5 Video Shooting Principles Pros Know

5 Video Recording Principles You Should Know

 

In today’s post, we will be sharing with you 5 super-handy tips for those who are venturing into filming on your own. These foundational tips will help you produce rock-solid video results.

The same tips apply if you’re looking for a good video production crew – make sure they’ve got all the following downpat.

你会有拍摄视频或摄影时不知道该如何是好的时候吗?今天小编为大家介绍 5 个小窍门,让你可以像专业人士一样,自己拍摄出满意的作品。

 

1. Know Your Equipment

You’d be surprised: Most people don’t fully unlock the potential of their own equipment, rendering it under-utilized.

The solution: Spend a good hour or two learning the ins-and-outs of your gear. If you hate reading the manuals (because they’re often so boring), search for video tutorials online about the equipment you’re using, whether it be a camera or audio recorder.

Understanding your equipment’s strengths and limitations will help you maximize it’s efficiency.

设备永远很重要,想要拍出高质量的作品就必须要好的摄影设备。

 

2. Be Prepared (Even Over Prepared)

Being prepared before the actual shoot, may just be the most important aspect to filming.

Forgot your camera batteries, or clearing up space in your SD cards? You’ve just ruined your day’s film set.

Our tip: Prepare a checklist of all the things you’ll need to prepare for the shoot. Extra batteries, cleaning cloth, backup drives, power cords, all the way to confirmation of location-clearance and weather compatibility. Write them down, and cross-check them off one-by-one.

Being prepared is a highly critical yet underrated process. Don’t neglect.

为了防止自己的摄影过程中出现差错,永远记得做好准备。包包里准备好备用的电池、擦拭镜头的清洁布、替换的镜头、电源线、充电器等。

 

3. Use a Tripod

It’s always a good idea to bring a tripod, or mono pod along. No matter how well you can endure long periods of heavy lifting, you’re still human – and your body will eventually grow tired.

Let your tripod do the heavy lifting – plus it provides a higher grantee on producing non-shaky dizziness-inducing results .

准备好三脚架。不论你有多么的小心,手持设备终究会抖动,想要拍出完美的画面,三脚架是必不可少的基础装备。

4. Bring out the Lights

Without proper lighting – your results will suffer. Lighting is the most important aspect to your video and film. It not only ensures ‘visibility’, but clarity, texture, mood.

During your preparation phase, determine the amount of lighting you’ll need.

If you’re shooting just one person, and it’s half-body, perhaps a portable LED light will suffice. However, if your subject consists of 10-15 people, you may need a few wide broadcasting lights for coverage.

The environment (indoor or outdoors?), size of room, subject are all key variables to consider.

光线是摄影作品中最重要的一个环节。摄影作品的气氛、质感和情绪都取决于光线。如果是室外拍摄,早上和中午更适合拍摄;如果是室内摄影,则需要注意让室内光线足够充足。

 

5. Ace the Audio

Your audio happens to be one of the deal breakers. Poor audio quality will always destroy the video experience. Make sure you’ve selected audio that aligns with your

Make sure you’ve selected audio that aligns with your visual imagery, and make sure the quality is never compromised.

This means: Get a good mic, know the right audio recording settings, and know how to edit your sound in post-production. Be savvy across the entire sound creation journey.

We highly recommend getting a sound engineer to tweak your audio, to optimize it for best playback performance across all stereo system.

光线如果是最重要的一点的话,影音则是第二重要的一点。如果是业余拍摄的话,需要注意的一点则是防噪。

5 Quick Lighting Principles You Should Know

5 Key Lighting Principles

摄影时需要注意作品中的光线运用,而你需要知道如何合理利用光线的 5 个基本原则。

1. Key Lighting

You can think of any light that is the dominant light in a scene as a key light.

在室外进行拍摄时,由于太阳光的光线是最强的,我们通常选择自然光作为 Key Light。Key Light 是整个作品的情绪定位关键。

2. Shadow Generation

In lighting, darkness is just as important as light. This darkness can be caused by the absence of light or by an object blocking the light.

当光打向物体的时候,产生的影子可以影响整幅作品的构图与情绪。所以当你在拍摄视频或摄影时,大部分情况下我们选择用 Key Light 来打造想要的阴影效果。

 

 

3. Light Quality Control

The quality of light-whether it is hard or soft-is important in lighting, contributing to the mood of a scene.

柔光、背光等取决于作品的光线质量,比起在现场进行精细调控,这点可以通过后期电脑制作来调整。

 

4. Fill Lighting

Fill light is generally a soft light that doesn’t cast shadows.

你已经在现场调试好了自己的 Key Light ,但你决定你想要再往现场多加入一些光源,这时候通常会选择加入 Fill Light。Fill Light 属于柔光,并不会对拍摄物件制作阴影。通常在加入 fill light 的时候,会选择在 key light 的对面稍下位置加入。

5. Back Lighting

A third type of light commonly used in a three-point lighting setup is the back light.

背光可以加强拍摄人物或物件的存在感与立体感,通常如果拍摄人物与背景有足够的张力时,摄影师不需要再利用 back light 去突出人物的轮廓与棱角。

These are 5 of the most commonly applied lighting principles you should consider for your next shoot.