This session from the 2014 NDSU Extension Support Staff Conference is on tips for shooting high-quality photos, recording a high-quality video, and getting that video onto YouTube and/or a webpage.

1. Filmmaking tips
• Lighting - early morning or late afternoon
– Inside – try to use windows
– Clothing not too bright or too dark
• Keep eye on background
– Nothing too distracting
• Change up your shots (WS, MS, CU)
• Move, don’t zoom
– Better sound this way too!

2. • Framing and Composition
– Headroom, nose room
• Center vs. Off-center
– Showing more action
Bad nose room Good nose room
Bad headroom Good headroom

3. • Interviews
– Put camera at eye level.
– Try not to cut off at neck.
• Bad audio can ruin good video!
– Get close
– Avoid windy days
– Be aware of distracting noises
– Use Headphones!
• Shoot to edit
– “Internal editing” or “in-camera editing”
– But also get a lot of video
• Panning and Tilting
– Less movement the better
– Establish a shot for a few seconds

4. Planning Your Shoot
• Why do a video?
– Convey a message, show how to do something, or
just for fun
• What level of quality do I want the video to
be?
• How fast does it need to be done?
• Outline
• Storyboard

5. • Script
• Interviews
– Help figure out who you want to interview
• Planning Your Shots and Locations
– Lighting, Background (nothing too distracting, Props
(have everything ready)
– Logging or shot list
– Start off with something to grab the audiences
attention.

6. Helpful Links
• “Creating High-Quality Images” Video
• “How To Capture High-Quality Video”
• Watch 5 minute YouTube tutorial for
Microsoft Movie Maker. For more info,
Go to the Movie Maker site on
Microsoft.com

7. Helpful Links
• Videos
– “Creating High-Quality Images”
– “How to Capture High-Quality Video”
– Movie Maker tutorial on YouTube
– Movie maker website

8. YouTube and AgCMS
• Read "Uploading Video to YouTube" and
upload your video to YouTube
• Read "Embedding Video in Ag CMS" or
"Embed a YouTube Video in TYPO3",
and embed your video into an Ag CMS or
TYPO3 page