Chapter 15
Covering Events on Video
In This Chapter
• Shooting weddings, Bar Mitzvahs, and the like
• Family reunions, travelogues, etc.
• Sporting events and parades
• Concerts, stage plays, and similar events
This chapter covers tips and techniques for shooting video at common family and group events. Remember that when you put together a video like this, you basically are shooting a documentary. A documentary for a limited audience in many cases, to be sure, but a documentary nonetheless.
Documentary Basics
What are the most basic elements, techniques, and methods of documentaries?
• Original footage of real people in action, of events and surroundings
• Archival footage and/or still photographs
• Interviews with the principals
• Voice-overs ...
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