Thought Piece 3

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 fairly professional seeming video and potentially a client that wants him shooting more of their events.

            Another thing that he brings up is that not moving the camera until you’re seasoned enough to get it. He mentions to start working on getting your still shots to be really good before working on moving shots or even considering adding moving shots. I think that this is important to consider and think about especially as a beginner in the production of video. I think that I tend to have the idea in my head that I can do more than I actually can, then proceed to get disappointed in myself when I don’t succeed at what I attempted and wasn’t ready for. Reading about him saying not to move onto something until you are absolutely read just really helped me get the idea into my head that I can take my time to get good at things j77u7rather than rush into it and be disappointed when it doesn’t turn out.

            Having an establishing shot is really important to the understanding of the videos you create. Stockman talks about how you need to have that establishing shot so that your audience understands where the characters are and what they’re doing. I think having that establishment of where you are and what the people might be doing in the video. It’s important to make sure that you are thinking about what your establishing thought should be and how you should go about it. Reading over Stockman’s examples of good establishing shots in shows and movies or even just videos helped me to consider what good establishing shots would be for the ideas that I have for my videos this semester. I think that sometimes I forget to think about my audience and just assume that they know what I’m doing or where we are and things like that. Which I think leads into why I struggle with captions sometimes, because I just don’t think about the audience not knowing the things that I know.

            Stockman brings up shooting with two cameras to get the perfect shots. He mentions that sometimes you only get one chance to get the perfect shot that you want and that using two cameras will help with this. But with two cameras, he brought up a very important point that I tend to forget about. He says that you need to make sure the white balance in the same in both of your angles. I know that sometimes I forget to correct my white balance to make it consistent and forget about setting my camera to it, I tend to just use auto white balance. This is definitely something that I will need to start keeping in mind while shooting.