Video Shooting Essentials

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THE BASICS

There are basically two steps to making a great film.

The first is shooting, or the acquisition of material.

The second is editing, when you assemble what you have acquired.

All too often the editing becomes a kind of rescue where you agonize as you try to cobble together bad shooting from the first step and 'save' the piece. And old industry expression is 'we'll fix it in post'.

This is a waste because it not only makes life harder, it also wrecks all the potential and power of the edit was it becomes a desperate attempt to fix the problems from the shoot.

The solution to this, of course, is to shoot perfectly in step 1.

In cooking, a great deal of the success of the final dish is in the raw ingredients.

Buy the best produce, spices and meat or fish you can find and the odds are the you will make a great meal. The same goes for video and film.

If you can learn to shoot beautiful images every time, you are 95% of the way to success.

Everything starts with what you shoot. In this course, we will teach you everything you need to know in order to shoot great footage. We will cover shot composition, camera usage, lighting, equipment set-up, and much more. With 29 lessons covering all of these subject, this extremely comprehensive course will get you well on the way to shooting great video - which is the foundation of every great video.

WHAT PEOPLE ARE SAYING:

This is a great video for beginners because it covers what I think is an essential principle. That is, that it is not always what you do when your filming to achieve pro quality, it's what you don't do. This vid covers some foundation grounding on what not to do so you don't start creating amateur habits.

--DexterCrow

Thanks for the program. This is a great one for learning the tech lingo for exposure operations.

--DexterCrow

Higher F Stop makes everything look in focus. Lower F Stop creates depth of field (making background out of focus). Great explanation! You made this very simple. Thanks.

--RajuAundre

Great course! Study this lesson and the previous one and go shoot until you have plenty of experience with the adjustments available on your camera. If you have a pro vid cam, once you've got the controls down like second nature, you can really use your creative intuition and achieve professional quality footage before you get to the editing room.

---DexterCrow

Simple yet very useful and effective. Want to create a scene with a different look and feel to achieve your vision by cranking up the s/s, but the light becomes to bright? Use the Neutral density filter to level it out. Thanks Jeremy!