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DOING IT YOURSELF: A CRASH COURSE FOR THE BEGINNING VIDEO MAKER
Consider this one a bonus chapter for those of you out there who have never made a video, or who are still learning the ropes. Normally you'd have to buy a whole other book to learn the craft of making videos; how to write the script, how to light the set, how to record clean sound, all those nuts and bolts details of getting the job done.
But honestly, the bare essentials of what you need to know before you pick up the camera, well, you can easily learn all of that in just a few pages. We can't guarantee that your videos will be entertaining or fascinating, that part is up to you, but if you follow the advice in this chapter, your video will at least make sense, so whatever great ideas you do have, they'll be easier to communicate to the viewer.
So without any further ado, we present what we'll call the five minute film school…