Tuesday, October 11, 2011

Top Tips On The Basics Of Video Productions

By Emma Jane Taylor


Making video productions is not easy. The tips below can potentially help you with your production. Remember, what you want is to produce something entertaining and educative.

Have a plan. Just like most things in life, without a good plan, you will not have success. Make sure that you factor in the budget as you make your plans. Plan for the number of crew you will need and what the role of each member is going to be. Also, plan for the shoot date and shoot venue. Other things you must also plan for are the duration of rehearsal and the subject mater of your production. You also must factor in how long your video is going to be.

You need to know that to attract your intended audience, your shoot must be simple and understandable. Of course, you will change this if you intend to make a complex production. Even so, try to make the concepts as simple as possible. Make sure that the video is not too long. People tend to lose focus when viewing long productions. You may opt to segment your video production into a few segments of say ten or twenty minutes.

Have your equipment ready and in good condition. You must ensure that all the equipment is functioning at least one day before the day of the shoot. If the equipment is faulty, you will waste a lot of time because every time you will be stopping to check the equipment out. These will kill the flow and psych of crew members. Remember, it wont matter how expensive or cheap the equipment is, just be sure that it is functional and you can actually use it without distractions.

Do not get too exited about perfection, understand that a few mistakes here and there are permissible. If you become too strict, your crew members will be uncomfortable and are bound to make more mistakes. The point here is to be moderate; again you can't allow every mistake to go uncorrected. Have your rehearsals run for some time, make sure that you are comfortable with the performance of your crew. Rehearse until you have ironed out all mistakes and you can take the production from beginning to end.

Be sure that on the material day of shooting the video, all members are ready for it. Having breaks in between will keep everybody fresh and remove tension. Have at least ten minutes breaks in between the shoot. Make sure that everybody is comfortable, the more comfortable team members are, the better they will work.

Once you are done with the shooting, your production will go to editing. This part of production can be very tricky especially if your editor is not that good. Basically, editing is about putting together the best pieces of the shoot. It's vital that you take some notes as reverence points from the shoot; this notes you will use to come up with good edit.

If your editor is good you'll come up with a very good production. Remember, the idea is to have your audience enjoy your production at the same time learn from it. Have this in mind as you make your video productions.




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