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Steve Stockman In Tips and Tricks, If you’re new to video, Better Home Video, Your Questions Answered

Before You Pick Your Equipment, Pick a Story

I’m a chef working on tour with major artists in the rock ‘n’ roll industry in Europe. Every day we get off a tour bus after an average of 6 hours sleep, unload the truck, build a kitchen inside a stadium, cook breakfast, lunch, dinner and after-show food for 200-odd crew and artists alike, break down and clean kitchen, push it back on the truck and drag our tired, adrenalized and ragged selves back to a coffin-sized bunk and sleep while the tour rolls into the next venue.

I’m sure you can see the potential of a no-holds-barred rock’n’roll food

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Steve Stockman In For Pros, Your Questions Answered

What are Eyelines and Why Should You Care?

Here is a video that I shot after reading your book. Most woodworking videos are painfully boring, but I and another woodworker are trying to change that.

Can you give me any more tips?

–Brian

I have to admit it did not take much imagination for me to picture a boring video about woodworking. But Brian’s done a great job of making his pretty cool. Fun action shots, nicely framed, well edited. This video is probably fascinating for anyone more likely to pick up a lathe than I am. Which is pretty much everyone.

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