How to shoot a vlog with a smartphone?


Young tourist man vlogging in the streets of Chinatown at night

Are you guys looking to start your vlogging channel with your smart phone? You really worried that will it be a fair decision to start one?

Well no worries! I am going to sought this out or you.

These days having a smart phone is common but the only diffrence is that in which your smartphone lies flagship, mid-range, or a simple smartphone with simple features.

In this digital world starting a vlogging channel would be it be a fair decision?

If you think it practically then it’s a big yes it’s never too late.

These days’ people getting aware about it soon it would be a popular image.

You can start your vlogging channel in this tough internet market and end up having something really big which you would have never thought of.

The obvious question that everybody would be having is the "camera"

Now let me say you that people who have a smart phone worth rupees 50k or even more than that then it’s going to be an easy play for them.

For those of you who own a mid-range phone which is worth rupees 15k to 30k for them its going to be average play.

But the main twist comes for those of you who have a smart phone but not good quality camera.

Now, many of might wonder why have I characterized the smart phones?

Well you are absolutely right it’s just because you can rank yourself in any one of this categories so that you can plan accordingly about your hard work input.

Before I get going with tips and tricks I want to make it clear that don’t lose hopes just because you rank in the 3rd category, it’s always said that the hard work always pays off!

  1.Focus on stabilization

Focus on stabilization is the first and foremost thing where you should pay attention.

Stabilization is nothing but how many times does your content reduce shakes in order to pass your content to you audience or people who are viewing it.

I your video has lots of shakes unnecessarily then it is very obvious that your audience would not be interested in your content especially in vlogging sector.

You would drastically come down in YouTube I you don’t correct it.

Try practicing and also try as much as you can avoid shakes in your video by doing this you can get people more attention towards your vlog.

Stability have also one of the most interesting advantage that is more stable will be your video it will be cake walk to share your thoughts to people and they would grasp your view with no matter of time.

  2.Get a quality editing

These days editing is done in market for a costly charge and I am pretty sure that all of us are not capable to afford it for every vlog.

So you should learn from YouTube videos ,articles and online courses about high quality video editing.

Getting a video edited is part of post vlogging well almost 70% of your task is completed that is shoot.

Now to have a high quality editing you must have these:
  • Good software
  • Music
  • Effects
  • Intro and ending

I think this more than enough for your vlog.
Did you notice that this all is done even in a vlog which is shoot by a professional camera?

The reason being why I am saying you this is because people who have little poor camera quality and want to represent in front of your viewers in professional and tidy way then you should do heavy editing to make it viewable and be in the compedetion to beat your competitors.

  3.Audio

Well audio is must in every video, and if you have poor audio quality then people would face difficulties in understanding your vlog.

I the audio quality is the issue then it would be no more called a vlogging show rather it would be mute mime show.

Well smartphones have an internal microphone but that is capable of delivering a high audio quality.

What I would suggest you is that get descent mic which would offer a high punch on audio quality and would be in your budget.

I would also that guys please don’t invest your money in costly mics. First look up what response are you getting from this vlogging channel

  • How people react
  • People’s views
  • Subscribers and comments and many more.
If think you are doing well on this niche then go for an upgrade of your equipment’s for a better quality.

  4.Eye contact

Many of the new vloggers ace this issue of eye contact, if you are one of those then please don’t do this.

If you have eye contact with that tiny little camera in your smart phone, then you would be successful in garbing people’s attention towards your vlog.

Let me take this even more practical.

Usually during filming your vlog you have single point of focus that is your camera, but did you notice that thousands and lakhs people would view it so you should try to keep your contact constant.

What is the advantage of this?

  • It makes you feel even more confidence in front your camera

  • People build a contact o trust with you.
  • And you would create a sense of transparency.

Well these were some of the simple tactics which would be more than enough for you to gain 120 – 139k views
100k likes and also 10 -15 subscribers easily. 

This is the estimated benefit which you would receive, these might vary as per your imaginary and hard work.

Bonus: to make it even easier your vlogging journey you can watch vlogs shot on smart phones.

  • Practice in front of mirror.

  • At beginning try shoot in your locality.


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