Producing Videos: A complete guide

A fully updated and revised new edition of this essential handbook for aspiring video makers with extensive new material on digital technology, production techniques, and YouTube


Comprehensive and user-friendly, this guide offers tips for all aspects of video production—from the first chapter on using a camera (if it doesn't go in easily, don't force it) to the chapter on distribution (no matter what happens, always hold onto your master). All the elements of video production are covered: camera operation, scriptwriting, composition, budgeting, pre-production planning, lighting and sound recording, interview techniques, field production and studio shoots, digital editing, digital postproduction techniques, video streaming, and other forms of online distribution. This edition has been fully revised and updated to cover developments in technology, promotion, and distribution. With tips from more than 120 experienced video teachers from around the world, this is the best handbook available for learning the basics of video making. It is an ideal guide for students, and for anyone who has a flip camera burning a hole in their pocket and aspirations to become the next hot new director.
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Producing Videos: A complete guide

A fully updated and revised new edition of this essential handbook for aspiring video makers with extensive new material on digital technology, production techniques, and YouTube


Comprehensive and user-friendly, this guide offers tips for all aspects of video production—from the first chapter on using a camera (if it doesn't go in easily, don't force it) to the chapter on distribution (no matter what happens, always hold onto your master). All the elements of video production are covered: camera operation, scriptwriting, composition, budgeting, pre-production planning, lighting and sound recording, interview techniques, field production and studio shoots, digital editing, digital postproduction techniques, video streaming, and other forms of online distribution. This edition has been fully revised and updated to cover developments in technology, promotion, and distribution. With tips from more than 120 experienced video teachers from around the world, this is the best handbook available for learning the basics of video making. It is an ideal guide for students, and for anyone who has a flip camera burning a hole in their pocket and aspirations to become the next hot new director.
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Producing Videos: A complete guide

Producing Videos: A complete guide

by Martha Mollison
Producing Videos: A complete guide

Producing Videos: A complete guide

by Martha Mollison

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A fully updated and revised new edition of this essential handbook for aspiring video makers with extensive new material on digital technology, production techniques, and YouTube


Comprehensive and user-friendly, this guide offers tips for all aspects of video production—from the first chapter on using a camera (if it doesn't go in easily, don't force it) to the chapter on distribution (no matter what happens, always hold onto your master). All the elements of video production are covered: camera operation, scriptwriting, composition, budgeting, pre-production planning, lighting and sound recording, interview techniques, field production and studio shoots, digital editing, digital postproduction techniques, video streaming, and other forms of online distribution. This edition has been fully revised and updated to cover developments in technology, promotion, and distribution. With tips from more than 120 experienced video teachers from around the world, this is the best handbook available for learning the basics of video making. It is an ideal guide for students, and for anyone who has a flip camera burning a hole in their pocket and aspirations to become the next hot new director.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781742370569
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Publication date: 05/01/2010
Edition description: Third Edition, Third edition
Pages: 572
Product dimensions: 6.70(w) x 9.40(h) x 1.40(d)

About the Author

Martha Mollison has been a freelance video producer for more than 25 years. She lives in Portland, Oregon.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments vi

Greeting xi

1 The Camera 1

2 Image Control 28

3 Composition and Framing 49

4 The Camera's View 64

5 Telling the Story 86

6 Video Formats 97

7 Video Storage: Thanks for the Memory 108

8 Editing Basics 130

9 Editing Concepts 155

10 Editing: Getting More Technical 166

11 Microphones 181

12 Having the Right Connections 195

13 Location Sound 206

14 Sound Postproduction 229

15 Safely on the Set Don Bethel 244

16 Lighting 259

17 Using Lighting Eguipment 283

18 Production Options 307

19 Video for Empowerment 321

20 Scriptwriting 332

21 Doing Short Dramas Harry Kirchner, Latrobe University 346

22 Budgeting 359

23 Preproduction 367

24 The Location Shoot 395

25 Studio Layout and Equipment 416

26 Studio Roles 434

27 Studio Procedures 445

28 Operating the Vision Mixer 463

29 Operating me Studio Audio Mixer 476

30 Studio interviews 493

31 The H.O.T Studio (Host Operated Television) 511

32 Copyright 518

33 Distribution 528

Glossary 542

Index 552

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