From a media ministry training workshop where participants developed their video story and then learned about shot composition, types, sequences and listing as well as storyboarding.

1. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uLhWQXEWp2w

2. Work out your story
https://s3.amazonaws.com/takeaction2013/Vimeo/YourFourPs.pdf

3. Getting the
Shots

4. The Rule of Thirds

7. http://www.stevestockman.com/5
-tips-shoot-better-video-instantly/

8. Get Better Video By:
1. Thinking in shots
2. Getting close to the person/action
before recording
3. Not moving the camera while
shooting
4. Making sure the brightest light is
behind you, not your subject
5. Keeping it short!

9. Thinking in Shots- Shot Types
http://revision3.com/filmriot/cameratechniques

10. Long Shot (or Full Shot)
Shows entirety of the subject as well as its
setting
Head to toe for a person
http://revision3.com/filmriot/cameratechniques

11. Medium Shot
Hips (not knees) up for a person
http://revision3.com/filmriot/cameratechniques

12. Medium Close Up Shot
Mid-to-lower chest up for a person
http://revision3.com/filmriot/cameratechniques

13. Close Up Shot
Top of shoulders up for a person
http://revision3.com/filmriot/cameratechniques

14. Extreme Close Up Shot
Fill the shot with the subject
A closer look at something than we would
typically have.
http://revision3.com/filmriot/cameratechniques

15. Shot Types
Closer is better for viewing on a
mobile screen. It is better not to
use the long shots (and perhaps
even the wide shots) for mobile
screens

16. Shot Sequences
Putting different types of shots together in a
sequence that helps to tell the story.
In opening scenes you will often have a
sequence/progression from wider shots,
(giving more “setting” information) to closer
shots (giving more detail/emotional
information)

17. Making Rice Paper
in Cambodia
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X1F88mDW_oM

18. Shot Types &
Sequences (2)
Mindy McAdam’s “5 Shots 10
Seconds” guide to shooting
https://www.jou.ufl.edu/faculty/mmcadams/video/five_shot.html

19. 5 Shots 10 Seconds
Hands Shot
Close-up
https://www.jou.ufl.edu/faculty/mmcadams/video/five_shot.html

20. 5 Shots 10 Seconds
Face
Close Up (answers “Whose hands?”)
https://www.jou.ufl.edu/faculty/mmcadams/video/five_shot.html

21. 5 Shots 10 Seconds
Hands & Face
Medium Close Up+ (answers “What’s going on?”)
https://www.jou.ufl.edu/faculty/mmcadams/video/five_shot.html

22. 5 Shots 10 Seconds
Over-the-Shoulder
Medium Close Up (Gives sense of subject’s
perspective)
https://www.jou.ufl.edu/faculty/mmcadams/video/five_shot.html

23. 5 Shots 10 Seconds
“Other” Shot
Something creative/helpful to telling the story
https://www.jou.ufl.edu/faculty/mmcadams/video/five_shot.html

24. 5 Shots 10 Seconds
Count it down!!!
Shots seem long when shooting but not
long enough when editing
10 and 9 and 8 and
7 and 6 and 5 and
4 and 3 and 2 and
1 and

25. Shot Listing
What is a shot list?
A list of shots 
Why do it?
- So you think through which shots would best
tell your story
- To make sure to get those shots and aren’t
sitting in front of your computer editing and
wishing you had gotten more/different shots

26. Shot Listing
How do you do it?
- Break your story/script into scenes
- Determine what shots would best communicate
that scene to viewers
- Write it down
- Subject matter to be shot
- Type of shot
- Angle of shot
- Etc.

27. Shot Listing
How do you do it? (continued)
- Have the list with you and check it off when
you are shooting and/or gathering media
The visual alternative- storyboarding

28. Shot Listing
How do you do it? (continued)
- Have the list with you and check it off when
you are shooting and/or gathering media
The visual alternative- storyboarding

29. Storyboarding
Vimeo Video School
http://vimeo.com/17451230

30. Hop To It!
Now it’s time to break your story
into scenes and start shot
listing/storyboarding it