Tips For HOW TO FILM YOURSELF - Immediately Make Better Videos With Your Own Hands!

Sometimes, you just don't have anyone available to get the job done when you want to film. But instead of giving up, you just decide to film yourself! But it's harder than you might think! In this video, we discuss some of my favorite tips, tricks, and things to keep in mind when you're filming yourself. Who needs friends when you've got a tripod?

Thank you to DJI for sponsoring this video.

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Table of Contents:

0:00 - Introduction
1:02 - Tip 1: Know What You're Filming
2:01 - Tip 2: Understand & Accept Your Limitations
3:01 - Tip 3: Bring The Right Gear
5:23 - DJI Action 2 (Sponsored)
6:42 - Tip 4: Get Balanced Coverage
8:18 - Tip 5: Use Manual Focus
9:52 - Tip 6: Use Your Aperture
10:55 - Tip 7: Review Your Shots
11:50 - Tip 8: Fake Camera Movement
13:01 - Tip 9: Remember To Be Creative

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[ArthurKite]

To film yourself filming yourself is even harder. You did a great job. 😂

[MichaelBSam]

0:16 my man set up a camera, to video himself setting up a camera to get a video of him walking.... respect the dedication you put in these vids brother! 🙌

[DidYouRunAway]

It's so hard doing everything on your own but when it's done you're like "man, I did all that by myself!" It's a great feeling. Thank you for reminding me I'm not alone.

[giraffey]

I used to feel sad when I need to film myself and constantly go back and forth to check the footage. Sometimes feel embarrassed when strangers passing by. Now I know I am not the only one doing it solo. Thanks for the great tips. Good work. Keep it up. Dude.

[iRulTheSky]

Self filming is so fun. Better than having a friend filming for you. You get to set your own hiking pace and don't have to wait for anyone or conform for their schedule.

[projectvisualize]

having a list of shots to film saves so much time. Especially when it's detailed so you know exactly what you are trying to go for!

[DoctorEyeHealth]

#2 is my favorite. I sometimes think to myself “this is too hard, this sucks, why am I doing this?” But accepting that it is not easy and pushing through the challenge is the best way to keep going and get better. Thanks for the video

[pierrezapata]

Definitely liked this video. One extra tip I have is - make environmental moving shots too. Just because you’re filming everything yourself doesn’t mean every shot has to have you in it. You can mix in cool camera movements or shots telling the viewer where they are for context that don’t have you in that particular shot. Not only will it make your overall edit more varied it will also give you a chance to do the camera movement shots you couldn’t do when you were just filming yourself.

[picasary]

Filming yourself is already hard to do, but filming yourself filming yourself for others is another one. thank You Dunna.

[gwaapgutta]

Im a musician, and in 2010 on my 16th bday I payed for my first music video and the guy charged me 800$, he showed up with just a video camera, no lighting or other equipment. As he filmed the video I watched him, 3 weeks later he finished editing the video, and when I seen the quality of the video I was blown away by the fact that all he had was a camera. So I told myself I'm gonna learn videography and Cinematography. I took it serious dec2012 and purchased a point and shooter, practiced for 3 straight years. When I was sure I was capable of filming an actual music video, I hit a brick wall because I had no one to film it for me, when I did find someone to film me they weren't good at getting decent shots and movements. So I started getting book to do other ppls videos, even worked on a crown royal commercial with the great director 'daniel wolfe'. My work was so good that ppl wouldn't believe that I didn't go to film school to learn it. Fast forward to 2023, I've been working on my last music video for over 2 years, because when I try to film myself, I have to constantly adjust focus, make sure my scene lighting is correct, making sure it didn't stop recording for a number of reasons, adjusting the iso and aperture, and even after all of that, the scenes are always dead looking because it's no movement of the camera. The camera is just sitting on a tripod, and that is the most boring footage you can get. I'm investing in a gimpel automatic tripod and hire someone that's just getting into film or photography to film me

[bikergeekgd]

Great instruction. One other point I would add is to be aware of security. If you are by yourself with lots of expensive gear in a public place, you could become a target. Always be aware of your gear and who is around you.

[silasmspoon]

Man, you didn't need to do me dirty like that in the first 3 seconds of your video 😂 Thanks for another great video, Dunna! I've struggled with trying to film myself for video ideas I've had, but I think I'm gonna push myself this summer and just go out and do my best!

[shorteelan]

I am going use all of these tips! I'm an introvert and do most of my hiking and activities alone. The tip that you gave on how you used 3 different scenes to build up to the viewpoint is the tip that I needed. All my stuff looks the same because it's simply shot with a phone. I'm intimidated by photography because of all the equipment and settings. Your simple explanation for settings made me go charge a camera I got a few years back. And maybe ill look into the DJI camera!

[TwoSoundsatOnce]

Another game changer is a small bendable tripod to put in higher fixed places to get a downward looking view. Even simple video filming and editing takes a degree of time. I have shot footage only to find a whole take is so blurry and out of focus so double checking is great idea thank you

[isfocreative]

you have guided honestly. you covered almost all the essential topics. now i came to know my small mistakes which ruins my footages hugly. this video helps beggineer to upgrade his /her level

[ThisIsTechToday]

I so agree about aperture. Not everything has to have the most shallow depth of field ever. It's such a cliche

[JamesMakesFilms]

It took some time after filming things mostly solo for years, but I found moving the camera while doing a close up on myself or even medium close ups help with a cinematic feel and the illusion that someone else is holding the camera. Doing things like a 180 Pan around my face, or even starting as an over the shoulder and then moving closer around to a profile of the face, all these I found helped.

[LionelJamesfishing]

Man this was great. Shooting fishing and outdoors is hard enough. However by yourself on a boat adds another level of difficulty!thanks again for the help !

[LearningandTechnology]

The manual focus tip was worth the entire watch! (but so were all the other tips - so this goes into my saved videos for sure - will be watching this more than once for sure)

[paddleandhook]

I really like running two or three cameras at the same time and toggling between them to vary things up…locked off camera and a couple of action cams will often do this well enough IMO
Great video! At least when filming yourself you can go back and look through without assuming your would-be camera person got the shot and being annoyed later when there is no head space or something