Unless you have a real design sense (you’ll know because everyone in middle school wanted to work with you on group projects involving posters), take it easy on the graphics and titles in your video unless they’re really necessary. Extraneous graphics and titles are like extraneous anything else in video. They just confuse the hell out of people, pulling our eye away from the point of the video to focus on zooming, sparkly words.
How do you know if titles are necessary? Two tests:
1) Is it impossible to figure out the information the title gives us without it? If … 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. 
