Filming tips

Here are some tips that will help you take your filming career to next level. Please refer https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Oud3sw21Bw for more details.

• Use slow motion
• For long shots, use time remapping feature
• Use time lapse or hyper lapse
• Use protrait mode when shooting humans/animals
• For landscape shot, use wide angle lens
• To make distant subjects appear closer, use Telephoto lens
• Take shoulder shots for conversation scenes
• Transition from one scene to other using foreground.
• Follow person/subject from behind, sideways, front side etc
• Reveal subject from top to bottom - Mini Jib Reveal
• Reveal landscape, road with camera moving from ground up using
• Step in reveal - shoot scene and subject enters midway
• Lookup and pull down - tree trunk up and down or tower
• play with sunlight cutting across leaves
• foot to head - Soft focus reveal - lock exposure and subject moves
• Fake drone shots with gimbal and extension pole - rising from ground to top of
• reveal from out of focus to focus
• Orbit shot - circle around subject - church/subject/into tree/sky
• Zoom in and out of black subject - different scenes - Chest transition - get into and out of chest
• Camera motion and movement - Rotate camera while moving away or getting close - camera movement left/right and revealing main subject - push movement - forward and backward
• Prepare script before shooting and practise
• Jot down bullet points/scenes you want to show
• Start video with fade in effect
• End video with fade out effect or music
• Include text/titles/descriptions to convey message
• Add transition between different point/scene
• Take help of pen/paper/whiteboard or Pointpoint presentation to explain things
• If explaining the webpage, make use of virtual pen to highlight the points
• If budget allows, buy digital whiteboard
• When you are talking, show lot of enthusiasm and hunger to deliver the best
• Add music suitable for the scene especially when there is a motion scene
• rule of thirds
• leading lines
• symmetry
• framing within frame
• Sound design - music, sound effects. Get this on epidemic sound or srtlist. You can search by instrument, genre, mood etc.

cuts

• jump cut
• J cut - Early audio - audio for next video starts before the end of current video
• L cut - Early video
• Action cut - bigger picture then minute detail - Person treing to open door and then show hand on handle
• Action transition cut - Add transition to sync with subject movement - e.g. hand moving from left to right followed by slide transition
• Cross Cutting - 2 characters in same canvas - video call with friend
• Cutaway - Show surrounding
• Montage - Showing progress - building wooden toy
• Match cuts - jumping on bed vs jumping into sea - change in scene