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Macro World – The Uses of the Extreme Closeup

Manufacturers load camcorders with all sorts of electronic doodads that let the user create amazing effects like slow motion, freeze frame, fades in and...

Practical Special Effects

A Baker's Ten to Improve Your Special Effects Most videomakers fall into one of two groups. First, the snapshotters, people who record scenes until their...

Big Bang Exploring The Joy of Explosives

There are few problems in videomaking life that cannot be solved by a suitable application of explosives. Explosions can add drama, excitement, impact and humor...

Video Gestalt

Working Towards the Perfect Fit Making the whole greater than the sum of its parts is a fundamental aspect of videomaking. Making the whole greater than...

Visual Composition

Every time you point your camera you make choices: how much of the scene to include; using a still shot or movement involving pan,...

Secrets of the Aural Edit

Many video viewers wouldn't recognize jump cut or bad edit if it bit them on the bottom. Everybody, however, notices bad audio. They might...

Improve Your Self-Images

Invite friends and relatives to see your latest home movie and count on a generous outpouring of stammered feeble excuses designed to keep them...

Get Set

Scenery and staging for economical videomaking, impressive results. When we watch a TV program or film we have an impression of total reality. We...

The Editor

The director of a Very Important Shoot looks out over the location of her latest scene. She's just completed what seems to be the...

Sex Lives and Videotape

Have camcorder sales increased since the film sex, lies and videotape became last season's sleeper smash hit? Or hove a significant number of video...