Everything the professional news camera person needs to know to tell a news story in 90 seconds will be covered in this course. This includes broadcast camera function and operation, hand-held shooting vs. tripod, B roll acquisition, knowledge of broadcast video formats and aspect ratios, composition, professional news broadcast protocol, three point lighting, audio, voiceovers, choosing sound bites and shooting for the news editor.

In this workshop we will work with “traditional” broadcast camcorders and will cover technical and visual strategies for shooting broadcast news, documentary and other nonfiction genres. We will learn how to use menus, a monitor, lenses, matte box and filters. Advanced uses of time code, broadcast safe exposure levels and camera input and output will be covered. We will work on skills such as focus pulling, handheld camera, basic audio recording, how to use available light and/ or artificial lighting to our advantage. Protocol for working with producers, directors and editors will be addressed.

This workshop is designed to teach HD video camera skills to producers, journalists, editors, writers, business organizations, nonprofits, and even citizen journalists who want to become proficient in shooting video stories for the web.  Workshop participants will finish the class having produced, shot and compressed a 3-5 minute video story ready to upload to the internet. This course focuses on creative and technical aspects of HD video acquisition, lighting, audio gear and editing systems.

Students are required to submit a proposal for a 3-5 minute story designed specifically for webcast that can be shot over the course of several days. After intensive training on field cameras and audio production equipment, they will be provided with ENG camera production packages and an intensive editing workshop that will also serve as a critique of their field camera work.  Shooting and compression strategies for the web are a central part of the curriculum.

Course focus is on intensive HD technical camera training and little or no camera experience is required.  Very basic knowledge of Final Cut Pro editing software is helpful but not necessary.

This course covers everything needed to professionally and creatively light for documentary, television, news, interviews and corporate video. Both theoretical and practical applications of lighting design will be studied and put into practice. Students will gain a solid understanding of lighting instruments, grip equipment and expendables while learning industry terminology associated with these tools.

Practicing with cutting-edge tools of the trade, students will learn to form lighting strategies and lighting plans. The study and practice of staging, location selection, lighting ratios, lighting for multi-subject interviews, camera placement, color correction, diffusion, power strategies and other topics crucial to lighting design will be addressed extensively through detailed hands-on exercises.

The future is now with HD-DSLR cameras. HD video shooting with motion pictures visual qualities available to videomakers.

Students will learn the fundamentals of HD-DSLR cameras operations and shooting. The instructors will go through the camera setup and newly available accessories with the most used cameras and lenses.

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