If you're one of the millions of people like me stuck at home in quarantine or practicing social distancing, than also like me you probably need something to take your mind off the pandemic and all the other problems that are facing us in these troubled times.
Join me in making the best of a bad situation by participating in the #ThroughMyWindow video challenge. The rules are simple - film a video entirely from within your home of the world outside.
What do you need? A camera that shoots video - could be your cell phone, could be a cinema camera, if it shoots video it will work, get creative!
What do you do?
Film it. Edit it.
Upload it to Youtube.
Label it with #ThroughMyWindow in the title and description. The only hard and fast rule is that the video must be filmed of the outdoors from within your home.
A few tips:
Get creative with camera angles. even if you only have one window and one view, if you have a telephoto lens you can break that view up into dozens or hundreds of different scenes. If you don't have a telephoto lens and you camera shoots 4k video you can crop into that footage and get digital telephotos withe 1080p or 720p resolution. Play with time. Filming a timelapse video can make the most boring scene exciting! Any camera can do it - you can take even just a minute long clip and speed it up into an exciting 5 second timelapse. Just be sure to keep your camera motionless while recording. Watch for Wildlife. Even if you live in the middle of the city, there still exists the opportunity to capture video of wildlife! Pigeons, sparrows, and even insects or spiders on the window glass make great subjects. Flowers and foliage. A patch of daffodils waving in the breeze is great, but anything green and growing will do! Trees, bushes, even a grassy lawn could be used to add variety to your video.
Add Music.
Be sure and add music to your video! Pick something that matches the mood of the footage you've captured, or pick the music first and then film a video to match. When you're editing, listen to the music and edit to the flow of the song. Every song tells a story, and so music makes a good guide with which to structure the story of your video.
Youtube has a free music library for creators that you can use, or you can use music from a site like https://www.bensound.com/royalty-free-music Be sure and keep an eye on the hashtag and see what everyone else has created!
