Smartphone Video / Filmmaking Learn All Aspects of Mobile Video
Turn Your Smartphone Into a Powerful Filmmaking Tool
Whether you’re a complete beginner or ready to take your mobile filmmaking skills to the next level, our practical training will help you create professional-quality video using the camera you already carry every day — your smartphone.
Our training focuses on real-world skills rather than complicated theory. You’ll learn how to take control of your smartphone camera, understand the fundamentals of filmmaking, and confidently turn your ideas into polished, engaging videos.
Learn at your own pace, remotely via-Zoom, and discover just how powerful your smartphone can be as a filmmaking tool.
What You’ll Learn
Training can be tailored to your experience, equipment and the type of content you want to create, covering areas including:
- Camera Settings & Video Quality — Understand resolution, frame rates, shutter speed, ISO, white balance, focus, exposure and professional camera apps.
- Cinematography & Composition — Learn shot types, camera angles, framing, composition and techniques that give your videos a more cinematic look.
- Lighting Techniques — Make better use of natural light and learn simple artificial-lighting techniques for interviews, products and creative filmmaking.
- Professional Audio — Discover how to capture clean, clear sound using your smartphone’s built-in microphones, wireless systems, lavalier microphones and shotgun microphones.
- Smartphone Accessories & Gear — Learn when and how to use tripods, gimbals, camera rigs, filters, external microphones, lighting and other filmmaking accessories.
- Storytelling & Shot Planning — Move beyond simply recording clips and learn how to plan shots, sequences and stories that keep your audience engaged.
- Editing Workflows — Learn how to organise footage, build an effective edit, work with music and sound, add titles and prepare your finished video for delivery.
- Colour Grading & LUTs — Understand colour correction, LOG video, LUTs and practical workflows for creating a professional finished look.
- Real-World Video Production — Apply your skills to promotional and business videos, YouTube and social media content, interviews, documentaries, short films and personal projects.
Learn From Experience
With over 40 years of experience in the imaging industry, our approach to training is practical, friendly and easy to follow.
The goal isn’t simply to teach you which buttons to press. It’s to help you understand why particular techniques work, when to use them and how to make creative decisions with confidence.
Modern smartphones are incredibly capable filmmaking tools — but great video still comes from understanding story, light, sound, composition, movement and editing.
That’s where good training makes the difference.
Learn Your Way
Training is available remotely online, via Zoom, allowing you to learn in a way that suits your location, experience and schedule.
Work at your own pace, ask questions, practise techniques and develop skills you can immediately apply to your own projects.
Whether you’re creating videos for business, YouTube, social media, community organisations, filmmaking projects or simply for your own enjoyment, we’ll help you get more from the equipment you already own.
Learn the Skills. Create With Confidence.
Your smartphone is already an extraordinarily powerful filmmaking tool. Now learn how to get the best from it.