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How to Make a Video
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Oct 23, 2024
Tim Carter from AsktheBuilder.com demonstrates the equipment and techniques you need to film a good video. Discover a wealth of secret tips while watching this informative and humorous video. Tim shares his eight years of network television experience to help you create professional videos. Sign up NOW for Tim's FREE weekly newsletter at: http://go.askthebuilder.com/NewsletterSignupNow See many more videos at askthebuilder.com
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Filming a video for the internet is the thing to do right now
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Hi, I'm Tim Carter from Ask theBuilder.com. And you know what? You probably want to know what does it take to film an informative or an educational video
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I'm about to show you. To make a great video, you're going to need some equipment
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I think that you're going to have to have absolutely. have to have absolutely a top-notch camera, a great tripod, no doubt you're going to need
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some lights, and absolutely a really good wireless microphone. Camera technology changes as fast as the fashion industry, so make sure you buy a camera
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that is as expensive as you can possibly afford. For example, the camera we're using today has got three separate color chips and it gives
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near perfect results, so get a great camera. Oh, yeah. The tripod, it is the foundation of the filming system, and you need a really good one
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It just like the foundation of a house You want to make sure that that camera is rock solid when you filming You don want to be jiggling all over the place but you have to have a good tripod Don get a piece of crap one like this one This is the one I bought 40 years ago for my 35 millimeter camera
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You need to have a professional quality tripod that has a head on it that actually has a control that allows you to actually level the head of the tripod
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It also needs to have a quick release lever so that you can get the camera off the tripod quickly
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Oh, what a beautiful sunny day. But you know what? You can't always count on the sun being out, and it might be too harsh
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So you're probably going to have to buy artificial lighting like this to produce the color temperature and color range that the sun produces at high noon
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These type of lights are not as expensive as you might think, and you're absolutely going to need them when you film indoors
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Filming videos is hard work, believe me
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We've got all of our equipment and you're probably wondering, what does it take to film
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videos that people are actually going to enjoy and be engaged with Well let me give you some tips of the things I learned for filming videos for network television over the past eight years Your video will be captivating if you make sure that it made up of small little videos within the major video
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What am I talking about? I'm talking about little three to five second shots of different things
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Imagine watching television commercials. That's how they build those things. Every two to three seconds, you see a different image
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And it really makes a difference. I'm serious. And also another thing, you want to get some sweet, different camera angles
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It'll make all the difference in the world. To make things interesting and easy, I like to film my Ask the Builder.com videos
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with me on camera at the beginning and at the end of the videos
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and then we fill the center of the video with shots of me doing the things I'm talking about
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The open and close, professionally, they call that A-roll, but the inside shots that you don't see me on camera, that's called B-roll
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You know, you've got to make sure that your videos... Shut the damn morrow
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So you can't have outside noise like that. It's crazy, man. It ruins everything
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So you've got to be prepared when you're filming outdoors to get interrupted by stupid things like airplane helicopters and stupid lawnmowers Hang on a second You know that men can multitask so just wait a minute
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Okay, I'm Tim Carter at Ask the Builder. Okay, you're going to need to have a script so that you can make sure that your video is going to flow right
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and more importantly that you're going to have the things that you need to film in your B-roll
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Now you don't have to memorize the whole script. Oh, wait a second, I've got to check something here
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Yeah, okay. You don't have to memorize the whole script. How you do it is you're going to film those script lines in different cuts each time
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So you only have to memorize maybe one or two lines most at a time
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It's really not as hard as you think. But the script forces you to make sure that you're going to have enough footage of other things happening
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so that you don't have to stand in front of the camera all the time like I am right now
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being a talking head because that's really really boring don't let that happen on your
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videos okay this script thing is really important and also you might be wondering
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about certain videos that you don't think it's possible to tape well here's
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why the script's important who would ever think that you could
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