Trick #3 - Don't "Hosepipe"

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"Hosepiping" - that is, swinging your camera around pointing it at anything and everything that moves - is a huge no-no. It is the one thing that absolutely screams "This person has no idea how to use a video camera".

From the audience point of view it is extremely annoying and shaky and never lingers on anything long enough for interest to develop.  So learn to use a smooth, slow camera technique that will actually show your audience things, and not just the blurry transitions as the flailing camera flits from subject to subject.

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