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Getting Started: Visual Composition

You don't have to be George Gershwin to be a great composer.
Just carefully arrange your video scenes, and you'll achieve visual harmony.

Now there's been a lot of loose talk going around about composition.

No, not "composition" as in asphalt roofing or "composition" as in "What I Did on My Summer Vacation," but "composition" as in the organization of visual images. Some folks sneer at composition as an artsy abstraction--a concern of little interest to down-to-earth v…

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