Content Creator – 14 Day Filmmaker: Smartphone Edition by Paul Xavier

14-Day Filmmaker Smartphone Edition is for anyone who wants to produce cinematic & emotional videos using their smartphone without wasting months trying to figure it all out on their own.

Smartphone Edition: Course Curriculum:

Day 1: How to Unlock Cinematic Smartphone Settings:

• What are the best apps to use to maximize the quality of your smartphone camera?
• The perfect camera settings
• How to avoid common beginner mistakes
• The Fundamental Laws of content creation
• 1-Hour Exercise

Day 2: Mastering your iPhone or Android Cameras

• How to nail perfect exposure all day, every day.
• How to get the best, cleanest slow-motion footage
• Which cameras & focal lengths are best for your content
• The secret hidden within your phone that’s RUINING image quality!
• 30-Minute Exercise: Complete the infamous focal length challenge!

Day 3: Best Smartphone Camera Gear & Accessories (Discounts)

• What are the best smartphone lenses?
• Best budget film lights
• Best smartphone microphones?
• Best affordable motorized gimbals for smartphones?
• 30-Minute Exercise

Day 4: Beautiful Composition… Explained!

• How to immediately 10X the quality of your shots
• How to compose the perfect youtube setup
• What makes (or breaks) a beautiful video
• The 5 step process to setup your perfect shot
• Copy our composition challenge!

Day 5: Cinematic Camera Movements

• The 5 movements I use (no matter what I’m filming)
• The best (and easiest) movements for smartphone filmmakers
• How to film handheld (while still looking professional)
• Full gimbal walkthrough and setup tutorials
• Make boring things look awesome with movement
• Recreate these FIVE movements!

Day 6: Hollywood Lighting Techniques (Made Fast & Easy)

• Getting a pro look without buying expensive lights
• How to light youtube videos
• How to flatter subjects with soft light
• How to film using natural light sources
• 1-Hour Exercise: Create your PRO setup!

Day 7: Recording Clean Audio On Your Smartphone

• What are the fundamentals of capturing clear audio?
• Save money, don’t buy these microphones!
• The $14 dollar microphone that sounds AMAZING!
• The perfect audio setup for vlogging, youtube, and commercials
• 1-hour exercise: Create your file tree, organize all content shot thus far with naming conventions & breakdown five commercials lighting setups

Day 8: Storytelling & Viral Videos

• The 4 essential components of a compelling story
• How to sequence your videos so they aren’t boring
• How to tell BETTER stories through creative EDITING
• The viral video formula
• 1-Hour Exercise: Creating your perfect story

Day 9: Cinematic Smartphone Editing

• Best smartphone editing apps
• Smartphone vs. Computer editing: Which is right for you?
• The universal 10 step editing workflow
• 10 most common beginner mistakes
• How to organize your videos to make editing faster
• 1-hour exercise: Download practice footage and start editing!

Day 10: Mastering Your Editing Apps

• Importing footage and starting your projects
• Finding music & adding it to your videos
• How to quickly edit professional looking videos
• How to add titles & animated graphics
• How to color grade your footage on a smartphone
• How to edit slow-motion footage
• How to add special effects
• How to create cinematic transitions
• 1-Hour Exercise: Editing your professional video

Day 11: How to Edit on Your Computer

• What is the best computer editing software?
• Mastering advanced editing strategies
• Bonus Course: Master Adobe Premiere Pro
• Bonus Course: Master Final Cut Pro
• Bonus-Course: Master Davinci Resolve
• Bonus Course: Master Adobe After Effects
• 1-Hour Exercise

Day 12: Youtube Mastery

• Essential components of a great youtube video
• How to setup your dream office/studio
• Overview of my current studio setup
• Best smartphone accessories for YouTubers
• How to create youtube thumbnails that increase viewership
• 1-Hour Exercise: Create your Youtube studio

Day 13: Social Media Superstar

• How to edit Instagram reels (Start to Finish)
• Recreating popular Tik Tok trends
• Our favorite seamless transitions & video effects
• How to use different aspect ratios for different social platforms
• Using video to grow your social following
• Recreating popular trends

Day 14: Commercial Content Creator

• How to make money with your content
• A step-by-step guide to starting your business
• How to land your first client
• How to shoot smartphone product videos
• The tried and true commercial formula
• Customize & prime your social media channels, release your first commercial and write your second script.

This is the first every speed-learning program for developing real video production skills. Instead of just having video tutorials, you will be challenged with a 1-hour daily exercise designed to develop your skills. As we like to say – practice makes perfect, not consumption!