Share your experiences with COVID 19 documentary video submissions wanted
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Social feeds and news streams are overflowing with Coronavirus related news, information, and advice from governments, brands, and businesses, but iwonder want to hear your stories, your day-to-day personal experiences of life affected by Coronavirus. How are you dealing with the upheaval? What can people learn from each other as each person finds their own way through this crisis? And how important is it to keep an intimate record of experiences for future generations to reflect on and learn from?
Whether you’re living through loss and hardship, self-isolation or trying to get home, sharing tales of support, charity, and optimism, or simply capturing the struggle of buying household essentials from the supermarket amidst the wave of panic-buying, iwonder want to showcase the full spectrum of Aussie stories. From the heart-breaking to the inspirational, from the dark to the downright hilarious, each unique story will be considered to be part of the documentary series, “Coronavirus & Me”.
The stories, once woven together, will show how society is evolving and adapting to the crisis, and will ultimately track the shared journey to recovery.
If you are looking for some help on using your smartphone to film a documentary short, check out these great tips:
Tips for shooting on a smartphone
Shooting on your smartphone is a fantastic way to document your journey through the Coronavirus pandemic. So iwonder thought they would ask an obsessive smartphone filmer for their best tips to increase the chances of iwonder being able to use your story in their documentary. Jason van Genderen has been filming on phones for over 12 years and runs Australia’s very first smartphone content creation agency, Treehouse Creative. Here’s what he said:
Tip 1: Make sure your phone is always accessible, the camera app is open and set to video. This way you’ll be ready to roll as soon as something worth documenting happens.
Tip 2: Give your lens a super quick wipe with your clothing – fingerprints make your lens look foggy!
Tip 3: Hold your phone sideways so you shoot a landscape video. Vertical videos are difficult to use on television, so think how the audience of iwonder’s documentary will watch your story. Landscape videos dramatically increase the usability of your video submission!
Tip 4: Tap and hold on your phone’s camera screen to expose and focus for your scene. Try not to have anything too bright in shot if you can avoid it.
Tip 5: Eliminate distracting background sounds in your video. Is there music playing or a television on? Turn off background sounds so iwonder can hear your dialogue nice and clear.
Tip 6: Try remember to film 5 seconds of video before and after the piece you want iwonder to use. That additional footage can be invaluable for their editors to enable the sound of different stores to mix together well.
Jason’s just published a fantastic Beginners Guide to filming on Smartphones, available both in made-for-iPhone and made-for-Android versions. If you’re keen to give your submission the best chance of meeting iwonder’s criteria, check out his course page here: https://treehouse-digital-learning-lab.teachable.com/ (The first 100 course registrants can use the code iWONDER to receive 50% off)
Even Jason is contributing his home-isolation story to Coronavirus & Me!
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