Mobile Surveillance: Videotaping the Subject

Video Transcript

"Hello, My name is Frank Torres and I'm here on behalf of Expert Village. This segment is about video taping your subject while performing mobile surveillance. Congratulations, your subject showed themselves and your going to get some great footage of them. Any footage of your subject is great footage. This is exactly what the clients want to see and it shows that you have access to them. Now the first thing you going to want to get of your client is an I.D. shot or of your subject is an I.D. shot. This is a shot that establishes their identity and shows exactly who they are. This is what an I.D. shot should look like. It's a close up shot of their face, shows exactly who they are and let's your client know that's exactly who they're looking for. Now after you get your I.D. shot, you?re going to want to establish a wide shot. This is a shot of everything else that your client is doing. You'll want to get as much of it as possible in the shot. This is what a wide shot should look like. Now with your wide shot, your going to have a whole shot, your going to have a wide shot of your client. You?re going to be able to capture all their actions they're doing. If they're claiming that they lost something in an accident, you'll be able to see if they have the object on them. If they're claiming workers compensation and they're claiming that they're injured, say in their neck or in their lower back, you'll be able to capture all their movements with them. Another purpose of the wide shot is to capture the location that they're in. You'll want to see where they're at and where they were found doing what they were or what they weren't suppose to do. The important thing to remember during the shot is to keep it steady and to capture as much detail as possible. If your client goes in, or your subject goes into a building, zoom back and get a good shot of the building your subject went into. These are all things your going to want to get done while video taping your subject."