Production skills

- Leave time for errors.- Know my target audience fully.- Plan thoroughly.- Organise my time well.- Have enthusiasm, dedication and passion for my work.- Develop very good directorial skills such as being assertive.- Find reliable performers.- Make the lip-syncing (if any) as convincing as possible.- Obtain a good research background.- Utilize everyone's skills to my advantage.- Use various suitable locations to make my video unique.- Frequently use an outsiders perspective of my work in progress.

Camera Techniques:FRAMING- Where people, props etc. are placed within the frame (the composition)ANGLES- High angle/ birds eye view (filmed from above)Low angle/ worms eye view (filmed from below)MOVEMENT- pan/ panning (Camera moves on pivot, left and right)Tilt (Camera moves up and down on its pivot, pan up/ pan down)Track/ Tracking Shot (Camera attached to moving object to 'follow the action')Shot reverse shot (a shot that views the action from the opposite side of the previous shot, giving the effect of looking from one actor to the other)Short take (Shot lasts for a short time)Long Take (Camera lingers on the frame)

Shots to be used:-Extreme Long Shot.-Long Shot.-Medium Long Shot.-Medium Mid-Shot.-Medium Close-Up.-Close-Up.-Extreme Close-Up.-Over the shoulder shot

 

Editing:Quick cuts- Shot moves rapidly from one frame/ shot to the next.Fade- One shot fades away to black then another fades in.Dissolve- One shot fades away as another fades in.Wipe- A shot is literally wiped off screen by another.Slow/ Fast motion- A sequence is slowed down/ sped up.Flashback -A scene or sequence  that is inserted into a scene in "present" time and that deals with the past. The flashback is the past tense.Focus- The sharpness of the image. A range of distances from the camera will be acceptably sharp. Possible to have deep focus, shallow focus.

Focus in, focus out: a punctuation device whereby the image gradually comes into focus or goes out of focus.