Shooting a great interview requires a few key techniques to make it come together. Here we will just outline the audio and camera work side of things. In a later blog entry we will cover the techniques required by the interviewer that will get the best out of the subject and make the video post production phase of the process much easier for the editor. In our time we have shot a wide variety of people from very different walks of life. From CEO’s of big multinational compani

YouTube is the world's second largest search engine with users searching things like how to copy and paste in Final Cut Pro to how to photograph a car. YouTube provides excellent insights into what works on the site and how to engage deeper with your target market and build your brands following. The YouTube creators hub has some light reading and watching for people or businesses, like us here at Octopus Films Sydney, who create video content. When we say light reading, we m

Green screen is a technique where the green element in the picture is keyed out, this means the green is erased in post production and replaced with other video or images of some sort. This is an old Hollywood trick that is used to create computer generated images and composite scenes that are impossible to achieve in a camera or that are just too expensive to create in camera. We at Octopus Films Sydney are experts in shooting green screen and if all this looks too hard feel