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 [...]

This is the first post in a series that follows my three earlier posts on check list for your first video shoot. I’m assuming you know your way around whatever NLE you’re using and you’re now ready to start editing the footage you’ve shot.  (NLE – Non-linear editing. This describes programs such [...]

Every time you write something, an e-mail, a blog post, a script or something longer you use words. Those words usually come from your memory and experience. You think about what you want to say and then you select the right words and put them in the right order to [...]

Can you e-mail me the video?  I often get asked this question and my answer is usually ‘no – because it’s a video file and therefore too big’. I thought it might be helpful to set out the following explanation and then suggest some solutions. The growth of Smartphones with [...]