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Hollywood Film School: Filmmaking & TV Directing Masterclass

Learn How to Be a Working Hollywood Director, Take Your Filmmaking, Film School & Video Production to the Next Level.
Rating: 4.4 out of 54.4 (1,391 ratings)
9,266 students
Created by IFH Courses, Gil Bettman
Last updated 7/2018
English
English [Auto], Italian [Auto]
30-Day Money-Back Guarantee

What you'll learn

  • Direct a short film, feature film or any narrative content.

Requirements

  • A love for filmmaking and directing the camera
  • Understand basic filmmaking concepts

Description

Join over 30,000 Students who are learning from our courses.

"By far, the best director and cinematography course on the Internet." - Nate Carroll

Want to learn how great directors create award-winning films? Want to learn how to become a working Hollywood director in Television or Film?

In this online course you'll learn When to Move the Camera in your next film and video production. The key here is that camera movement must be invisible. It should serve the story without calling attention to itself. Next, learn How To Move the Camera most effectively by systematically fulfilling Five Tasks when designing each moving master shot. Finally, learn how a master of visual design like Zemeckis customizes his application of these Five Tasks to the unique demands of each scene.

They DON'T teach you this in Film School!

THIS COURSE IS AMAZING!!! I'm learning SO FREAKIN MUCH from it, and it's totally blowing my mind. Thanks so much to Gil and Alex for putting this course together. I'm a director working on my first horror film, which has a bit of action in it, and this course is totally giving me rocket boots. If you have more courses from Gil, please let me know and TAKE MY MONEY! - Colby R Rice

Excellent content. But you'd better pay attention or you will miss something. This course is packed with loads or useful and well explained stuff. - Mr Mick Farmer

Instructor is clearly in command of craft and engages with questions, simple explanations and familiar examples. Video and audio are excellent. - Bill Halford

Veteran film and television director Gil Bettman will teach you how to enhance drama and heighten action by using different lenses. This is the key to Lensmanship – the technique which Spielberg borrowed from Wells, Kubrick and others to transform the look of today's films.

Once you have grasped Lensmanship you are ready for the final lesson -- How to Shoot Action Sequences. Gil will show you how Kathryn Bigelow, John Woo and others ignite the screen by putting the camera in the right place and using the right lenses. Here's what will be covered in the course.

  • Why you must shoot with a moving camera

  • When to move the camera 

    • Why all camera movement should be invisible

    • The three kinds of camera movement that are always invisible

  • How to move the camera – shoot the best moving master shot

    • The five tasks of a moving master:

      • Establishes geography and believability

      • Eliminates edits

      • Generates eye candy

      • Focuses the audience on the center of the drama

      • Picks up coverage

    • How to customize the five tasks to each scene

      • Examples: dailies from:

        • Movies for TV

        • Low budget features

        • Big budget features directed by Bob Zemeckis

  • Lensmanship 

    • How the look of 3 different lenses is the key to understanding all lenses

    • The three ways that lenses change the look of a shot

      • Perspective

      • Field of Vision

      • Depth of Field

  • Shooting Action 

    • The 3 key components to shooting action

      • Put the camera in the right place

        • Breaking down your shots

      • Put the right lens on the camera

        • How lenses affect motion in the frame

      • Get the right number of pieces

        • How coverage heightens energy

    • How to shoot a chase

    • How to shoot a fight

Very helpful. Adds depth to your understanding and intuitive insights which you surely had if you happened to play with video shooting and editing without doing any learning beforehand. It's enriching. The movie samples are great as the clarify the points. Love it! - Yosi Tsitsu

So what are you waiting for. Jump start your filmmaking career as a film director. 

Who this course is for:

  • Independent Filmmakers
  • Webseries Directors
  • Television Directors
  • Film Students
  • Anyone who wants to learn how to move the camera to better tell the story
  • Cinematographers
  • Film Producers

Featured review

Scott
Scott
19 courses
4 reviews
Rating: 5.0 out of 58 months ago
This really was an awesome course. It gave me the opportunity to understand how, what, and why I should be using different lenses for different scenes. The emotion and feeling attached to how you shoot a film was very interesting too. I liked thinking about how my films will evoke different emotions in the viewer. Gil truly was a fountain of knowledge and I would recommend to any aspiring filmmaker or to anyone who just wants to brush up on the craft :)

Course content

8 sections • 42 lectures • 5h 1m total length

  • Preview01:25
  • Preview01:57
  • Preview04:29
  • Preview05:24
  • Moving Establishing Shots
    04:25
  • Showing Off by Showing the Camera Movement
    05:42
  • Analysis: Moving Establishing Shot of Tarantino's Pulp Fiction
    Preview04:30

  • Task 1: Establish Geography
    08:33
  • Task 1a: Put the Money On the Screen
    06:37
  • Task 2: Focus on the Drama
    04:24
  • Task 2a: Drama and Seamlessness Fight Each Other
    02:46
  • Task 3: How to Generate Eye Candy
    08:35
  • Task 4: How to Pick Up Coverage In Your Moving Master Shots Pt 1
    03:57
  • Task 4a: How to Pick Up Coverage In Your Moving Master Shots Pt 2
    08:07
  • Task 5: Eliminate Edits = Seamlessness
    05:55

  • The Default Pattern of a Good Moving Master Shot
    05:37
  • When the Default Pattern Works
    06:03
  • How to Shoot a One'er
    02:06
  • A Unique Master for a Unique Scene
    10:07

  • The ABCs of Shooting Great Action Sequences
    01:44
  • Lenses Made Easy
    04:06
  • Forced Perspective Made Easy
    04:39
  • Understanding Depth of Field and Field of Vision
    05:38
  • Amp Up Your Static Shots Using Lenses
    05:03
  • How to Pick the Best Lens for Each Moving Shot Pt 1
    05:11
  • How to Pick the Best Lens for Each Moving Shot Pt 2
    06:01

  • Storyboarding Action -- the Key to Success
    04:30
  • The Climactic Action Sequence of "Never Too Young to Die"
    02:29
  • Shooting Action - Break Down Storyboards #1-4
    04:34
  • Shooting Action - Break Down Storyboards #5-10
    05:27
  • Shooting Action - Break Down Storyboards #11-18
    04:50
  • Shooting Action - Break Down Storyboards #19-25
    05:43
  • Shooting Action - Break Down Storyboards #26-32
    03:22
  • Final Edited Sequence - Gene Simmons Ambushes John Stamos
    10:07

  • Great Action, Low cost - Point Break Foot Chase
    04:17
  • Use the Wide Angle Lens to Shoot a Great Chase
    05:52
  • How To Shoot a Great Chase Using Telephoto-Long Lense
    04:24
  • Use Humor to Make Your Action Sequence Great
    03:31

  • Final Thoughts of Directing
    03:28
  • BONUS: What DO You Want to Learn Next?
    00:48

  • Why are Filmmakers Always Broke and What They Can Do to Fix It
    Preview54:50
  • How to Build a BlackMagic Camera Rig on the CHEAP!
    Preview50:06

Instructors

IFH Courses
Filmmaking, Screenwriting & Best Selling Udemy Instructors
IFH Courses
  • 4.3 Instructor Rating
  • 4,347 Reviews
  • 53,064 Students
  • 26 Courses

IFH Courses is a creator, publisher and distributor of high-quality online courses covering all avenues of the filmmaking, screenwriting, post-production, and social media/marketing crafts. Think of it as the ultimate online film school. We bring together industry-leading experts from all disciplines so you can learn from the best. Filmmakers, Screenwriters & Content Creators are our passion!

Our expert instructors will teach you skills that will have an immediate positive impact on your career or business.

You'll find his approach to our courses a bit raw and real. That's because I care about my students, fellow artists, and filmmakers. He has seen and personally made many missteps over the years and he wants to help you avoid making the same costly mistakes. The industry is abusive to the newcomer and he hopes Indie Film Hustle can help you navigate the shark-infested waters of the film industry.

We also are the founder of Bulletproof Screenwriting, Filmtrepreneur, IFH Academy, and Indie Film Hustle TV, the world's first streaming service dedicated to filmmakers, screenwriters, and content creators. Think Netflix for Filmmakers.

Gil Bettman
Film Director and Instructor
Gil Bettman
  • 4.4 Instructor Rating
  • 1,391 Reviews
  • 9,266 Students
  • 1 Course

In 1995, Gil was hired by Dean Bob Bassett as a full time professor to teach directing and screenwriting in the film department at Chapman University. Since then, he has helped his visionary dean build the little-known film department into one the preeminent filmschools in the world – The Dodge College of Film and Media Arts. Bettman is now one of the mainstays of Chapman’s world-class directing department along with internationally acclaimed directors John Badham and Martha Coolidge and industry stalwarts Jeff McCracken and Andy Lane.

Following the publication of his book, First Time Director, in 2003, Bettman was invited to teach a seminar in mise-en-scene, or visual design, at the Hamburg Media School. For this seminar he crafted a unique, easy-to-grasp approach to the visual side of directing which enables the student to quickly master the tricky art of shooting with a moving camera. The success of Gil’s approach to teaching directing the camera resulted in his being asked to give his seminar at other leading filmschools in Europe, Asia and Africa. 

Since then he has taught at eighteen top schools in fourteen countries, among them The Danish Film School; The Dramatiska Institutet in Stockholm; UIAH in Helsinki; The Northern Film School in Leeds, UK; FAMU in Prague; The Institute of Film, Television and Radio, Ostankino, in Moscow; AFDA in Johannesburg; Ngee Ann Polytechnic in Singapore; The Harbin Institute of Technology in China; and The University of Hawaii.

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