by MisterTickle

Created on: April 22, 2009

You buy a super duper really nice camcorder and you want to start making videos. You also come to one problem. You do not know where to start. However there are some things to understand and remember when you start making a video. Note that anyone can make a video, but only some can make a good one.

To start off, it is best to see some videos made by others. By judging on it, see how some people can make better videos than others. Think that why is it that some videos appear to be better than others. Right away, you can definitely tell the difference between those that are good and those that aren't.

The videos have titles and have topics. Does the video content match the video title and topic? This is a great question to ask yourself when you finish making the video. If it does not match, it is most likely not suitable. It must also have a good point of view. So there will be no backs and the face should always face the camcorder. This will help greatly for people to like your video or not. When you watch television, the screen is never shaking. Viewers will simply not bother to watch your video clip if the screen is shaking no matter how good it is.

This next thing is really easy and most should know and perfect it really easily. When someone else is talking, angle the camera or camcorder towards them so it looks like that they are talking. Don't focus it somewhere else for example at the sky or on the ground. This is a really easy thing to keep in mind, but yet some people still make this mistake. One way to not make this mistake is to pretend that when you look through the camcorder, those are your eyes. So then basically you want to capture what you want to see because others will see it as well. This is a really easy conception to remember.

There are in addition moods to remember such as happy, sad, and funny and that type of stuff. Also there is what is called the type. Such as is it informative, news like, telling a story? This is extremely important because if you are telling something informative and your emotion is funny or goofy, then you are not passing a good quality enough job with the message.

Note that you just can't simply tape videos and play it all at once. Since that there will be a few stop and start so something should be there for an interchange. For some people, using windows movie maker is a good idea. It is a default application on your computer. There you will be able to insert the transitions.

There are many ways to get your video to be better than others. It is best if you have a stand. This would be extremely useful to a non shaking environment and would increase views of your videos. Videos are supposed to also be very easy to understand. It is best to not make it look all scientific using a variety of big words. This is due to the fact that when most would watch this video and not understand it, later on they will not bother about it. They may even from beginning to end skip this video. These are the things to keep in mind in order to make a great video.

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