VIDEO PRODUCTION MASTERCLASS

Duration: 4 Days

Cost: £1200 + VAT

Course Available Online and Onsite

Learn the essentials of video production in our 4-day hands-on course

With cameras more accessible than ever, strong foundational skills are key to producing high-quality video content.

This course provides a complete introduction to both shooting and editing.

Day 1: Master the basics of camera operation, planning a shoot, interview techniques, framing shots, and managing lighting and sound.

Day 2: Hands-on shooting day — capture interviews and B-roll content to build your footage library.

Days 3 & 4: Learn the fundamentals of video editing using Adobe Premiere Pro, Apple Final Cut Pro, or DaVinci Resolve.

Gain a solid grounding in editing workflows and techniques to turn your raw footage into polished, professional-quality video.

By the end of the course, you’ll have the confidence and skills to produce high-quality video from start to finish.

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WHO SHOULD ATTEND?

Any one wishing to use a video camera & obtain professional looking results, whatever the nature of the video shoot should attend this course.

PREREQUISITES

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

COURSE OUTLINE

Day 1:

Basic Video Production:

The Thinking Process

• Audience, purpose, content style.

Pre Production

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

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 Composition

Crossing The Line

Focus

Soft, Sharp Depth of Field, Pull
How to Use the Manual Focus
Adjust focus ring
Camera Controls
Iris, Shutter , Gain , Lens angle (zoom), Camera filter
Neutral Density (ND)

White Balance

Setting up for an interview

Basic Lighting Set-up

Shooting outdoors
Shooting Indoors

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:

Hands on practice shooting interview and B-Roll, with a view to creating a 3 min feature.

Days 3 and 4

Editing / Post Production

Ingest Footage shot on day 2 & Edit into a 3 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