RE: He’s a natural presenter (a 5 year old)
That’s great they showed and interest in it, and perhaps still do.
Yes there’s a myth that you need lots of fancy idea gear, but you really don’t.
I used 2 x GoPro Hero 4 cameras for the video we did with my boy. Then just edited those two angles together, and added some fun titles and music 😁
GoPros are very cheap and easy to get hold of, easy to mount anywhere too - we did an over head shot looking down at the iPad from above and we used a broom pole to clamp the camera on to achieve that effect 😂
That’s half the fun - the journey of producing something and setting up is quite satisfying in itself!
Perhaps there’s a way to source some basic cameras to do this with for a day and make it a project?
Convince them it’s possible and might spark something in motion?
We only have my iPhone to work with ^_^; and that's getting hard as I normally delete stuff off it once it's been offloaded to my computer but as that's been unreliable to non-functional recently (not sure whether to blame Linux or Apple at this stage as it was working and then there were updates and now it's not really working) I haven't been game to offload things unless I know for sure they're on my computer (so basically just deleting earlier videos as I go as they're what takes up most space).
Youngest is happy to work with what he has with this kind of stuff, I think what will help most with oldest is me telling him that you do this kind of stuff professionally and still just rig stuff up :)
I see! Ah that’s a tricky one.
iPhones are a pain in the arse for that.
Yes all professional videographers always face times when they are required to think on their feet to solve a problem, usually with lighting and camera stuff. Often using gaffer tape or whatever is to hand.