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Shooting for the Small Screen
Before you begin to upload those videos, you have to know how to shoot for the small screen which we’ll be showing you in this edition of Tips and Tricks. What are the more important aspects of online video is a fact that unlike standard shooting for a television, you’re shooting for a much small or medium. This means that online video should stray from things like wide, landscaping shoots. With video sending up being so small, wide shoots generally lose too much detail, they capture the beauty that they are intended too.
To fix here is more descriptive close up shots to retain the detail on the tip code 2x3 inch video showing screen. Another aspect to this different from the standard screen practices is the use of long time stretching transitions and dissolves in between scenes. Again, on a small screen, compression problems generally occur leaving the nice looking dissolves looking body and more like a mix of random pixels or damage video. The solution is to use straight cuts avoiding any potential compression issues.
Another concept is that of the length of the online video versus the length of a standard TV show. We only have five to 10 minutes max on certain video sharing sites so it’s best to be brief so isn’t much time to drag things along. If you are not sure if you should leave in or not, that means cut it. Use only what matters. Remember, just because you shot it, it doesn’t mean that you have to use it. This is the entire purpose of editing video. Your editing to improve your clips not to include all of your shots.
Another concept that requires some attention is the use of titles in your video. Try to avoid them as possible because with the small screen, you’ll find yourself straining to read the tiny letters. If you do need to use titles, make sure that they are big and be sure leave them on the screen long enough so that they can be read. The general outcome is to leave them up long enough so that they can be read three times over. This should give the audience enough time to be able to read the titles. Last but not least, people generally tend to sit through a bad video but not through bad audio. If you intend to post video online, make sure you used a mic to capture any and all voice overs—tracks and falling.
Most consumers can put above the $500.00 price range, come with an inch to an inch mic input jack, which can accept any standard mic from karaoke machines tutorial instruments. Now that we know how we should be making our videos for the small screen, let’s be sure to utilize these techniques next time we shoot a video for uploading.
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