Wich apps can help you produce a documentary on mobile?
Following long used apps + recommendations from @MarcSettle at @MoJoFest + selfsearching, I edit 10 short episodes of #ProyectoSuárez, a documentary series (watch 👇🏻)
#LumaFusion by #LumaTouch allows to create advanced animations and transitions based on your creativity
Importing some icons, playing with shapes an keyframing you can, for instance, create an animation similar to an incoming message voice in WhatsApp, as you can watch here ▶️
The menu to the right includes all the elements used to create the Whatsapp’s voice message animation.
Using #LumaFusion along with other apps you can go further (and sometimes in less time)
This part was made with the app 8mm to achieve the old movie look while the transition with the other clips was made with #LumaFusion
Using @TouchRetouch plus #LumaFusion you can animate an old picture and turn it into a video. Watch the result and a link to how I did it
It seemed interesting to me as the story is about a photographer -Constantino Suárez- borned in 1899. Maybe I could give him life…
I tested it and this is the result.
The app Typewriter, another recommendation from @MarcSettle is very useful for titles and intros.
I used it to introduce each episode
The free version has a watermark. You can remove it paying two euros per month the time you need it
Apps like Photomyne or Colorize allows you to colour B&W pictures.
With Picsart (sometimes used along with or instead of Snapseed) you can create posters or promotional stuff
With Megaphoto you can easily creat a nice intro or outro as it has many many templates
(Thanks @MarcSettle for letting me know about Megaphoto. It saved me loads of time)
Music chosen from Youtube audio library, a valuable resource for free music
From IntroMate I took the template for this animation. Adapt it to my purposes took much much less time comparing to what it would have taken to edit it myself
Hype text has lots of templates for animated titles and graphics.
So you just need to choose one…
Apply your project’s colours and fonts in the same app… (Hype Text)
And finally take it to #LumaFusión to add sound effects so it stands out at the end of the outro
And this is it
Regarding fonts, Fontasy is a great app to choose from tens of different options.
Once you select your favourite, you can imported it to #LumaFusion to write titles, credits, subtitles…
For credits, I used the blending mode in #LumaFusion plus a template to turn an image into an old picture
I also used other apps for resizing or convert pics.
And tried more impressive apps as Effekt or Videolicious that finally I didn’t use… by now.
Sometimes the most difficult thing is to find the right context to use them so they fix and adds to the storytelling.
🟢 You don’t need to master every role but…
🟢 You need to be ready to wear different hats
🟢Be mindful of your strengths and weakness
🟢keep curious (and keep learning)
At home I had an iPad Pro 9’7’’ 256 Gg with @lumatouch
I use it 6 weeks until I updated to an iPad Pro 12,9’’ 1 Th to gain capacity
The raw material changed also.
Apart from .MXF files filmed by my colleague with a #Sony FS7M2, we received files shot by our audience (as seen on the pic) with our guidance or by ourselves with the phone (.mp4 and .mov), GOPRO or whatever.
New thread on daily #mojo tips to report from home during #coronavirus crisis
📱You need someone to film him/herself at home?
(1) 👫Ask if there are more people at home and if they have two phones 📱📱
Tell them to use the best and more modern phone to film
⬇️⬇️ go to (2)
(2) Make a whatsapp videocall (or similar) to the second phone 📲
👁 Ask them to show you the place 🏠
🎥 Help them choosing the background for the interview taking into account light, framing 💡🪑🖼
🧍♀️Show (and try) the kind of shot you need for the interview
⬇️⬇️ go to (3)
(3) Once they know the kind of shot you need, ask them to grab the best phone & hold it exactly the same way, at the same distance and framing 📲 to record the interview🎥
☎️ keep the first phone call active and tell them to place the phone close to the other
5 tips to produce a story at home to keep safe from #coronavirus
#1 Speak on the phone with the person the story is about.
*Identify key parts of the speech
*Ask him/her to film the soundbites with the phone following instructions (below) or record the interview on the laptop
Ask him/her to follow these basic #mojo instructions:
*Film landscape (#TV)
*If he/she is with someone, ask the other person to film him/her
*Keep the phone still or place it somewhere to avoid shaking
*Clean the lense before filming
*FILM LANDSCAPE Telling once is not enough
Ask to film around 4 to 6 clips in 2 sequences, including at least:
*General view of the place with the action taking place
*Close-up of activity
*Clope-up of object of person important to the story
*Repeat (if possible) doing with another activity
Ahora que el teléfono móvil se ha convertido para muchos en la única herramienta que les permite seguir informando, es momento de asumir esto: #mojo
Grabar, editar, transmitir con un móvil no es una solución para situaciones de emergencia. Lleva haciéndose una década para aprovechar las inmensas posibilidades que ofrece la cámara del móvil. Alrededor del periodismo móvil hay una comunidad de más de 6.000 profesionales. #mojo
Hay congresos #mojo en Europa, América, Asia y África. Hay libros, tesis doctorales, universidades que lo han incorporado a su oferta educativa y profesionales que forman a redacciones de todo el mundo. Hay accesorios y apps que lo convierten en una herramienta profesional.