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Video Production and Videography
This program gives you tips on setting up a studio, how to cleverly light products, how to light car interiors, ways to get over the challenge of lighting at night, and how to hide your fixtures when shooting a wide shot. Using this knowledge, you should be able to light scenes that look as good as those in the movies! Lighting controls the way we see the world. It can also cause the difference between a great looking image and a mediocre one. Teaches: Setting up a Studio, Studio Lighting, Product Lighting, Lighting Car Interiors, Lighting Night Scenes, Lighting Wide Shots.
DVD / 2012 / 31 minutes
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Few documentaries can be made without funding, but funding is often exceedingly hard to acquire. This feature looks at finding sources for funds, writing a thorough prospectus, knowing the details of an accurate budget sheet, organizing a successful fundraiser, editing a demo reel that impresses, and presenting the techniques of an effective pitch. These tips will help you get the funding you need to make your dream a reality. Teaches: Funding Sources, The Prospectus, The Budget, The Fund-Raising, The Demo Reel, The Pitch.
DVD / 2012 / 30 minutes
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The most important part of any video is the story. In documentaries, a good story can turn ordinary situations into insightful and meaningful experiences for the audience. To help you make better documentary stories, we look at using the dramatic arc, structuring your story, storytelling styles, finding the story, culling the information, and controlling time to make an entertaining and relevant story. Teaches: Story Basics, Story Structure, The Approach, Researching the Story, Finding the Story, Controlling Time.
DVD / 2012 / 33 minutes
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The shoot is an important part to any documentary. It's where all your hard work in the planning stage pays off. To make your project better, we show you how to get location access, prepare and direct great interviews, set up a good lighting scene, and follow good policies for capturing B-roll and sound. These tips will help you make your documentary both compelling and professional. Teaches: Getting Location Access, Preparing for Interviews, Directing Interviews, Capturing B-roll, Common Lighting Setups, Field Sound Recording.
DVD / 2012 / 34 minutes
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The most important part of any video is the story. In documentaries, a good story can turn ordinary situations into insightful and meaningful experiences for the audience. To help you make better documentary stories, we look at using the dramatic arc, structuring your story, storytelling styles, finding the story, culling the information, and controlling time to make an entertaining and relevant story. Teaches: Story Basics, Story Structure, The Approach, Researching the Story, Finding the Story, Controlling Time.
DVD / 2012 / 34 minutes
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We've all had to work with footage that was far from perfect. Most video can use a bit of help in post production, especially if a shoot didn't go quite right. Learn how to give your footage a continuous look by color correcting, deinterlacing, and converting frame rates. Find out how to fix shaky footage and bad audio, and even remove objects from a scene. Use these tricks and every shot can live up to its potential you imagined. This training DVD demonstrates techniques that can be achieved using most any mid/high range editing software. Teaches How To: Color Correct Video, Deinterlace Footage, Fix Shaky Footage, Get Rid of Hiss and Hum in Audio, Convert Frame Rates, Get Rid of Unwanted Objects in Footage.
DVD / 2012 / 44 minutes
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Making movie-like special effects doesn't have to be difficult. Our experts show you how easy it is to make your own using 6 step-by-step training tutorials! Learn how to make realistic blood, design elements, light sabers, and more. Teaches: Basic Movie Effects, Creating Fake Blood, Design Elements: Ink Drops and Spreads, Stop-Motion Light Painting, Light Saber FX, Simple Special FX (realistic looking rain, shoot during the day to make it look like night).
DVD / 2012 / 26 minutes
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Creating professional looking video is all in the techniques. The experts at Videomaker show you how in 6 step-by-step easy to follow tutorial training sessions! Everything from the camera functions and shooting tips to camera moves and audio finessing. Teaches: Mastering Your Camera Controls, Shooting Video with a Tripod, The 5 Deadly Sins of Amateur Video, Camera Motion, Lighting for Video, Audio for Video.
DVD / 2012 / 34 minutes
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From shooting fight scenes to perfecting your action scene transitions, this program demonstrates many ways to help you create and improve your Action Videos.
Teaches:
Shooting Fight Scenes
Gun Muzzle Flashes
Action Scene Transitions
The 24p Film-Look Effect
Compositing Sets with Images & Video
Camera Angles & Techniques
DVD / 2010 / 28 minutes
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Essential techniques on capturing audio for video. Learn how to place microphones for interviews and events. Tips on using wireless lavaliere microphones, hidden microphones, boom microphones and digital video recorders. From mic placement to understanding wireless technology, this collection combines many techniques to get you started with capturing Field Audio!
Teaches:
Interview Miking
Live Event Miking
Using a Boom Mic
Using a Filed Mixer
Lavaliere Mic Placement
Camera Audi Control
Wireless Mic Technology
Headphone Tips
Best Mic Cheats
Foley Sound Effects
DVD / 2010 / 43 minutes
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Learn all you need to know about using a green screen. We present several step-by-step demonstrations on common uses of a green screen and include a special tutorial on changing virtual backgrounds. From green screen lighting, editing software tools and how to recreate carious green screen special effects, this DVD will leave you ready to put your green screen skills to use!
Teaches:
History of Chroma Key
Green Screen Basics
Lighting
Troubleshooting for Chroma Key
Keying Tools
Green Screen Planning
Virtual Sets & Tracking Points.
DVD / 2010 / 42 minutes
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Online Video Production gives you new insight into creating video projects for online video sharing sites. As an extra bonus, the DVD comes with several of Videomaker's best articles (in .pdf format) with specific interest to creators of online video, including compression techniques, shooting video for the web and online video marketing advice. This DVD will help you get the best out of internet video!
Teaches:
History of Online Video
Capturing Video For The Web
Online Video
Equipment, Web Cams
Video Compression For The Web
Uploading Videos
Video Marketing Strategies
DVD / 2010 / 32 minutes
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Learn classic special effects used by Hollywood FX creators. From glitter FX to making bullet holes, fake fire and safely running your actor down by a car, this DVD takes your special effects skills to a higher level. With creativity & knowledge you can incorporate some big budget Hollywood techniques using low budget camera tricks and editing software. Discover how to use green screen effects to put your characters in any setting. As a special bonus we have included step-by-step screen recorded presentations of how we produced some of these special effects using Adobe premiere, Adobe Photoshop, and Particle Illusion.
Teaches:
Natural Transition FX
Creating Sound FX - Foley Style
Green Screen Magic Glitter FX
Earthquake FX
Creating Fire with Software
Hit By A Car
Gunshot Special FX
The Bullet Hole FX.
DVD / 2010 / 25 minutes
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Teaches advanced tricks on the best way to work with light and shadow in your production. As an extra bonus, this disc has some of our best associated articles for viewing this DVD on a computer.
Teaches:
An Overview of Video Lighting Equipment
Cheap Video Lighting Solutions
Three-point Lighting
Video Lighting Safety Tips
On-camera Video Lights
Casting Shadow with Cookies
Green Screen Lighting
Mood Lighting Effects
Specialty Lighting Tricks
DVD / 2010 / 29 minutes
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The Essential Guide to Lighting for Video. Join the experts as they examine the lighting techniques that will help turn your ideas into top quality, professional productions. Teaches: light theory, tools and terms of lighting, studio lighting, indoor/daytime light, outdoor/nighttimelight.
DVD / 2006 / 30 minutes
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Videomaker's Basics of Videography DVD combines three entire Videomaker programs: Basic Shooting, Light It Right! and Sound Success, with the ease of navigation and quality DVD. This program comes with bonus content from Ulead, Digital Juice and Tri Lab.
PROGRAMS INCLUDE: Basic Shooting: With a few simple tips, you'll be on your way to producing top-notch videos while having fun in the process.
Program includes:
Camcorder Features and Functions
Button Basics
Lighting Basics
Sound Advice
The Art of Composition.
Light It Right! The experts at Videomaker examine the lighting techniques that will help you turn your videos into top-notch, professional-looking productions.
Program includes:
Light Theory
Tools and Terms of Lighting
Studio Lighting
Indoor Daytime Lighting
Outdoor Daytime Lighting
Outdoor Nighttime Lighting.
Sound Success: Discover new ways to make your videos better and more interesting with the use of quality sound microphones and techniques.
Program includes:
Mike Types
Wired or Wireless
Overcoming Indoor Audio Problems
Overcoming Outdoor Audio Problems
Editing Audio
Audio Sweetening.
DVD / 2006 / 90 minutes
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The Art of Titles & Graphics. Graphics & titles should be considered from the start of any production, so scenes can be shot to accommodate there inclusion. Teaches: titles & graphics, splash screens & opening titles, segment IDS, lower thirds & bugs, diagrams & info graphs, credit rolls & crawls
DVD / 2005 / 30 minutes
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This program focuses on the basic techniques to help refine shooting skills and tell a better story. Teaches: shot sheets, logs, slates, lenses & filters, exposure & shutter, camera moves, handheld techniques and composition.
DVD / 2005 / 30 minutes
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Learn an introduction to DVD authoring, authoring tools, menu design, navigation & linkages, DVD extras & MPEG-2 encoding & burning.
DVD / 2005 / 30 minutes
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Learn the basics to help you shoot like a pro. This program is designed to help students produce dynamic productions and create top quality programming. Teaches: button basics, lighting, sound advice, art of composition, smooth moves & steady shots.
DVD / 2005 / 30 minutes
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Learn important information about the tools you'll need to get started as a digital video editor including valuable tips and techniques for creating titles, editing sequences and editing audio.
DVD / 2005 / 30 minutes
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Good audio is essential for good video. This program teaches the tools, terms and techniques needed in order to capture and edit top-notch audio for video. Teaches: Microphone types, Wired or wireless, indoor audio, outdoor audio, editing audio & audio sweetening
DVD / 2005 / 30 minutes
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Learn some of the tips and tricks that will help you take your productions to the next level. This program will introduce you to the tools, techniques and technology you need to edit like a pro, inlcuding tips for top-notch titles, creative composites, cool color and speed effects.
DVD / 2005 / 27 minutes
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Explores the process of discovering and preparing a character for film with acting instructor and coach, Stephen Heu. Students will prepare, rehearse and perform a scene from the script titled "THE CAMERA". Lesson segment includes: The Audition; the Sides; the Look; the Script; the Process; exploring the Character; finding Identity; Believability and the Organic Performance; the Struggle; Impressions and the Seasons; Subtext, content underneath the spoken dialog; Empathy, Living the moment; Inspiring other actors; Slowing down; Exercises; How to not abandon the character; Working on lessons; Honing our craft; The actors goals and the audiences goals; Loaning emotions to a character; Catharsis; Dealing with separation anxiety; Stage and Film acting differences. Performance segment includes: Holding the last look; Slowing down, taking a beat; Matching other actors level; Retrieve then speak; Controlling the words; Proper breathing; Right to speak; To edit, criticize, or judge an actor; Stretching the emotion; Muscle for Continuing; Looking at an actor as part of the whole script, as part of your own emotional process; Involving the character; Intuition; Learning the process of rehearsal and abandoning the script; Find where your gifts are and utilize them to the fullest; Sharpening your tools; Understanding the process and the script, internalizing the information and LIVING the characters; using blocking to convey emotion.
2 DVDs / 2012 / 2 hours
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Featuring Rob Burman
Hollywood make-up effects artist & 30 year prosthetic veteran Burmans work includes legendary films; The Thing, Ghostbusters, The Fly, Super Mario Bros & Mighty Morphin Power Rangers. Even in this digital age, one cinematic art that requires the hand-on skills of the artist at all phases of the process is the start-to-finish creation of old-age makeup. While various stages for film and video can be achieved non-prosthetically, the process requires specific detail in the creation and application of facial and bodily prosthetics. Teaches:Life casting, sculpting & mold making, Fabrication stage of the prosthetic pieces, Final stage - application of keup on the performer life casted.
DVD / 2012 / 30 minutes
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