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Filming sequences: ideas for filming action & activities

by Ann Wright, April 11, 2022

Filming sequences

When you’re filming, one way to make your finished video more interesting is to include action and activities, rather than static shots of people sitting at desks or the outside of buildings. Often however, when you come to edit the results of filming action, the results are difficult to cut together effectively and end up […]

Filed Under: Television and Video Production Tagged With: DIY video production, filming sequences, Video production

Our mobile video training course: what you learn

by Ann Wright, September 4, 2021

Unless you’ve been living under a rock, you’ll know video dominates the Internet. YouTube is the most second most popular website in the world (behind Google, which, of course, owns the video platform); Facebook now prioritises video, particularly live video; and even LinkedIn, home of the business article, welcomes video – with video campaigns having […]

Filed Under: Guest posts, Television and Video Production Tagged With: mobile video training, Smart video

What to expect if you’re a “presenter’s friend”

by Ann Wright, July 23, 2021

presenter's friend

What can you expect if a TV programme wants you to appear as a “presenter’s friend”, an expert interviewee the presenter can turn to for clarification, analysis or information about an issue? This is what we were asked ahead of a recent training course. The client asked us to help prepare one of their experts […]

Filed Under: Media Training, Television and Video Production Tagged With: Expertise, Media interviews, Presenter's friend

Legal checks when making a video

by Ann Wright, January 20, 2021

Legal checks for videos

Companies and organisations are increasingly using videos shot on mobile phones to promote themselves and their campaigns. As well as being relatively cheap, they can be fun to work on and – when well done – reap huge benefits. But there are also pitfalls if you fail to carry out relevant checks before filming and […]

Filed Under: General, Television and Video Production Tagged With: Legal checks for videos, Smartphone video

Covid filming precautions

by Ann Wright, October 20, 2020

Covid Filming precautions

Over the past couple of weeks, we’ve started filming again – after summer spent in pre-production of the videos we’re currently working on. In this new corona-virus world, this means we’ve had to think carefully about how to keep our shoots safe, so I thought it would be worth sharing the Covid filming precautions we […]

Filed Under: News and Views, Television and Video Production Tagged With: Covid filming precautions, Video production

Planning a video

by Ann Wright, June 29, 2020

What do you need to consider when you’re planning a video? Traditionally the process of creating a video is divided into “pre-production” (planning), “production” (filming) and “post-production” (editing). The more organised you are in pre-production, the smoother production, and post-production will go – and the better the final video. While the questions below are aimed […]

Filed Under: Television and Video Production Tagged With: Planning a video, Video planning, videoproduction

Top tips for brilliant DIY business video

by Ann Wright, October 13, 2017

Video is becoming more and more important as a way of communicating with clients, staff and the wider world. Paul Curran, who leads our Smart Video training courses, has written this brilliant guide to DIY business video.  What would you rather do – read five pages of text or watch a two minute video? If […]

Filed Under: General, Television and Video Production Tagged With: DIY Business Video, Smart video

Video production training: how to film a sequence

by Ann Wright, July 27, 2017

If you are producing a video which shows an activity, rather than a talking head, then you will need to know how to film a sequence. A sequence shows the action as it happens – and it is very simple to film. As we demonstrated in our last Smart Video production training course, all you need […]

Filed Under: All posts, Television and Video Production Tagged With: Video production training, Video sequences

Video content: storage best practice

by Ann Wright, April 28, 2017

Smartphone video training

We recently ran our smartphone video training course for a PR agency, who plan to use their skills to create content for clients. One issue which cropped up was how to store the huge quantities of rushes they were likely to film. Here, our Smart Video expert, Paul Curran, gives his top tips: Content is king […]

Filed Under: All posts, Television and Video Production Tagged With: Smart video, Video content management, Video production

How produce a video on your phone

by Ann Wright, January 26, 2017

Here are two videos produced by trainees on our new Smart Video course which showed them how to produce videos using their smartphone. We ran our first course for the Churches Conservation Trust, training nine volunteers and staff to film and edit short videos of the churches under their care. The idea is that these will be […]

Filed Under: All posts, Television and Video Production Tagged With: Do it yourself video, How to produce a video on your phone, Smart video, Video production training

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