, this can be the perfect place to deliver your message while looking like you are in a professional studio. However, you just may want to capture footage live and remote while on location: football game, football field or the stadium stands. 3. Be aware of the noise levels when filming. When inside close all windows and doors. Turn off any fans, heaters, phones or other noises in the room. If you have children, try to shoot when they are out of the house, along with any pets. We've never seen a cat run pass or a child crying on SportsCenter. When on location, such as games be sure to test background noise levels when shooting interviews. We want to make sure viewers can clearly hear what's being said on your video. Find a place that's far from the noise while still capturing the spirit and atmosphere of the event. 4. Place your phone in a tripod or propped against books or other objects where it is stable and horizontal. Make sure to have the camera on the phone set to face you, so that you can shoot and watch yourself on the screen at the same time. Be sure to practice to learn where is the best place to look, so that you're looking into the camera rather yourself. If you're on location prep your phone and ask someone to hold it for you. Before pressing record be sure you like what you see in the camera. Also, to ensure a stable shot, ask the temporary camera person to pull their elbows in to their sides. This will definitely help prevent jumpy and shaky videos. They can use their wrist to tilt and pivot the camera as needed.

4 KEY POINT: Often times people have a tendency to look at themselves on the phone rather into the camera lens, which give the off to the side look. We don't want that, do we? When filming you want viewers to see you looking into the camera at them. Ask yourself: Where should my eyes be when shooting to ensure that I am looking into the camera and not away. 5. Shoot a 5-second test before you begin shooting the video. Check for lighting (bright enough that you can see yourself, but not so bright that you look washed out), sound (loud enough that you can be heard without any background noise of trucks driving by, kids crying or TVs in the background), visuals (check your hair etc and make sure to design the shot so that whatever you see in the frame is exactly meant to be there). Remove anything extra or distracting so your viewers can focus on you, your interviewee and your message. 6. Write down the 3 key points of the video on a Post-it note and place the note above the tiny camera lens on your phone. This will help you to remember what you are going to say while also helping you to look in the right place while filming. 7. Once you are finished shooting, review the footage for good lighting and sound. Most often when shooting you will require more than one take to get it how you like. (don't over do it) It doesn't hurt to have more than one version. Once you like your finished video you can use your video editing app if you want to crop the footage to remove the access space at the start and/or end of video. Let's Get Techie! Check your phone settings. These are standard when submitting footage to Got Next TV. Film Quality: HD (720p) Ration: 16:9 (wide screen) Camera Angle: Film footage with camera horizontal (sideways) CLICK HERE TO REGISTER, NOW!

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6 Quick Video Options So what do you do with all the video footage you've taken before learning these seven steps? Take it to your editing software to make magic happen. To get an idea here are few examples below... OPTION #1 Turn them into a video sequence within one video like the one below. OPTION #2 Do a side-by-side shot. Check out this video to see what we mean.

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