DSLR & SMARTPHONE CONNECTED FILM-MAKING – MASTERCLASS

How to use your DSLR and Smartphone together to shoot better and faster broadcast quality video

Which is the best camera to film with, a Smartphone or a DSLR? They both have their advantages, so how about filming with a DSLR and Smartphone connected together. That’s what this course covers, combined DSLR and Smartphone filming and editing. It’s a game changer, so sign up now!

For years, DSLR and mirrorless cameras have been the go-to choice for small digital publishers looking to produce high-quality content. However, this approach often overlooks the many production advantages smartphones offer. At the same time, there are certain things conventional cameras can do that smartphones simply can’t.

The solution? Use both together. By wirelessly connecting a DSLR or mirrorless camera with a smartphone, you can create a seamless, powerful filmmaking setup that excels in any field situation. This combination allows you to take full advantage of both tools, making you an unstoppable video journalist or filmmaker, especially on location.

In this course, you’ll start with the basics—understanding the key features of smartphones and DSLRs—and progress through everything you need to know, including essential accessories, sound, lighting, framing, composition, shooting sequences, exposure, and focus. You’ll also learn editing and live-streaming techniques, culminating in how to connect your DSLR and smartphone for a fully integrated and efficient filmmaking workflow. This training is your step-by-step guide to mastering a versatile and professional video production setup.

Who’s it for?

This course is for anyone from beginners to established photographers wanting to move into video.

It’s for budding amateur filmmakers to established media content creators wanting to learn how to create better quality video with their DSLR and Smartphone.

This course is especially for photo-journalists and multi-media journalists who want the connectivity of mobile phones but the video quality of a DSLR camera.

Journalists

This course has been used by journalists around the world. 

Broadcasters

This course has been delivered to staff of major broadcasters  around the world., directly resulting in the commissioning of new documentaries and documentary series.

Digital Publishers

Digital Publishers, around the world have made the next step into major programming making with this course.

Amateur Filmmakers

Filmmakers around the world have used this course to develop, shape, fund and get commissioned their passion project.

WHAT WILL THIS COURSE COVER?

By using your DSLR and Smartphone together you can maximise the quality of both video and stills, film via your smartphone using high quality lenses and telephoto solutions, supercharge your workflow, send material back to base quicker, publish online fast and easily or jump straight into the edit whilst you’re still out in the field.

This masterclass is based on the course that Dean delivers all over the world to broadcasters and corporate clients.

What's in this course?

DSLR & SMARTPHONE FILMING & EDITING MASTERCLASS SYLLABUS

MODULE 1
Introduction
Why shoot with phones?
The filming apps
MODULE 2
What about the story?
What to shoot?
MODULE 3
Rule of thirds
Lighting
Interview framing
MODULE 4
Smartphone filming accesories
What's in the box?
MODULE 5
DSLR Video filming operation
DSLR Menu set-up
DSLR rigging for filming
Lens theory
Module 6
Filming Pro U.I.
Filmic Pro U.I. outside
DSLR editing options
DSLR syncing with your phone
Fully integrated workflow
iMovie
Adobe Rush
Live-Streaming
Work-flow
Other useful apps

Face to face training

This course is available, and has been extensively delivered, face to face course. Email me at training@deanarnett.com to discuss costs and logistics. I can even adapt and modify this course to suit your exact needs.

Pre-recorded online training course

This course is now available as a series of pre-recorded online video modules to consume at your own convenience and schedule. Go to www.videoschool.deanarnett.com to get started.

Live online training

I can deliver this course from my purpose built multi-camera training studio, live, online, to suit your preferred schedule and avoid T&D costs. Email me at training@deanarnett.com to discuss and book. I can even adapt and modify it to suit your exact needs.

Consultancy service

Often clients want to know how to do something, but need it done quickly and efficiently, thats why I'm increasingly being booked as a hands-on consultant to get the work done for you directly and quickly. I'll happily work anywhere in the world, so Email me at training@deanarnett.com to discuss.

WHY YOU NEED THIS COURSE

The solution to all of the above is to use both together, connecting them wirelessly and using them out in the field as a joined up film making solution. I’ve seen and taught this way of working for quite some time now and it’s the film making equivalent of turning up at Saturday afternoon street race in a Formula One car.

This is the definitive, broadcast standard, DSLR / Smartphone Integrated Film Making Masterclass from internationally award winning documentary producer and award winning media trainer, Dean Arnett.

This course will take you from the absolute basics of Smartphone and DSLR basics, through all the necessary accessories for both, sound, lighting, framing, composition, how to shoot sequences, exposure and focus, through editing and live streaming all the way to connecting your DSLR and Smartphone together to give you a completely symbiotic film-making workflow.

COURSE OUTCOMES

At the end of this course you will be able to film broadcast quality videos with your DSLR and phone as a combined, symbiotic unit.

You’ll know how to connect the two devices together and get the best out of both of them.

You will have identified the right accessories for your DSLR to connect it to your phone.

You will learn how to light your interviews, frame better shots, record broadcast quality sound and edit broadcast quality videos.

WHO IS YOUR TRAINER?

Dean Arnett is an internationally award winning documentary producer, former BBC staff producer and former BBC Academy trainer. He has made films for the BBC, Discovery, Amazon Prime and Al Jazeera as well as global brands such as Dropbox, Oracle, ServiceNow, Miscrosoft, casio, Orange, NHS and many others.

Over the years he has developed and delivered training courses for the BBC, ITV, STV, MediaCorp, Internews, Irex, AP and others.

All his training courses are developed to broadcast quality standards for high end clients all around the world and delivered online or face to face.

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