Become a Documentary Filmmaker

Overview

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Craft compelling stories as a documentary filmmaker. Whether you've had little experience working with videos, or you're in the middle of production looking for quick camera and editing techniques, this path is the perfect companion to your filmmaking adventure.

Learn to craft compelling, thought provoking stories with video.
Master essentials of video cameras and lighting gear.
Practice with industry standard video editing applications.

Syllabus

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.

Taught by

Rob Garrott, Ashley Kennedy, Anthony Q. Artis, Mark W. Gray, Anthony Q. Artis, Anthony Q. Artis, Anthony Q. Artis, Ashley Kennedy, Jason Osder, Jem Schofield and Ashley Kennedy