Why is Video Hard? Five Shots and Patterns

This may “revolutionize how we learn and shoot video, opening up video storytelling to journalists and crowdsourcing efforts,” a quote from the author of Why is Video Hard? Five Shots and Patterns.  

The succinct ideas in this article can help amateur and professional videographers, alike; it’s a dream-come true for video teachers; and I smell better video storytelling tools on the horizon.

I’m reminded of a video about iMovie 11’s trailer builder.  While it looks awesome for easily creating a dramatic trailer, I was not impressed with iMovies ability to really tell a story.

The ideas presented in Andrew Pergam’s article bring us closer than ever to creating an automatic story-builder, one where you drop in the story-chunks and the edited story emerges… Just check out his app mock-up in the middle of the article.

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