Come to our London studio for a 2-day intensive and practical filming workshop face-to-face.
Hands-on experience of filming with Camcorders, DSLRs, and using a variety of affordable and professional accessories - microphones, digital audio recorders, tripods.
This in-person workshop is ideal as a stand-alone, or can replace the online PART 1 for these courses: Filmmaking, Participatory Video, Social Research, and Video Marketing.
- January 13-14
- March 9-10
- June 29, 30
10:00-17:00 Spectacle Studio, London SW11
This course can be attended as PART 1 for all the courses that have a PART 2.
Two intensive days covering Sessions 1-4
Intro to Smartphone Filming
Smartphone as a camera kit: potentials and limitations
Setting up your phone
Filming with Smartphones
In-built apps: best settings and good practices
Controlling Focus and Exposure
Shooting selfies and framing ‘talking heads’
Recording sound
How to achieve 'radio quality' audio
Microphone: different types for different uses
External recording devices
Accessories and software
Grip Equipment: frames, clamps, tripods, gimbals
Lighting tips
Principles of video production
Manual settings vs Automatic Settings
Focal Length
Focus, Iris, Shutter speed, ISO
Video Interview
How to approach video interviews
Framing a ‘talking head’
Best practices in setting up interviews
Aesthetic conventions: eyeline
Practice: filming a talking head
Interview Exercise Presentation
Practice
'View and crit': workshop analysis of 'talking head' exercise
Grip and permissions
Grip equipment
Tripods, monopods, gimbals
Permissions
Filming to edit
What is a "shot"?
Jump cuts and B-roll
Framing principles and moving shots: tracking, pan, tilt
Practice: B-roll
B-roll exercise presentation: portraits and locations
Practice
'View and crit': workshop analysis of B-roll' exercise
Filming indoor/outdoor
Lighting
Light temperature and white balance
Principles of 3 and 4 point lighting
Conclusions and Q&A
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