Camera Angles

Crucial videography tips every beginner must know. Tips on selecting the best camcorder. Lessons on how to work with videography equipment including video lighting, filters and microphones. Learn the various types of video camera angles and shots.

In this DVD, the experts at Videomaker go beyond the basics and teach you to use stroyboards, camera angles and shots and camera stabilization techniques. Make more professional looking videos to tell a better story.

Make the screen your canvas and compose a masterpiece!

Ever wonder how they do those special effects? Learn how!

Oh, no! Not the vacation videos! It’s time to teach your family and friends how to make an interesting, entertaining and watchable video journal of their summer vacation.

Introducing an exciting new feature from Videomaker: Interactive tutorials! Every month these articles will link to an on-line training video and clips you can download to recreate the effect or technique. See the end of this story for the link.

So you know about medium shots, wide shots, closeups and even extreme closeups. But why do your videos still lack that special zing?

Football, baseball, hockey, tennis. Swimming, cycling, running and lacrosse. Sports shooting is an art unto itself, and every sport has shooting hurdles to jump.

Learn how to set the stage so that your subjects behave naturally in front of the camera.

Attach a tiny "lipstick cam" to the family dog, and you've got an interesting POV shot that is just one way to go extreme when shooting.

If you visit a Hollywood film production, or sit through its credits, you know it takes busloads of people to get the production in the can. But what if you don't have access to busloads of people?

Wide-angle and telephoto lenses render images differently from the way we naturally see things. Skilled videographers can exploit these differences to create effective shots.

Give some pizzazz to your videos with a few simple techniques.

The world is full of rolling stock, just waiting for you to ride it while you shoot amazing moving shots.

A quick and easy recipe for capturing family memories.

Gaining production value on a project doesn't instantly mean spending money. Here's how to improve the quality of your videos with such simple tools as scripting decisions, camera angles and lighting scenarios.

Videotaping sports events can be just as challenging as the games themselves. Here's a few hints to help you hit a home run with your viewers.

Shots and Scenes

What's Your Angle

Shot Language

Need to shoot an important interview? Learn the craft of staging interviews for the camera by following these expert techniques.

Use creative camera angles to improve your videos.

By creatively positioning your camcorder, you can elicit a wide range of emotional responses from your audience.

Learn to shoot and direct like a pro and the editing will be easy

Creative camera angles can improve the look of your home videos.

Anyone can be a basketball star in this tale that uses editing techniques to make magic on the screen.

Five Tips for Shooting to Edit

Learn how to apply four major directing tools: point of view, composition, perspective and movement.

Make the editing job easier by keeping the editing process in mind when shooting your video.