Introduction to Video Testimonials
Image lifting
A course by David R. Romay , Director, producer and writer
About the video: Image lifting
Overview
“In this lesson, I will talk about the importance of preparing a work plan prior to recording, in order to avoid tiring your character and achieve, in a considerable time, get the best of it. ”
In this video lesson David R. Romay addresses the topic: Image lifting, which is part of the Domestika online course: Introduction to Video Testimonials. Discover how to find great characters in true stories.
Partial transcription of the video
“[Music] In this lesson we will talk A bit of how to illustrate the piece. Generally what you have to do is boast a little where you are, if it's a place where naturally there is a beauty like The piece of Copper Canyon we show. Or that of the fisherman, or the one with the flowers. If they are such beautiful places, it is very simple, you just have to choose the right times to film it, which is in the morning or in the afternoon when the light is more lateral, in those moments you will have much better daylight, and try to put the character to do things I would normally do on any given day....”
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Course summary for: Introduction to Video Testimonials
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Areas
Audiovisual Production, Film, Video & TV, Filmmaking, Script, Storytelling, TV, Video, Video Editing
David R. Romay
A course by David R. Romay
His work as a scriptwriter and director, which he has been developing for more than a decade, has led him to work for commercial brands such as Coca-Cola, HSBC, Procter & Gamble, Motorola, Pfizer, Volkswagen or Televisa, among others. However, it is in the documentary field in which David R. Romay moves with greater ease. In 2005, he produced the documentary Toro Negro , which won numerous awards at international film festivals such as San Sebastian, Toronto, Rotterdam, Havana and Cannes.
In addition, he has directed and written documentaries for Clio TV (the producer of the historian Enrique Krauze) and, in 2010, he wrote and directed several chapters of the documentary series Heroes de Carne y Hueso , premiered on the occasion of the bicentennial of the independence. In 2012 he co-directed and co-wrote the documentary Oro, the day that everything changed , a film that tells the story of the Olympic football team, which won the gold medal in London 2012 and, it has become one of the most watched sports documentaries in Mexico.
In the field of fiction, he highlights A solas , a short film premiered at the 2009 Morelia Festival and winner of the Best Actor Award at Short Shorts México. And the recent premiere, at the Shanghai Film Festival 2018, of his first feature film: Behind the Mountain .
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