One of the key elements of most video productions is music. Music plays a crucial role in most feature films and television programs. It helps set a mood, an historical period, a sense of danger or romance! Most video producers don’t have the luxury or the budget to ask Hans [...]

I’m not sure who said this, but its true. “Viewers will more readily accept poor pictures with great sound than great images with poor sound”. At first reading, this sounds wrong. Surely, it’s all about the image? On-line discussion in video forums, etc seems to be always about the latest camera and its 4K [...]

When The Shooting Stops … The Cutting Begins: A Film Editor’s Story. This is a great book by Ralph Rosenblum, a New York feature film editor. Whilst it’s written about editing with 35mm film, there are some great lessons for any one who is about to sit down to edit their [...]

One of the key skills a videographer needs is to know how to shoot an interview plus B roll or cutaway footage to tell a story. And there’s a way to get free lessons very night in your living room. TV News and Current Affairs programs are based around the interview. Almost every [...]

One of the most misunderstood settings on a video (or still camera) is the one labelled ‘colour balance’. The menu behind this setting often looks like this one. From left to right, these symbols tell you what settings the camera has available – so which one do you select? When [...]

This post is part 2 of a series on editing your first video. (Read the first post here) Know your Grammar When you write, you use grammar. Grammar is what gives you the structure of a sentence. Defn: Grammar: ‘The study of how words and their component parts combine to form [...]