What Is A Good Feature Story?

What are feature stories? Well, a feature story could be a lot of things. It could be a story about how someone who was disabled completed 24k run or a teacher who left a lasting affect on their students. Did those capture your attention? That's the first part of a feature story, creating a concept that can grab an audience by the heartstrings. Strong concepts are what drives a video, but that's only the beginning of a video. There's so much more that you must do that can make a good feature story. 

What else must you do you may ask? well there are many things but let's start with the basics.

Visuals

Visuals cover a wide variety of subjects in your video, including the rule of this and the six shot system. Don't be like me and get the two confused with each other. They may seem like the same thing but they only work if you use them in harmony. The six shot system ranges from the extreme wide shot to the even more extreme close-up. Wide shots can give you an environment and an idea of where you are. Medium shots can show off people and other objects in that environment that you've established. Close-ups can show your main topic and the focus of your person, place, or thing. The rule of thirds changes the way people pay attention keeping some one or something  in the middle of the screen is boring and won't keep people interested. Keeping them more to the left or right of the screen can keep your audience engaged. With both of these kept in mind you can keep an audience engaged and interested in your video. 

Audio

Having a good, clean sound is the next important piece in the puzzle of a video. When your interviewing some one you have to have natural sound in the background that is like the bass to your favorite song. You don't really notice it until you really listen but it's what can enhance and keep you engaged in the song. The same goes for your video. But when your listening to a song theres something else besides the guitars and the drums. There are the vocals. When you're interviewing someone you have to keep their voice in mind. If it's something their passionate about then they should have emotion and passion in their voice.