Television

Production Tips

 

Shooting Video For Editing - There's a trick to shooting video out of sequence and editing it together later.

Just 4 shots - The magic of television. There are only four different shots in television and once you learn them and their uses, you'll know how to do the magic too.

Basic storyboarding - It takes a lot of planning to develop a video production that makes sense. It's been said that 90% of the work on a good video production is done before you take the camera out of the box.

Continuity is essential - If a person is signing their name with their right hand and you cut to a close-up of their left hand doing the writing, that's a continuity problem.

Using Cutaways - A cutaway is a shot that allows you to cover up an edit. They are very useful when editing interviews.

Simple lighting techniques - Using inexpensive lighting instruments, you can add snap to your video.

For full information about Digital Video for the Web, go to http://stream.uen.org/medsol/digvid/index.html
A nice tutorial can be found at http://kidsvid.hprtec.org/ .