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NewsTrain instructor Kathy Kieliszewski helps journalists shoot better video using their smartphones. She provides tips on buying low-cost equipment; achieving better lighting, audio and framing; and sequencing your shots. Kieliszewski, the Detroit Free Press' director of photo and video, gave this presentation as part of the NewsTrain workshop in Austin, Texas, on Aug. 22-23, 2014. Please see associated handouts: Video Terms, Lots of Dos and a Few Big Don'ts in Video, and Learning to Fly Exercise. For more information about NewsTrain, a traveling workshop for journalists sponsored by Associated Press Media Editors, please visit http://www.apme.com/?AboutNewsTrain.
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Video shooting Kathy Kieliszewski | Detroit Free Press
Video Tripod Beanbag
Tripods and tripod mounts
Gorillapod by Joby
Tripods and tripod mounts
iStabilizer
Tripods and tripod mounts
MCam
Tripods and tripod mounts
•A-roll
•B-roll
•Natural sounds
Basic video components
Gathering good audio
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Lighting, framing, audio
•Mic your main subjects.
•The importance of headphones
•Listen to the room noise.
•Listen for and eliminate distracting
sounds.
•Get your microphone as near to
the sound source as possible.
Microphones
Wired lavalier
Adaptor cords
The art of the interview
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Lighting, framing, audio
Framing and lighting
• Asking the right questions
• Be quiet.
• Allow for the edit.
• Active interviewing
• Time codes and transcribing
Conducting the interview
The importance of sequencing
Kolan the Bowler | Sequencing
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How to sequence •Wide, medium, tight/close-up
•Perspectives, point of view
•Action and reaction
•Framing each shot
•10-second rule
Wide shot
Medium shot
Point-of-view shot
Detail shot/cutaway
Reaction shot
Shooting the footage
•What’s the action?
•Moments
•Transition shots
•Shooting sequences
•Thinking about the edit
The Exercise Time to Fly
Grab a phone or a partner with a
phone, and each of you takes turns
shooting a series of shots while the
other makes a paper airplane.
Remember to look for wide,
medium, tights, action, reaction and
point-of-view shots. Shoot each
shot as a single clip.
