Wide, Medium, Close-Up — Three Shots to Start Making Videos
Wide, Medium, Close-Up — Three Shots to Start Making Videos Make a Video — One Skill, One Short Film at a Time: Week 1 The same person. The same notebook. Three different views—and three different pieces of information for your audience. Making a video begins with a decision: what do you want the viewer to see? You might be recording a family occasion, demonstrating a skill, explaining a science experiment or introducing your business. You point your phone or camera towards the action and press record. That is a useful beginning. Now try choosing three different views of that action. A wider view can explain the setting. A medium view can show what someone is doing. A close-up can reveal the detail that makes it understandable. For the first article in this weekly series, that is our entire task: film the same subject at three shot sizes . A Small Beginning with Plenty of Possibilities My work brings together teaching, practical science, photography, sailing and video production. Acros...
