Mobile Filmmaking: Plan, Shoot & Edit a Short Documentary
What you'll learn
- Identify a documentary film subject
- Scout and develop talent to respond in front of the camera
- Plan, prepare and produce all aspects of a TV-quality film story
- Develop shot lists and film locations that will build your story
- Gather pro audio from the field for building a well-layered sound track
- Edit sequences, performances and interview segments into a compelling visual narrative
- Use non-fiction filmmaking techniques to make authentic, original and powerful documentary episodes.
Requirements
- Take either the Smartphone Filmmaking or Mobile Journalism masterclass before enrolling this course.
- The lessons in this course pick up where those foundation courses end.
- We will demonstrate video editing with Final Cut Pro X. You can use this or any two track video editing app for your movie.
Description
This iPhone videography course features an award-winning documentary short film that was shot with mobile devices.
This is an advanced level course that builds upon the my iPhone Filmmaking for beginners course. You may also think to complete the "iPhone Filmmaking: Filmic Pro & LumaFusion app" course before diving into this course.
"Great course - thanks Robb! I'm an experienced video producer who works with crews - but looking to film more of my own content with my iPhone 11. I took notes throughout and picked up some useful tips on kit. Will look up more of Robb's courses and websites. Thanks again!"
— Victoria Masterson ★★★★★
You will need the experience from the foundation course to get the most from this in-depth course.
Here is where we take you deep inside the process of making award-winning films. The author has won 19 film festival honors from international competitions in the documentary category.
You will go behind the lens and learn every step in making an original documentary film.
In this course you apply advanced filmmaking techniques that help you to produce a movie about a person, event, activity, place, brand, or issues that you care deeply about.
Films are an amazing way to connect people to a person, a product, idea, or mission. They give the viewer the feeling of a long-lasting connection.
In these detailed step-by-step lessons, filmmaker Robb Montgomery will take you backstage and behind the lens to see exactly how to plan, produce, film and edit a long-form documentary film with mobile video gear.
Montgomery shows you how he solo-produces a broadcast quality film in Berlin with no crew, no script, no budget, and no automobile.
You will learn how to:
Scout and recruit an interesting film subject
Prepare a shot list
Develop interview questions
Prepare the gear and subjects
Use locations to full effect
Develop sophisticated motion shots
Edit scenes, sequences, string outs and sound bites into a compelling visual statement
Intended Audience: Journalists, film makers, teachers, advertisers, musicians, artists
Who this course is for:
- Students
- photographers
- video editors
- teachers
- videographers
- mobile journlaists
Course content
- Preview02:35
- 00:46How to take this course
Instructor
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- 4.3 Instructor Rating
- 1,523 Reviews
- 16,654 Students
- 19 Courses
• Video Journalism Trainer & Consultant
• Author, "Mobile Journalism" (2020) & "Smartphone Video Storytelling" (2018)
As a media development trainer, Montgomery leads programs in Video Reporting, Digital Transformation and Broadcast Television in more than 40 countries.
He produce workshops with journalists and TV correspondents for Reuters, CNN, IREX, The New York Times, Journalism Co UK, Mediacorp, Radio Free Europe, TVN, BILD, and VRT public broadcasters.
Montgomery teaches at journalism schools in Paris, Berlin, London, Cairo, Copenhagen, Stockholm, and Singapore.
His Smart Film School certificate courses and textbooks are accredited by more than 100 schools and universities.
CREDENTIALS
• Former editor: Chicago Tribune, Chicago Sun-Times
• Journalism professor
• Digital Transformation consultant for United Nations, Reuters Foundation, Red Cross, IREX, WAN-IFRA, and HT Media.
• Filmmaker / Winner of Film Festivals in L.A., Berlin and Moscow.
• Chair, Mobile Journalism Awards
• Mobile Creator
TEXTBOOK AUTHOR
Smartphone Video Storytelling (2018 Taylor & Francis, New York & London)
Videos mit dem Smartphone (2019 dPunkt Verlag - German language edition)
Mobile Journalism (2020 Visual Editors, Chicago)