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Shooting strategies to create a HyperZoom

Shooting strategies to create a HyperZoom

- Before we start shooting our hyperzooms, it's always best to have a strategy in place. There are a couple main principles you want to keep in mind when shooting your hyperzoom. The first one, the most important, is that your subject is the same in each one, the main point of interest or your anchor point, whatever you're going to be zooming in on. For this shot, we have a nice shot of Quebec City, in Canada, and we're going to be zooming in on this large building right there. We want to make sure that our next shot has, obviously, that building in it, so we have something to track to and something to clearly zoom in on. The other main thing is to make sure that we do when doing a hyperzoom is to make sure, if we can, that all of our settings are as similar as possible. Here is a pieced together hyperzoom. We did a couple moves on there. But as you can see, this shot right here with the wide shot and the close up shot, we were lucky enough to have two cameras on location that day and…

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