If you have to shoot into the glass on an oven door, car window or picture frame, how do you remove reflections that distract from your image? Sometimes you even see the camera.
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.
Is a Video Crop Frame Sensor Bad?
Simulating Far Away Audio in Premiere Pro
How to Grow Your Youtube Channel 2018
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.
Video Editing Studio Tour 2017
Storyboarding Facial Expressions for People Who Can’t Draw
As a follow up to our storyboarding video, Frank covers simple exercises to help you create expressions for your storyboard characters. Whether you draw stick figures or use Storyboarder, adding expressions is as easy as 1, 2, 3. No seriously, 1 for eyebrows, 2 for eyes, 3 for a mouth, you’ve got an expressio
Lighting Daylight Interiors at Night
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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.
Cuts and Editing: Versions of a Scene
Cuts and transitions in editing are powerful but it’s easy to forget their importance when we focus on so many aspects of production: cameras, lighting, locations, sound and so on. So we decided to have a little fun and edit a scene three completely different ways, the Jane and Julie scene from our Shot Lists video.