From the course: Learning Video Live Streaming
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Best practices for mobile streaming
From the course: Learning Video Live Streaming
Best practices for mobile streaming
- The best camera techniques for live streaming as with any filmmaking are different depending on what you're trying to achieve. Now you could easily stream a screen capture from your computer or your gaming console, and in fact whole industries have sprung up around that idea, with online gamers making fortunes with both live and pre-recorded content. But in this course what we're mostly concerned with is the streaming of live video, like what you're looking at right now. Now 95% of the time the thing you're probably going to be broadcasting is your own face talking to the camera. Now whether you shoot it with a professional camera or a webcam or a phone, there are just a few things to keep in mind to maximize your impact and show yourself in the best possible way. First, there's camera angle. Now most professional actors or on-camera personalities know what angles they look best from, and those are not the angles you typically get from the webcam on your laptop sitting at your desk.…