Comments on: How do I edit video? http://www.megantaylor.org/wordpress/2007/03/13/how-do-i-edit-video/ Blog and Portfolio Tue, 09 Feb 2010 08:42:15 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: Ryan http://www.megantaylor.org/wordpress/2007/03/13/how-do-i-edit-video/#comment-82 Ryan Tue, 13 Mar 2007 14:25:56 +0000 http://www.megantaylor.org/wordpress/2007/03/13/how-do-i-edit-video/#comment-82 Basic rules to learn in order to break them later: :::Shoot multiple angles and sizes -- close up from one side, wide from another, mediums for everywhere, lots of details. :::Break up the main action with the details. :::Keep the audio of the main action running. :::Think of illustrating a scene, as if it were "moving pictures" and not "television." :::Storytelling doesn't have to hit the viewer over the head. Basic rules to learn in order to break them later:

:::Shoot multiple angles and sizes — close up from one side, wide from another, mediums for everywhere, lots of details.

:::Break up the main action with the details.

:::Keep the audio of the main action running.

:::Think of illustrating a scene, as if it were “moving pictures” and not “television.”

:::Storytelling doesn’t have to hit the viewer over the head.

]]> By: Bryan Murley http://www.megantaylor.org/wordpress/2007/03/13/how-do-i-edit-video/#comment-81 Bryan Murley Tue, 13 Mar 2007 12:33:13 +0000 http://www.megantaylor.org/wordpress/2007/03/13/how-do-i-edit-video/#comment-81 <a href="http://www.collegemediainnovation.org/blog/2007/03/10/getting-good-ira-glass-advice/" rel="nofollow">You have the right idea.</a> I wouldn't just watch online video though. I'd also watch good documentary video, and listen to This American Life, for instance. They now have a TV show. I wonder what it's going to be like, since I don't subscribe to Showtime. You have the right idea. I wouldn’t just watch online video though. I’d also watch good documentary video, and listen to This American Life, for instance. They now have a TV show. I wonder what it’s going to be like, since I don’t subscribe to Showtime.

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