ABSTRACT
IT SHOULD BE REASSURING that storytelling craft can compensate for most, if not all, of small-format video's real and perceived shortcomings. After all, when audiences are engaged, they don’t care if you shot your movie with a top Hollywood crew on 35mm or single-handedly on miniDV. It’s your ability to tell a compelling visual story that matters, not which brand of camera you use or which manufacturer’s signal-to-noise ratio is greater. The goal in this chapter is to address some of the technical issues facing you the shooter, but only so much as it impacts the quality of your images and the effectiveness of your storytelling.
