Getting Started: Composition: A Work of Video Art
As a videographer, you get to wear many hats. When you wear the hat of the historian, for example, you record significant events for future reference. The storyteller's cap, on the other hand, compels you to relate a visual tale, with a beginning, a middle and an end.
The artist's hat, on the other hand, brings out the Bohemian in you, putting you in a league with Rembrandt, Picasso and Van Gogh. When you have your artist's hat on, the light becomes your palette and the camcorder your canvas. You no longer simply "shoot" footage--that is too pedestrian. You create--dare I say "compose"--works of visual art.
Good composition is perhaps the most difficult skill for the videographer to master, largely because it is often a matter of personal taste. You must compose visual imagery with your own eyes knowing that the eyes of others will judge y…
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