Video Shooting Fundamentals

Learn the essential skills needed to create professional-quality videos from start to finish.

This four-week course explores fundamental concepts such as camera operation, lighting techniques, audio recording, and video editing. Over four weeks, you will gain hands-on experience and explore creative techniques to enhance your storytelling capabilities. By the end of the course, you will have produced your own polished video project.

The course begins with an exploration of camera basics, helping you understand different types of cameras and lenses, as well as technical settings like resolution, frame rate, and aspect ratio. In the second week, you'll dive into lighting fundamentals, learning how to manipulate light sources to create visually compelling scenes. From there, the course explores the editing process, guiding you through organizing footage, basic editing tools, effects, and color correction. Finally, the course concludes with a focus on audio, covering microphone types, recording techniques, and audio editing to ensure high-quality sound in your final videos.

Throughout the course, you’ll participate in practical exercises and assignments designed to reinforce your learning and build confidence in your video production skills. By applying these techniques, you will not only complete a final video project but also develop a solid foundation in video production that you can build upon in future creative endeavors.

Whether aiming to create content for personal projects, social media, or professional use, you’ll leave the course equipped with the knowledge and skills to produce high-quality videos.

What you will learn:

✔ Identify different types of cameras, lenses, and their settings, and apply shot composition techniques to create visually engaging footage
✔ Use various lighting techniques, including one-light and three-point lighting setups, to enhance the visual quality of your videos
✔ Edit video footage using industry-standard software, incorporating effects, color correction, and audio adjustments to produce a polished final product
✔ Record and edit high-quality audio, including syncing external recordings and mixing music, to complement and enhance your video projects