That doesn't mean that every single edit needs to be planned in advance, but it does require that you have a sense of what shots you'll need later when you sit down at the computer. It also requires you to think about how your shots will be combined together before you take them. The ability to edit what you shoot gives you access to the same compositional tools as the pros. Good writing is composed of well-chosen words, combined into thoughtful sentences and logically organized paragraphs. If that shot were a written sentence, it would run on. The "garden hose" video maker will stand in one spot with tape running, wave the camera from one side of the scene to the other, up and down, merrily zooming in and zooming out, trying to capture the whole scene in one shot. As you water your shrubs, the water continually flows while you wave the hose nozzle from side to side, up and down, concentrating the spray here and there, making sure the whole garden gets a good soaking. That style of shooting is often referred to as the "garden hose" approach.
Using that definition, many traditional "home movies" would consist of only one or two shots, even though they might last five minutes each. For now, let's define a shot as whatever the camera records after you press the record button and before you hit pause. I'll be defining the various types of shots and showing you video examples of each soon.
The video equivalent of a word is a camera shot. In written expression, the basic building block is the word. A new take on home movies: the "grammar" of video.
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