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Ready to launch into the exciting world of film and video production? In this path, you'll learn best practices and expert techniques for everything from location scouting and lighting to audio recording and post-production.

Master the fundamentals of video cameras, audio, and shooting.
Learn lighting design in studio and on location.
Practice using industry leading software to edit corporate and documentary videos.

Syllabus

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: 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 3: Video Lighting and Grip Basics
-Learn the basics of great video lighting. Mark W. Gray introduces the essential lights, stands, cables, and other tools for shooting video.

Course 4: 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 5: Lighting Design for Video Productions
-Learn how to raise the production value of your videos with important but simple lighting tools and techniques.

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: 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.

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Learn how to raise the production value of your videos with important but simple lighting tools and techniques.
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1 hour 44 minutes
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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.
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1 hour 28 minutes
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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.
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2 hours 59 minutes
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Introduces the core ideas behind how video cameras capture moving images, and explains how to light and mic a shoot.
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47 minutes
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Learn the basics of great video lighting. Mark W. Gray introduces the essential lights, stands, cables, and other tools for shooting video.
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1 hour 23 minutes
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An audio "cookbook" with step-by-step "recipes" for capturing great sounding audio in situations like conference panels, stage shows, and narrative dialogue scenes.
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1 hour
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Discover the gear and video lighting techniques you need to light indoor and outdoor scenes.
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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.