To keep your videos interesting, seek truth.
Truth is always fascinating. It doesn’t have to be literal truth. But it does have to be human truth.
Showtime’s Dexter was ostensibly about a serial killer struggling to kill without doing “wrong” or getting caught. Its truths were about the character being unable to understand how “normal” people think– which illuminated the larger truth that nobody really understands how other people think, or what they want from us.
Even though we’re not all psychopaths, looking at the world through the eyes of one psychopath trying to follow his own code of honor … Read the rest
Steve Stockman is a writer/ producer/ director in Los Angeles. How to Shoot Video That Doesn't Suck, available in 9 languages, is the best selling video how-to book in the world. You can find the updated (2017) edition from Workman Publishing wherever you get books, ebooks or audiobooks. 
