VIDEO JOURNALISM

Duration: 3 Days

Cost: £900 + VAT

Course Available Online and Onsite

Video skills for journalists:

shoot, edit, and publish professional content

In today’s multimedia-driven news environment, journalists are increasingly expected to shoot high-quality video — often working solo.

This 3-day hands-on course equips you with the essential skills to produce compelling video stories.

Day 1: Learn the fundamentals of planning and shooting content, including talking head interviews, news stories, and promos. Topics include camera operation, framing shots, capturing clear audio, working with lighting (natural and artificial), and effective interview techniques with strong questioning strategies.

Day 2: Hands-on shooting day — put your skills into practice by capturing your own content.

Day 3: Editing day — learn to ingest and edit your footage using Adobe Premiere Pro or Final Cut Pro, and prepare videos for broadcast or web distribution.

Note: We also offer a 4-day version of this course for a more in-depth focus on editing and post-production techniques.

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WHO SHOULD ATTEND?

Any one wishing to use a video camera to shoot interview or short news items & factual content, then edit the footage to obtain professional looking results.

PREREQUISITES

No previous knowledge of video production or camera skills are required.

OUTLINE

Day 1: Video Pre - Production & Production

Pre Production

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

Interviews:

Skill of the Interviewer
Closed & Open questions
Best Practice

Production:

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

Good Shots

Framing Shots
The Rule of Thirds & Balance
Shot Composition

Acquiring appropriate Illustrative Material

Shooting B Roll, GV’s / Cutaways

Camera

How to Use the Manual Focus
Depth of Field, Pull focus
Controls: Iris, Shutter , Gain , Lens angle
White Balance

Setting up for an interview

Basic Lighting Set-up

Best Prtactice
Shooting outdoors
Shooting Indoors
3 point lighting set up

Sound

Using Different mics

Best practice

Day 2

Shooting a news story
Day spent externally on location
Shooting interview / Vox Pops
Shooting BRoll and GVs
Focus on the practical side of shooting content
Practice of Interview technique
Practice of setting up a shoot,
Framing shots
Acquiring good quality audio
Using available light

Day 3

The third day of the course will be spent editing and preparing your footage for broadcast.

Introduction to editing digital video
• Shooting terminology
• Understanding non-linear editing
• Setting up a project
• Understanding the Editing Package’s interface

• Choosing preference settings
• Working with bins
• Transferring your footage from the camera to the desktop

Reviewing your footage and making editing decisions
• Viewing and marking clips
• Working with your story
• Selecting footage to use
• Creating a piece with a start, middle and end

Editing your footage
• Understanding the Timeline
• Editing in the Timeline
• Viewing edit points
• Inserting clips
• Deleting clips and gaps
• Trimming, dragging and fine-tuning edit points
• Editing for impact
• Using the trim edit window
• Adding video transitions

Adding Audio
• Adjusting audio in the timeline
• Editing sound clips
• Creating Voice overs
• Combining location recordings and voice-overs
• Making audio-only edits
• Applying audio transitions

Incorporating still images
• Adding logos, maps, diagrams and other items
• Incorporating still images

Working with titles
• Adding titles
• Animating titles

Finishing your project
• Exporting your sequence and clips
• Preparing video for broadcast
• Preparing your video for the web
• Compression issues