We’re going to show you some lighting tips and tricks you can use on any shoot, like making steam actually show up, using lensers and black wrap. If you shoot food videos, you’re going to love this.
Over time, you learn certain tricks of the trade that stay with you and become habits but they’re not always taught I’ve found because, well, they’re habits. You just do them, you don’t think about them. I’ve collected a few here for you.
If you looked at depth of field charts after our video on Hyperfocal Distance, you probably wondered why there were different charts for different sized digital sensors. So did we. So we cover why they're different in the charts, look at circle of confusion and how to use it in your videos, and give some focusing tips.
So focusing on a person or object isn’t that hard. You zoom in or use magnify, adjust focus, and then zoom back out. They’re in focus. But what if your subject moves in place or you have two subjects in the frame? What do you do? Can Hyperfocal distance help?
Frank explores focusing, depth of field, near and far focus, hearts on some sweat bokeh background, and shows you how to find the hyperfocal distance via charts but also without then when you're on location.
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.
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.
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
