LMAO!!!

Thanks Mike. I have been watching Youtube standup clips for the past few weeks (that's where my videos will be going as well) and have seen some really bad and really good stuff. Hopefully my clips will be closer to the latter than the former.

I have shot bodybuilding contests which have some of the same spotlight problems that you've noted so I won't be totally green going into this. Thanks for your help.

Post again when you get it shot. I'd love to see it. You seem like an up-and-coming guy. If I'm not lurking around here (sometimes I get busy) e-mail me at my website... it's where the video you linked to came from.

-MW

Will do! I'm working hard at this. At this point I am getting better and better at it every day (with help of course!) and that's a good feeling.

Just thought I'd mention that I saw a Hillary Clinton campaign commercial last night that had both bad framing AND several unmotivated zooms!! It was basically just thirty seconds of her talking at a rally but I was surprised that I was now sensitive enough to these things to notice the zooms (thanks to Mike!) but also that they were there at all...in a Hillary commercial no less!! She certainly has the money to afford the best so I can only assume that these weren't mistakes.

I realize of course that this still doesn't mean that zooms are a good idea but I do think that they were using them intentionally to create an informal feeling to help give the impression of Mrs. Clinton as down-to-earth person. So, now that I think of it, maybe they WERE motivated after all!

You don't have far to go before you're wringing your hands during local TV commercials and spanish-language telenovelas. :-)

I thought that some of you might be interested in continuing our discussion of "wobbly" camerawork and "unmotivated zoom" here in a new thread...

http://www.dvinfo.net/conf/showthread.php?t=117432

The only thing I would do differently
 

Hello Michael,

Very good job!

I just watched your video, the only thing I would do differently is put the success stories up front. As a person of girth (meaning I am overweight) I was at first captivated by the commercial. but as I went on, I was looking at the people he was helping and they were already thin and beautiful. Even at five minutes, I started to get board with it-- however, when I saw the pictures at the end, I was like-- Hey! wish I lived in Delaware!

Thats what made me think that inverting the order of the folks that he helped to the front would make a difference.

Just a thought

VERY good suggestion! We must remember...who are we targeting? Catch THEIR attention right away! Thanks for that one!