CREATIVE COURSE on the ART of FILMMAKING
- Professional filmmakers worry about money,
- Artists worry about light and sound,
- Amateurs worry about equipment.
Which are you?
What to know the truth? You will never become a great filmmaker if all you worry about is codecs, cameras, sensors sizes, and lenses. Knowledge without creativity can never create a masterpiece. That’s why Video Cinematography: Techniques Loved by Pro Filmmakers is all about teaching you to look past cameras and equipment so you can focus on creativity to tell great video stories.
So, if you’re…
- excited to embrace your own creativity rather than to obsess about your equipment
- ready to discover the creative techniques broadcast pros use when shooting TV shows
- keen to improve the quality of your videos so your audience can't get enough
- transitioning from still photography to video and need help
- tired of YouTube channel being overlooked
- frustrated that your professional productions are technically fine, but not creatively outstanding…
Then you’ve come to the right place.
Taught by an award-winning broadcast professional turned YouTuber, Video Cinematography is a premier course for filmmakers wanting to up their game, get noticed, and build a rewarding career in video.
Things you'll learn
Video Cinematography will TEACH you how to transform mundane, ordinary happenings into compelling stories that will leave your viewers begging for more.
You’ll DISCOVER how to prioritize your shots to make your editing process easy and intensely creative.
You’ll EXPERIENCE new ways of weaving dialogue, music, and sound effects together to create a PROCESS that will forever CHANGE how you make movies.
A budding maestro at BUILDING and CONTROLLING emotion, you’ll be INSPIRED to create videos that INFLUENCE what your audience FEELS about the world you SHARE, and how they ACT on those feelings.
Are you ready to embrace this awe-inspiring POWER?
Then join the almost 8000 other students whose lives have been changed by the secrets shared in Video Cinematography.
YOUR LECTURER
Andrew St Pierre White has spent almost 40 years as a broadcast professional, with international awards to his credit. He understands what it takes to capture great footage and audio to make captivating videos, even on a low indie producer budget.
Whether it be a documentary series, a 30-second commercial, or a YouTube product review, he has done it all. His YouTube channel boasts over 10 million views a year and his commercials and TV shows have been broadcast all over the world.
Beloved by his students, Andrew is also a caring teacher. He loves to impart his secrets in a thorough, easy to understand way.
This is a
CREATIVE COURSE
WHAT DO YOU NEED TO GET STARTED?
- A camera that can shoot video.
- Some experience with shooting video. This course is ideal for intermediate level filmmakers.
- A basic understanding of computer video editing.
- A willingness to unleash your creativity and to have fun.
BRING ALL THIS KNOW-HOW INTO YOUR VIDEO MAKING:
What's Inside this Course?
Module 01
The Beginning
Meet Andrew St.Pierre White and learn what this course is about.
We believe our course is different from most other video courses, and it's important that you know what you are about to learn is different too, and why.
Get ready to understand the creative process that makes all the difference.
Be clear as to what kind of video you want to make.
Working with professional directors and crew.
Why we don't talk too much about equipment.
Learning the skills required to tell a great story with video means learning how to:
Capture images and audio.
Don't forget to capture sound effects and music. They are every bit as important as the images.
Get the most out of your subjects, the light, the ambiance, and the story.
Module 02
The Fine art of Storytelling
The five keys to great storytelling.
Why is audio so important?
Capturing audio when shooting a documentary film is as important, and in some ways more so, then capturing video.
Have you ever watched an entire TV show with the sound off? Probably not. But have you ever listened to a story on the radio? Sound is more powerful than imagery when expressing emotion.
Images provide the information. Audio creates the emotion. A video with no emotion is dead. So this means that audio is the key to making great videos.
This task will assists you in understanding the power of audio to paint a picture and create emotion.
Module 03
Still Photography and Videography
In this lesson, we discuss shooting for the edit, both as a still photographer coming into movies and as a dedicated videographer.
The first two videos are aimed mostly at still photographers transitioning to movies. However, if this does not apply to you, I still recommend that you watch them, as there is valuable instruction in them for anyone holding a video camera.
Making the leap from stills to movies
This leap can be a challenge even for professional still photographers, and many fail because:
They do not make the necessary changes to how they capture their images. A visual for a video is not very different from a still image, but the way it is captured is very different.
They seem stuck on the fact that beautiful images are ‘everything’. With stills, of course, it is. But with video, it is not. Stills photographers who make storytelling, and not perfect images their priority quickly learn to balance great images with content, and thus tell great stories.
Module 04
Shooting Techniques for the Edit
Shooting and Editing should never be regarded as two separate processes.
How to shoot is one thing. What to shoot is the other. Let's talk about getting footage that makes editors love what they do!
I’ve shot so much of my work in situations where I’ve had little time to set up a tripod and light the scene. So much has been, as I put it, shot from the hip.
But shooting from the hip doesn’t excuse sloppy camera work. By that, I mean, bad composition and a shaky camera when there is nothing to shake about.
It does mean being creative and inspired at the very moment when something happens. This is the great reward of the camera operating ‘from the hip’.
Module 05
Composition and Amateur Traps
Most video cameras are equipped with zoom lenses, but, contrary to the view of most amateurs, the zoom function should be regarded only as a tool for instantly changing the framing of a shot. It should not be used to zoom while filming, because nothing screams amateur more than a randomly zooming camera.
In the accompanying video, I explain more on this and other exceptions where a zoom can be hidden by a pan or a tilt.
Getting an image properly framed and composed is another minefield for the amateur. To solve this challenge, use my 4-second rule, and avoid excessive camera movements.
If you are going to pan (side to side) or tilt (up and down) do it with purpose, from one fixed, still composition to another. Every pan and tilt must begin from a well-composed shot and end with an equally nicely composed shot, with a four-second still frame at both ends.
Module 06
Camera Equipment
Camcorders, their advantages, and disadvantages for filmmakers.
Mirrorless still cameras and their advantages and disadvantages for filmmakers.
Microphones and advice for indie filmmakers.
Action cameras like GoPros are not just about getting great footage.
Filters like polarizer and color graduated are discussed and their uses are discussed.
Technical information for indie filmmakers.
Jackie Gebbia
Andrew is a wonderful, no nonsense instructor... full of real word knowledge and experience. Personal video shoots interspaced throughout the course, help to keep the pace moving and has inspired me all the more. Highly recommended for beginners and for those who want to increase their creative skills into a more professional level.
Richard Amdengan
It's a great course to source knowledge and learn from especially for beginners in video cinematography. It's also a good refresher for those who already know about the topics. Passionate and entertaining presenter.
