I consider myself a serious amateur/semi-pro videographer/filmmaker and my interest seems to be more around Nature/Landscape filming. Do you have any extra advice when it comes to creating videos in this genre?
I want my sequence of my shots will flow and be seamless. But should a Nature/Landscape video always have a beginning-middle-end kind of story?
- James
Some interesting questions, James. Thanks for writing.
Storytelling is a key component of almost all film. It's been developed over 115 or so years into something people expect from a film or video. Which means that films with a strong narrative drive will be of more interest to more people than one without.
But suppose you don't want to do a narrative video? Well, you are the artist. Just because narrative appeals to more people than not, it doesn't mean you have to make a narrative film. Vanilla is a more popular ice cream flavor than pistachio. Still, some people make– and consume– pistachio.
In art, there are no rules. There is no wrong answer to how you make your films if they satisfy you.
You can make your shots flow, be seamless and feel good for you and the viewer without trying to paste on a story that you're not interested in.
But that having been said, it helps to have an organizing principle to your video. You might look for something that's not a story, but still unifies your film into some sort of structure. Here's what I mean:
