Knack Digital Moviemaking: Tools & Techniques To Make Movies Like A Pro (Knack: Make It Easy)
Tyler Cullen
Language: English
Pages: 256
ISBN: 1599219913
Format: PDF / Kindle (mobi) / ePub
Knack Digital Moviemaking is a must for those seeking to produce their own home movies, business promotion or instructional videos, music videos, or even write their own script.
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usually suffer from poor audio. Urban areas have too much background noise and traffic congestion. Beaches can have a lot of wind noise. Salt air and sand could also damage equipment. You can still shoot at these locations, but they require extra research and preparation. Power Outlets • Check the availability of power sources on location to see if there is a suitable place to connect your lights or any other equipment you may need that requires power. • If there is an outlet you can use,
things going on in front of and behind the main subject. Orson Welles’s film Citizen Kane is widely regarded as the greatest movie of all time in part due to its striking composition. Busy Background • Keep your background as uncluttered as possible. • A background that has too much going on can distract the audience from seeing what is important in the shot. • It is especially important to keep your backgrounds as uncluttered as possible in digital video because your finished work will most
the cutout. The mattes in your editing software work the same way. Garbage Matte • A garbage matte removes unneeded portions of the scene, resulting in a rough area that contains only the subject that you want to keep. • When you work with a poorly lit or uneven blue or green screen, using a garbage matte around the subject can reduce the amount of work that you have to do in keying out the background. • Garbage mattes are very easy to use and available in most all video editing programs.
of an impact to get invited to other festivals? Is it to attract investors to fund your next project? Knowing what you want out of the experience will help you achieve it. Online Festivals • In 2005, the world’s first online film festival was created, the GreenCine Online Film Festival. Since then, there have been thousands more online film festivals. • Online fests are great because they allow film-makers from around the world to showcase their work in front of a global audience. • Be
and factual. Cinéma Vérité and Direct Cinema • Cinéma vérité is a style of documentary started by the French in the 1960s that strives for candid realism by showing people in everyday situations with authentic dialogue. • Direct cinema is the American version of cinéma vérité. While similar in many ways, the two differ in that cinéma vérité filmmakers use the camera to provoke subjects and reveal stories while direct cinema is strictly observational. • Direct cinema was made possible by the