Chapter 20
Creating a Reels Presence
IN THIS CHAPTER
Planning your reels
Filming reels on your phone or tablet
Adding text and using other features
Posting your reels and collaborating with others
Now that you know where to find reels and have checked out a few, you probably want to get started creating your own! In this chapter, we go over how to gather ideas, record and upload reels, edit reels, and share them with your audience.
Doing the Preproduction Work
Crafting a well-produced reel that gets many views takes planning, but it doesn’t have to be hard. First, you need to know a little about the specs of reels, and then you need to plan what kind of content you’re going to have in your reels.
Reels are short-form video content — in full 9:16 portrait mode — and they can be up to three minutes long. When you create reels, you can:
- Film them directly in the Reels camera or upload them from your camera roll on your mobile device
- Film them as one take or a series of takes stitched together
- View them on mobile devices or from your computer
Reels can be super simple or complex. ...
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