Critique

[Jacob sack]

I used a hand held stabiliser to film this and looking back at it some of the shots are quite dreadful, any tips on how to avoid some of these mistakes?

 

Edited September 2, 2018 by Jacob sack

[Keith Wood]

You're moving too much and too fast.

The only time that the lens should move is when you have a REASON to do so.  What you're doing here is using the shot to show how nimble your stabilizer is, instead of using the stabilizer to get your shot.  As Musashi said, "Do nothing which is of no use."  You're doing an art video, not the Rebel attack on the Death Star.

Go look at the shot of the leaf.  You start drawing back, good, nice, but this is when you should change the angle, even if only by the slightest amount, and you should do so smoothly.  To go beyond that, reimagine the shot, you pull back, then smoothly use the leaf as the center of a pivot, so you go from looking at the leaf to having the leaf FG as you look at what the leaf "sees" as it hangs there.  This is a shot that can't be done in a hurry.  When you can make that look like a dolly shot, you'll really be in control.