Filmmaking 101 with Niles

What You'll Learn

3
Introduction
3
Niles introduces himself and walks you through the goals for this course.
20
Camera Settings
20
You'll walk through aperture, shutter speed, iso, frame rates & camera sensors. This section aims to get you up to speed in exposing the perfect images and provides some go-to settings for different shooting scenarios.
20
Focal Lengths & Shot Types
20
Zoom or Prime? Close-up or Wide? Niles walks you through when to use different focal lengths, how focal length affects depth of field, and the common shot types you'll hear requested on a shoot.
20
Lighting
20
Lighting will make or break your shot. The difference between a beautiful image and a bad image isn't usually the camera or lens but the lighting. Niles breaks lighting in an approachable way that you can take with you and use on your next shoot.
8
Audio
8
They say that audio is 50% of your video. Niles walks you through some quick tips on which microphone to use in different situations and how to get the best quality possible.
60
In the Field: Shooting Indoors & Outdoors
60
In this two-part section, Niles will shoot two different scenes, one indoor and one outdoor. He'll walk you through how he shoots in sequences and how he thinks about his personal filmmaking style.
70
Editing
70
We jump into Premiere Pro, where Niles will edit together the scene we shot together outdoors.
3
Conclusion
3
Niles wraps up the course and gives you a discount code for other offerings.

Instructor

Niles Grey is a filmmaker/director who seeks to blur the lines between Commercial and Documentary filmmaking.