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

Perfect Holiday Video in 10 Easy Steps

**Shameless Plug: Of course you’re buying a dozen print copies of How to Shoot Video that Doesn’t Suck for the video people in your family– but did you know there’s an audio version too? 

Special bonus: Scroll down for a Christmas music video parody called “I am Santa Claus” that I created and directed for Atlantic Records and my friend Bob Rivers. There are at least 900 stupid Christmas jokes in its 4 minute run-time. And yes, I’m proud of that.  

End Shameless Plug**

Ah, the Holidays!

Chestnuts roasting, noses being nipped, and hours of incomprehensible video being shot … Read the rest

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

Five Easy Ways to Shoot Better Thanksgiving Video

Shoot Better Thanksgiving Video

Hopefully your Thanksgiving gathering will be near-normal this year– at least from a Covid perspective (I mean, whose family is normal?) — and that means you’ll need these five tips to make your Thanksgiving video kick butt.

Bad Thanksgiving video can be hell to sit through.  Mom hiding her face to keep from being seen when she’s messy after cooking all day.  Ten minute shots of the steaming turkey, as if this one looks different.  Loud dinner cross-conversations that are impossible to hear, let alone follow.

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

Shoot Better Labor Day Video

As you cruise to the beach or barbecue this weekend, take your video camera.  And think about these tips to shoot better Labor Day video:

1)  Memories are about faces. Faces are where emotion lives. The eyes are the window to the soul and all that.  And faces are how we chart time– when you want to remember who you were 5 years ago, a long shot of a crowd drinking beer won’t do the job. When you watch video of small children or elderly grandparents later, you’ll never wish you were farther away.

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Steve Stockman
In Tips and Tricks

The True Meaning of Holiday Video

As the holidays approach, it’s time for us again to consider the age-old question we ask every Holiday Season:  Why do we shoot Holiday Video?

My answer?  We shoot Holiday Video to remember.

We want to remember our kids as they are now, because they will never be that way again.  We want to remember our parents and grandparents, because they don’t last forever.  We want to remember ourselves too—because whatever age we are now, it’s a hell of a lot younger than we’ll be in a decade.

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