Recording your Video Podcast

By Donna Eyestone

The first step to making a great video podcast is making a great video – one that works great on the small screen! Get some tips on how to make your ideas come to life in this beginners guide to planning and shooting your own video or video podcast. Also includes tips for purchasing a video camera, or getting the best quality you can from what you already own.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Donna Eyestone
• Release date: Apr 28, 2009
• ISBN: 9781452377919

Donna Eyestone

In 1989 Donna combined her interests in music and technology to complete a B.A. in Computer Music Composition from Clark University – long before there was an actual "multimedia" field. In 1991 she received an M.F.A in Electronic Music Recording from the Mills College Center for Contemporary Music and then went on to receive a second M.F.A. in Integrated Electronics Arts from Rensselear Polytechnic Institute in 1996. It was then that Donna began teaching multimedia in the Bay Area. Her Digital Media Skills course has won awards for online learning from both @ONE and the U.S. Distance Learning Association.Donna has taught courses in audio production, website and graphic design, and multimedia. In 1999 she became a multimedia content developer for Apple Computer, designing online training for their iLife applications (while continuing teaching an online course for CCSF). She recently "retired" from Apple Computer to raise her daughter and continues to teach part-time. She is currently the MERLOT fellow and a CVC Scholar, evangelizing Podcasting for Educators.

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Recording your Video Podcast

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The first step to making a great video podcast is making a great video – one that works great on the small screen! Get some tips on how to make your ideas come to life in this beginners guide to planning and shooting your own video or video podcast. Also includes tips for purchasing a video camera, or getting the best quality you can from what you already own.

To learn how to record your own audio podcast, check out the Recording your Audio Podcast by Donna Eyestone available through Smashwords.

To learn how to edit your video, check out the Editing your Video Podcast by Donna Eyestone available through Smashwords.

To learn how to deliver your video through a podcast channel, check out the Podcasting – Creating your feed by Donna Eyestone available through Smashwords.

What will you say with your video?

Of course, everyone knows that a picture is worth a thousand words, right? So that should mean that as videographers we can really speak our minds and show stuff! Welcome to video production - where your ideas and words come to life - with the visuals to back them up.

Video demands attention - people watch!

We've all watched a lot television, tons of movies, and maybe you've even made some movies yourself. You can use this book to help you come up with an idea for a video, think critically about what kind of content works best in video, and then get into shooting and editing techniques that will make your video engaging for your viewers.

The power is in your hands.

We are bombarded with visual images in magazines, television, videos, movies, and the web. These images are designed to inform, convince, or in some way engage our emotions. In short, they are designed to communicate messages. Video images can be composed and combined in specific ways to convey a desired message, much like words can be combined into sentences, paragraphs and stories.

There's a visual grammar that has its own set of rules. They form the foundation upon which all films and videos are based today. Knowing the rules, and knowing when to use them or break them, gives you the power to tell your stories visually. When you combine that knowledge with the production tools that are available to you, there's the makings for a video revolution.

Some Sample Video

Spend some time really looking at the video you see in your daily life - from broadcast television to YouTube - you probably regularly see high and low quality video. Now's your chance to really look at it, analyze it, and determine which parts you want to replicate in your own channel, or which pitfalls you absolutely want to avoid. Take notes as you're watching television, movies, or even checking out the latest YouTube sensation on your iPhone.

iTunes has created a Video Podcasts section which you can get to right from the iTunes Store at the main Podcasts page. You can use this as yet another way to find vodcasts on a variety of topics by clicking the tabs to get to the different categories.

Okay. Go wild and see what you find. You might be amazed. I'm sure you'll get sidetracked (a good thing in my mind). But just don't forget to come back here when you're fresh and ready for the difficult work of designing your own vodcast channel.

Designing Your Video

Let’s focus on the big picture - and figure out what sorts of video you'd like to create and maybe use for