Shooting Videos

Master practical filming techniques, camera movements, and lighting tips for professional-looking family videos. Learn how to capture clear audio, steady footage, and compelling storytelling on screen.

How to Shoot Your Video

It’s often the rush to just grab the camcorder and film away on the spur of the moment that makes a lot of home videos come across as boring and amateurish...

How to Use a Zoom Lense

One of the major problems when you’re a novice with a camcorder is the apparent ‘need’ to play around with all the special effects and to incorporate t...

How Your Camcorder Works

Although camcorders can often baffle people with the myriad of features contained within them they all have 3 basic components – the lens, the imager and t...

Moving With Your Camera

Whilst many amateur home movie makers make the fatal mistake of moving with the camera in the wrong way there are correct procedures to moving with your came...

Setting the Scene for Your Video

In planning your video the narrative is likely to be the main driving force in telling your story, but it’s crucial that the visual and audible components...

Shooting Underwater Videos

For the purposes of this article, let’s assume that you’ve firstly understood the type of equipment you’ll have needed to purchase and/or adapt for und...