# Shooting Good Video

Federal Highway Administration Video VH-387 Shooting Good Video This video provides simple tips and techniques to shoot better video for documentation purposes. Construction video may be required to document the date, time, location and process of various construction activities or usage of equipment, or could be used to settle disputes, as evidence in court, for in-house training, or for public viewing. This concise video shows examples of both good and bad footage, and covers advance preparation, camera position and settings, the importance of using a tripod or otherwise steadying the camera, the problems with using pan and zoom, the use of wide, medium and close shots, framing and more.

- Kind: Educational
- Year: 1996
- By: Federal Highway Administration
- Genres: Education
- Archive: [Internet Archive](https://archive.org/details/gov.fhwa.ttp.vh-387)
- Licence or status: [CC0 1.0](http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) (as the archive states it)
- Who can watch: Teens profiles and older (the archive gives no rating; placed by Invisible Network from its collection and subjects)

Not offered: its uploader or archive marks it public domain, and nothing the site holds bears that out (its record gives no year, or a year from 1978 on, which no US term has left), so where it is free is not known. Unclear is not offered.