A collection of tips and tricks for filming objects in isolation.
The results are in for Mark Bone‘s “Handheld Challenge”, and are full of creative ideas focused on improving your handheld camera work:
The creative crew at Cinecom.net have a bunch of fun, easy-to-try ideas with things lying around the house:
Try Brandon Li‘s Boring Room Challenge:
Here’s a roundup of tutorials on how to get set up to shoot narrative or talking-head videos by yourself:
Further Challenges
You can find a roundup of roundups – shooting, lighting, editing, and VFX isolation challenges – right here:
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