I am a teacher and a coach, and I want to make better videos of high school and grade school basketball games.
In your Video Course, you talk about watching a guy shooting a soccer game by panning the camera back and forth and back and forth. Obviously that’s not it (although I felt like you mocked him a bit harshly!) But you didn’t really show us how to do it right!
We are not multiple camera crew people-- we are just simple folks. I would like to know how you would shoot video of a high school girls basketball game without your normal 150 person crew.
— John
Apologies if my rant in the course made you feel like I was taking you to task.
My example was about learning to think in shots. Trying to cover an event by swinging a camera randomly doesn't work (and will lead to motion sickness on playback.) But if you plan your video in discrete shots, you won't have that problem.
As you've figured out though, you will have another problem. Shooting short shots with one camera means you'll miss a lot of the action.
This means you have a decision to make, and it's best to make it before you head for the basketball court: Are you documenting the game or making a documentary about it? The former means making a record of an event, the latter means telling a story.
