One of the most common questions we’re asked is, “what should I do with my hands on camera?”
Being on camera can make you feel awkward and cause you to give off the wrong impression with your body language. Proper posturing and hand placement contributes as much to your message as what it is you’re saying.
No matter how easy I may make it look, being on camera is not effortless. There are a few things everyone should do before recording.
The single most important part of preparing to be on camera is practice. Read your script out loud in front of a mirror several times. Keep practicing until it feels less like you’re reading a script and more like you’re having a conversation. You may also want to invite family, friends or co-workers to watch and critique.
We all know that having video on your website is important. Google ranks websites with video higher in search results, allowing you more visibility to potential clients. And, once on your site, people are 64% more likely to use your services after viewing a video.
With that being said, there are a few different options for getting video on your website.
Putting your video on your website may be the most important step you take in the whole production process. But it can also seem intimidating.
First, you’ll want to upload your video to youtube. It’s easy to go to youtube, set up an account(if you don’t already have one) and upload your video.
If you’ve looked around our website or YouTube page, you’ve probably seen some of our time lapse videos. You may have even wondered “How did they do that?” We’ll, I’m going to tell you.
You probably already know that video is not a whole lot more than a series of pictures that go by really fast to create the illusion of movement. We call these pictures “frames” and one second of video usually contains either 24 or 30 frames.
