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Simply focus on the top of your screen and treat a portion of the bottom of your screen as if it is not there.

On Instagram everything is cropped into a square, and it is easier to imagine what your footage will look like as a square when you hold your phone strait up. The exception to this is videos you plan to post on Instagram. If you tilt your phone so that it is wide you will record a ‘landscape’ shot, which will match the dimensions YouTube plays videos in. If you record a video with your phone held so that it is tall – a ‘portrait’ shot – then your video will have thick black bars on either side when you post it to YouTube. When recording on the spur of the moment with your smartphone it is easy to automatically hold it the same way you would while texting or taking a selfie. There are shotgun mics you can plug directly into the audio jack on your phone which will record great audio, or you can get a high quality MP3 recorder and carry it around in your pocket. Ideally, you should get an external mic to record your voice while you vlog on your phone. It will help a lot if your voice has nothing to compete with. You have a lot to say, so make sure people can hear you say it! Smartphones do not tend to have very good microphones built in (neither do most cameras), so try to vlog from somewhere without a lot of background noise. Many of the very newest smartphones have built in hardware called ‘OIS’ – optical image stabilization – that helps reduce shakiness.

You can get a smartphone mount for your tripod, or you can even stabilize your phone using a selfie stick. There is equipment you can use to cut out camera shake. Camera shake is always distracting to viewers, and smartphone videos are notoriously unstable because you are almost always holding your phone in your hand. For a nice, smooth, shot consider resting your hand up on a railing, table, or anything else that will keep it steady while you film.