Knowing how to focus your shots and pick what you want to shoot is very important when it comes to thinking about your video and what you want from it. He mentioned thinking ahead about the things you want to shoot and exactly what shots you want to get. Stockman brings up the example of knowing and videoing moments in a wedding, how he had to think about what would be happening next and what people would want in the video. By doing so, he said that he was able to get a fairl

The biggest part of this portion of the book that stood out to me was that you need to be able to adjust to your location and absolutely KNOW your plans for a video. Stockman talks about a lot of different examples of filming ideas so there’s not a ton of helpful information in this part to me because of it mostly being examples. However, adjusting and knowing everything beforehand stood out a lot. While I did find some of his examples to make this an easier read and think th

At the beginning of this reading, we learn about kind of the rules of video production. A couple of these rules that stick out to me were moving around and keeping things short. With moving around, I found it helpful to think about how my mind works. I thought about how my eyes wander all over the place and gather a lot of information about where I am, and I think it’s important to incorporate that into videos. I feel like a lot of people are the same way in having their eyes