Video: How To Record – Tips and Tricks

In 2025 the CityScapes production created a series of heplful how to videos to help you in the community get started recording your own stories in the community. Here they are broken down by title.


Using Selfie Sticks:

Setting Up A Tripod

Airplane Mode and Locating Camera On Your iPhone and Android: 

Rule Of Thirds:

Wide, Medium, Close and Extreme Close Up Shots:

5 Shot Method:

Camera Set Ups: (Traditional Three Camera Set Up and Making 1 or 2 Cameras Look Like a 3 Camera Set Up) 

Presentation Skills:

Sound Essentials:

Editing Using CapCut Part One: (Downloading CapCut to iPhone and Android, Setting up a Project, Bringing in Footage to Timeline,  Adding a Second Clip to Timeline,  Cutting a Clip Down, Cutting Within a Clip)

Using a Green Screen:  Chroma Key and Background Remover in CapCut:

Installing OBS on Mac, Windows and Linux:

Introduction To OBS: (Dashboard and Settings. Setting Up a Livestream and Automatic Recording)

OBS Part Two: (Adding Scenes, Sources, Text, Images and Videos: Using a Phone as a Camera Wirelessly, 

Chroma Keying In OBS:

Streaming to Multiple Platforms on OBS and Remuxing: