Overview
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Presents practical tips on shooting video with shots and angles that support your story and make it more visually interesting.
Syllabus
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Introduction
- Welcome
- Using the exercise files
- Creating effective stories
- Supporting your message visually and aurally
- Planning your shoot
- Variety is an editor's best friend
- Setting proper exposure, shutter speed, and focus
- Adhering to the rule of thirds
- Filling the viewfinder and framing the shot
- Incorporating strong foreground elements
- Using diagonal lines and curves
- Finding unusual angles
- Getting a good color balance
- Keeping your shots steady
- Using smooth zooms and pans
- Avoiding a break in the plane
- Shooting an establishing shot
- Shooting a closing shot
- Shooting matched action and wide and tight shots
- Getting sequences
- Editing matched action and sequences
- Transitioning from exteriors to interiors
- Shooting cutaways
- Editing cutaways
- Using lights
- Anticipating and following the action
- Letting action start or end out of frame
- Using trucking shots
- Leaning forward or backward and tilting up or down
- Shooting point-of-view (POV) shots
- Getting good sound bites
- Getting plenty of natural sound
- Using specialized audio editing techniques
- Goodbye
- Bakery sequence
- Chocolatier sequence
- Farrier sequence
- Horse jumping sequence
- Painter sequence
- Sushi sequence
- Woodturner sequence
