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Internet Film Making (01zero-one)

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Description: Do you need to shoot footage specifically for the internet? This short course will teach you the script to online process of shooting, editing and uploading of video for viewing on the internet. With so much of today?s content being broadcast on the internet, this is a one stop shop for learning how to be your own internet broadcaster.

Do you need to shoot footage specifically for the internet? This short course will teach you the script to online process of shooting, editing and uploading of video for viewing on the internet. With so much of today’s content being broadcast on the internet, this is a one stop shop for learning how to be your own internet broadcaster.

We will cover basics and touch upon the more advanced features of shooting on PD170 DV CAM cameras, and editing on Final Cut Pro and outputting and uploading for internet broadcast. On completion you will have covered the following crucial stages:

• Shooting footage on a PD170, Setting up the camera for web broadcast. Techniques of exposure and shooting style for optimised web broadcast. Recording sound specifically for web broadcast. The basics of green screen shooting with a view for web transmission.

• Editing your material on final cut pro. Simple cuts that work online and basic effects and titling your project. Outputting your material onto web friendly formats.

• Uploading/Distributing your videos onto the internet onto servers or into existing free to air sites. Getting the most of your films and attracting hits.

Location:

The course takes place in our fully equipped mac suite in Soho. There is a green screen studio in which to shoot green screen presentations. Each student will learn to edit on a Mac G5 using Final Cut Pro 5. The tutor will demonstrate the principals and functions of Final Cut Pro using our 50” plasma screen. Uploading of videos and designing.

Specific learning aims:

• Setting up a PD170 camera for web broadcast

• Setting up sound kits for web broadcast

• Shooting basic interviews exterior and green screen

• Shooting basic cut aways

• Digitising footage for editing

• Basic cutting of footage

• Basic effects and titles on edit

• Out putting footage for the web

• Basic web design to allow links to footage

• Getting hits to your footage.

Who’s it for:

People who want to learn to edit on Final Cut Pro with a view for web broadcast People who want to learn how to shoot on a PD170 with a view for web broadcast People who want to learn how to shoot green screen with a view for web broadcast People who want a basic understanding of sound editing, effects and generating text. People who want to prepare their films for distribution on the web. People who want to attract traffic to their videos and content. Intermediate Film makers who want to broadcast high quality video on the web and raise their production values.

01zero-one provide industry lead skills development and training for London audio visual and digital media industries. It runs training in Shake, Avid, Final Cut Pro. It also works alongside post production companies to deliver training on their behalf.

Tutor:

Bruce Webb has shot, edited, produced and directed over 60 corporate videos for the internet for clients such as Sainsburys and Lovells, he has also produced over 30 short dramas for the web and for BBC online. He started work in the industry in 1992 as a runner on feature films. By 1995 he had produced his first 35mm feature Alec. He continued to produce and direct through Whatever Pictures first as a sole trader, then partnering up with Alex forming a limited company in 1997. Bruce has produced or co-produced over 30 shorts and several features though he continues to direct corporate videos and teach producing while pursuing directing of television drama and feature films. Bruce is currently represented as a drama director by Tally Garner at Curtis Brown.

To register: 01zero-one

Location

01zero-one, Westminster Kingsway College, Soho Centre, Peter Street, London, W1F 0HS