cinematography Videotaping yourself?

[rodripau000]

Hey. I am a singer and like to cover songs and want to record myself with a nice HD camera, not like a webcam or something.

I have an HD camera with zoom and manual focus / autofocus and all but no one to film me.

If i want to manually focus myself, how would i do that?

Put the camera on a tripod, hit record, then get into the shot, but how would the focus change? I like things that are manually focussed over auto focus.

Also, lighting? An overhead light is bad correct? like a light from a ceiling fan?

Find a spotlight of somesort and use that? K thanks!

 

[Alcove Audio]

You need a stand-in. A display dummy, preferably posable, would do nicely. Also a video display facing you when you are "on-set" would help you to tweak as you go.