Take a look at this movie from Waist Deep Media. It’s not übermanly good, not that kind of stuff you’ve no idea how on earth you get such results. It looks doable, and very well done, and that’s my point. I think it’s a great example of what one should do when starting a movie project.

1. Get footage. Lots and lots of footage.
2. Get angles. Vary them, a lot. Try ten different approaches to fish release. (Err, that means you’ll have to catch ten fish. It’s the tough part).
3. Edit the hell out of your footage. No one wants to see you standing like an idiot with a bent rod for 10 seconds. No one.
4. Edit the hell out of your footage. Tweak those colors. Get the light right in the first place, but then treat it post prod. That’s what computers are for.
5. Get a story. Get a line. Simple, something that will structure your stuff.
6. Edit your soundtrack. More.
7. Use proper music. Which is not necessarily the same as the music you like.
8. Look at 1’39. 22 sec is all it takes to get a great story, and a lesser crew would have bored us to death with the ensuing minute of fish fight.
9. So, edit your stuff!! Cut, cut, CUT.
10. And never forget that a movie is a story. So what are you telling us?

You do that and we’ll love your videos. We’ll praise you and your work. And we’ll owe you, really.[vimeo=https://vimeo.com/112936430]