Online Class: Right Production, Wrong Budget: Intro to Film
This course will focus on the use of film and video to tell a story (documentary story or narrative). The techniques in this course are very basic, however, they are applicable to even the largest film productions (even the films with budgets over $1 million). This course covers everything you need to know to make a short film or New Media production.
The instructor is a Hollywood film maker who has a degree in Electronic Media and Film from Towson University. He has made commercials, narrative films and documentaries and worked nearly every crew position from grip to Producer (if you don't know who those people are, don't worry you will). He have credits on shows on Discovery, ESPN, History, NBC, BET, MTV, A&E and many more.
Course goals include: 1) Through lessons on theory and technique with multimedia examples, provide the student with a well rounded understanding of professional film/video production to be able to make New Media content the right way from conception to distribution.
2) Make a 2-4 minute video the right way from conception to distribution in one week on a shoestring budget.
Enroll today! This is a self-paced, online course. You have 6 months to finish.
An instructor will monitor your progress and assess your body of work at course completion. UniversalClass™ offers many wonderful learning tools
to help you get the most out of your online course, including an online portfolio service
that manages all your course completions.
This class has been officially reviewed by our Course Review Committee that scrutinizes course content and instructor participation. This course has received our Committee's highest rating: 4 stars.
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1.0 CEUs
Course Description
An introduction to film and video production as well as a step by step guide to making a short film.
This is an exciting time for low budget filmmakers! There are more ways of getting exposure and making money as a low budget filmmaker than ever before. Websites are popping up everywhere looking for short films to add to their content. In the next couple of years, cell phone companies will be seeking short films for streaming video content through satellites to millions of viewers. This has already begun, and many high tech companies are competing to put together the biggest library of short films. In many cases, the filmmakers can get royalties on their film projects and earn money for each download. You can use the steps from this course to get your project distributed on the small screen.
Learn the theory and technique to making film and video content from conception to distribution. Use the "Right Production, Wrong Budget"guide, to complete a 2-4 minute short video in as little as 7 days. This guide will help you make it through your first shoestring production while utilizing the theory and techniques from the lessons (over 12 interactive lessons, 10-30 lesson hours) on filmmaking.
An Internet Film Course taught by a pro with experience on projects ranging from multi-million dollar budgets to absolutely no budget! This course will take you through the steps of making a short film while helping to prepare you to work on much larger productions. It will also prepare you to make your own film and video content whether it's a feature film, a television documentary, or new media content for the internet. Filled with links to video examples within the lessons, just as if you were sitting in a film school classroom. Plus, the lessons are loaded with tips and tricks from the instructor's real world production experience.
Many of the contestants on the new hit television show "On the Lot", use these methods to create their own short films with little or no budget and in a very short time. Use the methods in this course to compete in the Verizon Wireless "Movie Making Challenge" where you can upload your footage and edit right online.
This course offers 1.0 CEUs upon successful completion. You may take this
online course with or without CEU documentation. An online and hard-copy Certificate of Course Completion displaying your coursework and
CEUs earned is included with the CEU Option. We also offer an expedited Transcript Service for sending your accomplishments to a third party.
Certificates awarded by the instructor will vary and are based upon student merit.
Any awards you earn are considered unofficial (or temporary) unless you decide to make the award official.
To make an award official, there is a $30.00 processing fee that covers the customization, printing, and shipping of a hard copy of the certificate as well as access to the UniversalClass™ Transcript Service.
Official awards include a serial number that verifies the authenticity of the award you earned for a lifetime (great for employers
to verify your achievement).