Pre-Production

• How to Create a Storyboard

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  Anonymous (not verified) - Sun, 10/01/1995 - 12:00am

  

  A storyboard is the most often used tool for getting a sense of how an idea will work before putting it down on tape. This article will guide you through the process of storyboard creation, and help you visualize your videos before you press the record button.

• How to Write a Script: Putting Words to Work in Your Videos

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  Anonymous (not verified) - Fri, 09/01/1995 - 12:00am

  

  Even if you're just taping your family outings to the Grand Canyon, your video projects could benefit from a script of some sort. In this article, we'll take a look at four popular methods for getting your video ideas on paper.

• Honing Your Ideas: From Concept to Finished Treatment

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  Anonymous (not verified) - Thu, 12/01/1994 - 12:00am

  

  Without a plan, your video can flounder from lack of direction. In this article, we'll detail how to take your video idea from concept to finished treatment.

• The Art of the Edit

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  Anonymous (not verified) - Tue, 11/01/1994 - 12:00am

  

  Editing is more than just sticking scenes together - it's a strange language, a discipline, an art. In this article, we'll show you how to master editing and improve your videos.

• Desktop Video: Scripting, Logging and More

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  Anonymous (not verified) - Sat, 10/01/1994 - 12:00am

  

  Desktop Video: Scripting, Logging and More

• Plan It Hollywood

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  Anonymous (not verified) - Wed, 06/01/1994 - 12:00am

  

  The dream is always the same. You are back in school when you suddenly realize that you have to take a test. It is a three-hour test and you are late. Two of the hours set aside for the test have already passed before you even make it to the room. The prompter hands you a test; you sit down, open the booklet and stare at the questions. You don't know any of the answers. You are about to fail miserably.

• It's All About Direction

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  Anonymous (not verified) - Fri, 04/01/1994 - 12:00am

  

  When a video project fails, there's no one to blame but the director.

  That's the bad part.

  The good part is that when it succeeds the glory is the director's alone.

  We've all seen poorly directed films. They wander aimlessly, camera pointed at nothing in particular, actors sleepwalking through their roles. You find yourself wondering, "Where in the heck were they trying to go?"

• The Storyboard

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  Anonymous (not verified) - Sat, 01/01/1994 - 12:00am

  

  Blueprint for Production

  No doubt your mind swirls with little pictures, pictures that represent your ideas.

  Capture these "idea pictures" on videotape, and everybody can enjoy them.

  But between your first idea-picture and your final cut there's a lot to do-and a lot of it involves people other than yourself.

  You must communicate your great ideas to these people, be they clients or camera operators, clearly enough so they see the same pictures you do.

  How can you be so sure you're all on the same wavelength?

• Script Right - Video Screenwriting Tips

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  Anonymous (not verified) - Thu, 07/01/1993 - 12:00am

  

  Even the best videomakers often balk at writing scripts.

  Take my friend Mike Axelrod. A computer programmer since graduating from college, Mike recently quit work to return to school.

  As a film buff who's created a few videos with friends, he decided to combine his two interests and major in computer animation. He signed up for a required screenwriting course and experienced no difficulty in writing individual scenes three to five pages long.

• Budget Detail$

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  Anonymous (not verified) - Tue, 06/01/1993 - 12:00am

  

  Creating and adhering to a realistic budget is important to the the success of any videomaker's project.

  But just how do you compute that magical figure, arrive at an amount low enough to attract investors but large enough to get the job done? It's not easy. Thousands of people labor in Hollywood as budget wizards; not even they get it right very often. So many variables and details can go wrong or astray; it's impossible to plan for every contingency. Most often, you just have to guess.

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