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Photography & Video Video Design Storytelling

VIDEO STORYTELLING. Creative Excellence Class

Creative videography, storytelling, shooting and editing in an easy to follow course for intermediates and beginners.
Bestseller
Rating: 4.5 out of 54.5 (1,137 ratings)
5,144 students
Created by Andrew St.Pierre White
Last updated 11/2020
English
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What you'll learn

  • You will know how to make videos that will entertain, inspire and even teach an audience.
  • You will be qualified not only to tell a story, but to keep your audience engaged with rich narration, music, sound effects and timing.
  • You will know how to be an entertainer.
  • You will know how to tell a story, using basic video equipment, on any video platform such as YouTube or Vimeo.
  • This course will be particularly value for non-fiction storytellers

Requirements

  • Any kind of camera that can shoot video. It doesn't matter what. And you'll need a microphone.
  • A computer or laptop for video editing. It can't be really old, but also doesn't need to be fancy and expensive.
  • Hopefully you have a desire to captivate an audience with your video storytelling skills.
  • You should be able to use a PC or Apple Mac at a basic level.

Description

Do you want to be a filmmaker? Most video courses focus on teaching how to get better footage. And that's a good first step. But this course will do far more. It will teach you how to weave great footage into an even greater story, regardless of how mundane or ordinary the topic may be.

I'm a TV producer, director and editor. My shows have been on major networks in many countries. I've been doing this for 38 years. And no matter where your videos will be displayed, you need to know the content of this course. Most of it you will not find in any other course, mainly because I think most video instructors don't appreciate just how important it is.

So, if you wish to entertain an audience, which means to have them enjoy your videos and look forward to more, good storytelling is the key. The best footage in the world is just not enough unless its crafted into a tight and engaging story. And capturing footage suitable for telling a story is what you will learn here. It begins before the shoot, continues during the shoot and on well into the editing room. Let's begin . . .

You'll learn these things:

  • Different cameras and what makes them different.

  • Good videography is less about fancy expensive equipment and more about telling a story.

  • How to determine what kind of videos you want to make, and what equipment is needed.

  • Camera equipment is the great temptation. How to avoid spending on things that are promoted as needed, when all they do is briefly satisfy the ego.

  • How to shoot a scene to tell a story. Shooting is not just about 'getting great footage'. It's about capturing elements to tell a story during the shoot.

  • Learn the mind space one should use to tell a story as its being shot. This is necessary because creating a story after the footage is shot, sets one up for failure in the edit.

  • Why should shooting and editing not be regarded as seperate processes.

  • Pans, zooms, top-shots, eye-lines, white-balance, B-roll and more. Not only how to get them right, but why they work in a story. Your footage will look like a pro's shot it. And when you begin your edit, you'll love me for it!

  • For example, I'll not only tell you what a pan is, how to shoot a smooth one, but more importantly, why would a pan work in a story.  Nobody ever teaches this stuff!

  • B-roll footage? Techniques for extreme efficiency in footage gathering.

  • Audio.  Techniques for extreme efficiency in audio content gathering.

  • Editing software choices and links to free edit software that is, surprisingly, absolutely brilliant. It's also free, and I still use it. Wow!

  • Editing techniques. I'll teach some simple rules that'll turn your audience's heads. 

  • Editing can be intimidating, because in many ways, its the most difficult part. But it's actually quite easy as long as the footage gathered is done with the story in mind. I'll teach you how this is done.

  • How to avoid the amateur traps; the shooting and editing techniques that might look cool, but actually shout 'beginner here!'.

  • Look like a pro right from the start!

  • Music and how to find it, know its right, and use it properly.

  • And a lot more.

Who this course is for:

  • For anyone who wants to shoot videos, but has some, a little or no previous experience.
  • For anyone who wants to start, or has just started a YouTube channel.
  • For anyone who has been shooting video for a while, but has not learnt how to create and tell stories.
  • Many experienced videographers will learn something here, which will probably be the creative elements taught in this course
  • For anyone who has experience shooting still photos, but wants to move into making videos. You will love this course!

Featured review

Reggie Bass
Reggie Bass
101 courses
22 reviews
Rating: 5.0 out of 5a year ago
Just what I was looking for! Thank you so much! Full of mind-expanding thoughts and ideas. I found a bridge between the creative and the technical. So much useful information that I will have to repeat the course over and over to retain it all.

Course content

6 sections • 34 lectures • 4h 42m total length

  • Preview08:10
  • Preview06:35

  • The power of a unmoving camera in storytelling
    13:47
  • Using pans and zooms to enhance your story
    06:13
  • Best practices when moving your camera
    07:06
  • Lenses and perspective and how they impact your story
    06:15
  • The rules for using backgrounds in your storytelling
    08:17
  • More secrets to using backgrounds to tell compelling stories
    02:43
  • Final thoughts on handling your camera like a pro
    04:15
  • Understanding the power of audio in creating compelling stories
    03:31
  • Section-2 summary
    04:20

  • Understand the basics of lighting
    05:17
  • A little bit more about using lighting to create captivating stories
    06:57
  • Making your drone part of the story
    10:19
  • The power of time lapses and how to use them in storytelling
    14:17

  • Constructing a story in camera: Using audio to lead the story
    08:06
  • Constructing a story in camera: Capturing the story when the unexpected happens
    12:42
  • Constructing a story in camera: Rules for the self-shooter
    07:56
  • The power of B-roll footage in telling stories
    08:52
  • More about B-roll footage
    13:34
  • The best rule for capturing and using B-roll footage
    08:41
  • Scripts. Are they needed in storytelling?
    04:44
  • The rules for keeping your audience entranced
    05:57

  • Editing. A technical introduction
    Preview11:51
  • Links to free editing software
    03:47
  • The basics on opening your story
    13:53
  • Constructing your story opening
    01:44
  • The Opening of a Series
    06:57
  • Avoiding amateur traps with transitions
    06:39
  • Working with music: Enhance an existing emotion
    11:24
  • Working with music and sound effects: Create emotion
    12:01
  • The dig-deep method of choosing music that wins every time
    10:52

  • Pulling your story together
    06:50
  • The final video. My most recent story.
    18:03

Instructor

Andrew St.Pierre White
Award-winning TV broadcaster and director
Andrew St.Pierre White
  • 4.5 Instructor Rating
  • 5,382 Reviews
  • 20,476 Students
  • 8 Courses

Andrew St Pierre White is a professional broadcaster, writer and presenter, with 38 years in TV and film. He's also an award winning author with over 17 book titles and his YouTube channel boasts over 47 million views and 230 000+ subscribers. 

Included in his resume as director and cinematographer are over 80 TV documentaries, many of which have been on major TV networks. He's edited hundreds of TV commercials and won several top international editing awards, including Cannes Gold, and New York TV Gold.

Married to a NY Times bestselling author Gwynn White, Andrew is also a passionate and involved teacher.

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