Become a Documentary Filmmaker

Craft compelling stories as a documentary filmmaker. Whether you've had little experience working with videos, or you're in the middle of production looking for quick camera and editing techniques, this path is the perfect companion to your filmmaking adventure.

• Learn to craft compelling, thought provoking stories with video.
• Master essentials of video cameras and lighting gear.
• Practice with industry standard video editing applications.

• Course 1: Learning Video Production and Editing
• Find out how to get started in video production and editing. Reviews the tools and techniques aspiring video professionals need to know to launch a successful career.
• Course 2: Introduction to Documentary Video Storytelling
• Learn about the history and importance of documentary filmmaking. Explore the narrative building blocks of documentaries, with examples of nonfiction filmmaking over 120 years.
• Course 3: Video Foundations: Cameras and Shooting
• Introduces the core ideas behind how video cameras capture moving images, and explains how to light and mic a shoot.
• Course 4: Learning Video Lighting
• Learn lighting fundamentals for capturing video close-ups and interviews. Learn how to leverage key equipment, light faces and backgrounds, control light, and work with sunlight.
• Course 5: Video Foundations: Interviews
• Industry-proven techniques for producing and shooting interviews.
• Course 6: Video Production: Location Lighting
• Discover the gear and video lighting techniques you need to light indoor and outdoor scenes.
• Course 7: Video Production: Location Audio Recording
• An audio "cookbook" with step-by-step "recipes" for capturing great sounding audio in situations like conference panels, stage shows, and narrative dialogue scenes.
• Course 8: Video Editing Fundamentals
• Get a high-level look at video editing, and take a tour of the process from start to finish. Discover the essentials of assembling the story, as well as extras like visual effects.
• Course 9: Premiere Pro: Documentary Editing
• Find out how to highlight a cause, express a point of view, and tell a story with Premiere Pro and some essential documentary editing techniques.
• Course 10: Cinematic Video Lighting
• Get tips on choosing lighting equipment, setting up low-key lighting, and shooting great interviews, B-roll, and more. Use these video lighting techniques to get cinematic results.
• Course 11: Premiere Pro 2020 Essential Training
• Learn the essentials of Adobe Premiere Pro 2020. Learn how to edit video and audio, make color corrections, and add titles and effects with this industry-leading application.