by Hal Landen To control color in video and digital still cameras, a camera function called white balance is used. Many simple video cameras like the Flip camcorder (see our Flip camera review) and point and shoot still cameras have only automatic white balance...
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Makeup and Wardrobe Hints for On-Camera Talent
Everybody on camera should wear makeup -even if it's just a little bit of powder to dull the reflections from lights. If you're going to be appearing on camera, it's important to you (and to your producers) that you look your best. Here's a few tips on the proper use...
Low Budget Casting
Casting is King by Hal Landen “Seventy-five percent of directing is casting.” — Alfred Hitchcock The most important thing a director does is usually casting. With the right cast and a good script, the chances of a successful video or film improve...
Produce Your Own 3D Video
Get two video camcorders. Build a bracket or device that will hold each camera so the two lenses are about 3 inches apart. You can accentuate the 3D effects when you move them farther apart up to about 8 inches. But start with three inches apart. Using the new double...
Teleprompter Tips
Introduction To Teleprompters By Hal Landen When filming anyone - actor or "real person" - who must deliver a long passage of script straight to camera, it's hard to beat a teleprompter. The on-camera talent can read even a lengthy monologue from the teleprompter and...
Live Video Switching On a Budget
by Fred Wilharm To contact the author by email 1999 About the Author: Fred Wilharm earned a B.A. degree in Broadcast Communications in 1980. He has been a video hobbyist as long as there has been prosumer equipment, owning and using the first camera/VCR combinations...
Shoot Video to Look Like Film
by David Crossman, DGGB What follows, as in all things artistic, is born out of my own personal taste - but my views and techniques are from actual experience. THE WAYS TO MORE LOVABLE VIDEO A couple of years ago I won an Award for the Photographing a video "short"...
PhotoShop for Video Tips and Tricks
by Lee Rickwood While this article does not go further than CS5 Extended, many of techniques of using Photoshop for video also apply to newer versions. Photoshop for video helps create and modify images specifically for a video. And this is just the beginning. CS5...
The Art of Shooting the Video Interview: A Moving Portrait
By Bill Farnsworth Editor's Note: This was originally posted on rec.video.production Thanks Bill! I will tell you what I know from setting up and shooting ......... jeez, it's gotta be way more than a couple thousand interviews in the last 22 years. First off, you...
Marketing With Digital Video, Description
How To Produce Highly Effective Business Videos for Corporations, Small Business, and Non-Profits Item #101 145 pages $19.95 by Hal Landen Buy The Book Here Summary description: If you have been shooting and editing video and would like to use those skills to produce...
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