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Advanced Videography: Make Your Videos Look Better

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Overview

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Do you ever watch a video and wish your videos looked better?

Perhaps it's a YouTuber you follow, a documentary you saw on Netflix, or a narrative film you saw in theaters... you can capture shots that look just like the professionals.

This Advanced Videography Course tackles getting the right shot. We focus on how to improve the videos you capture: going from mediocre shots to professional & creative ones.

By the end of this class, you'll be inspired and know the exact steps to improving your next video.

What is this course?

This course is meant to take your video productions to the next level. What does that mean? This means making your videos look more like the films & videos you watch online, on tv, or in theaters and dream of making.

Follow us as we create three video projects: a corporate documentary video, a commercial promotional video, and a travel vlog. Within each project, we walk through the entire process of:

  1. Planning our project

  2. Brainstorming & storyboarding our shots

  3. Capturing our shots

  4. Improving our shots

You'll see how we get good standard shots, but then take them to the next level with more advanced & creative shots.

What video production concepts will you learn?

  • Shot composition: learn how to pick and choose your shot composition depending on the scene you're filming

  • Slow motion & Frames per Second (fps): learn how, when and why you would capture slow motion video

  • Lens Selection & Focal Length: Learn how different focal lengths change the look of your shot

  • Adding Movement: Learn how to add movement to improve your cinematography

  • Aerial Footage: Learn when, why and how to use drones in your video projects

  • Gimbals: Learn how to use stabilization tools like a gimbal to add steady movement to your videos

  • Timelapses & Hyperlapses: Learn how to capture both timelapses and hyperlapses

  • Video Portraits: Learn how to get great shots of people that tell their story

  • Product Videography: Learn how to get great video shots of a product

  • Interview Lighting: Learn how to properly set up lighting for an interview subject

  • Natural vs. Artificial Lighting: Learn how to use both natural & lighting kits to better light your videos

  • A-roll & B-roll: Learn how to capture both A-roll & B-roll to tell your video's stories

  • Panning vs. Tracking Shots: Learn how to capture motion with two different types of shots

  • Vlog Cinematography: Learn how to better capture your own vlogs

Who should enroll in this course now?

You should take this course if you know how to use your camera to capture video; you know the basics of video settings; you already have experience making your own videos. But, you're wanting to take your videography to the next level.

You may wonder what it takes to get the shots you see on TV. Or perhaps you have just run out of ideas for how to capture an upcoming project.

This course is for anyone who wants to make their videos look more professional & eye-catching.

Syllabus

  • Welcome to Our Advanced Videography Course
  • 15+ Quick Ways to Make Your Videos Better
  • Project 1 Overview: Commercial
  • How Location Scouting Can Improve Your Videos
  • How Adding Motion & Shooting at Multiple Angles Improve Your Video
  • Capturing Motion with Panning & Tracking Shots
  • How Changing Your Background & Focal Length (Lens) Can Improve Your Video
  • Add Aerial / Drone Video to Improve Your Videography
  • Changing Your Lighting to Improve Product ' Beauty' Shots
  • Project 1 Recap: Watch the Commercial
  • Project 2 Overview: Cinematic Travel Vlog
  • A Complete Vlogging Setup Breakdown & Tips
  • Capturing Great B-roll Video for Your Vlog
  • Reviewing My B-Roll Videos
  • Drone B-roll: Reviewing My Aerial Videos
  • Building Sequences in Your Video to Tell Better Stories
  • Action Cameras: Capturing Great Video with GoPros and Similar Action Cameras
  • Timelapses: How to Shoot a Timelapse for Your Video
  • Project 2 Recap: Watch the Cinematic Travel Vlog
  • Project 3 Overview: Documentary Promo
  • Tips for Interviewing on Video
  • 2-Camera Interview Setup with Lighting & Audio Tips
  • Video Portrait: Shooting a Beautiful Shot for Promo & Documentary Projects
  • Cinematic B-roll: Adding Movement & Focus Pulls to Your Video Shots
  • Steadicam Video with a Gimbal
  • Naturally Lit Beauty Shot
  • Project 3 Recap: Watch the Promo Doc

Taught by

Phil Ebiner

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