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Complete Filmmaker Guide: Become an Incredible Video Creator

Get 7 Years of Filmmaking Experience - Everything from Pre-Production to Editing - in 5 Hours
Bestseller
Rating: 4.4 out of 54.4 (3,726 ratings)
46,169 students
Created by Julian Melanson
Last updated 9/2020
English
English [Auto], French [Auto], 
30-Day Money-Back Guarantee

What you'll learn

  • Complete mastery over lenses, lighting, sound recording, cinematography, and editing!
  • Create your own incredible videos from scratch with a brand new understanding of filmmaking!
  • Understand timeless video principles that will stay with you in all projects, forever!
  • Gain a film school level understanding of conceptualizing, shooting, and editing a project!
  • Take an idea and fully translate it into your own unique style of video!
  • Expand your creativity though understanding essential filmmaking theories, principles, and ideas!
  • Produce amazing content without expensive equipment, it's about the person behind the equipment!
  • Use one of a kind downloadable PDF's to map out and track your career and video making progress!
Curated for the Udemy for Business collection

Requirements

  • You should be an aspiring creative wanting to create incredible videos!
  • You should have a beginning or moderate understanding of shooting and editing
  • You should have a camera and video editing software

Description

This filmmaking course covers all the creative aspects of planning, shooting, and editing an incredible video. 

If you are a beginner, youtuber, or filmmaker looking to successfully create awesome videos, then this course is made for you.

1. Creative & Personal Skill Development 

Before I even dive into the filmmaking aspects, I explain the secrets other courses leave out. These principles act as a framework for your creativity to build on, which include: 

•    Self Discovery 

•    Optimized daily routine 

•    Life map and progress tracking 

•    Emulating others success 

•    Clarity of video production

2. Understanding Pre-Production

This step is one of the most crucial and misunderstood parts of creating an incredible video. Here I explain how to properly plan and develop your video before the production process, including: 

•     Guidelines that all films follow 

•     Pre-Production Process 

•     Research and Development 

•     Creating Characters, Story, and Shot list

3. Secrets of Production

This is my favorite part, I share the golden rules and timeless principles of filmmaking that will allow you to create incredible videos regardless of what equipment or editing software you are using. This portion will absolutely have the most impactful effect on your videos. A few of these techniques include: 

•     Mastering Your Lenses 

•     Key Principles of Lighting 

•     Sound Recording Fundamentals 

•     Filming Fundamentals 

•     Mastering the framing, shot choice, and camera movement 

4. Mastering Post-Production

The most complex and time consuming part of any video is the post-production process. I shed some light on using this step to create an awesomely unique video that stands out among the sea of bland online content. 

•     Capturing, Organizing, and Creating a Rough Edit 

•    4 Main Factors of Knowing When to Cut 

•    Matching Color, Shape, Movement 

•    Montage Essentials 

•    Color Correction and Color Grading 


Who this course is for:

  • This course is for beginning to intermediate youtubers, video bloggers, filmers, editors, and all video creators!

Featured review

Jacob Krag
Jacob Krag
34 courses
6 reviews
Rating: 5.0 out of 5a year ago
After taking this course I have finally understood what it means to be a filmmaker. Julian Melanson has been a great teacher. I liked that all the videos were quite short, and gave an overview of everything that one should understand. It's great that he has set the course up to understand everything about pre production to production, etc. I have chosen to recommend the course to all my friends who love to create videos every day.

Course content

17 sections • 116 lectures • 5h 17m total length

  • Preview10:47

  • Update for New Students
    01:36
  • Personal Development Introduction
    01:17
  • Preview02:31
  • Self Awareness
    05:01
  • Creating More Time for Success
    05:58
  • Making a Map
    02:19
  • Filmmaking Development
    04:00
  • Preview06:09
  • Mastering Videography Equipment
    02:40
  • Preview04:12
  • Chapter Q&A and Teacher One-on-one
    00:30

  • Preview01:37
  • Overview & Understanding
    03:30
  • Preview01:57
  • Videography and Filmmaking Equipment
    00:59
  • Defining Characters
    01:17
  • Creating a Story
    01:09
  • Script
    00:32
  • Preview01:26
  • Establishing a Video Production Crew
    01:42
  • Logistics Before Your Video Production
    00:35
  • Chapter Q&A and Teacher One-on-one
    00:30

  • Preview00:54
  • Camera Latitude: DLSR or Mirrorless Camera
    04:44
  • Picture Profile: DLSR or Mirrorless Camera
    03:45
  • Preview01:49
  • White Balance: DLSR or Mirrorless Camera
    02:03
  • Shutter Speed: DLSR or Mirrorless Camera
    03:58
  • Aperture: DLSR or Mirrorless Camera
    00:26
  • Frame Rates: DLSR or Mirrorless Camera
    04:28
  • Video Formats: DLSR or Mirrorless Camera
    01:22

  • Lenses Introduction
    Preview00:30
  • Lens Functions
    03:41
  • Understanding Depth of Field
    03:11
  • Guiding the Audience with Depth of Field
    01:30
  • Lens Types Overview
    00:33
  • Lens Types In-depth
    Preview07:12
  • Prime vs. Zoom Lenses
    04:11
  • Lens Overview & Recap
    00:28

  • Main Video Lighting Principles
    04:30
  • Types of Video Lighting
    01:00
  • Video Lighting Terms
    01:18
  • High Key Video Lighting
    04:17
  • Preview03:31
  • Natural Video Lighting
    02:20
  • Synthesizing Video Lighting Techniques
    06:47

  • Sound Recording Fundamentals
    03:07
  • Keys of Sound Recording
    01:26
  • Preview03:10
  • Environmental Effect on Sound
    02:07
  • Capturing Room Tone
    01:56
  • Types of Microphones
    02:48
  • Sound Recording Overview & Recap
    01:15
  • Chapter Q&A and Teacher One-on-one
    00:30

  • Videography Essentials: Fundamentals Introduction
    03:48
  • Videography Essentials: Theory Behind Cinematography
    01:19
  • Preview02:19
  • Videography Essentials: Framing In-depth
    01:11
  • Videography Essentials: The 180 Degree Rule
    02:09

  • Filmmaking Essentials: Types of Framing
    05:19
  • Filmmaking Essentials: The Rule of Thirds
    05:06
  • Filmmaking Essentials: Frame Balancing
    02:11
  • Filmmaking Essentials: Breaking the Rules with Purpose
    00:36
  • Filmmaking Essentials: Creating Emotion with Framing
    02:58
  • Filmmaking Essentials: Framing Overview & Recap
    02:06

  • Cinematography: Camera Movement Introduction
    00:52
  • Cinematography: Zooming vs. Camera Movement
    02:06
  • Preview05:51
  • Cinematography: Speed of Camera Movement
    03:20
  • Cinematography: Quality of Camera Movement
    03:24
  • Cinematography: Shooting with Multiple Cameras
    03:17
  • Chapter Q&A and Teacher One-on-one
    00:30

Instructor

Julian Melanson
Film Director & Teacher
Julian Melanson
  • 4.4 Instructor Rating
  • 4,948 Reviews
  • 121,200 Students
  • 4 Courses

"I'm a full-time film director & best selling instructor who teaches aspiring video creators how to create incredible careers and videos.”

As a young kid I'd listen to music with my headphones on full blast, imagining scenes and stories that fit together perfectly with all the sounds I was hearing. I then quickly found my life's passion, creating films that engage the visual and auditory senses in ways that move people.

Today this passion has lead me to do the same thing, on a much larger scale.

Through creating high end commercials with well-established clients, artists, and brands from around the world, I’ve discovered what make films great.

I found out that it doesn’t matter what budget you have, which software your editing on, or what equipment you own. What DOES matter are the underlying principles and techniques behind what you do that creates something amazing. 

Learning this on my own outside of “traditional” schooling, I truly wanted to create a space where others could benefit from the knowledge I'd gained. I created a youtube series designed to “help creative minded, turn their passion into a career.” 

Today, this channel has been showcased by film festivals and websites such as, "NoFilmSchool" with over 3m views & 46k inspired followers. 

Now, I’m bringing these teachings deeper and more in depth to the students of Udemy. 

Where I will literally, teach you everything I know about:

○ Directing, filming, and editing like a (boss) talented professional. 

○ Turning your passion into a career, aka making money doing what you love.

○ Enhancing your creativity and becoming a CREATOR.

A little more about my film background:

Founder & Creative director at Visual MVMT
November 2007 to Present
At this Los Angeles based, fully in-house creative agency I've produced, directed, filmed, and edited a bajillion projects with clients such as:

• Levi’s
• Kaskade
• The Ritz Carlton

Director of Visual Media at DJcity
August 2010 to Present
DJcity is the world’s leading subscription-based record pool for DJ’s, musicians, and producers. 
Since coming on board, I've worked with Red Bull, Pioneer, Serato, and our social media has grown to:

• 145k Youtube Followers
• 470k Facebook Likes

Filmer & Director at Destination Luxury
April 2009 to Present 
Destination Luxury is an online magazine that focuses on the luxury market. I've worked alongside the Destination Luxury team to create cinematic films and marketing campaigns in locations such as: 

• Honolulu, Hawaii
• Montego Bay, Jamaica 
• Mykonos, Greece

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