Every quarter Flip employees spend a day in the community supporting local projects. They recently decided to support a local Bay Area organization called Save the Bay. This video about the day is shot entirely on a Flip Mino HD.

It shows you that with some good technique you can use a low budget camcorder like the Flip Video to make useful Web videos that don’t feel amateurish.

This video has quality because of:

• positioning of interviewees before shooting (avoiding excess noise, and overlit backgrounds)
• good framing of interviews (use the rule of thirds – placing eyes on two thirds from left side of frame in a right to left talking head interview or one third from left hand side in a L to R interview)
• steady cutaways (grip the camera in two hands, and lock elbows to your waist)

Save the Bay is an organization that seeks to protect and restore the wetlands around San Francisco Bay. Every season they plant thousands of native plants at more than half a dozen sites with the help of volunteers.