Video Production Part One (Tutorial Four)

The Basics
How do I add a video to my blog or web page?

• You'll need to edit the HTML of your blog entry or page—this should be relatively straightforward. In Blogger, for example, just click the "Edit HTML" tab.


• Next, go to the video that you want, and look for the 'Embed' box in the "About This Video" section. Copying the HTML code that's there into your website will create an embedded player; the video will play within your site when the user clicks on the 'Play' button.
  You can re size the player by editing the object width="425" and height="350" fields at both the beginning and end of the embedded player code.


• Make sure that the sizes you choose have the same ratio as the default numbers, so that the video doesn't get stretched—just multiply the width by 0.8235 to get the height. http://www.youtube.com/youtubeonyoursite#

What is YOUTUBE?

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/YouTube

YouTube is a video sharing website where users can upload, view and share video clips. Three former PayPal employees created YouTube in February 2005.[2] In November 2006, YouTube, LLC was bought by Google Inc. for US$1.65 billion, and is now operated as a subsidiary of Google.
The company is based in San Bruno, California, and uses Adobe Flash Video technology to display a wide variety of user-generated video content, including movie clips, TV clips, and music videos, as well as amateur content such as video blogging and short original videos. Most of the content on YouTube has been uploaded by individuals, although media corporations including CBS and the BBC and other organizations offer some of their material via the site.[3]
Unregistered users can watch the videos, while registered users are permitted to upload an unlimited number of videos. Accounts of registered users are called "channels". Videos that are considered to contain potentially offensive content are available only to registered users over the age of 18. The uploading of videos containing defamation, pornography, copyright violations, and material encouraging criminal conduct is prohibited by YouTube's terms of service.[4]

To sign up with YouTube go to https://www.google.com/accounts/LogoutWarning?continue=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fcreate_account&ltmpl=sso&hl=en-NZ&service=youtube

Storyboarding and Scripting a Short Film

Storyboarding is putting a written story into drawings so the progress of the story that is to be filmed can begin to become visual. The storyboard is referred to in the production of the film to keep the film makers on track and to stop time being wasted.

Scripting is what is both heard and seen on the screen and should include things like moods and expressions, vocal expression, movement of the characters, sound tracks, lighting, camera angles and shots, background sound and settings etc.

Even if you do a 30 sec video like the one posted here a storyboard and script can save you a huge amount of time. It gets the ideas down, gives you a visual for all the crew to work off and removes the need for hours spent editing at the other end of the shoot.

For some more tips check out Professor Monkey at Overview Video on http://www.sotherden.com/video101/overview.htm. He has some good basic tips to get you through the whole process.