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By Nate Ellis
Growing up outside Boston in a family of five children, Nathan has always had a strong creative drive. Ever since he was a young child, Nathan has been creating his own stories, characters, music and films. Developing strong interests in both filmmaking and aviation, Nathan decided he could work with both. Read more
Anthony M. Renteria is a digital media artist and freelance writer.
Want a professional looking shot, but only have access to basic hardware store clamp lamps? If you have three of them, in addition to some tin foil, wax paper, a few binder clips (or clothespins), and wire hangers, you will be able to rig your way to a winning shot.
Three lighting sources are all you need to create a basic 3-point lighting set-up. If each light is identical, no worries: there are ways to diffuse that situation. For these setups we’re using some cheap aluminum clamp lights you can pick up at the hardware store for under ten dollars a piece. But before we get too deep into specifics of what the lights and modifiers, let’s review the fundamentals of three-point lighting.
Author: Chris Gates
Typesetting is an art that goes back for centuries and is most often associated with the printed page. Text isn’t the first subject to pop into your mind whenever video is mentioned, but one of the most common tasks you as a video editor will execute is the placement of type inside your videos.
Text is a common element in video, it’s used in a wide variety of ways. Placing text in video can be one of the simplest composites you can make, but it also one of the riskiest elements to use, as it can instantly alter the meaning of a video. There’s a fine line between good typography and poor design in any video. Text needs to be clean and legible while delivering its intended message to the viewing audience. A basic knowledge of typographic rules will help you use text as a powerful design element, something greater than the mere conveyance of words.
Rule of Third
Author: Darren Rowes
The Rule of Thirds is perhaps the most well known principle of photographic composition.
The “Rule of Thirds” one of the first things that budding digital photographers learn about in classes on photography and rightly so as it is the basis for well balanced and interesting shots.
I will say right up front however that rules are meant to be broken and ignoring this one doesn’t mean your images are necessarily unbalanced or uninteresting. However a wise person once told me that if you intend to break a rule you should always learn it first to make sure your breaking of it is all the more effective!