Become a Documentary Filmmaker

Courses under this program:
Course 1: Learning Video Production and Editing
-Find out how to get started in video production and editing. Reviews the tools and techniques aspiring video professionals need to know to launch a successful career.

Course 2: Introduction to Documentary Video Storytelling
-Learn about the history and importance of documentary filmmaking. Explore the narrative building blocks of documentaries, with examples of nonfiction filmmaking over 120 years.

Course 3: Video Foundations: Cameras and Shooting
-Introduces the core ideas behind how video cameras capture moving images, and explains how to light and mic a shoot.

Course 4: Learning Video Lighting
-Learn lighting fundamentals for capturing video close-ups and interviews. Learn how to leverage key equipment, light faces and backgrounds, control light, and work with sunlight.

Course 5: Video Foundations: Interviews
-Industry-proven techniques for producing and shooting interviews.

Course 6: Video Production: Location Lighting
-Discover the gear and video lighting techniques you need to light indoor and outdoor scenes.

Course 7: Video Production: Location Audio Recording
-An audio "cookbook" with step-by-step "recipes" for capturing great sounding audio in situations like conference panels, stage shows, and narrative dialogue scenes.

Course 8: Video Editing Fundamentals
-Get a high-level look at video editing, and take a tour of the process from start to finish. Discover the essentials of assembling the story, as well as extras like visual effects.

Course 9: Premiere Pro: Documentary Editing
-Find out how to highlight a cause, express a point of view, and tell a story with Premiere Pro and some essential documentary editing techniques.

Course 10: Cinematic Video Lighting
-Get tips on choosing lighting equipment, setting up low-key lighting, and shooting great interviews, B-roll, and more. Use these video lighting techniques to get cinematic results.

Course 11: Premiere Pro 2020 Essential Training
-Learn the essentials of Adobe Premiere Pro 2020. Learn how to edit video and audio, make color corrections, and add titles and effects with this industry-leading application.