'How to Shoot Video that Doesn't Suck' (amzn.to/sgLitL) is available now wherever you buy books or download your reading material.It's published by Workman Publishing. I'm a writer/director in LA. I really love to teach, and I wrote the book based largely on my work teaching music video.
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Newly updated and revised, How to Shoot Video That Doesn't Suck is a quick and easy guide that will make your video better instantly—whether you read it cover to cover or just skim a few chapters. It's about the language of video and how to think like a director, regardless of equipment (amateurs think about the camera, pros think about communication). It's about the rules developed over a century of movie-making—which work just as well when shooting a two-year-old's birthday party on your phone. Written by Steve Stockman, the director of the award-winning feature Two Weeks, plus TV shows, music videos, and hundreds of commercials, How to Shoot Video That Doesn't Suck explains in 74 short, pithy, insightful chapters how to tell a story and entertain your audience. In other words, how to shoot video people will want to watch. Here's how to think in shots—how to move-point-shoot-stop-repeat, instead of planting yourself in one spot and pressing 'Record' for five minutes. Why never to shoot until you see the whites of your subject's eyes.
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Why to 'zoom' with your feet and not the lens. How to create intrigue on camera. The book covers the basics of video production: framing, lighting, sound (use an external mic), editing, special effects (turn them off!), and gives advice on shooting a variety of specific situations: sporting events, parties and family gatherings, graduations and performances.
Plus, how to make instructional and promotional videos, how to make a music video, how to capture stunts, and much more. At the end of every chapter is a suggestion of how to immediately put what you've learned into practice, so the next time you're shooting you'll have begun to master the skill. Steve's website (stevestockman.com) provides video examples to illustrate different production ideas, techniques, and situations, and his latest thoughts on all things video. Newly updated and revised, How to Shoot Video That Doesn't Suck is a quick and easy guide that will make your video better instantly—whether you read it cover to cover or just skim a few chapters. It's about the language of video and how to think like a director, regardless of equipment (amateurs think about the camera, pros think about communication).
How To Shoot Video That Doesn't Suck - Steve Stockman.epub
It's about the rules developed over a century of movie-making—which work just as well when shooting a two-year-old's birthday party on your phone. Written by Steve Stockman, the director of the award-winning feature Two Weeks, plus TV shows, music videos, and hundreds of commercials, How to Shoot Video That Doesn't Suck explains in 74 short, pithy, insightful chapters how to tell a story and entertain your audience.
In other words, how to shoot video people will want to watch. Here's how to think in shots—how to move-point-shoot-stop-repeat, instead of planting yourself in one spot and pressing 'Record' for five minutes. Why never to shoot until you see the whites of your subject's eyes. Why to 'zoom' with your feet and not the lens. How to create intrigue on camera.
The book covers the basics of video production: framing, lighting, sound (use an external mic), editing, special effects (turn them off!), and gives advice on shooting a variety of specific situations: sporting events, parties and family gatherings, graduations and performances. Plus, how to make instructional and promotional videos, how to make a music video, how to capture stunts, and much more. At the end of every chapter is a suggestion of how to immediately put what you've learned into practice, so the next time you're shooting you'll have begun to master the skill. Steve's website (stevestockman.com) provides video examples to illustrate different production ideas, techniques, and situations, and his latest thoughts on all things video.
The title of Steve Stockman’s book, How to Shoot Video That Doesn’t Suck, is unfortunate. It’s too flip, too cool, and offensive—so bad that I cannot imagine ordering it for my classes because for an academic text, I want a book whose title at the very least conveys the seriousness of the endeavor. This one does not. Worse, the book fails to offer much beyond a cursory introduction to the foundational elements of videomaking. And although Stockman writes in the opening section, “A Couple of Notes,” about the “the practical pointlessness of the distinction” (n. Pag.) between film and video, there is one, if only aspirational: no one would call Coppola a videomaker or call a You-Tuber who shoots her little sister playing with the cat a filmmaker. Getting past the title, prerequisites for a book about filmmaking or videomaking are (1) an explanation of the foundational elements of visual storytelling as they relate to film and/or (2) an explanation of the technical underpinnings of modern filmmaking.
How To Shoot Video That Doesn't Sucker
Stockman dismisses the second in the preliminary “Couple of Notes” section by declaring that his “book doesn’t care what kind of camera you use, or how it connects to your computer, or how many ‘p’s’ there are in your HD.” This book, Stockman continues, is “about your ingredients and how you put them together” (n. End Page 60 For the “ingredients,” though, a book needs to provide detail beyond the obvious.
But Stockman is not too interested in detail, and this is a major flaw of the book. How to Shoot Video That Doesn’t Suck tells the reader everything in the chapter titles: “Nobody Watches Bad Video”; “If You Wing It, It Will Suck” (he really likes this word); “Add Music”; and “Great Effects Make Your Video Pop.” Because of this, it is unclear just whom this book is written for.
At first, the book appears as if it wants to be a quick how-to for aspiring filmmakers or videomakers. But although an introductory book has its place, it has to compete with two classics: The Filmmaker’s Handbook by Steven Ascher and Edward Pincus and Film Directing Shot by Shot: Visualization from Concept to Screen by Steven Katz. Ascher and Pincus cover every aspect of the filmmaking process—technical, practical, and theoretical; Katz details the visual vocabulary and language used by directors as they navigate pre-visualization and preproduction collaboration with other artists and craftspeople. Nevertheless, Katz, Ascher, and Pincus approach the subject as if talking to a student filmmaker, whereas Stockman is talking to an aspiring “YouTuber.” And this difference is why How to Shoot Video That Doesn’t Suck fails as an academic text but may thrive on Amazon (where the title alone will get immediate notice). The average YouTuber searching for a book on Amazon is more concerned with views (and getting “partner” status).
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