When filming sporting events, mark your good clips by filming the ground to easily find your best shots
In full disclosure, I was given this tip by a former student, Kyle Button, who is currently doing some great
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Shooting Tips
The Wedding Playbook: How to plan, prepare, shoot and edit a couple’s BIG day and what we have learned in our first few wedding projects.
Through our Seamless Productions team at the Maize Career Academy (Maize, Kansas) we have started to dive into creating wedding
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Make your own cheap teleprompter with a few simple items
Brian Stiles shared this great video on the JEA Listserv and I had to pass it along. My students have
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JEA Curriculum Highlight: Lighting in Multimedia Broadcast
If you’re looking for a nice unit that spans a couple weeks and will help level your students up with
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Getting sequences with the five-shot method
Many new-to-video-journalism folks have encountered the same problem when they’ve logged and uploaded all their interviews and clips: not enough
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Back to Basics: Focusing an interview
I teach in a small school; currently, we’re under 500 students, and that means I’m working with brand-new students who
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Looking for a good explainer on Aperture for video? Check out this piece by Todd Wolfe
If you’re looking for a nice, quick explainer on how different aperture settings effect video, take a look at this
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Jake Frew offers a few tips beginning tips for taking better video with mobile devices
Looking for a few tips on how to take better video with your smartphone or other mobile device. Here are
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Need some virtual learning? New Unit Available: Making Sense of the Coronavirus Through Media Making
If you’re like many of us, you’re moving to online learning after your school closed to slow the spread of
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