"Here’s The Quickest, Easiest Way To Shoot Quality Footage On Your Camcorder, So Good, Your Friends Will Think You Hired A Professional... Guaranteed"

Dear Friend,

In a moment, I’m gonna make you so angry you’ll want to take your camcorder back to the salesman and show him a special digital effect!

FACT: 98% of the people selling camcorders and accessories are professional sales people, not experienced owners and operators of camcorders.

Hey! Do you know what that means? It means you have been knowingly or un-knowingly misinformed about how to correctly use your camcorder. Or have been prompted to purchase a model that is innapropriate for your wants and needs. And that makes me angry!

This will more often than not, result in an expensive piece of electronic equipment that becomes a frustrating nightmare to use or a source of embarassment when a filmed event is shown to family and friends!

Ask yourself this:

Would you go out and buy yourself a car, without first having learnt how to drive?

Would you spend $1,000+ of your hard earned money on a home entertainment system, to only use it once or twice a year?

Of course you wouldn’t! But you often won’t give a second thought to using your camcorder at a Christmas function without first familiarizing yourself with it’s operation, then putting it aside or in a cupboard for months at a time.

Statistics have shown that most people use their camcorders to record scenes of their children, family occasions and holidays, leaving the camcorder packed away to gather dust the rest of the time.
All Videographers Are Not Created Equal...

You may be someone who likes to use your camcorder every chance you get, but without proper instruction and guidance you found it didn’t turn out to be as easy as you thought it would, did it?

Take a look at the following statements and see if any of them apply to you -

I love filming, but when I look at the footage I have taken, something doesn’t look quite right.

I get moans and groans from family and friends when I suggest that they all come to my place and watch the footage I took of the game/party/holiday etc.

’Funniest Home Videos’ best describes my filming (and that was not          my intention).

My camera is an expensive ’bookend’ left untouched in a dark corner.

It doesn’t have to be this way!

OK, so you enjoy using your video camera. You want to film family events, trips and holidays or sporting events and adventures, but...

How hard is it to Produce an Acceptable Quality Video?

Have you ever tried to drive a nail into a board without using a hammer? Maybe using a shoe, or a book, or something equally inappropriate? It’s impossible isn’t it? But given the right hammer, even a child can drive a nail (sometimes in places you’d rather not have nails).

Anyway, it’s the same with video production (and remember you may be just filming the holiday or a party, but its still a ’Video Production’).

Producing a video of acceptable quality is almost impossible, if you don’t have the right tools. But if you use the right tools, and follow a basic plan, it’s a relatively simple process, something that can be mastered in a few hours or even less! Especially by someone who spent thousands of hours watching TV.

How many hours have you spent watching TV? The experts say if you’re over 30, you’ve probably watched 10,000 hours. And that’s more time than you spent in any classroom. Now did you learn anything from all those hours with your TV? Sure you did. You learned how to recognise bad video productions. And that is important knowledge, my friend. Knowledge, that can keep you out of trouble.

That knowledge, combined with the KMS Power tips of video taking, can help you make any video look better. A rule like the 3/30 rule can save a production, (or ruin it if not followed). What’s 3/30? Simple. No scene lasts over 3 minutes, no camera shot lasts over 30 seconds.....