Ever since my brother purchased a Sony HDV video camera (HVR-Z1U), I've had the desire to somehow get into filming things. I have a few ideas about what I can capture, and hopefully I can get something done during the summer as long as my other web projects don't get in the way. From my recent purchase of the Adobe Master Collection, I now have full access to Premiere and Affter Effects. I have never used these applications but I am very eager to learn.
The things that I have in mind are mostly shorts, but I'd like to work on something a bit longer at some point. Right now, I'm contemplating on how I should distribute the works when completed. There's always YouTube and others like Viddler, Revver, and Vimeo. Maybe I can have my future videos distributed throughout all of them. I don't have any skills in this art whatsoever, so any and all advice on how to get started is welcome.
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I wrote a piece on this on my blog.
But in short, be prepared. Know what you want before you get there. It also helps to scout locations before the shoot date.
Don't sacrifice quality by compromising with cast or crew in order to stop people's feelings getting hurt.
Check out my blog post for a couple more pointers.
Good luck with your future projects. 😉