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Take 5: Shooting to Edit
Shooting with your editor in mind
Hosted by Rick Green
SEASON: 3 EPISODE: 302 RELEASE DATE: JULY 9, 2007
Editing begins in production. Shooting with the edit in mind will help you get the shots you need and improve your productions.
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275 User Comments
Excellent as always. We're working on a corporate video in a few days so this was very timely as we plan. Thanks Rick!
This was a great way to showcase the fundamentals of shooting good video and making the editing process easier. Quick, simple, and entertaining.
For those of us who are just starting out in the video editing arena, this sort of advice is INVALUABLE. Thanks very much for making it short, simple & useful.
Great basic shooting which should be learned from the beginning. If you dont know this stuff, you can end up in a corner in the edit suite. Its also a good refresher course for those who have been shooting for a while. Thanks!
Good reminders! I especially like the point about multiple takes on cut-a-ways. I always take multiple shots on major scenes. But I don't do very well on the extra fill-in shots. I will from now on. Thanks!
I like the segment - expanding it's focus beyond a corporate presentation would make it even more useful for me.
That's very useful but the particular tip on shooting multiple angles to allow cut aways always eludes me. I mainly video school performances and, unless they happen to be repeated, I only end up with one shot of any particular piece of action. To make matters worse it's almost impossible to cut pieces out because it's then not possible to sync the music with the action (and if you cut the music as well as the shot, it becomes disjointed). I'd love a Take 5 on how a professional would approach this with only a single camera.
Thanks, David
As always, GREAT STUFF Rick! I've done my share of presentation videos... long, boring speeches that make you want to fall asleep. And yep, I do the things you noted so well. Slow zooms, CUs, mediums.... but something else I always try to do is stick a second camera on a tripod somewhere and let it roll. That way, I always have SOMETHING for the editor to cut away to. The camera I use for the static second cam is a low cost DVC-mini cam so I won't cry too hard if some idiot knocks it over when they go to sleep and fall out of their chair. (Same for wedding videos) Thanks for the great stuff!
A wonderful piece. I'm an editor at heart but I have to shoot also, I never spend near enough times planning the shoot as I do the edit. This is just what I need to work on.
Everything I learned in Film/Video Shoot 101 but said so much better than the book or prof ever did. Great job and enjoying your site and all the info and helps you have packed into it! Thanks
Great Job...I teach a media production course to middle school students, and your tutorials have really come in handy. Keep up the good work!!
The following are some topics that I would like to suggest.
How to light white limbo and how to solve problems with white limbo that was not...completely white.
How to properly hold and position a boom pole
How to create slow motion with interlaced 60i video (and how to work with the drop in resolution)
Thank you to all of those who work on producing these DJTV episodes. I never had any idea how much information I would learn from DJTV. Keep up the good work.
THis is great esp. for shooters starting out that are spoiled by having so many easy fixes at their disposal. I don't know how many times I've heard. "Fix it in post,"
Great episode. I learned a lot from the tips you gave. We editors gained a lot from the alternatives given to give a great edit. Planning really makes a big difference in making an excellent project. This tips inspire me to achive a better quality and enjoyable video. Thanks Rick for the usual great ideas and more power to all of you guys in Digital Juice.
Rick another great show! I especially liked tip #1 on setting up the scene.
Great stuff for a newbie video editor.
Thanks again
~~~Another useful set of tips. I'm pretty sure that this was covered in a basic production course I took in college, but it's as true now as it was then, & some of those tips are easy to let slide. I'm glad to have a little reminder like this.
This is absolutely very helpful in re-orienting our cameramen and editors as well. DJTV has always been consistent in this technology. However basic it may seem, the teaching method creates so much interest. You are heaven-sent! Thank you so much and keep it up!!!
Good tips for anyone who shoots video.STW..side,tight and wide..All shooters should see this video..Reminds us that if we follow these tips we can make the editors job a lot easier..Well done..
Wow, this is exactly what I was asking for! I guess you may have been planning this show for a long time, but if not, thanks for listening!
The only thing I'm afraid of is that you won't revisit this topic. This was a good show, but it was very general and basic. You probably could have done a good five-point show on each of the five points you presented here, as well as many other elements of shooting for a project. I hope you revisit this topic!
These are some of the basics for shooting. Follow these guidelines and you can't go wrong. This is what they teach you in school. Know it. Learn it. Love it.
Great for beginners and great for experts. Like others have said everyone should know this. Sometimes the basics are good to shake off the rust or to jog the creativity button.
Prior planning prevents piss-poor performance. Daddy taught me this and it sure helps in the video world. Thanks for the great teaching. Keep it up. I'm really diggin' this stuph!
Great information. This is must need information to keep your self focused while shooting. I know I have found myself in spots where I wished I had this shot or that shot. I always try to think ahead and get plenty of B reel... Thanks again for DJTV
Once again you guys give us a great tutorial. Thanks for quality information for me to share with my students.
Great tips!! I taught myself a lot of these things years ago, but a refresher is always nice!!! Thanks Rick, and I will be looking forward to more episodes!!!
Finaaly someone else telling my video students to shoot from multiple angles and go for more than one take. Hopefully they will listen.
Doing a lot of outdoors filming for a sport show, it is very interesting thinking "if you have the shot, shoot it again." I'm going to use this! Usually I roll a lot of tape/hard-drives and that helps me cut the scenes where the lines were not done well with the shots where the verbiage was right on (in a way this was my ~shoot again~).
Thanks for the show. It was easy to watch and follow.
Thanks Rick. For me, this has been the most helpful "Take 5" in a while. As the lone set designer, cameraman, editor, and producer at the ministry where I work, these tips come in so handy. I often feel that I should be paying for this education!! Keep up the amazing work. Thanks again.
Wow Rick, you've got a gem here. I need to watch this episode at least once a month to keep myself focused on the basics. Thanks!
As shooter and editor, this was a reminder to think through the whole project before starting, and to shoot more than I could ever use. Nothing is more frustrating than getting in the edit suite and wishing for just one more shot. Thanks DJTV.
Well done. The advice seems like basic common sense (from an editor's standpoint), but it's amazing how situations you don't anticipate can take you by surprise when you're shooting. Tip 5 was the best o' the bunch... especially for a scatterbrain like me. :)
I haven't done any video recording, just editing, but this is helpful for anytime that I do end up doing some, and also for an editor's eye. These are always enjoyable episodes.
Shooting TO Edit, like all DJTV Videos is excellent advice. The best advice in this one is PLAN AHEAD!!!!!
GREAT JOB> Keep it up.
Great show. It was great for a refresher course. After a while you become complacent in what you're doing. Thanks for the reminders!
Thoroughly enjoyable. I do most of this automatically. After 16 years one would hope so. Still, shooting from different tripod heights is a good reminder of something I too often forget. The Editor in me also thanks you. Now, how about 'Shoot to Edit' for the intermediate/advanced Videographer's perspective?
Very well made. I especially enjoyed the first point, sometimes I forget to do that. Thanks for the reminder!
Rick Green...yooza geniuz !!!! (lol) It makes total sense. Shoot several angles...several times. Why...because you may want to compile a HUUUUUUUuuuuuge BLOOPERS installment !!!! The more shoot, the more bloopers you'll get !!!! Guartanteed !!!!
- Chris Beals