We spoke about composition before when we spoke about the rule of thirds. As you remember, we must always align our subject properly and maintain this rule, making sure to maintain proper talking room headroom and so on. If you choose to include camera movement in your shoot, you should try to be forgiving and smooth. The basic camera movements to know are the pen. panning is when your camera is stationary, but you're moving your lens from one side to another standstill and look to your left and then to your right, that's panning. The tilt is the same thing except instead of aiming left to right, your movements are up and down.

Panning and tilting should be seamless. And if we wish to create an establishing shot exposing our scene and the geographical space in which it is taking place in we can use something called a dolly shot. A dolly shot means that the camera is actually moving from side to side, up and down or in and out. It's very common to use movement in videography, but from the beginning we should make sure to do it properly. Gentle handling of the camera will help avoid jittery movements that can annoy a viewers eyes and attract too much attention to the camera and it presents. today because of the rising popularity of small more portable cameras, handheld techniques and jerky camera movements are becoming more popular.

I'll go into these more deeply in my advanced course but to keep it classic, for a basic seamless feeling video, we should try to be stable and create nice flowing movements. Previously I mentioned utilizing the dolly shot for establishing the geographical location of your video. The Dolly got its name because of the old Dolly tracks that used to be laid down for the heavy camera to move along very much like a railroad tracks. The tracks are used as a base for the camera to travel along to achieve a steady shot that moves along the scene. This might sound complicated and expensive Today, there are a lot of future self dollies out there. I use a slider that imitates Dolly movement.

Dolly shots can be achieved in all sorts of creative ways. The reason I like to choose a dolly shot to open a video is because I can slowly reveal a location and smoothly bring our viewers into the action. As we've each of these elements, camera movements become complex and intricate as you advance these few notions are just what you need to get started. Next we'll talk about white balance.