Thursday, March 20, 2008

Video for the web...

Here's an article I found from a few years ago that covers several of the essential elements required for shooting good video, with emphasis on shooting video specifically for posting to the web. A number of the tips are repeats from class, but the article as a whole definitely helps to reinforce these important concepts. It touches on everything from gathering good audio (miking as close as possible to the source) to proper shooting techniques (steady, stable images with the subject in clear view, etc.), and even gives a little advice for properly conducting on-camera interviews (such as asking questions that can only be answered in full sentences versus simple "yes" or "no" replies--> an absolute necessity if you plan to edit the footage without voice-over narration). At the very least, the article serves as a nice, brief refresher course that's probably worth a quick read-through every now and then...

1 comment:

Sydney H. Oh said...

thanks for the helpful tips. I'm so new at this that every bit of new information counts.