Is a picture really worth a thousand words? Maybe, but your video image alone may not convey your ideas in as much depth as you would like.
Enter the narrator. The right words, effectively read, will round out your production in ways you may not have believed possible. But before...
Hitchcock is "notorious" for having done it. Spielberg has been known to hire armies of artists to do it. Now, thanks to new technologies, even the most basic videomaker can make use of it. If you don't do it, in fact, you could be opening yourself up to problems...
As creative individuals, we videomakers must wage a constant war between our artistic instincts and our need for order and direction. While it would certainly be nice if we could just splash paint across the canvas like Jackson Pollack, the video medium doesn't allow for such raw creative courage....
Do your videos include remarks that are pre-scripted for delivery on-camera? If
so, then you need that ingenious gadget that lets TV politicians read canned
speeches while seeming to ad-lib them as they gaze sincerely into the lens. You
need a video prompter. (Professionals informally call them
TelePrompTers(tm), but "TelePrompTer" is actually a...
If you're like most videomakers, you probably have more project ideas than you can shake a camcorder at. So with a little talent and the right equipment, you should be able to produce top quality video work, right?
Right. Then why do so many great ideas fizzle out somewhere between...
When Oliver Stone turned over the massive amount of raw footage that became JFK, editor Joe Hutshing knew it would be a challenge.
"I wondered if it could even be watchable," Hutshing says. "It was so incredibly complicated. It was like looking at a schematic for a TV set...
Owning a desktop computer won't help you with standard video production techniques. Computer or no computer, you must still master the basics of camcorders, audio, lighting and so on.
Where the computer is a big help is with any project that 1) requires organization; and 2) lends itself to automation....
What's the one factor that usually separates the video novices from the burgeoning pros?
Talent.
When you tackle the trials and tribulations of working with real live talent, you know you've become a pro.
For the sake of this article and for most videomakers' purposes, we will define talent as any purposeful...
A renewed interest in wildlife preservation has increased the frequency of animal "shootings." Fortunately, they're happening with video cameras!
There's no better way to capture the reality of the wilds than with the "aliveness" of video. However, taking a video camera outdoors to record animals in their natural habitats presents...
