Video Editing Tips
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1. Ensure your subject isn't centred and avoid cutting off people's heads as you would in any photograph. Just as important is ensuring people's legs aren't cut off in long shots. Even if they aren't the focus of your viewers attention, always ensure "complete" people are in view for longs shots.
2. For shots with movement, place the subject in the first or last third of your viewfinder to make the shot instantly more interesting. For static shots, ensure the subjects eyes are in framed a third of the way down the screen. If the subject is looking at something, ensure the object of their attention is placed in the following two thirds and clearly visible.
3. Make sure you shoot from differing angles too. Don't worry about having only one camera - overlapping audio can create the illusion of having more than one camera by keeping the sound constant despite the video cutting to a different angle.
4. Keeping your film rolling also ensures you have enough "room" to edit - and you may catch something you wouldn't have thought of using whilst in post production. If you're worried about battery life, avoid overuse of zooming. If you're going to zoom in, make sure it's for a good reason.
5. Do you need to zoom? Close ups are best used for intense moments where the persons head fills the screen, extreme close ups are even tighter with just part of the face in view. A medium close up (where the shot is framed around the waist) can be achieved in post production with a medium level system, which also provides the opportunity of ensuring you actually need the zoom.
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posted by Azure Production @ 8:27 PM
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