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Get filmmaking secrets, from finding (and securing) financing, through surviving production, through distribution and everything in between from me, Adam Bhala Lough, a Spirit Award nominated, 3-time Sundance Film Festival alum and one of Filmmaker Magazine's Top 25 Indie Filmmakers to Watch. Who am I? I'm an internationally acclaimed 14-year vet with four documentaries currently on Netflix and three that were the #1 documentary on the iTunes charts . I've had an incredible amount of success in my career but I have also failed many, many times. You will learn where I failed along the way so you won't make the same mistakes. I'm also a mentor at the Sundance Native labs and Latino Screenwriting labs and was a mentor at the 2015 SXSW Film Festival mentor sessions so I know how to teach in a concise and clear way. Why should you take this course and not another? You will get secrets only a seasoned pro can reveal- from the beauty of not paying insane clearance fees by claiming "fair-use," to how to get into a film festival without any connections. It's all in this 5 hour course. Other courses give general knowledge of how to make a film from people with very little actual real world experience. This course is taught directly from my experience making eight feature length documentary films, all of which have received worldwide distribution and been translated into many languages. *Watch some of the documentary short films made by my students at youtube. com/worldcinema: Rickshaw Girl by Muzahidul Islam Zahin, a filmmaker and activist based in Dhaka, Bangladesh Kwizera: A Story of Hope Born from Risiliance by Sahil Laul, a filmmaker based in the USA

Start editing your own videos with the best Windows/PC video editing software out there - PowerDirector. If you're looking for a Windows-based video editing application that will allow you to edit professional quality videos, Cyberlink's PowerDirector is a great tool. This course will teach you everything you need to know to get started editing. Make videos the way you envision them! If you want to make videos with great titles, music, effects, and overall quality, this is the course for you. Here are the main topics of this course: Using easy editing and slideshow creator to make videos in less than 10 minutes Importing footage from any camera Understanding the program layout and tools Editing together a sequence and adding transitions Improving your video with graphics, music, and titles Producing (exporting) your video in HD quality for any device Creating advanced slow-motion, stabilized, color-corrected videos much more! Why is this the course that will make you successful? Taking online courses isn't easy. It takes work and action. This course will help you succeed with concrete practice lessons. We'll walk you through each exercise. By the end of the course, you'll have a fully edited video montage that you can share with the world. Color Director Lessons There is a section on color correcting with Color Director. If you don't have Color Director, that's totally okay - because you'll learn how to do color correction in PowerDirector. But for those of you who have Color Director, this is a great bonus. Who teaches this course? Phil Ebiner is a professional video editor who has edited over 1,000 videos in the past 3 years for amazing companies. His videos have shown at film festivals, in movie theaters, on television, and on popular websites. Phil strives to teach students not only the technical skills of a video editor with this course, but also the philosophy of video editing. You'll love learning from Phil like thousands of other Udemy students. Are you ready to be successful? Are you ready to edit professional-looking videos? Enroll now!

Follow award-winning broadcast professional, Andrew St Pierre White as he takes you set-by-step, as he conceptualises, shoots and edits two of his highly acclaimed TV documentaries. The first is based on a one-hour special documentary broadcast by Discovery Channel, and the second a half-hour serialised episode of a 26-part African adventure travel story. Once released, critics used the words, "gripping", "superb", outstanding" in their reviews of these films. The course consists of a series of videos with details of what is being taught as written summaries. The documentary is run, and as the story unfolds, the director/producer goes though all the thoughts, processes, equipment and creative processes used. This is a real-life event, valuable to those who both shoot and edit stories on video. As every scene is covered, the shooting techniques, editing ideas and storytelling methods are revealed. This is an actual documentary, so what is taught is not just theory— it has become fact, and you can see the results for yourself. The documentary was produced by an indie producer, yet still sold to major networks. How this was done is discussed. The course lectures run to 247 minutes (±4,1 hours). With some, you may need to watch them more than once, because there is quite a lot of learning to do. If you are interested in making serious documentary films, or telling thought-provoking videos for TV or social medial, then this course has a lot to offer. Much of what is being taught here is not, and cannot be taught in a classroom. It goes beyond theory, as the course is based on actual, highly successful productions.

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The undeniable fact is that it’s great content that makes a great YouTube channel. Your lecturer is a highly successful YouTuber . . . And he says, "While YouTube marketing, SEO and thumbnails are important, they must take second place to content. Viewers wanting more content results in subscriptions, fans, followers and income. Every successful YouTuber knows this." This course focusses on how the great YouTubers became as successful as they are. Ask anyone of them, and they will surely answer, “We had the content people wanted. And that's not a difficult thing to accomplish.” YouTube is like real estate when they say, "location, location, location." With YouTube, it's content, content, content. Why does it take most YouTubers years to reach just 1000 subscribers? Mostly, because their content is uninteresting, uninspiring or mediocre. Would you like to grab 1000 in just a month? The secret is great content. This course is for people wanting to join the wonderful YouTube family of successful creators. Great content makes a great channel. Everything else is secondary. And, as important, creating great content leads to personal satisfaction, which means your channel will have a long and healthy life. This course is here to help YouTubers, young and old, to create great content. It is creative in nature. Great marketing is pointless without great content. This course is about content creation, because content is king! I began my career 38 years ago in advertising, editing TV commercials for big agencies. Much later I made TV documentaries for big networks. Now I have my own adventure travel TV show on YouTube. I can honestly say I’m having more fun now earning from my YouTube channel releases than I did chasing TV companies. Now they chase me! I launched my YouTube channel in 2008 as a means to market my work, but not gather viewers. That changed in 2014 when I finally understood the YouTube model and began to create content specifically designed to grow my channel. Since then, my subscribers have grown, currently topping 230 000.  Without any special marketing and SEO techniques, I went from 12 000 to 100 000 subscribers in less than four years. I attribute it to the quality of content. As a side benefit, because the quality is good enough, it has attracted sponsors. I’d like you to enjoy this level of success too. You will learn: Cameras. A practical overview on what makes great self-content gear. Microphones. An overview on capturing great sound. Keeping out the shake. Legs, tripods, mounts and more Don’t dwell too much on the equipment. It’s not as important as you may think. Techniques for addressing the camera and audience. Shooting from the hip ready for the edit. B-roll content. 4-second rule Drones. 10 second rule Self-shooting and selfies. Skin tones out of doors. Natural lighting principals Editing: Audio. Neglect the audio quality at the expense of everything. Editing techniques for vlogs, stories and grabbing your audience in the first 5 seconds. Editing software choices. Avoiding the perils of poor music choice. The fastest way to lose a viewer. Keep it snappy but not disturbing. “Get on with it!”. How to step back and look at an edit sequence objectively. Getting your audience to feel something. Invitations to your viewers to watch more. Titles and thumbnails. Live broadcasts. Scheduling. Youtube challenges and how to balance a YouTubers' life. Income production alternatives. The current catch phrase in the world of YouTube creators is, 'Content, content, content'. Come with me, and I'll help yours get better. sincerely, Andrew St Pierre White

Do you want to be a filmmaker? Most video courses focus on teaching how to get better footage. And that's a good first step. But this course will do far more. It will teach you how to weave great footage into an even greater story, regardless of how mundane or ordinary the topic may be. I'm a TV producer, director and editor. My shows have been on major networks in many countries. I've been doing this for 38 years. And no matter where your videos will be displayed, you need to know the content of this course. Most of it you will not find in any other course, mainly because I think most video instructors don't appreciate just how important it is. So, if you wish to entertain an audience, which means to have them enjoy your videos and look forward to more, good storytelling is the key. The best footage in the world is just not enough unless its crafted into a tight and engaging story. And capturing footage suitable for telling a story is what you will learn here. It begins before the shoot, continues during the shoot and on well into the editing room. Let's begin . . . You'll learn these things: Different cameras and what makes them different. Good videography is less about fancy expensive equipment and more about telling a story. How to determine what kind of videos you want to make, and what equipment is needed. Camera equipment is the great temptation. How to avoid spending on things that are promoted as needed, when all they do is briefly satisfy the ego. How to shoot a scene to tell a story. Shooting is not just about 'getting great footage'. It's about capturing elements to tell a story during the shoot. Learn the mind space one should use to tell a story as its being shot. This is necessary because creating a story after the footage is shot, sets one up for failure in the edit. Why should shooting and editing not be regarded as seperate processes. Pans, zooms, top-shots, eye-lines, white-balance, B-roll and more. Not only how to get them right, but why they work in a story. Your footage will look like a pro's shot it. And when you begin your edit, you'll love me for it! For example, I'll not only tell you what a pan is, how to shoot a smooth one, but more importantly, why would a pan work in a story.  Nobody ever teaches this stuff! B-roll footage? Techniques for extreme efficiency in footage gathering. Audio.  Techniques for extreme efficiency in audio content gathering. Editing software choices and links to free edit software that is, surprisingly, absolutely brilliant. It's also free, and I still use it. Wow! Editing techniques. I'll teach some simple rules that'll turn your audience's heads. Editing can be intimidating, because in many ways, its the most difficult part. But it's actually quite easy as long as the footage gathered is done with the story in mind. I'll teach you how this is done. How to avoid the amateur traps; the shooting and editing techniques that might look cool, but actually shout 'beginner here!'. Look like a pro right from the start! Music and how to find it, know its right, and use it properly. And a lot more.

It's time documentaries get a fresh lift. Typically, they are taught with outdated methods which stem from the 90's, with boring talking heads and bad imagery. This class, instead, teaches you how to make modern, cinematic, and story-driven character docs that engage viewers both visually and emotionally. This class will cover the whole doc making lifecycle, covering how to plan, how to shoot, and how to edit. Part travelogue, part course, all of these lessons are designed to be applicable and get straight-to-the-point. Showing behind-the-scenes footage, they bring you along Dandan's journey of making her beautiful short doc in Tokyo about a female boxer. All of the lessons are designed to be applicable, get straight-to-the-point, and use minimal equipment. By the end of this course, you will have all the knowledge and a complete roadmap needed to make your first documentary short.

* UPDATED 13TH DECEMBER 2020 * This course was created to help you get going with creating your own vlog; covering all of the basics from dealing with your fear of vlogging in public, basic equipment and the editing software you'll need. Although there are hundreds of tutorials on "how to vlog" on YouTube. This course is not only my unique perspective on vlogging, but will show you how to create and upload your videos onto Amazon Prime! What makes me qualified to teach you? I'm a self-taught video editor and full time vlogger that started off like you! In 2016, I had zero video editing experience, no laptop, no students, no YouTube channel, and no presence on Amazon Prime. Fast forward to November 2020, I have; 19+ fitness and travel adventure publications on Amazon Prime 750+ videos on YouTube 10,000+ YouTube subscribers with over 6.52 million minutes watched 266,000+ students in my online video courses Trust me, as I review my stats it sounds crazy to me too! I never expected in a million years to be in my current position with these achievements. I started with nothing. If I can do it, I am confident that you can do it too. Click the enrol button and I'll see you inside the course!