From the course: Learning Video Production and Editing
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Lighting and shooting techniques
From the course: Learning Video Production and Editing
Lighting and shooting techniques
- All of that preparation and pre-production we talked about in the previous movie, is about setting you up for creative success when you're shooting. Capturing beautiful video images relies on a lot of the same concepts as photography. You'll need to understand the fundamentals of composition to be able to look through the viewfinder and put together shots that balance objects in the frame or utilize the concept of negative space to place an emphasis on a featured product or person. And you're just not focusing on whether the images look pretty, but your job is also to incorporate the grammar of film language to set up each shot appropriately. After all, a long shot means one thing to a story and an extreme close-up means something else entirely. Are you using movement in your shots by moving the camera? Or having subjects move through the frame? These are the ideas you work out in pre-production and writing and that shot list should drive your shooting schedule. The relationship…
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