Curriculum

Learn Documentary Filmmaking skills you can apply to shooting your own videos.

In each workshop you will learn….
Equipment needed
Organizing the shoot
Composition
Camera Angles
Utilizing available and artificial light
Capturing good audio
Post production
Marketing strategies for breaking into the video and film industries.
All without a lot of techno-babble, and taught so you can easily apply
the knowledge to your own video projects.

There will be 6 sessions
Each workshop is scheduled on a weekday evening and a Saturday. The two days will be broken down into six sessions, and will have a limited number of participates. This insures that each participate has plenty of opportunity for hands-on training.

This seminar has one purpose: To teach you what you really need to know on improving your videos. Much of your time will be spent learning about real world techniques in video production and how to apply them. You will be working with the latest video and audio equipment. You’ll be comparing them, learning how to operate them, and determining ways to utilize them to the best of your ability.

Once you are comfortable using the equipment, we will show you how to generate new business. How to market yourself. In short, this seminar prepares you to handle the planning, production, and equipment in video production today. Now you are confident to start a productive career in video production.

Legal Video Workshop:
The purpose of this workshop is to introduce the student in all phases of legal videography. In addition to videotaping depositions, we stress many other aspects of legal videography, such as "day-in-the life" documentaries, video wills, settlement documentaries, scenes of incidents, evidence of damages, investigative videotaping, and the court's requirements for the acceptance of video taped evidence in trial (Rule 30). You will be providing with a book, and take home materials packed with up-to-date information on legal videography. You will receive a gold embossed certificate of completion confirming your newly learned skills. All you need is a desire to learn. We will take you through all phases of this exciting and rewarding career. In just one day we will take you step by step through the proper protocol, equipment needed, and forms to be used by the court videographer.Call now and reserve your place at our next workshop.

Your instructor Douglas Daudt is a Certified Legal Video Instructor (CLVI).
He is one of four people in the country designated by the American Guild of Court Videographers
to teach Legal Videography.
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Session One
Camera Basics
Depth of Field
Rule of Thirds
Point of View
Camera Lens
Loading and Unloading Tape
Recording Fundamentals

Session Two
Basic Shots
Cutaways and Inserts
Camera Angles
Camera Movements
Single Camera Techniques
Balance
Composition

Session Three
Color Temperature
3-Point Lighting
Hard & Soft Lighting
Techniques of Lighting
Audio Basics
Types of Microphones
Microphone Placement

Session Four
Scouting a Location
The Shot List & Storyboard
Action Continuity
Camera Progressions

Session Five
The Interview
Utilizing available light
Composing the Moving Image
Shaded Light and Overcast Conditions

Session Six
Sound Recording
Shooting for Post
Marketing Your Work