SHOOTING VIDEO ON A DSLR

Duration: 2 Days

Cost: £600 + VAT

Course Available Onsite

Unlock the potential of your DSLR for professional video production.

Modern DSLR cameras make high-quality video accessible to everyone. With interchangeable lenses, advanced image sensors, and full manual controls, they’re ideal for producing professional content.

This hands-on course teaches the fundamentals of shooting video with a DSLR, perfect for photographers or anyone looking to expand into video production.

Day 1: Learn to shoot simple but effective sequences that tell compelling stories. Topics include:

Using manual controls on your DSLR
Planning shots for smooth edits
Shooting interviews and action sequences
Framing conventions, lighting, and sound
Selecting locations and composing shots

Day 2: Focus on editing your footage and understanding the editing workflow. Gain practical experience using Adobe Premiere Pro, Final Cut Pro, or DaVinci Resolve, while learning the principles of short-form and news editing.

By the end of the course, you’ll have the confidence to produce professional-quality video using your DSLR, from shooting to editing.

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WHO SHOULD ATTEND?

This course is designed for photographers or any one else with a DSLR camera moving into the production of professional video.

PREREQUISITES

This course is designed for photographers or any one else with a DSLR camera moving into the production of professional video. As part of the course also provide advice on additional camera kit.

COURSE OUTLINE

Pre Production

Pre-production thinking & the paperwork that you produce from it
Outline, treatment
Shooting script
Storyboard
Camera & lighting plan
Production schedule 
Production checklist

Research:

Recce

Production:

Importance of technical quality:
Good sound
Good lighting
White balance
Using a tripod

Good Shots

Well framed
Balanced composition relevant / neutral background
Shoot optimum amount storyboard
Logging Shots

Appropriate Illustrative Material

B Roll, GV’s / Cutaways
Establishing shot
Get as many cutaways as possible
Relevant cut-aways
Think in sequences of shots
Close Ups
Continuity
Camera Shots:
Long Shot, Wide Shot
Mid Shot, Medium Close Up, Close Up, Extreme Close Up
Camera Moves

• Pans, Tilts, Zooms, Tracking Shot, Dolly Shot , Sweep  

Framing Shots

The Rule of Thirds & Balance Compostition

Crossing The Line

Focus

Soft, SharpDepth of Field, Pull
How to Use the Manual Focus
Adjust focus ring
Camera Controls
Iris, Shutter , ISO , Lens angle (zoom), Camera filte
Neutral Density (ND)

White Balance

Setting up for an interview

Basic Lighting Set-up

Shooting outdoors
Shooting Indoors
3 Point Lighting set up

Sound

Handheld mic, Omnidirectional, Bidirectional, Unidirectional
Boom Mic
Radio Clip Mic
Built in camera mic
Traps to avoid

Production

Skill of the Interviewer
Closed & Open questions
Making the interviewee feel at easy
Repeating questions
Logging the shots

Practice Shooting Vox Pops / Interview / B Roll

Day 2:

Editing / Post Production

Ingest Footage & Edit 2 min news package
Based on Interview / Vox Pops content
Learn basics of Premiere Pro interface & Editing Process
Digitising Footage
Overview of Premiere Pro Interface
Organising Clips in Project Window
Skimming & Playing Clips
Marking Clips in the Source Monitor
Basic keyboard short cuts
Creating a rough Cut
Editing to the Timeline
Insert & Overwrite Edits
Playing and Viewing a sequence: The Programme monitor
Viewing audio wave form
Refining a rough Cut
Reordering a sequence
Trimming clips using The Ripple Tool
The razor Blade Tool / splicing clips
Creating breathing Space
Normalising audio levels for Dialogue
Adding Additional Audio & Mixing/ adjusting audio levels
Adding Cut away Shots
Trimming Cut Away Shots
Creating Split Edits
Fading Audio
Fading Video
Adding basic video & audio transitions
Adding captions & Titles
Exporting a movie