DV Tips
If you are at all interested in digital video production, you’ll want to check out a couple of excellent guides on Ars Technica regarding shooting and post-production:
Start with “How to shoot pro-quality video on a budget” for a nice concise tutorial on capturing your video. In order to address some of the issues raised in the article, you would need some additional equipment - but even a nominal expenditure would net some great benefits to the quality of video you could shoot. In essence, with a shotgun mic and a cheap set up reflectors, you shoot quality footage.
The follow-up with “How to do pro-quality video post-production at home” which does a very nice job of recounting the editing process, while also helping develop a good understanding of the overall workflow for such projects. I’m sure it does indeed seem like a lot of work - but this is what it takes to create footage that doesn’t seem amateurish.
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