Shooting Video

Shooting video is something of a different animal to tackle than taking still pictures and something completely different than writing a news story. Still though, many of the underlying principles remain the same: it still needs to be interesting and it still needs to be a story that's well told. It's just something that is a little hard to take into account when you do the 5 w's and everything like that. In other words, it took a little time to figure out exactly how to translate that into video. Still though, it worked out pretty well I thought. Having people say things that answer these types of questions works well too, as well as giving clear visual indicators of where you are and what you're doing there. As for the video itself, I found it eerily similar to taking still pictures, and I don't think it's because I used the camera that I used for the point-and-shoot pictures. I think that many of the underlying principles of photography remain. After all, film is just a series of photo's and it tends to be easy to forget that. I had some issues with lighting but after a little while I figured out what started to make things look better and what didn't and, surprise, they were the same as what it is to take a good picture. I wouldn't say that I'm a great video person now, but with experience I think I could get better with it.