Video Production essays

Video Production essays Video production is something I have been doing for approximately 5 years now and I continue working with it as a hobby and a part time business. The field of video production is growing rapidly in many exciting and new ways, one of which is film now undoubtedly film is larger than any time it has ever been, it is no longer the way it use to be where the story and the direction were the main aspects of making a hit. New technology has led to new advances in film such as 3d Animation and sound production, movies now are rated for things like sound quality and production, special effects and quality of production where a few decades ago a good flick became a good flick because of the way it was filmed and the story it told. In other ways video production has been growing technologically as well as artistically, it is becoming more and more competitive to make a good video for even simple businesses like those who film events. In my field I film events like weddings and engagements, and believe it or not even though it doesnt sound like such a huge job, I believe that the minimum budget for such a business lies somewhere around fifty thousand dollars, most of which would be spent on a six thousand dollar camera, a three to six thousand dollar editing station and that is not counting miscellaneous equipment like batteries and tape. Why tape you ask? Well DV and MiniDV is becoming a standard format which you can use over and over as if it were a hard drive, well in a sense it is because unlike the conventional VHS tapes that record picture magnetically on a strip of tape, DV records or better said encodes data on tape in a similar way as a floppy would, which is the very reason why the quality is so good. Besides having an eye for video and knowing what to do when looking through a viewfinder, pretty much being your own director/camera man it takes a good amount of skill and artistic qualities to edit and pr...