Course:
Introduction to Film And Video Making
Level:
Beginners - Intermediate
Description:
Learn the principles of film making using your mobile phone. It includes an introduction to InShot video editing on your mobile phone. This course is fun and exciting and will include eight evening classes and with some course work to be done at home. It is aimed at beginners or those who have some knowledge and wish to increase their knowledge and improve their filmmaking and video skills. Use your phone to make a short film: to promote your business or product, promote your organisation, short training video or a short creative film. The subject matter and the theme will be chosen by you.
Course Content:
- Basics of using your mobile phone to record video. Explore some optoinal additional equipment such as mini tripods and microphones.
- Principles of composition and optimising the use of available light.
- Idea generation and planning a short film. Using storyboards to clarify your shots.
- Writing a short script and creating a shot list to be used for your film.
- Record a series of film clips to make a one to three minute video.
- Review and select clips to be used for final film.
- Editing the clips using InShot or your own preferred editing app on your mobile device.
- Adding text, photographs, vocals, music and/or sound effects to your finished video.
Tutor:
John Foley
Class Time:
7:00pm-9:00pm
Practical task assigned at end of class each week and followed by a critique at the beginning of class the following week.
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