This course will allow students to develop professional skills in the art and process of video making. This will include film and television pre-production, production, and post-production. Fundamentals of videography, video production, including the techniques and the aesthetics of shooting, lighting, and editing will be covered. The course focus on hands-on production experience, using digital video, filmmaking, including story development, production/post techniques, directing, and interpretation of drama from script to screen. This class will introduce students to video camera operation, camera stabilization techniques, lighting, scripts and storyboarding, digital imaging, motion graphics software, and, importing/exporting graphics, movies, animations and sound effects into, or out of video editing software.
Knoblauch, H., Tuma, R., & Schnettler, B. (2014). Videography. Peter Lang. Brown, B. (2016). Cinematography: theory and practice: image making for cinematographers and directors. Taylor & Francis.
content serial | Description |
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1 | Theory of cinematography |
2 | How the digital camera works –comparison to film camera– hands on equipment |
3 | latitude of your camera (HD professional video cameras and DSLR cameras) |
4 | Theory of lighting |
5 | Interior and location lighting |
6 | Various light sources (HMIs, Tungsten, softboxes, Kinoflos, dedo-lights etc.) – Demonstration and hands on |
7 | 7th week assessment |
8 | Different types of lenses and their use: Focal length Wide , normal , portrait, telephoto , special lenses and how they impact the shot-Prime vs. Zoom lenses |
9 | Grip equipment – demonstration and hands on (tripods , Jimmy Jib crane , dolly, multiglider, steadycam) |
10 | Digital film productions |
11 | Shooting on green screen |
12 | 12th week assessment |
13 | Studio set ups |
14 | Colour grading in post-production |
15 | Revision |
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