Reels, Shorts, and TikToks: Telling Engaging Stories with Your Smartphone

Reels, Shorts, and TikToks: Telling Engaging Stories with Your Smartphone

1h 1mGeneral2025-03-14

Authors

Skillshare

Skillshare

Course details

Explore the world of video creation in this course, as you dive into the fundamentals of storytelling structure, camera settings, lighting, and timing. Learn how to set up shots with an understanding of composition and movement, and dive into static, pan, tilt, zoom, push, pull, track, and truck techniques. Discover the importance of improvising during shooting, then go over some useful tips on how to hone your editing skills and select the right music for your videos. Identify practical steps for posting your videos, with a focus on captioning and the effective use of hashtags. This course can help aspiring videographers, content creators, and marketers to enhance their video production skills for various platforms and audiences.

Skills covered

InstagramVideo ProductionSocial Media MarketingVideoMarketingOne-Off

Concepts

Introduction

  • What makes a video interesting
  • About the course project

Planning and Getting Ready

  • Planning - Storytelling structure
  • Setting up - Camera settings
  • Lighting and timing
  • Exploring composition
  • Movement - Static, pan, tilt, and zoom
  • Movement - Push, pull, track, and truck
  • The importance of improvising

Shooting, Editing, and Posting

  • Creating a shot list and shooting
  • Editing and music
  • Posting - Captioning and hashtags

Conclusion

  • Next steps
40,000 Toman