My first video

I've been looking at some of the stuff in here, and I'm blown away by some of the quality of some of the work.
Shows I've got a lot to learn, it's a very different process than stills photography, the editing in particular is a totally different world and process.


Would love some feed back on this though.
It's shot on a 5D2 and is meant to be quite simple.
Edited with Premier Elements, which like all Adobe products is not as intuitive as it could be.

http://youtu.be/rw-M1gdVHJU

A pretty cool video and a really interesting guy.

When you were interviewing him it would have been better IMHO to get him standing, or sitting still and then, subsequent to the interview pick up close ups of the things he was talking about so that you could overlay them on the audio. It was quite frustrating having him talking about things which you couldn't then see.

Don't show moving from one element to another as if you had a camera strapped to your head. Do a cut away and set up properly for the next shot. "Here's the car" tripod shot of car, pan, tracking what ever, cut away to a detail. "Here's the interior" show the interior.

Watch comparable style videos on TV, Top Gear perhaps. You will find that most shots are no more than two or three seconds.

Use the skills you have learnt from still photography. Look for and compose the shot, consider if it would be a good looking still image. Be aware of lighting and depth of field in the same way as you would a still image. If the image would make a ****e (Geordie speak) still it will make ****e looking video.

Hope this helps.

Cheers John,

I think I followed him around like I was taking photos, so the different angles etc work in a series of still photos.
Of course that doesn't work in video.
I remember to keep the clips shorter next time and look for shots to overlay over some audio


He's any interesting guy alright.

Try not to follow but direct the shoot. Tell him where you want him to stand and why.....
"Stand in front of the car so we can get you from low down looking tall and maginficant against the sky....etc" See the image in you minds eye and then make it happen.

It is easier to animate a good image - The car coming down the road at the beginning was a great example of a good image - compared to having movement in a poor image. A good image you can always add movement in post if required (and if you have enough resolution) by zooming or panning within the software.