Lighting for Overhead Video Camera Rigs

Lighting for Overhead Video Camera Rigs

In a previous video, we covered a few simple rigs to create more stable overhead shots, but viewers had the question "how do you light an overhead rig? You're shooting straight down, almost 90 degrees from a normal shot."

Frank explores the ins and outs of lighting for your overhead video camera rigs, going into depth of field, focal length, and the one light you'll have to change to make it all work.

4 Key Youtube Channel Statistics and How to Calculate Them

4 Key Youtube Channel Statistics and How to Calculate Them

YouTube gives you a ton of analytics but how do you know, especially when you’re starting out if you’re doing okay? Early on, you can’t compare yourself to channels that have been around for years with thousands or even millions of views and subscribers. 

But there are helpful statistics and their averages that you can calculate and use, like subs per views, comments per views, likes per views or even how many views you should have per video on average per subscriber.

Storyboarding for People Who Can and Can’t Draw

Storyboarding for People Who Can and Can’t Draw

Frank asks you when a storyboard would be helpful and why, and shows how to create storyboards and animatics using paper, the app Paper, and this new, amazing, free program Storyboarder that actually, really works. OMG, he is not joking.

You don’t need to create beautiful storyboards for the world to see, just okay ones that allow you and your editing and team to figure out if the shots you plan to shoot will give you the vision you see in your head.