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Your teams can create a short web video in just a few hours, with VidTeams' help.Tell a story about how you work, your values, what drives pride, performance. Videos can be how-to's, mini-documentaries, stories, a client testimonial, or a view to the future. Document what's important in your organization. How are you serving customers? How are you making the world better? How are you influencing legislation? |
What? Is That A Toy?
Many camcorders that are so small and featureless that they look like toys may have the ability to capture excellent video if you know how to use them properly. And for a small YouTube style video, creativity and skill is much more important than the camcorder.
Three Shoot Video
Here's an example of how to get good sound in a noisy environoment. If the camcorder is 6 feet away from the subject, a microphone, possibly on a boom to avoid putting shadow on the subject, is held 2 ft. away. This makes a world of difference, since sound intensity is subject to the inverse square law. What this means is that, since sound disperses in 3 dimensions, the energy of the sound dissipates quite rapidly. A microphone 2 feet away from a subject might have an intensity level 8 times greater than the microphone on the camcorder.
2X2 = 4
6X6 = 36
36 / 4 = 8
The Video Learning Curve
An old aphorism states we need to crawl before we walk, and we need to walk before we run. Useful though this may be, most of what's useful work these days compares more to auto assembly or repair. Where do you begin to learn?
A video project involves a lot of elements and stages:
Concept
Script
Locations
Talent
Equipment
Schedules
Budgets
Skills
Editing
Music
Intellectual Property Law
Distribution
Marketing Communications
To be a specialist in even one of these requires a lot of crawling, then walking, before the run begins. And there are so many runners in the race.
