Nick Willoughby

Interviewing someone on camera can be tricky; this video gives you some tips on how to position and frame your interview subjects and how to direct them. It’s a good idea to plan your film before beginning the interview. Knowing how to frame your interview subject will help improve your digital film. First, you need to decide on the type of shot you're going to use for your interview subject.

In this video, you learn about the rule of thirds for framing digital video shots and gain a better understanding of the types of shots in filmmaking you can take from extreme wide shots to extreme close-ups. The rule of thirds, although not a rule that can't be broken in filmmaking, is all about how to frame a shot or where to place the subject in the scene.

Digital filmmaking is the process of creating and telling a story or presenting information through the art of film using digital video cameras. Basically, it’s a way creative people like you can turn the ideas in your heads into films audiences can watch on movie screens, TVs, or computers.You can assemble a team to create your film, audition and hire actors, and then shoot your film.

Sharing your digital film with your family and friends is great, but you may want to reach a wider audience. Sharing the film on a video‐hosting site like YouTube is a way to do that. The library of videos on YouTube gets billions of views every day, and some videos there have been viewed hundreds of millions of times.

Filming from different angles and levels can affect the mood or feel of a shot. Filmmakers use levels all the time to help tell their story and to effect the way the audience should feel about a character. Adding different levels to your scenes means changing the height of the camera in relation to your subject.

Checking your footage after each scene you film should become a habit. It’s a good idea to check shots straight after they have been filmed before you move on to the next shot. The last thing you want to do is import your footage at the end of the day and find there are problems with your footage and you can’t use it in the edit.

There are different styles and ways to present information in a documentary. The style you choose for your digital film should depend on the way you think the information should be presented and the style you think would best suit the audience you’re aiming at. The following list explains more about the different styles you can use within your documentary film: Direct: A traditional way of presenting information usually using a voiceover to explain to the audience directly what’s being shown onscreen.

Characters are essential to a digital film because they tell the story through what they do and say. Audiences may not realize it but they build relationships with the characters in a film: They either love them or hate them. It’s good to have characters that are different from each other because it adds to the realism of your film.