The methods and steps for shooting short videos with mobile phones are as follows:

1. Preparation before shooting

1. Determining the theme

The theme is the soul of a video. Whether shooting children, traveling, or visiting a store, food sharing, product efficacy, shooting a video must have a theme.

From the beginning to the completion, there are various forms of shooting, ranging from running account, lyrical narration and the cool style of Tik Tok.

2. Adjust the definition

When shooting a video, the video seems to be very clear on the mobile phone, but after uploading it to the short video platform, you will find that the definition is greatly reduced, which is because the resolution of the mobile phone is not set.

3. Setting the shooting mode of mobile phone grid

In the shooting process, composition is a very important link. Whether the video is beautiful or not is largely determined by composition.

in general, the standard of mobile phone composition is based on the grid lines in our mobile phone. In the mobile phone settings, open the nine-square grid line, which is convenient for assisting composition in actual shooting.

2. Pay attention to

1. Pay attention to light to enhance the aesthetic feeling of the picture

When shooting short videos, light is very important. Good light layout can effectively improve the picture quality, especially when shooting portraits, soft light will enhance the aesthetic feeling of the picture. Avoid obvious shadows and exposure. If the light is not clear, you can manually light it, hit the face of the person or adjust it with a reflector.

2. Prevent shaking and ensure clear focus

Hand shaking is a fatal injury to many video shooters. When shooting a video, be sure not to shake your hands and keep the correct focus at all times, so as to shoot a clear video effect.

3. Try different angles

The lens angles mainly include head-up, oblique angle, elevation angle and depression angle. Head-up: the most basic shooting angle, objective expression, and the lens is flush with the subject's eyes. Oblique angle: Deliberately oblique shooting, so that everyone can notice that the picture is out of balance. Elevation angle: shooting from a low angle can make the object taller or dominant.

4. Scenery changes enrich the video

A video has different sceneries alternating, which better explains the story to the audience. There are mainly close-ups, close-ups, middle-ups, panoramas and prospects.

Third, post-editing

After the video is shot, editing software must be used in the later stage to eliminate redundant and meaningless content, and words should be added if necessary, and the beginning and end of the film should be added, so as to turn the original video into short and high-quality short video.

1. Selection of clipping APP

The two common softwares, Love Clipping and Clipping, are simple and powerful (compared with other softwares), and have become the necessary software for many people to get started.

2. Music card point

Good music matching can improve the grade of the whole video. You can collect good music from watching other people's videos at ordinary times for future use.

3. Add subtitles

With appropriate and concise words, it will be easier for everyone to understand during reading.

Unique viewing angle to enhance the visual impact of video images

1. Low camera angle

The images shot from low camera angle have strong visual impact, because the low angle is a rare angle for human eyes, and because the low angle can make the mobile phone closer to the ground. When moving the camera, the static ground and the dynamic camera position can produce stronger dynamic and static contrast, making the images more sporty. Low-altitude perspective can usually be used to shoot people, shorter scenes, etc. When shooting, you can observe the surrounding scenes and find the most suitable low-altitude perspective to shoot.

2. Gap perspective

You can find some scenes similar to "cracks" to shoot, such as cracks or gaps between railings, columns, windows, branches, buildings and other scenery. The gap perspective can make viewers feel a sense of "voyeurism" visually, so that the visual center of the picture focuses on the gaps, and the sense of primary and secondary and layering of the picture will be more prominent.

When shooting a gap perspective, you need to pay special attention to whether there are some "gaps" in the shooting scene. For example, the following shooting scene is to look for gaps between the upper and lower buildings to shoot people. Before shooting, carefully observe and notice the "gaps" in the building, so you can take a gap view.

3. Occlusion perspective

Look for the scene in the foreground of the picture to properly occlude the picture. When the mobile phone moves the mirror, let the picture start shooting from the occluded scene, and then the main scene gradually enters the shooting perspective of the picture.

In the shooting scene, you can find suitable scenery to cover it, such as railings, walls, flowers and leaves, people, cycling, roadside scenery, etc. The main purpose is to let these scenery cover the picture, and then start shooting with a mirror, so that the picture can be covered from cover to mirror-semi-cover, and the main scene can be presented without cover.

4. Overlooking view angle

can also be understood as the overhead view angle, which requires the photographer to stand in a higher position to overlook the shooting. This view angle is also difficult for the human eye to see and has a good visual impact.

The premise of shooting a bird's-eye view with a mobile phone is that the photographer needs to go to some high places, such as tall buildings, airplanes, mountains, etc., and shoot as vertically as possible to get a more shocking bird's-eye view.