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Become a camcorder pro: A 10-step guide to making your footage shine

By Chris Stevens, CNET.co.uk on 07 July 2006

Step 10: Keep practising
By now you should look more or less like the guy in the photo here. Charm and arrogance flows through you in equal measure. You're feared on set, but admired by the industry at large, and all this because you learned how to use a reflector properly. Congratulations, you're a camcorder pro!

There's plenty more to learn though -- get out on the streets with your DV cam and embrace life for all it's worth. Run, little camcorder enthusiasts. Run into the alleys and warehouses of discontent. Document life and invent fantasy, draw your audience to laughter, and to tears. Touch, feel and explore this beautiful world in all its camcorderable glory. To the heavens!

Topics: tips, guide, video camera, making movies, film-making, diy, camcorder, film, step, shot

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Comments (5)

  • Tehilla commented on 19/10/2007 03:11 Report abuse

    hey.. i lost my disc of "firt step guide" to my video camera sony trv 270e. i have to connect my camera to the computer' and looking for this thing... if there is someone that know how or can add a link i'll be happy... thanks.

  • redsim commented on 31/08/2007 10:50 Report abuse

    Hi great article, I'm a newbie who bought a decent panasonic DV camera a few months ago and havent really used it much. This has inspired me to make a mini film.

  • Deep commented on 05/01/2007 16:39 Report abuse

    Why you didnt included Tripod ? Its damn Important for film making to steady the shots. Isnt it?

  • Daniel Hodgkinson commented on 27/12/2006 00:27 Report abuse

    Here is a link to a site that has a tutorial to make a cheap improvised steadicam

    http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~johnny/steadycam/

  • lionel commented on 27/09/2006 08:12 Report abuse

    good

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