This one week intensive introductory course is carefully crafted to challenge beginning students’ ability to understand technical and creative concepts involved in videography.  In a very short period of time, students will absorb a great deal of information relating to video cameras and their operation.

Some of the topics covered in this class include: understanding the rules of composition and continuity, camera moves, focusing, use of a tripod, white balance, exposure, basic menu operation, video formats, basic audio, fundamentals of lighting, exterior shooting, shooting interviews and basic camera maintenance.  After intensive hands-on training and practice, students will finish the course vastly improved in their shooting skills and technical knowledge.

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Discover the creative potential and challenges of HD video acquisition through lecture, demonstration and hands-on training using the Panasonic HVX-200 and Sony EX-3 cameras at our facility. Master the understanding of professional HD video production on these two currently extremely popular cameras, which are used for a variety of broadcast and production applications.

During each two-day intensive class, students who already have basic videography skills will practice shooting using different lighting schemes while learning the extensive menu functions that affect the image.  Become familiar with different recording formats, file-based recording and workflow from acquisition to editing.

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, voice overs, choosing sound bites and shooting for the news editor.

Students will produce and shoot news stories in the field under the supervision and instruction of a seasoned news photographer. Stories will be edited by a professional editor and critiqued by the instructor.  Students will finish the course with a solid understanding of how a news story is conceived, produced and shot.

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.

Intensive hands-on exercises and discussion of work samples by participants and instructor will provide further insight. Participants will gain technical and practical knowledge in the field of advanced videography in a relatively short time. Some basic knowledge of videography as well as a lot of interest and curiosity are required.

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.

This introductory class is designed to teach proficiency in basic Final Cut Pro editing for media professionals and others who need to quickly gain a solid working knowledge of the software. Upon completion of the class, the participant will be comfortable with the three fundamentals of practical FCP editing: media input, timeline editing and media output.

Many other important and useful features of Final Cut Pro—such as batch capturing, logging, time code, file types and import, edit tools, audio editing, music import, titling, effects, basic graphics, rendering strategies and shortcuts—will be covered.

The especially important topics of media management, codecs and compression for DVD or web will be addressed in detail in this practical and intensive class.