The Case for Shooting Ugly Then Cleaning It Up

Rishabh Sharma 3 min readJune 17, 2024

Run-and-gun capture

Lock exposure, ignore composition perfection, capture lots of coverage. Messy-but-plentiful beats tidy-but-thin.

Color correction, stabilization, and crop-to-reframe all work. Capture the performance first; fix the technicals after.

Audio. Fix-in-post fails for bad audio. Spend the extra 3 minutes on audio setup — it's the one thing you can't rescue later.

The foundational video assets we help every brand produce in their first 12 months — ranked by ROI.

A real breakdown of when iPhone-shot footage wins, when studio footage is worth the money, and how to mix them in one campaign.

Not every effect needs a custom animation. These four cover most needs.

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