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Step 5: Remember Continuity

If you plan to edit this event later, either for an annual family album, or as an event on its own, think about your composition and continuity, and you'll have an easier time editing. I try to shoot every scene three ways: with three angles, heights or focal points. Then if Take 1 is too long between beginning and end of the action, Take 2 or 3 act as cutaways to break up the scene and make the action more interesting. If I follow a child into the house, I'll let the door close behind him, so I have a natural point to cut to an inside event later.

Managing Editor Jennifer O'Rourke has been videotaping her family events for more than 30 years... and they've finally stopped asking her to turn off the camera.

Jennifer O'Rourke | June 2007

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