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Videography Cheat Sheet (DRAFT) by

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This is a draft cheat sheet. It is a work in progress and is not finished yet.

Framing and compos­ition

Compos­ition: what is in the frame and where it's located.
Rule of thirds
Leading lines
Use the natural lines of the enviro­nment to draw the viewer's eye where you want them to look
Balance
Head room
Make some space for the main subject's head in an interview
Looking room
Make some space in the direction the subject is looking at
Symmetry
Depth
Can be achieved by opening up your camera's aperture and blurring the backgr­ound. Also by making physical distance between the subject and backgr­ound, like not shooting right in front of a wall.
Framing
Finding artificial frames like windows, boxes, furniture creates intere­sting depth, gates, stairways.

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Rule of thirds

Balance

Depth

 

Leading lines

Symmetry

Framing