Top 10 Videography Tips to Make Your Videos more Professional

Creating a business video? A travel video? A family function video? Or some other kind of video? Your sole requirement with the result would be to have an awesome video that is purely professional looking.

Creating an inspiring video that everyone loves to watch isn’t something that comes to professional videographers. Even an individual can make use of factors, right strategy to create great videos.

What You Need to Create a Professional Video?

Do you think having expensive videography equipment would fulfil your requirement? Is spending on videography and filmmaking workshop is essential? No, creating professional looking videos depends a lot more on how you capture your shots and how you proceed with editing taking in account all the related aspects, and not just your video equipment.

10 Timeless Tips for Creating Any Video in High Quality

1. What is Your Video Lighting?

This is one factor that all professional videographers and also photographers would be aware of. Right lighting casts the right impact on your video quality. Lighting sources and the intensity of it is what you need to look at when starting making a video.

• • Natural lighting is something that you have less control on, but it is the best type lighting and make sure you have ample natural lighting when you are making a video.

• • On a cloudy or rainy day when you are shooting outside, you will have to resort to adding artificial lighting, with lighting equipment angled in right way and adjusted as per your video requirement. Adding artificial lighting also allows you to add effects as needful.

2. Have the Right Video Equipment

Talking about equipment, this one won’t trouble you much as we live in an age where we can find digital cameras and all the professional filters and equipment that you can use for creating personal, professional and recreational videos.

• • • Make sure you shoot more in landscape more
    • Have the right filter used
    • Having a reliable tripod, a stabilizer for steady handheld shots are equipment that comes to great use

3. Plan Video Shoot

• • • When shooting a film, music or a commercial video, you should proceed with as per the storyboard.
    • Create a guide before-hand to pre-visualize the footage, and this also helps to outline the desired shots.
    • When shooting an event like a wedding, you have to have knowledge of shooting every important moment, by creating a shot list, pre-defining the shoot angle and focusing on creating a natural finish.

4. Choose Your Background/Backdrop

The background has to be as clean, simple and as clutter-free as possible. Interviews, documentaries are where the backdrop is simple and clean. For shooting an event, the backdrop must be fully relatable to the story the video is telling. For commercial, music or film shooting, the background has to be relatable but not what deviates viewer away from the actors in that. A travel video shoot must bring out the authenticity of the nature, place you are shooting.

5. Your Video Shots Should be Steady

Viewing a video that is shaking won’t do any good for you, unless it is shot on purpose. It is something that no one expects in today’s time. Use a tripod, or keep the camera on a steady or flat surface, and when moving make sure to move the camera slowly, keep constant speed and avoid any unnecessary stops or moves.

6. Be Creative

A plain and simple video creation is age-old method, and not what contemporary video shoots are expected. An interesting video creation is unlike what a surveillance camera would do. Learn different shooting techniques, experiment with different angles, put in props (but that shouldn’t create clutter), and bring an imagination to your video making.

7. Capturing Good Sound is Very Important

A creative and inspiring video is not about what one sees, but also about what one hears in that. There is no point in creating a video wherein you see something but aren’t able to understand the conversation, or the music, or any other important sound essential to the video. Monitor the sound and avoid unwanted audio.

8. Frame Your Shots Properly

A beginner may mistake when shot framing, and poor composition is another thing that they may commit. You need to practice framing your shot, by ordering the visual elements into the camera’s framing. Remember the rule of thirds- put emphasis on the subject, create smooth frame and create more depth in your shot.

9. Avoid Unnecessary Elements

Do you hit the zoom button when you take up the camera? Do you pan every horizon even if it’s unnecessary? Most of the time, what is happening has to dictate the captured motion naturally, and thereby unnecessary zooms, pans and such are not needed. Also, make sure you aren’t relying on autofocus all the time. For this you can take help from some video editing experts if you already recorded video.

10. Proceed with Professional Editing

• • • Make sure you have great and professional video editing software, an aspect that can make or break your raw footage’s end result.
    • Ensure you go about with simple and clean editing, without going crazy when it comes to adding effects.
    • Adjust the lighting, use noise cancellation, and remove awkward silences, pauses.
    • Add transitions and music when needed.

Following these tips will definitely help you in churning out a video that would create great story telling or create a cinematic experience with your event video.