From the course: Pro Video Tips

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Video portrait intro

Video portrait intro

- This week we're going to have a lot of fun because this week, we're going to be showing you how to do a video portrait. Now, if you never heard of it or I don't know if you might call it something else, but a video portrait is essentially a little mini-profile that you might do. It's typically something that you would see on an athlete. It's almost like a mini-documentary, but it's really stylized, really kind of designed to amp people up a little bit for the sport or the event, or really just to kind of hype the person that's appearing in that video portrait. So it's like a documentary, but maybe with a little more fun edge to it. One of the problems that comes up when you're shooting sports, and I think that's one of the reasons that video portraits appear in sports so often, is that you're often shooting people at a distance, they're wearing just jerseys, they all look the same. A lot of time, if it's certain sports, they might also be wearing a helmet. We don't even get a good…

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