Top 10 Smartphone Moves (Handheld) | Beginner to Pro Demonstration!

all right what's up guys Thomas here and in this video I'm going to show you the top 10 handheld smartphone camera moves they're going to take your videos to the next level let's go so the first three camera moves I'm about to show you are the basics you're going to use these camera moves whenever you are filming instead of standing still and just getting a still shot or a pan you're going to replace those standing shots with these three movements I'm about to show you all right move number one is the push forward this is

a great way to draw the audience into your scene and instantly make everything look more Dynamic this is the beginner version of this shot you just point and shoot maybe moving around a little bit it's not that great okay so now the camera move what we're going to do is go slightly lower and we're just going to walk very steadily with our knees bent moving towards the subject now whilst this walk looks a little bit funky the result is a very Dynamic movement that draws your audience into a scene this is a great movement to

use if you want to start your scenes with impact alright smartphone camera movement number two is going to be tracking side to side this is a great replacement for a pan so we've got a beautiful scene in front of us here how would a beginner capture this they want a pan try and get everything in not cool instead let's do movement number two so we're going to start here leaning from one leg we're going to lean from left to right to the other leg and what that's going to do is replicate a camera dollar usually

in Hollywood they have these films on these tracks that go side to side just by getting a little bit of movement even if you're we're just covering one meter can replicate that and give that subtle indication especially if we're going left to right that our video is moving somewhere it's not static watching different shots in one place the camera is moving the video is moving and the story is progressing all right camera movement number three is the crane shot this is cool when you've got a big kind of landscape in front of you so we

want to get this shot it's a park we've got trees gray skies it's kind of hard to make it look good so what we can do here is actually come and film these birds from the ground and then come up in a crane movement smooth as we can so we're going to do that one more time and coming up like that to reveal beautiful landscape in the background all right these next three shots are intermediates now this doesn't necessarily mean they're harder than the basics there's just a little bit more thought gone into them in

regards to composition and movement all right smartphone handheld camera movement number four is the reveal now this is very similar to the side to side tracking Movement we got except we're revealing the scene from behind something else so this is where we can really start playing with the different lenses on our phones so right now I'm using the wide lens and whilst this is pretty cool and what we can do is reveal the scene from behind the tree what I really want to draw attention to is this nice tree here in the background that has

these red berries on it so we're going to change to the telephoto lens and what that's going to enable me to do is reveal that tree specifically so it's important here that we lock the exposure and focus onto the subject we want to reveal too not the one revealing from now we want this framed up perfectly so we can kind of peek out get a preview of the shot before come back in and then as smoothly as we can reveal our subject [Music] so camera movement number five is the push past this is very similar

to the simple pushing forward technique except this time we're going to build on that and have something in the foreground of the frame the reason we'd have something in the foreground is because that moves very quickly past the camera so you see this tree in the background that's actually what we're focusing on that's our subject so we're going to lock that off and we're going to push forward here with these branches in the foreground moving forward and out of the frame now this not only provides a nice depth but it also gives a greater sense

of movement foreign example of this is right here we could do a simple push forward and that looks nice but if we just take a few steps back and go back out here what we reveal is that we have this big gate and if we move through this big gate especially with a wide angle lens and just do a simple walking movement because the gate is passing through the foreground of our shot it emphasizes that movement so much more all right this is one of my favorite moves coming up right here move number six this

is subject tracking so we've got a subject here which is a statue if we did the classic tracking side to side then it would look something like this not bad but because there's now space on this side of the shot it doesn't really feel like we're focusing on the Statue it feels like we're kind of moving past the statue which is not necessarily what we want when we want to draw attention to our subject so instead of doing that we're going to move around the subject keeping the movement going from left to right but turning

our phone so the subject is always in the center check it out so starting from the left coming around to the right but pointing our phone keeping the subject in the center so again a pretty subtle movement there but just that slight turn really makes our subject pop out from the background okay now we're entering Pro territory these ones again aren't necessarily more hard they're simply more creative they're movements that people wouldn't think to do but once you do them they can really add some Flair to your videos this is it guys we've gone from

beginner and we are entering Pro territory buckle your seat belts so this first shot within the pro section is going to be called The Dutch spin so a Dutch angle in filmmaking is simply going at a diagonal angle it adds this kind of trippy effect what we're going to do is emphasize this with movement so we're going to start like this at a diagonal angle and whilst moving forwards we're going to be spinning the camera and what that does is provide this kind of trippy effect now do be warned when using this in your videos

you want to put this in to convey a certain emotion so let's say you want the audience to feel kind of tripped out maybe you're making a dream like sequence or something along those lines at the pro stage we can also start combining these with other techniques so we can for example push past this first section of fence whilst rotating into a Dutch angle [Music] camera move number eight is the push into Focus now this is really important when we're using smartphones to make films one of the key differences between a smartphone and a camera

is that oftentimes the camera especially dslrs have a shallow depth of field meaning elements in the background are blurry elements in the foreground are crisp and in Focus so we can now replicate this with smartphones now they're getting a bit better so what we do is we get nice and close to a subject we then lock the focus by tapping and holding the screen so it locks onto it and then we move back now you'll notice that everything's blurry but when we push in our subject comes nicely into crisp focus with the background being blurry

we can start to get really creative with these kinds of shots and doing this with the telephoto lens makes the look even more dramatic this brings us on to smartphone camera move number nine which is the macro texture so if you have a telephoto lens you're going to want to switch to that some phones even these days have a macro lens so you might want to use that if that's on your phone I'm just going to use a telephoto and I'm going to focus on something that's in the foreground so for example with this tree

we can move up and down [Music] let's say you've got four or five of these texture shots you could cut between them to give the audience a really sensory feeling video rather than just a load of wide angles that don't give us much of that sensory information all right movement number 10 is one of my favorite moves just before I demonstrate that if you want a list of gear of all the gear that you can use from a beginner to a pro on a small budget or a big budget I have a free pdf which

is in the description which you can download just enter your email and I'll send that over to you okay movement number 10 is actually a whip pan so the interesting thing about this move is it's going to transition into the next video so we're going to start the transition here and the next video is going to begin with this transition so you can see that in action so that video is in the link in the description below it's all about how you can get epic in-camera transitions using your smartphone so we're going to transition to

that video in three two one foreign [Music]