See how a Course Works: Intro to Online Learning
Description
Can you hear Sundance calling? In this 6-lesson course, you'll explore the many facets of planning and shooting digital videos.
You'll learn how to control white balance, aperture, and shutter speed, to get high quality images. You'll explore the different types of shots and camera motion techniques used by the pros and learn how to do location scouting, plan props, wardrobe, and sets, and work with talent.
Course lectures challenge you to think about different storytelling conventions in narrative and documentary movie-making and address the fundamentals of sound recording. You'll script and storyboard short movie sequences and develop an understanding of the various roles in the video post-production process.
Outline
LESSON 5 Recording Sound Since the days of the "talkies," recorded sound has been essential in movie making. And in fact, poor sound is one of the most obvious indicators of an amateur video. In Lesson Five, you'll explore the various kinds of sound you can use in your video projects. You'll learn about different kinds of synchronous and non-synchronous sound as well as on and off-set sounds that are used by video makers to support storytelling. You'll learn how to capture these sounds as well as work with factors such as room tone, background noise, and wind noise. In the exercise, you'll add an imaginative soundtrack to a silent scene.
LESSON 6 The Big Picture These days, you can shoot a video on your own. You can write it, shoot it, and star in it. And on a small budget production, you may find yourself doing a whole lot more. Lesson Six concludes the course with an exploration of the many roles in movie production and post-production. A final project will challenge you to apply everything you've learned in recreating a short scene from a famous movie.
Additional Info
- Languages
- English
- Course Length
- 60.00 hours
- Duration of Access
Enrolled students have access to the class for six months. During this period, questions or assignments may be submitted at any time to the instructor. Each course lesson requires an average of 10 hours of study time.
- Instructor
Andrew Shalat is an author, designer/illustrator, educator, and Mac expert. Since 1985 he has been designing and writing articles about Macintosh, Mac software, and publishing technologies that have appeared in Macworld, maccentral.com and macweek.com (for which he was a columnist writing "Shalat's Web"). He has been a regular speaker/faculty member at Macworld Expo since 2001 and has written three books: How to Do Everything with Online Video (McGraw-Hill, Osborne), Do It Yourself Mac Projects (McGraw-Hill), and MacDesign Out of the Box (Peachpit). Andrew is a regular contributor to design and Macintosh related sites including Inside Mac Radio, InDesign Magazine, and Creativepro.com. His design work covers a large range of media including book, CD and DVD covers, brochures, catalogs, outdoor signage, print ads, artwork, logos, Flash and Web design, and grocery lists. Over the past two decades, Andrew has taught literature, writing, Web design, and print design.
- Prerequisites/Audience
The digital filmmaking course is designed for adult learners interested in building skills and portfolio for a design career. To take the course, students simply require a computer (PC or Mac), an Internet connection (56 Kbps modem or faster), and any required software. For courses with software requirements, computers must meet software manufacturers' system requirements.
- Requirements/Materials Included
Students will need access to a digital video camera with a FireWire connection. The course includes directions for Final Cut Express but students can use a non-linear editing program of their choice (Avid, Final Cut Pro, Premiere, iMovie, and so on). Students who do not use Final Cut Express will need to adjust for minor differences in interface and features.
To take this course you'll need a non-linear editing program (full directions for Final Cut Express and some notes for Premiere Elements are provided). Students with other non-linear editors (Avid, Final Cut Pro, Premiere Pro, iMovie, and so on) are invited to join the class but will need to adjust for minor differences in interface and features, and access to a digital video camera, preferably a MiniDV with a FireWire I/O connection.
- Certification
3 CEU’s
Sessions College is accredited by the Distance Education and Training Council (DETC). Certificate programs are accredited by the Middle States Commission on Secondary Schools.
