Description

Newly up to date and revised, How to Shoot Video That Doesn’t Suck is a handy guide a rough and easy information with a purpose to make your video higher in an instant—whether or not you learn it duvet to hide or simply skim a couple of chapters. It’s in regards to the language of video and Find out how to suppose like a director, without reference to apparatus (amateurs take into accounts the digital camera, execs take into accounts communique). It’s in regards to the laws advanced over a century of movie-making—which paintings simply as smartly while capturing a -12 months-vintage’s party to your telephone. Written through Steve Stockman, the director of the award-successful characteristic Two Weeks, plus TV presentations, tune movies, and loads of advertisements, How to Shoot Video That Doesn’t Suck explains in 74 quick, pithy, insightful chapters Find out how to inform a tale and entertain your target audience. In other phrases, Find out how to shoot video other people will want to observe.

Right here’s Find out how to suppose in photographs—Find out how to transfer-aspect-shoot-prevent-repeat, as a substitute of planting your self in a single spot and urgent “File” for 5 mins. Why by no means to shoot till you notice the whites of your matter’s eyes. Why to “zoom” together with your toes and no longer the lens. Find out how to create intrigue on digital camera. The guide covers the fundamentals of video manufacturing: framing, lights, sound (use an exterior mic), enhancing, different results (flip them off!), and offers recommendation on capturing numerous explicit scenarios: wearing occasions, events and Circle of relatives gatherings, graduations and performances. Plus, Find out how to make educational and promotional movies, Find out how to make a tune video, Find out how to seize stunts, and a lot more. On the finish of each and every bankruptcy is a proposal of Find out how to right away positioned what you’ve realized into observe, so the following time you’re capturing you’ll have began to grasp the ability. Steve’s site (stevestockman.com) supplies video examples for instance other manufacturing concepts, ways, and scenarios, and his up to date emotions on all issues video.
 

“Like years of movie faculty in 248 pages” – Steven Pressfield, creator of “The Battle of Artwork” and “The Legend of Bagger Vance”

“Stockman has packed a veritable movie faculty among the pages of this extremely informative, but enjoyable guide. Very extremely advisable.”

―Videomaker Magazine

“Nice guidelines from a video skilled.”

―PC World

“Whip-sensible and humorous… teaches readers Find out how to take into accounts movie and divulges the why and while in the back of ways; there’s subsequent to 0 tech or device communicate.”

―Library Journal

“His easy-to-observe information takes readers step by step in the course of the movie- and video-making procedure”

―Kirkus Reviews

“Stockman skipped previous the entire technical crap approximately Find out how to use a digital camera and minimize proper to the chase: how do you shoot a video any person else will WANT to observe? The one factor lacking is a time gadget so I may reshoot fifteen years of sucky party and college play movies.”
–David A. Goodman, Govt Manufacturer/Head Creator of “Circle of relatives Man”