Its easy with a camera phone and some simple editing.
The next stage is to make the video slightly more up market using some simple techniques. The first thing you need is some slightly better but free software.
To create the video software such as VideoPad Video Editor at http://www.nchsoftware.com/videopad/index.html is an excellent piece of software to get you started.
For the sound, You may want to exract sound so a program such as AoA Audio Extractor (Free) at http://www.aoamedia.com/audioextractor.htm is another bargain. Armed with better software you can now create a better movie.
The better movie requires a script and a design. I also invested in a green screen on ebay for £20 or so and with a suitable camera on a tripod we are ready. The rule of a tripod is simple. You always use a tripod except for the time you want to make a really terrible movie. The background and the foreground need to stay still.For sound recording you can either use the camera and I would always recommend adding a sound track at the time the video is made ( It can always be removed) but this often serves to identify what you are doing. I have a Sony digital recorder which produces excellent quality recordings and once the lip sync is mastered this proves invaluable.
I invested in a Kodak Play water proof video camera. It produced HD movies and has the advantage in the Britsh weather of being waterproof.
This is a bit up from producing a simple mobile phone video bu the difference is amazing.
The best part of the Videopad software is that it can enable the use of green screening, to produce a still or video background to what you are doing.
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