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In this course, you will :
- Learn the fundamentals of shooting a storey with a camera. Learn how to plan your production, assemble a crew, select the best camera and lenses, and make creative decisions that best fit your film's themes, characters, and storey.
- Composition, exposure, optics, lighting, and camera movement are all covered.
- How to bring all of these ideas together on set and deliver the footage to an editor and director to be assembled into a complete, coherent, and compelling storey
Syllabus :
1. Before You Start Filming
- Focus on narrative filmmaking
- Pre-production planning
- Develop a process
- Assemble your crew
- The actor's perspective
2. Principles of Storytelling
- The basics of storytelling
- Understand the story
- Choose your own theory of filmmaking
- The audience's experience
3. Composition
- Communicate with shapes
- The visual pattern recognition system
- Orient the audience
- Change a pattern for a purpose
- Elements of composition
- Who's driving the scene?
4. Understanding the Camera
- Types of digital cameras
- Simple cameras
- Complex cameras
- Recording, compression, and storage
5. Optics
- What a lens actually does
- Primes vs. Zooms
- Choose a focal length
- The components of depth of field
- The aesthetics of depth of field
6. Exposure
- The seven elements of exposure
- The speed of the camera
- What is correct exposure?
- Light meters
7. Lighting
- Picture the light in your mind
- How much light do you need?
- Basic lighting
- Quality lighting
- Lighting equipment
- Grip equipment
8. Camera Movement
- Why do we move the camera?
- How camera movement relates to story
- How do we move the camera?
- Blocking and lighting
