Description
If you are looking to learn how to shoot, edit and produce your own videos then our beginners filmmaking & videography course will set you off on the right tracks from the very beginning of your filmmaking journey.
We’ll cover all of the essential filmmaking techniques you need to produce your first video using a DSLR including which camera settings to use, how to best light your scenes, creating a narrative and storyline to your video and how to capture great audio in any situation. We’ll also look at the equipment you’ll need and make suggestions for what to buy within your budget.
This practical course is led by professional filmmaker Paul David Smith who will guide you through all the individual elements required to capture professional footage and edit it together into a your final product. You’ll learn about shutter speed, aperture and ISO which are the building blocks to all photography and videography. We’ll teach you how your lens choice will affect your final shot, how to use white balance, capture stabilized footage and so much more.
We run this as a 1-2-1 filmmaking course so we can really focus on improving your skills and you have our full attention. You will improve your skills far quicker this way as opposed to joining a group session where the instructor is trying to help 10 people at once. It also has the added advantage of you being able to book a date and time that suits you. You are also welcome to bring along a friend or family member with you as up to 2 people can attend this course at no additional cost.
Things You Will Learn On This Workshop:
- The best camera settings to use for fillmmaking.
- Composition techniques and when to use them.
- How to tell a story and keep your viewers engaged.
- How to effectively light your scenes and set the mood you want.
- How to capture great audio and which microphones to use.
- The importance of music and how to choose the right track.
- What equipment you’ll need with personalised suggestions.
- Editing techniques using Adobe Premiere.
Some Of Paul’s Latest Work – Learn How To Make Videos Like This
FAQ’s
Do I Need Certain Skills Or Equipment To Attend?
This is a beginners course and as such, no skills are required to attend this course. The only equipment you will need to bring with you is your camera and lenses.
How Many People Can Attend The Course?
Up to 2 people can attend this course at no additional cost. Group bookings of more than 2 people can be arranged, please get in touch.
What Time Does The Course Start?
This course will start at 9am unless agreed otherwise prior to booking. We’ll run until finished but this is usually around 4pm.
How Long Does This Course Last?
This is a full day course and is usually around 7 – 8 hours long.
Where Will This Training Take Place?
This course will take place in Newquay, Cornwall, UK unless agreed otherwise prior to booking.
Can You Recommend Camera Equipment For Me Prior To Me Attending?
I get a lot of requests for help with camera equipment recommendations, almost daily in fact and offer a Personalised Photography Equipment Recommendation service which you can find by clicking here.
Recommending a camera and the best lenses to buy really has lots of different factors involved in it which need to be investigated first such as what the equipment will be most used for, budgets, your expectations on image quality, your current level and aspirations, etc. Hence the above service so we can really drill down into finding you the best equipment.
Alternatively, some people attend my courses and borrow a camera from me for the day to do so, we can then incorporate this recommendation as part of the course at no extra cost. The benefit of doing it this way is that I have a lot of cameras and lenses you can try and see the difference between prior to purchasing anything. The downside is your not learning on your own equipment of course, so there are pluses and minuses to doing it both ways, it depends on what you think works best for you.
Are You DBS Checked?
Paul is DBS checked and is happy to share a copy of his DBS certificate with any client, no matter whether they are a business, charity, organisation or individual.
You can read more about Paul’s DBS check here.
What Is The Refund Policy?
Our Refund & Cancellation Policy Can Be Found Here.
Josh Gavin –
Paul was very helpful and took the time to ensure my understanding.
I am grateful for his time and experience as I learned and developed a great understanding of the key aspects of any camera.
Many thanks,
Josh
Blake Evans –
This video making course was worth every single penny and I am so pleased I took the plunge to do this 1-2-1 course with Paul. He has developed a very effective teaching style where he tells you something, shows you something and then gets you to do it. What is really god about this though is you find yourself doing it over and over throughout the day so it feels like everything he is teaching you is layers that stack on top of each other and build up to something brilliant. I was blown away with how much I learn’t on this course actually,far more than I had imagined in a single day and I cannot wait to put ll my new skills into practice.
Harry Cuthbert –
What a fantastic videography course Paul provided, he was the perfect host across the day and was keen to ensure he had given me the knowledge and skills I needed to progress my work. I learn’t more in a day than I have in the last year of trying it on my own! A first class course, a great teacher and a beautiful setting to learn in.
Sam & George –
My partner and I traveled from London to Newquay in Cornwall to take part in Paul’s videography and filmmaking course as we’d heard from so many people within the industry just how good it was. At every turn we kept coming across his name no matter who we asked, so we booked a hotel and made the effort to travel down and get to him. This was absolutely the right decision, we were astonished with just how much information Paul shared with us, how quick it all sank in and how much of a difference he made to our videos in just one day.
We covered aperture, shutter speed, ISO, white balance, composition, lighting, gimbal use, sound recording and microphones, gimbal use and so much more.
It’s also worth noting that the training location which is overlooking one of Newquay’s beaches is just a little bit special. Thanks Paul, we’ll implement what you have taught us and will no doubt be back in the future to learn more from you.
Marcus Hope –
I joined Paul for a videography and filmmaking course in Newquay and was blown away with how much I managed to learn in a single day. Before I knew it I was putting my own settings into the camera, had a decent understanding of how to light scenes, had developed some knowledge of when to use camera movements and when to lock it off and most importantly, I feel like I can implement it all on my own since finishing the course.
The setting for this course is also incredible, Paul ran it from his place which is located on a clifftop overlooking some amazing beaches in Newquay and we managed to get out and shoot in those beautiful environments too which I was really pleased about having travelled a fair way for the course.
All in all this was a great course which was more than worth the time and money travelling to learn with Paul.
Tom Carson –
I decided to take Paul’s course because I realised that if I wanted to improve my filmmaking skills further, then I was probably at the upper limit of what I could achieve on my own and I needed an expert to guide me further. Paul was exactly the right person to choose. He began by looking at some of the work I’d already done and was able to then give me some gentle and really helpful areas for development.
He taught me things that before were a total mystery like ISO, aperture and shutter speed. He made them accessible, interesting and relevant to filmmaking. Probably my favourite bit of the course was the end of the day when we worked on a small film production together. Paul encouraged me to think through what story I wanted to tell and then how I would get the shots for it. I really enjoyed putting that film together with him. With him being in the starring role.
I’d recommend the course to anyone who wants to develop their videography skills. Paul is a great teacher and he’s a really good person to spend the day with. Thank you Paul.
John Cryer –
I had hit a bit of a brick wall with making videos, I knew I wanted to get better at it I just didn’t really know where to start. I spent a day with Paul learning all about filmmaking and videography and I can easily say my videos are now far better than they ever have been. Paul is a fantastic teacher, he has clearly made a hundred videos and shares what he has learnt from his experiences to enable you to improve you own work. The best bit about this course however was that having spent the morning covering the theory with practical exercises, in the afternoon we went out and shot a video sequence which we then edited together. It really is a course where you learn by actually getting out there and doing it which allowed me to learn really quickly and actually retain the information.