If you thought we'd given up on transition tutorials with Boris, our customer success manager, you'd be wrong! After the Christmas holidays and just before the change of year, we're offering you one last gift to help us make the transition from 2018 to 2019 as smoothly as possible.
How to get the year off to a good start? At EasyMovie, we've got some new ideas for you: what could be better than enriching your videos with a new transition made simply with your smartphone? Come on, as we start 2019, let's be original and think really big with this camera move that's likely to shake some people up!
What's it for?
Be warned from the outset: this is a very dynamic transition , and if your video is too serious and not very lively, it's likely to get in the way. That's why it's important to combine it with a motivated, lively contributor such as our dear customer success manager Théophile, or our good old salesman, Robert. This will make the transition much easier to use.
The madness that is the shaking of the camera allows you to change location and even speakers, but also angles of view, positioning your camera sometimes plunging and other times low-angle. This transition allows us to do just about anything, but what makes it so interesting is the room it leaves for directing. In fact, you can justify this movement by a fall or, as in our video, by a tremor of some kind, and so on. Don't hesitate to play around with it, because that's what this transition is all about.
How do I go about it?
As we said, this transition is used for very dynamic videos with lots of very short shots. You can also slow down the pace, but the effect is still more impressive if you do something fast. For this reason, you should use standing or even moving speakers to increase the impression of energy, and you'll get the desired result. You could, for example, use this transition in a New Year's greetings video. It allows you to move from one employee to another, so that everyone on your premises can have their say.
To achieve it in practice, don't go overboard! The sharper and more violent the shaking motion, the more successful your transition will be. To achieve this, we advise you to place your phone on a grip so that your image remains stable during the shot, but you can also make the transition with ease. On a tripod, you won't be able to shake your camera. Don't forget to do this at the beginning and end of your shots, so that the cut occurs naturally.
You now have all the keys you need to make this transition on your own! If you like your results, don't hesitate to share them with us. In the meantime, we'll see you next year for the rest of our tutorials, and yes, we'll end our last article on this joke made, and made again.
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