5 Ways to Beef up your Video Skills

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These days, most people can pick up a camera and figure out how to use it to capture an image, but it takes much more to learn important techniques like framing the perfect shot. And, of course, there's a big difference between knowing how to use a camera and knowing how to make a video. You can spend years working with a camera, gradually teaching yourself the tricks of the trade, the little nuances that separate a home movie from a professional video project. Eventually, you'll have skills you can be proud of and that will get your videos acclaim. But why wait? You can leapfrog right up the learning curve with Videomaker's Basic Training Tutorial DVDs - get years of video skills distilled into a series of comprehensive tutorials. If you want to be a videographer or film-maker, you need to harness the skills that you can't teach yourself by fiddling with a camera and you need to do it fast. There's no time to waste!

Videomaker's 5 Basic Training Tutorials will teach you the vital skills in five different essential areas of video:

Make Your Own Special Effects - Learn how to recreate Hollywood-style special effects at home. You'll be able to simulate a rain storm, shoot day-for-night footage and create realistic fake blood and flashy light saber effects!

Green Screen Basic Training - Want to transform your studio into an exotic locale? This video will show you how you can do that by building a functional green screen for under $10.

Video Production - Don't leave yourself at the mercy of your equipment! Learn to master your camera, tripod, microphone and lights. This video shows you how to get effective shots using pan, tilt and dolly techniques, all while avoiding common beginner mistakes.

Video Lighting - This step-by-step tutorial will guide you through the most common lighting setup used by professionals to properly light their subjects. We cover interview lighting, outdoor lighting and green screen lighting, among other topics.

Movie Genres - Get the fundamentals on six exciting movie genres - horror, action, drama, western, science fiction and documentary. Learn the history and the mechanics of these popular films - and learn how to make your own!

Becoming a videographer or a filmmaker isn't easy, and the hardest part is just taking that first step. You might get nervous thinking about how much blood, sweat and tears it will take to become an accomplished video creator. Videomaker knows it's not an easy path. And that's why we do all we can to make it just a little less daunting; we want every creative person with a dream for creating video to have a chance to pursue that dream. That's why we've put together the Set of 5, the best collection of intro knowledge and training for the beginning videographer. Get it today and see!

Learn more about Videomaker's Set of 5 Basic Training Tutorials DVDs.

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