In print, we were looking for a layered medium shot that would be printed big across two pages and allow the reader’s eye as much time as necessary to move around the image amd soak up the details and juxtapositions.

In video, the editor becomes the readers eye, using separate, different shots, showing the details and juxtapositions and building that medium shot from a series of smaller, shorter shots. The cool thing is that unlike stills, which is 2 dimensionsal, you can create a 3D world in video by moving the camera and capturing shots from 360 degrees around the subject.

So the easiest thing a still photographer can do when transitioning to video is to shoot a lot of close ups and extreme close-ups. If the medium shot is the king of print, the close-up and extreme close-up is the king of video.