8 part series
By Lorraine Grula
Internet Video Gal
DIGITAL VIDEO FORMATS
If you plan on buying a video camcorder soon, you’ll be glad to hear that you have lots of choices…

Ask the production manager about the station’s rates, too. Usually, commercial production departments in TV stations charge a fraction of what professional production companies do. In part, that‘s because a production company will more likely have highly experienced people and the TV station is getting by with youngsters who work for cheap. But, they’ll probably still know what they’re doing.

Here’s an explanation of the three phases and you decide which you want to outsource.

Pre production includes all planning.
Who is your audience?
What do they want/need to know?
What do you want to shoot to illustrate this?
Where do you want to shoot it?
How will it be pieced together? Editing is usually planned (at least somewhat) before shooting ever begins.

V:Social claims they “strive to create a culture that is fun, driven, results-oriented and intellectually honest with ourselves, each other and our users, customers, partners and investors.”

Windows Movie Maker will easily edit together you video and add professional looking graphics. You have one line of audio that you can cut and paste.

Apple’s Final Cut Pro, now called Studio 2, is the ultimate video editing software experience in my humble opinion. When FCP first came on the market, it was chump change at $1,000, compared to its competitor, Avid with its $50,000 version of Media Composer.

Video producers who stake out an Internet audience need to be concerned with net neutrality and help ensure that the direction of the net continues toward openness. Easy distribution of individually produced video gives anyone who wants it a voice.

Also, listen to what other people are saying. You can use their sound to add a narrative. Listen as they speak and keep the camera rolling on a usable shot as long as they’re saying something interesting.