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Smartphone Videography Workshop - the Southbank Reviews

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This is a fun activity in London Bridge, London

Our smartphone video safaris build on our much-loved photography sessions, incorporating techniques to shoot video content. We cover essential scenarios, including capturing moving subjects, exploring spaces with a moving camera and even how to film people in a flattering way. After two hours of filming, the editing section dives into the free editing app, CapCut. You’ll leave with the skills, knowledge and confidence to make your home and holiday videos better. Suitable for any make and model of phone.

London’s South Bank has long been home to the arts, creativity and stunning views. The stretch between and around Westminster and Waterloo bridges encompasses the London Eye, the Royal Festival Hall, the National Theatre, a skateboard park and open air booksellers to name but a few attractions. During the summer, there’s plenty of options for riverside refreshments, and in winter you’ll find a vibrant street food market with a feast of delights to sample.

South Bank provides an array of urban, green and architectural diverse locations and scenes to practice your video work, whether you want to stay behind or be in front of the camera as well.

Group safaris cover general skills for capturing footage for travel, food or similar vlogging, live events, home movies and selfie videos and will include:

- Essential camera set-up for video recording
- Choosing the right filming locations
- Understanding composition
- Moving Camera vs Moving Subjects
- Foundations of video editing on CapCut

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Stephen Lucas
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Really enjoyed the class with Mike! Had the luck of a 1-1 session for 3 hours which was really beneficial. I learnt the importance of detail in each camera shot, and placement of subjects, as well as maximising lighting. Mike was kind enough to inform of where I can also grab high-quality video-shooting equipment too, and taught me all sorts of neat tricks on the 'Edits' app. I loved the fact that is was engaging, we shot a few videos and edited together which was insightful. Would defintely reccomend his services to anyone interested in learning more about videography and editing.
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Posted 1 month ago
Brenda Begg Asiodu
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Excellent. Extremely knowledgeable and funny. Explain things very well and as I was the only person in the class due to other cancellations he offloaded so much information in the three hour session.! . This was given to me as a gift. I was able to access the class details and book ahead for a convenient date.
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Posted 5 months ago
Michelle Pellegrino
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Really enjoyed the Smartphone Videography Workshop with Mike - it was very hand on, interactive and gave lots of great tips for filming, negative space, iphone settings etc. to ensure the quality of what you are filming is as good as possible. Filming at Southbank was great too, with so much colour and liveliness to inspire you! The editing side of things I found more challenging as there wasn't really enough time to get to grips with that - I will need to practice this in my own time, which is fine - but my suggestion would be to make the course longer, and have more time to go through editing after a lunch break, or do the filming over one morning and editing in the next day or two to "divide and conquer". But the course really did cover a lot in three hours, thanks Mike, very enjoyable, inspirational and useful.
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Posted 1 year ago