Coffee Shop
From the morning rush to a quiet afternoon — the kind of shots that make people want to come in for a flat white they didn't know they needed.
Eight pages of training, then 30 shots for coffee shop.
Every guide opens with the universal training. Then we get specific.
Phone Basics
Ten things pros do that amateurs skip.
Camera Settings
Specific menu paths for iPhone and Samsung.
Lighting on a Budget
Five Amazon picks under $110 + the 90° rule.
The 2× Lens Trick
Why faces look bad at 1× — and the 30-second fix.
Tripods & Placement
Five heights, five tripods worth buying.
Music & Sources
Free + paid platforms. Music by business type.
Editing in CapCut
Eight-step quick-start. Auto-captions in 30s.
Pro Tricks
Fifteen production rules collected on one page.
Six shots from inside the guide.
Each shot has a title, a one-line instruction, and a phone tip. The PDF adds a vertical phone-frame sketch you can copy on set.
The opening shot
Stand outside, phone at chest height. Frame the door dead-centre. Hold for 5 seconds — let one customer walk in or out.
The latte art pour
Top-down. Lay your phone face-down on a tray with the lens hanging just over the edge. Have someone press record.
Writing on the cup
ECU on the marker tip writing the customer's name. Phone braced on the counter.
Card tap on the terminal
ECU. Catch the green tick on the screen.
Customer leaving with cup
MS, slow horizontal slide right-to-left as a customer walks out the door, cup in hand.
Bag handed off, slow-mo
MCU on the paper bag passing across the counter. 60fps.
The full coffee shop guide.
Scroll through all 21 pages right here. Want it offline? Download the PDF.
