15 Natural Sound Up’s…NAT Pops
Sunday, April 13th, 2008
A NAT Pop is bringing in a natural sound burst into your video. Watch your morning or evening news and any story the photog. had time to edit will incorporate NAT Pops. (more…)
Archive for the ‘Editing’ Category
11 Creating a Fight Scene
Saturday, March 29th, 2008
Fight scenes in movies are just really long sequences. Since the last two episodes you should be shooting sequences all the time now. I’m going to show you how you can make two people who have actually no idea how to fight, look pretty good in a fight scene. It all has to do with choosing specific angles that hide and enhance what you want the audience to see. And to prove it, I’m going to use a nine year old and an eleven year old and I’m going to do it in an hour.
Fight Tutorial: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download Just The Fight: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download10 Sequences and Effort
Saturday, March 29th, 2008
Last time we talk about shooting sequences to make your videos more interesting. This time I’m going to show you the effort it takes to shoot a sequence. It takes time to shoot sequences but the end result is always worth it.
09 Sequences for Audience Appreciation
Saturday, March 29th, 2008
A sequence is a way of editing a group of video clips together so they make sense. Does that make sense? You have to really think ahead to shoot a decent sequence. They include different angles, cutaways and a lot of changing your scale; You’ll see.
07 Action Move for Continuity
Saturday, March 29th, 2008
Action Move is a continuity technique. Its a very specific technique that should not be used all the time but its interesting if you have a reason to use it. So here is another tool for your toolbox.
04 Split Edits
Saturday, March 29th, 2008
Split edit are simply an editing technique. Picture two shots and a strait cut between them. …. No really, picture 2 shots together. Now picture that edit point and just before the edit from the first video clip to the second video clip the audio from the second video comes first. Just a split second before the video. This is a split edit and you need to start using them. Trust me!
03 A Simple Instructional Video
Saturday, March 29th, 2008
Shooting an instructional video shouldn’t be that hard. Here’s a standard way to shoot a simple training video. Don’t take this one lightly. This is how many types of productions are shot. Keeping these strategies in mind you could shoot all kinds of different video productions.
