DETAILS DETAILS DETAILS!
Capturing the moment is doing your job. Capturing the fine details is doing it well. The moments make up the story, but the details make up the story of the moment. (Yes, it’s like the movie Inception—there are stories within the story. Am I totally blowing your mind?) How do you capture details? By developing a filmmaker’s observant eye. You should always be scanning for the interesting within the mundane, the beautiful within the plain, the micro within the macro…the extraordinary within the ordinary. These little shots not only aid in your storytelling, but also aid in your editing by always giving you something interesting and artistic to cut away to whenever you need to condense time or cover up a visual mistake. ...
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