Welcome to the GuardianWitness Guide to Video. Over the next few months we'll be giving you some tips so you can improve your video, and light is the topic for our first tutorial. How you see light and how you choose to record it is fundamental, and you certainly don't need a fancy camera to have a go. You can watch the first video and read Elliot Smith's introduction on the Guardian site.
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Your sound is just as important as your picture when shooting video. Here, Guardian multimedia producer Elliot Smith introduces some of the different types of sound you might encounter and gets some top tips from sound industry veteran Nigel Woodford of Richmond Film Services.
This video is part of a series of video production primers to help you contribute to GuardianWitness. Find out how to send us your video.

Claire Wardle from social news agency Storyful offers some advice on how to ensure your footage appears trustworthy