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MASTERING VIDEOGRAPHY

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Description:	Learn professional level video shooting and editing skills plus tips, tricks and techniques only hollywood filmmakers and broadcast professionals know. Also downloadable content and lots of fun. We are trying to add new information weekly that you can employ immediately. We'll also offer reviews on equipment and "Do it yourself" building projects for homemade equipment and so much more. Nuthin but fun baby, nuthin but fun!
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PAST SHOWS

Title:	15 Natural Sound Up’s…NAT Pops
Date:	Sun, 13 Apr 2008 23:44:01 PDT
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Description:	A NAT Pop is bringing in a natural sound burst into your video. Watch your morning or evening news and any story the photog. had time to edit will incorporate NAT Pops.

Title:	14 Lens Filters To Keep
Date:	Fri, 11 Apr 2008 10:26:28 PDT
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Description:	Lens filters once allowed all sorts of special effects. Star filters made twinkly stars wherever a highlight appeared in frame. Gradient filters turned boring skies into dark stormy skies or brilliant sunsets. Even defusion filters to get that Vaseline smeared-on-the-lens dreamy look from your video camera. Of course for this effect a pair of nylons [...]

Title:	13 Keep it Clean Boys and Girls
Date:	Sat, 29 Mar 2008 16:03:06 PDT
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Description:	I hate cleaning my lens. It scares me, damn things expensive, but I’ve seen a lot of video ruined behind a dirty lens. Try and shoot a beautiful sunset behind a dirty lens and the beautiful sunset will be the second thing your viewers will notice. So keep it clean but CAREFULLY.

Title:	11 Creating a Fight Scene
Date:	Sat, 29 Mar 2008 16:02:42 PDT
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Description:	Fight scenes in movies are just really long sequences. Since the last two episodes you should be shooting sequences all the time now. I’m going to show you how you can make two people who have actually no idea how to fight, look pretty good in a fight scene. It all has to do with [...]

Title:	10 Sequences and Effort
Date:	Sat, 29 Mar 2008 15:15:57 PDT
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Description:	Last time we talk about shooting sequences to make your videos more interesting. This time I’m going to show you the effort it takes to shoot a sequence. It takes time to shoot sequences but the end result is always worth it.

Title:	09 Sequences for Audience Appreciation
Date:	Sat, 29 Mar 2008 15:12:27 PDT
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Description:	A sequence is a way of editing a group of video clips together so they make sense. Does that make sense? You have to really think ahead to shoot a decent sequence. They include different angles, cutaways and a lot of changing your scale; You’ll see.

Title:	08 Screen Direction
Date:	Sat, 29 Mar 2008 15:06:58 PDT
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Description:	Screen Direction is another one of those gotchas that can fool even the most seasoned reporters. Believe me, Ive seen it a lot. So here’s another taste of the mastering Videography DVD. I hope it helps.

Title:	07 Action Move for Continuity
Date:	Sat, 29 Mar 2008 13:42:11 PDT
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Description:	Action Move is a continuity technique. Its a very specific technique that should not be used all the time but its interesting if you have a reason to use it. So here is another tool for your toolbox.

Title:	06 Contrast Ratio
Date:	Sat, 29 Mar 2008 13:38:48 PDT
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Description:	Contrast ratio has a lot to do with our last tutorial on the iris. You see contrast ratio is the difference between the lightest and darkest objects in a shot. Unfortunately video doesn’t do very well with this and the iris we talked about last time is the tool that has to deal with it. Here’s [...]

Title:	05 Oh Mighty Iris
Date:	Sat, 29 Mar 2008 13:33:42 PDT
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Description:	Every video camera has an iris. Hopefully your camera doesn’t just offer and auto iris. Yeesh, I hate those things. Here’s a little diddy about the iris and why its so important for your videos exposure.

Title:	04 Split Edits
Date:	Sat, 29 Mar 2008 13:30:43 PDT
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Description:	Split edit are simply an editing technique. Picture two shots and a strait cut between them. …. No really, picture 2 shots together. Now picture that edit point and just before the edit from the first video clip to the second video clip the audio from the second video comes first. Just a split second [...]

Title:	03 A Simple Instructional Video
Date:	Sat, 29 Mar 2008 13:24:53 PDT
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Description:	Shooting an instructional video shouldn’t be that hard. Here’s a standard way to shoot a simple training video. Don’t take this one lightly. This is how many types of productions are shot. Keeping these strategies in mind you could shoot all kinds of different video productions.

Title:	02 Zooming
Date:	Fri, 28 Mar 2008 13:07:09 PDT
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Description:	All video cameras have a zoom lens. Well, maybe not some of those stationary security cameras. The problem is most people use this like its a ride at a theme park. Its so easy; just push that little lever and you zoom in. Push it the other way and you zoom out … in … [...]

Title:	01 Homemade PopFilter
Date:	Thu, 27 Mar 2008 20:56:57 PDT
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Description:	Plosives are a real pain in my .. well, lets just say I make a lot of them. Plosives are those annoying pops people sometimes make when talking into a microphone. P’s and B’s cause a lot of them. Its a burst of air hitting the microphone.

Title:	Major Malfunction
Date:	Wed, 26 Mar 2008 19:25:37 PDT
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Description:	Well folks, the Mastering Videography web site is totally thrashed. I had to completely reinstall a new WordPress blog and nothing from the old is coming to the new. So I’m going to have to manually re-enter all the tutorials and rebuild this site. If you’re looking for the Mastering Videography DVD it’s here. If you [...]