“Never work with kids or animals” goes the old showbiz saying. And it makes sense. It’s nearly impossible to get exactly what you want—and when you do, the cute kid or animal will get all the credit for being adorable. You’ll get none for capturing it.
Yet we do it, because people love watching them. Keyboard cats and babies singing Beyonce kill on video.
The question is, how do you get video of them that isn’t awful?
Follow these tips and you’ve just increased the odds (All these rules work for both kids AND animals, btw.)
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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. 
