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Shooting Awesome Video is the world’s best complete beginning course on shooting high quality video.
If your video footage looks like ”Blair Witch” or “Cloverfield”, and you wish it looked more like “Amelie” or “Hero”, Shooting Awesome Video is the perfect learning experience. It is like a complete “consumer film school” for anyone who wants to dramatically improve the quality of the video footage they shoot.
Shooting Awesome Video is not meant for professionals. It was created for novices who wish to learn …
In this movie, do-it-yourself handyman Eric Schultheis shows a method of making a professional quality backdrop for video or photography very inexpensively, and tips for mounting it in a basement or garage.
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The DV Enlightenment DVD is a brilliant and highly enlightening course in Hollywood lighting for DV from DVcreators.net for anyone wanting to shoot stunningly beautiful, cinematic quality footage—for filmmaking, marketing projects, broadcast, special interest video, education or any other purpose.
DV Enlightenment Course Overview
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The Constellation3 Large SilverDome Kit is our multi-lamp, continuous lighting solution. The Constellation3 will accept our CoolStar CFL lamps (daylight-balanced), or our Starlite lamps (tungsten-balanced).
The Constellation3 features three lamps sockets each with an individual power switch. One power cord can supply power for two sockets; two power cords supply full power to all three sockets.
Includes:
- Constellation3 light head
- Large SilverDome soft box (36″ x 48″)
- 3 CoolStar 150 CFLs
- 3 Starlite 1000w lamps
- LiteStand 2320Y (12 feet)
- Tilt Swivel
- 2 power cords
- Transpac Dual Kit Case
Great lighting solution for videographers and photographers shooting with daylight color conditions.
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If your projects are going to be delivered on DVD or broadcast, it’s important to have an accurate studio monitor on your desk so you can see your project as your viewers will see it while you’re editing.
Why?
First, many editing programs show you a low quality “proxy” of your timeline, so you can’t judge color correction, brightness, saturation, contrast, how titles or graphics will look, or any other aspect of the picture accurately.
Can I just enable a second computer monitor to show video and that will work?
With some editing programs, you can enable a second monitor to show a …
Includes 15 feet of track that breaks down into 5 foot sections for travel or storage. Self centering, self aligning wheels and track. 12 bearings for super smooth camera motion just like in feature films. Quick-lock tripod foot mounting. Manfact. # 210049
Pro Max Tracking Dolly System 15′
Availability: Usually ships the same / next business day
Price: $419
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I’d say the following are must-haves, but if you scan the links below you’ll find some helpful descriptions of each and what they are good for (moonlight, water effects, sunrise, etc.):
(And for you computer geeks out there, NO, YOU CAN’T SHOOT WITHOUT GELS AND GET THESE EFFECTS IN POST! 
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Each shooter will have a unique selection, since you might be doing a lot of nighttime scenes, or interviews, or shooting under fluorescents, or who knows?
General
Cinelux #18: Flame
Warm pinkish amber. …
32″ 5-IN-1 Reflector
Availability: Usually ships same/next day
List Price $99
Price: $59.95
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Veteran DPs (directors of photography) will shoot camera tests in advance of filming a project - trying different lenses and different camera settings to achieve the visual style and effect they want for the film. Rolling some tape well in advance of your shoot, in one of your locations or somewhere similar and experimenting will give you a huge advantage on the day of the shoot.
This means you won't be burning time experimenting with camera settings, filters, and mics on the actual shoot- just concentrating on getting the framing and performance you want. This will lead
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The most important secret of shooting video to look like film is: Your knowledge.
Next time you watch a favorite feature film, watch as the hero enters his or her flat. The shafts of sunlight streaming in through the windows form striking diagonals in the frame, infusing the scene with drama and (literal) atmosphere.
Waitaminnit- have they forgetten to dust for the last decade? Did they just burn a souffle? Or has a crowd of chain-smoking fiends just left?
Actually, they’ve simply run a fog machine on the set before shooting to "put some particle in the air". For some of you, picking up a $50 - $100 fog …
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