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The Foundations of Great Video
Rating: 4.4 out of 5(208 ratings)
10,226 students

The Foundations of Great Video

Discover the three fundamental principles that ensure the video you go on to create is great
Created byRob Glass
Last updated 9/2021
English

What you'll learn

  • By the end of this course you will...
  • Know what the most important thing about video is
  • Know how to frame a great shot
  • Know how to build your video
  • Understand how to create videos that people want to watch
  • Understand why you want to create them in the first place!

Course content

5 sections • 10 lectures • 21m total length

  • The plan1:03

    Let's ignore all the technical distractions and head straight to the heart and soul of the matter. Once we can this straight, everything else will fall into place. 

  • The most important thing1:49

    Like a torch needs a battery, video also needs something. Without this, it is useless. Acknowledge this and then we can cut our cloth to suit.

  • The Snag1:41

    As with most things life, it's not quite that simple. But that's why we're doing this course!

Requirements

  • No video filming skills are required for this course
  • No editing skills are required for this course
  • This course is for people looking to inject spirit and purpose into their videos

Description

Have you set out to make a video on your own expecting great things but when you've finished, it just seems flat?

Like something's missing?

Or didn't you get that far? Did the fog roll in and suddenly what seemed to clear at first became fuzzy and unachievable and you just didn't know why.

It used to happen to me all the time! AND IT WAS MY JOB!!!

Working as a presenter and video journalist with the BBC I mad over 500 features for broadcast. While some were celebrated nationally as examples of video-making at it's most creative, some went unmentioned in the after programme meetings (a sign that they had been immediately forgettable). I used to think it was all just down to chance.

But then, working independently, I made over a thousand video features. These made me realise that making video should be something that everyone can do on their own. So I began to think about how I could teach it.

Smartphones and tablets make the filming and editing easy, but that's not what we're looking at here. We're looking at how to make sure EVERY video we go on to create hits the spot.

Becoming an Instructor with LinkedIn Learning led me to realise that really there are three fundamental principles that form the foundations of great video. Keep these in mind and every video you make will be great!

It took me twenty years to work these out. But it'll only take me twenty minutes or so to share them with you. Then video-wise the world's your oyster!

Who this course is for:

  • This course is suitable for everone from absolute beginners to seasoned professionals
  • It's for people who have something to say and who want to say it using video.
  • It's for people who prefer the freedom of producing video on their own
  • It's for people who sense that there might be more to video-making than simply turning a camera on and talking
  • Its for people curious to learn about what makes video tick

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