Pre-production is an early stage of any project, including commercials, music videos, short films, and feature films. This crucial step defines how efficient, organized and, ultimately, how successful the production stage will be.

Pre-production in video making will include several vital elements that work to bring the video together.

A storyboard and shot list
Scouting locations
Preparing a object list
Choosing essential gear
Finding the right cast
Rehearsal

Let's Learn Planning for Video Making in this chapter

Pre Production for Video Making

Lighting is one of the key factors involved in effective cinematography, and understanding the principles behind it can assist in ensuring high-quality results from whatever content is being created.
Cameras need WAY more light to produce a quality image than you might imagine. But there are further nuances to light and shadow to consider when planning a video shoot.
Without good lighting, the best camera in the world can’t capture a perfect picture. Learn how a film crew uses lighting to enhance images, create depth, and support the story’s mood and atmosphere.

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Lighting for Video Making

Even if you’ve never touched a Camera in your life, by the end of this graphy you should be able to pick up a camera and shoot some great looking video footage

Today’s smartphones are so sophisticated, and the technology so advanced, you can shoot a professional looking short movie, or even a full-length feature on your smartphone. Your phone probably shoots 4K broadcast quality images — something that many older expensive video cameras can’t even do.

Shooting with Different Cameras

Composition in Video Making is the art of arranging objects in a frame. There are actually shapes and alignments that people find pleasing. But photo and film composition also needs to tell a story. The arrangement of your objects and actors in a frame can add to your storytelling. You do this by emphasizing some objects and de-emphasizing others.

Composition in Video Making

In this chapter we will learn about what should be done to make a footage appealing, eye soothing and interesting.
There are things that makes a footage looks good and more things that makes it doesn't look good.
In this chapter we will learn the difference and what to do to make something eye catching .

What looks Good and What Doesn't ?

Video editing is the process of manipulating video images. Video editing software can be used to record video, but is used more often in post-production design and editing raw footage in digital file formats.

Video Editing & Effects

Motion graphics are pieces of animation or digital footage which create the illusion of motion or rotation, and are usually combined with audio for use in multimedia projects.

Typography is the art of arranging letters and text in a way that makes the copy legible, clear, and visually appealing to the reader. Typography involves font style, appearance, and structure, which aims to elicit certain emotions and convey specific messages.

Element - There are numerous amount of elements used in creating video and they used to deliver the right message to the viewer.

Let's learn this chapter and have some fun

Motion, Elements & Typography

Sound editing as an art of producing great quality sounds for mixing, implementation and processing. In simpler words, sound editing is a laborious task of making noisy and lousy recordings sound good. It is one of the processes that make the project whole.

Sound Editing, SFX & Voice Recording

It can be easy to simply want to export your project once you get done editing, but if you want your footage to look really cinematic, you should color correct and grade all of your footage before hitting that export button. There are people who spend their entire careers color grading footage, so don’t think this process is easy. Luckily, there are a lot of really easy resources out there for creating cinematic color grades very quickly.

Color Correction & Cinematic

Rendering is an important term means exporting the task you have worked on the timeline of any software.
Render refers to taking a computer image or file and converting it into another format or applying a modification, like shading or shadows. ... When referring to 3D animation, render refers making an image appear as a 3D or taking a series of images and making them animated.

There are different formats for video/images for exporting the content and different formats and different properties and support of devices.

Rendering & Formats

Thumbnails, the small, clickable snapshots that viewers see when they search for videos, can be just as important as a video’s title. They preview your video and entice viewers to click through.

Creating vibrant thumbnails can also instantly grab people’s attention -- the brain is programmed to respond to striking visuals -- and this can help you differentiate yourself on a platform clogged with standard thumbnails all screaming for attention.

Bonus - Thumbnail Creation

There’s a lot more that goes into getting a cinematic image than simply buying the right camera. From pre-production to post, every aspect of the filmmaking process works together to create a beautiful end film. Let’s take a look at a few ways to create beautiful cinematic footage.
In this Graphy, Apurv Khatwani will be covering a complete package from - Planning, Shooting, Video Editing, Sound Editing, Color, Look and Cinematic Feel, to Bonus - Typography, Elements and Thumbnail Creation.
If you always wanted to make some good quality videos from whatever you have then this Graphy is for you.

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