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What Are the Types of Videography?

​​As with any creative endeavor, the types of videography are limited only by your imagination. That being said, there are a few common styles and categories in use today. Let's look at a few of them, along with some examples.

Time-Lapse videos

Whether it's a bank of clouds rolling across a horizon or a seedling sprouting into a tree, these videos use speeded-up footage to give the illusion of time moving at a faster pace than normal.

Interviews

​​In this style, videographers get in front of the camera and interview their subjects. These videos do quite well when live-streamed to social media platforms like Facebook or Instagram.

Product Reviews​​

Consumers rely on reviews from real users before buying a product, which explains why video reviews on YouTube and social media are so popular.

Tutorials and Product Videos​​

These short instructional videos demonstrate knowledge or a skill. Companies often hire videographers to demonstrate the benefits and uses of their products.

Promotional video

This more advanced videography type uses video to showcase a product or service. Whether it's a brand documentary, a marketing campaign or a brand awareness video, these videos help deliver a narrative and raise excitement about a brand and its product or service.

Event Videography

As the name suggests, these videos capture events like a wedding, party, music video, press release, or ceremony.

Documentaries

These non-fiction films turn real life into a narrative. Documentary videographers are well-versed in finding compelling truth in the seemingly mundane.

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What Is Videography?

Videography is the process of capturing video digitally, then editing and producing that video. Videographers use digital cameras and streaming devices to record video projects like recording a concert, documenting the news, or streaming a podcast or vlog.

While videography sounds similar to cinematography, they have a few differences. Videography usually refers to the process of recording live events and using more spontaneous, guerilla-style recording, while cinematography usually refers to highly produced projects with a film crew and a script, like a movie. Cinematography is also usually recorded on film stock rather than on digital devices.

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What are some tips for beginner videographers?

1. Acquire a DSLR or any other interchangeable lens camera with a large sensor that can give you a narrow DOF and clean, immaculate out of focus blur for your important close-ups.

2. Monitor your sound, even if it means you let someone else handle the cameras; keep headphones on and make sure your sound is as good as can be.

3. Go in a day before with a notepad and make a list of things you want to film on location. Then when you go into film, get multiple angles of each of these actions you are there to film. Insufficient footage is usually every beginner's problem (or endless boring footage of the same thing from the same angle). For this you'll have your subject repeat the action as you redo your takes from different angles (front, closeup on face, closeup on hands if performing an action, profile, over their shoulder, etc).

​​4. Get cut-ins and cut-aways things people are looking at, things in the same room with them visible in the establishing shots, etc.

5. Record a few minutes of ambient sound, in case you want to add narration or other sounds later and give these sound inserts a background track to make it sound like it was shot on location.

6. Practice J and L cuts when changing from scene to scene (not shot to shot in the same scene), until you get a feel for using them sparingly and adequately.

​​7. Keep all your cameras on the same frame rate and remember to use it when spitting out your final result (e.g. all cameras record in 24p and then your output should be in 24p). Many beginner horror stories happen when they work in one frame rate, insert some stock footage shot at a different frame rate, and halfway into their 10 minute creation the video and the sound are completely out of sync, and they can't figure out why. These mishaps in editing are frustrating, especially when you have to wait ... and wait ... and wait until you render again to see if the problem was fixed (or not).

8. When you can, get people in your shot, preferably engaged in doing things other than looking at the camera.

9. Edit with a rhythm: push close-in when the matter is important, and punctuate with less important moments shot from a longer distance (or wider lens). Don't keep adding pressure to already existing pressure, just because you figured out how. The viewer needs a break from tension, or they will become stressed.

10. Know your genre don't add smiling faces or incidental humor if your message is serious.

11. Storyboard or "napkin sketch" and explain to your client what you're planning to do before you do it; then deliver it better than they expected. If you do the work first, they will almost certainly want changes when they first see it, with a complete lack of understanding as to what it means for you to move things around and render it all over again.

And above all else, practice as much as you can, and always be learning (and doing). Reading 200 books will make you a better tutor. Shooting and editing 200 projects and handling the respective challenges will make you a better videographer or filmmaker. Practice at every chance. See something worth filming? Think how you would shoot it. Stay active.

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