video editing
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my 2 bits
1. buy, borrow or rent a half decent DV camera. The sony DCR-VX2000 is an awesome choice, but there are less expensive models from other brands which are great too.
2. Aquire and do some tutorials in final cut pro (apple just released a $300 version which has most of the features you will need) or adobe premier if you use a PC
3. Aquire and learn to use adobe after effects. no shortcut here, just gotta bang away at it.
4. Aquire and learn to use something like protools or even just sound forge. get a stereo microphone from J+R audio video for 40 bucks, its worth it (dont bother looking at radio shack, their mikes are SHIT and cost as much as a decent one from a repuatable company)
5. Now that you have the equiptment and software, get a feel for how they can be used together (try importing a wav into final cut and laying it over some video, bring a text graphic clip from after effects into final cut and apply a trasition from it to a video clip)
6. WRITE A SCRIPT
it doesnt have to be a 'story', but your work will be 100 times more interesting if you can describe what you want to do on paper first.7. make a storyboard - map out most if not all of your planned shots (roughly) with sketches in sequence.
8. now shoot video and record your audio. these things do not have to happen simultaneously, especially if there is not dialogue in your video.
Now, if you want to make a montage like that gmunk piece, you can skip all the planning and just go out and shoot like you would go take photographs...but, to be honest, all due respect to gmunk (work kicks ass), that video doesnt do anything for me...PLANNING and PURPOSE always show through when it comes to video. Learning to edit and shit by making montage is fine, but, use it as a learning project, not as the only style of work you make.
of course, it all depends on what you want to do...there are some nice piecemeal edited clips...but video art is more sophisticated now than it has ever been, and viewers are not that impressed by fast editing and 'real life' style clips - they see it everywhere. Creators who have a real message, a point are much more effective IMHO.