bjbj [Music Playing] Most of us have been raised with video our entire lives and we
can tell the difference between a home video of a birthday party and a major motion picture.
Some of these common mistakes still affect our video shoots on a daily basis and they
re very hard to get away from. What we re gonna do is take a look at those errors and
show you how to fix them. I m Tom Skowronski and this is the five deadly sins of amateur
video. The first error we re gonna look at is known as firehosing. I want each and every
one of you to take a look at this clip and tell me if you see any mistakes. [Music Playing]
What firehosing is, is basically not knowing what you want to shoot or using the viewfinder
as your eye instead of your eye to see where you wanna shoot and actually going there in
a nice, smooth fashion and making sure you have a controlled movement. [Music Playing]
The next deadly camera sin is known as jogging. Let s take a look at this clip and see if
you can tell me what s wrong with it. [Music Playing] Now, the problem that occurs when
you re jogging with the camera is that, really, you re just kind of wobbling the camera around
and bouncing. It s not very steady, it s not smooth, and it can t necessarily understand
what s happening. The camera looks shaky and that s not the original intended effect. Now,
dynamic and shooting things on the go, very, very powerful, but only if you do them correctly.
[Music Playing] This next deadly sin, you may have noticed in videos of your own. Let
s take a look at this clip and tell me if you could find out what the mistake is here.
[Music Playing] Now, the problem with backlighting is, when it occurs, you can t see the subject.
You have no idea what s happening. They look badly lit. It looks very amateur. The key
is to move the subject in front or away from the camera and turn the cameraman s back to
the sun. [Music Playing] When you switch positions, the sun basically acts as a key light for
your subject, therefore, illuminating the entire area. [Music Playing] One of the next
most common sins that you ll see in everybody s amateur video is the idea of nose room or
lead room being completely eliminated from their clips. Take a look at this and tell
me if you see what I m talking about. [Music Playing] Psychologically, this works in our
minds because it gives us space for the subject to look to. Now, without that space, with
it really compressed, it looks like our subject s right about to look into a brick wall, so
we need to fix that and give our subject some nose room to make our video look a little
bit more professional. [Music Playing] Now, we ve reached the final and deadliest sin
of all amateur video. The sin of head room. Take a look at this clip. Let me know if you
see anything that s wrong with it. [Music Playing] Now, the problem with this clip is
that there s too much space above the subject s head. What we re doing with video is turning
the ordinary into the extraordinary. We get to look at everything every single day with
our own eyes, but the camera doesn t look at things the same way. So, we need to make
sure that everything that s in that frame is very full and we don t have any dead space.
When we have dead space, the video looks ugly and unnatural. [Music Playing] Another variation
of head room is known as cutting off the chin or part of the subject s face. Now, this tends
to be okay if we cut off the top of somebody s head because then our frame is still full.
On the other hand, if we were to cut off somebody at the chin and give them additional head
room, it doesn t look natural anymore. [Music Playing] Now, sometimes, the five deadly sins
of amateur video are simply unavoidable. It s up to us to understand each and every one
of them. When it comes to head room, having the most amount of space above the head, we
know it s something we should avoid now. We know that when it comes to jogging, we should
get a smoother, nicer, easier feeling movement with the camera. When it comes to firehosing,
we ve realized we don t need to use our eye in the viewfinder as the actual eye of the
camera. We can actually shoot where we want to shoot by knowing ahead of time by looking
there first. We also know that we don t necessarily need that lead room. We need space in front
of the nose, but we don t need to cut it off. And backlighting is something that should
always be avoided because we don t want to film just silhouettes. So, next time you re
out there filming with one of these guys, be critical of your work. Try to understand
why you re filming what you re filming. Is that really the best way to go about it? There
s only one way to know. Practice. Now, go out there, use one of these guys, and have
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