Smartphone Shooter

Create Professional Video with Your Smartphone

COVID 19

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Smartphone shooter is open and running courses during these strangest of times.

Face to face and remote course are available.

The in person courses are carried out with strict Covid-19 safety precautions.

Meanwhile the remote courses have been set up to be as interactive and practical as possible.

Please take a look at his video to see how they work and how there is none of the clunkiness often found with group video calls.

If you have questions please email info@smartphoneshooter.com or call +44 208 243 8860

Smartphone Film School

Learn to make engaging videos for social media, websites or even for TV entirely with your phone.

No previous experience? No problem. All you need is a smartphone to get started.

Hundreds of people from PR, communications, marketing and journalism have successfully completed this training and are now telling their stories with video.

Welcome to Smartphone Shooter. Please take a look around. If you have questions please email info@smartphoneshooter.com or call +44 208 243 8860

The Story Comes First

Story, story, story. This is the Smartphone Shooter approach.

Get that right before thinking what buttons to press.

Quality is important – but if your film is boring – productions values won’t help.

This training delivers a modern journalistic approach to filmmaking and is designed around you.

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Save Money and Time

Filming on a smartphone means you won’t need to pay thousands to a production company to do the simple stuff.

Save time because you won’t have to wait on them to finish your film.

If you make the film there is also no danger of misreading the brief.

You can be nimble, efficient and creative – making it easier to meet the demands of social media.

Work on your new skills and you might never need to hire an outside crew again.

This was the most valuable two days of hands-on training I’ve done. If we even produce one film in-house that would have been done externally, we will have saved money.

Dan Barley – Schroders
I feel totally empowered to go and make great films. Absolutely great, fun, learning, inspiration – what’s not to like?

Richard Crabb – Tesco
“Toby is absolutely at the top of his game and our go-to person for smartphone video training. We trust him to train ambassadors, military personnel, and most importantly our own staff. I cannot recommend him highly enough”

Adam Waters – SSVC
Toby was great; he is exceptionally personable and made the 2 days training a lot of fun. I highly recommend Smartphone Shooter – this training was one of the best sessions I have had in my career.

Susan Diemer – Direct Line Group
Very valuable, learned a lot about filming, lighting and editing…Toby was very helpful and patient. He made the two day experience very enjoyable.

Sofia Mumtaz – Cazenove Capital
Extremely valuable. I feel much more confident to go and film. Thank you Toby! You’re a great teacher.

Bryan Carter – Euronews NBC
This is a well delivered course, useful tips and feedback throughout. Good selection of equipment available to allow for experimentation.

Alex Chrysandreas – Tesco
Fantastic training session. Loved being hands on filming and editing. Toby was great! Very helpful

Lucy Hay – AECOM
Thanks to the team at Smartphone Shooter for two really excellent and stimulating sessions. The training was exactly what we were after. Everyone who took part found it extremely helpful.

Alistair Smith – The Stage
Really valuable. I am very happy, it covered everything I needed to know. Toby was great.

Nicole Carey – Schroders
Very valuable. I came in with only a very basic knowledge of filming and no editing experience. I now feel confident in putting a video together. Thank you!

Jessica Shaffner – Tesco

AECOM

Engineering firm Aecom wanted to train up staff from its internal and external comms departments as well as marketing and events teams. Smartphone Shooter provided a series of one-day courses teaching all the fundamental elements of filmmaking on a smartphone.
Tesco

Tesco made a few bookings with Smartphone Shooter. For example one project was to train up the brand team to show off their work to the rest of the company. They were taught how to shoot on the phone then edit on the Mac. Another training session was focused on the technology team. This was another internal comms job. The team learnt how to shoot and edit on their phones – allowing them to educate Tesco employees about their role and the projects they were doing.
Alton Towers Resort

The training at Alton Towers Resort gave their PR and Media relations team the skills to shoot and edit films for social media. The company also wanted these skills to be available more widely so the training was also delivered to members of their brand, recruitment and entertainment teams.
Schroders

Schroders have been a regular client of Smartphone Shooter. Repeat bookings have resulted in training for press, PR and marketing teams as well as events and internal comms. These two-day courses allowed in depth training on the technicalities of filmmaking but also video storytelling for a digital audience.
Euronews NBC

Smartphone Shooter trained Euronews NBC journalists to shoot and edit broadcast quality video on their smartphones. Sessions were carried out both in London and Brussels. The station was relaunching and made a commitment to using iPhones as their primary newsgathering camera where possible. This meant shooting for both recorded and live reports.
NIG

NIG is the commercial insurance arm of the Direct Line Group. Smartphone Shooter taught a two day Android based shoot / edit course so the team there could make engaging video for both internal and external audiences.
Cardiff University

Smartphone Shooter was hired by Hard Truth media to collaborate on this training. We helped train cancer research scientists to make films about their work so they could get more charitable donations to support future research projects. It was a huge success and one of the more humbling projects to work on.
City University

Smartphone Shooter founder Toby Sadler was invited to be a guest lecturer to the post graduate Broadcast Journalism Students at City University in London. This is one of the best courses of its type in the country. The lectures focused on emerging trends in mobile journalism as well as practical training in smartphone filmmaking.
Fitzroy

Fitzroy is a fantastic charity who support people with learning difficulties. Their marketing team were trained to shoot and edit video on their phones. This allowed them to increase engagement on social media with planned campaigns. It also meant they could capture spontaneous moments with people they help. Smartphone shooter was also rehired to train new members of staff and also to shoot three corporate films for the charity.
The Stage

The Stage magazine wanted to bring video to their digital storytelling. Smartphone Shooter taught their journalists how to shoot video on their phones in the often challenging environment of the red carpet. This training like so many also focuses on what good storytelling with video looks like.
WAFA

This was such an exciting project. Smartphone Shooter taught this fitness start-up company how to shoot and edit on the phone and tell their story with video. The films WAFA now makes help drive business through Facebook advertising. This is a company on the up.
BJTC

The Broadcast Journalism Council accredits the leading higher eduction courses in the field. Smartphone Shooter founder Toby Sadler was invited as a guest speaker to talk to the heads of these courses at the BJTC’s annual conference. This was an expert view on which broadcasters are embracing mobile journalism and how that is shaping the industry.
SSVC

SSVC has been working with Smartphone Shooter for several years. Brought in to provide specialist training under the SSVC name clients have included the British Army, Royal Air Force and Royal Navy. Regular training has also been given to the Ministry of Defence along with sessions for The Foreign Office and Department for Exiting the European Union.

Contact

Phone: +44 208 243 8860

Email: info@smartphoneshooter.com