IL2007, Day 3: Do You Need a Videographer?
Posted on November 1, 2007
Filed Under Video Casting, Videoblogging |
Nick Baker
He started out by taking a digital storytelling workshop. That started him paying attention to storytelling in film.
Anyone can do this! Nick is not a professional videographer - he’s a reference and web services librarian who took a class or two on video and (more importantly) had an interest.
His administrators support him - even his failures
biggest investment with video is time.
Tips:
- finding actors - find people who like to be filmed; easier to film when they don’t think they’re actually being filmed
- musical soundtrack is vital - take advantage of “tolerated use” - give credit and borrow selectively
- Sound - narraration - extraneous noises tend to amplify. fade-in/out - even just the sound - that will help the noises be less jarring
- do voice overs - you can do several takes, have a more controlled environment
- or let the video tell the story without the spoken word - show the story visually, or overlay text on the video
get a library YouTube account - don’t use your own!
work at DVD quality and then compress for the web - match YouTube’s compression then upload to YouTUbe - helps get a slightly cleaner video
Time - his experience - 1 minute of finished video requires a day of work or more (my experience is much less than that, but then my videos tend to be less polished, as well)
look for ways to make video reusable
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I’ve been playing with making videos on my own time and posting them at http://www.youtube.com/user/TopekaLibrary for awhile now. Like the person mentioned in this presentation, I am a reference librarian. This isn’t in my job descriiption. I don’t have any training in videography, and I also am using equipment (digital camera, microphone headset, editing software that came preloaded on our computers) from around my house. Overall this has been a fun experience for me, but it takes me 5-6 hours to complete a one minute video, so I honestly can’t conceptualize ever being able to accomplish this type of project on work time. Do any other librarians have insight into this time vs. results issue? Thanks!
It depends on the computer speed but for me I have a fast computer and making the videos for the web takes me a long time also.