Description
Content Creator Course Details
Duration: 2 Consecutive Days / 10am – 4pm
Location: London, South Bank, UK
Date: This is a 1-2-1 course, book a date that suits you.
No. Participants: Up to two people can attend this course at no additional cost.
Loan Camera: Canon Mirrorless loan camera available.
Gift Vouchers For This Course Are Available Here
If you are looking to improve the quality of your photo and video content, then spending two days with professional photographer and filmmaker Paul David Smith will help you start shooting content at a professional standard. On this course you will learn how to shoot content using a Mirrorless or DSLR camera, ensuring your social media and website content portray you, your business and brand to the best of your abilities. The majority of top social media accounts and content creators use more professional camera equipment than their phones and as we want you shooting the best content possible, our focus will be on learning how to use these better cameras.
DAY ONE
You will learn how to really use your Mirrorless or DSLR camera to capture professional photographs. Paul will teach you all about aperture, shutter speed and ISO which are the fundamental building blocks for all photographs. You’ll learn all about the different functions on your camera and also about storytelling, composition, image editing and lighting to ensure that every photograph you take is up to a professional standard. Paul has been a professional photographer since 2008 and will share with you all the tips and tricks he’s learnt to effortlessly create amazing visual content that people will engage with.
DAY TWO
Content creation in today’s modern age is extremely video led and on day two of our course we will look at how to shoot professional looking videos with your DSLR or Mirrorless camera. We’ll look at the best camera settings to use, how to stabilise footage, audio, lighting and video editing. We’ll talk about how to keep the viewers’ attention, how to tell a story through video and how to get more views on social media platforms. There are so many similarities between shooting photo and video, you’ll use a lot of skills you learnt on day one within your videos which means the two days flow nicely into a well-rounded course.
Learn How To Make Professional Content Like This
Is This Workshop Right For You?
If you are at the start of your content creation journey or you want to start using more professional camera equipment to level up the quality of your content then this course is ideal for you regardless of which genre of content you start producing. Paul has taught YouTubers, social media managers, influencers, business owners and founders amongst a wide range of people who just want to start producing better content.
Here Is A Non-Exhaustive List Of Who The Course May Help:
– Social Media Managers
– Content Creators
– YouTubers
– Marketing Execs & Managers
– Students
– Business Owners
– Events Teams
– Press & PR Directors
– Fashion Creatives
– Estate Agents & Property Owners
How To Book This Course:
We take all bookings via our online booking system only. Simply choose your course start date from the calendar at the top of this page and complete your booking online. The calendar shows all available start dates for the course in green, click one of these and the following day will automatically be chosen for you as this is a 2 day course. A receipt / invoice for your payment will be sent upon placing your order.
FAQs
Where will this course take place?
This course will be run throughout central London, starting at South Bank. If you live or work centrally I’m happy to run this course at your premises, otherwise we’ll run it on the streets of London giving you every opportunity to get a hands-on practical experience.
Do I Need Certain Skills Or Equipment To Attend?
There are no skills required to attend this course. The only equipment you will need to bring with you is your DSLR or Mirrorless camera and lenses.
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 course 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 you’re 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 / Date Re-arrangement Policy?
Our Course Cancellation & Re-Arrangement Policy Can Be Found Here.
Can I Speak To Paul Before Booking?
Yes, you can. If you’d like a chat first about whether the course is right for you, what it covers or what equipment to bring, you can book a free 15-minute video call with Paul here. Just choose a time that suits you and you’ll be emailed a Teams link for the call.
You’ll Be In Good Company, Clients Include…
Holly Mews –
My partner and I spent 2 days with Paul learning about photography and filmmaking to improve the quality of our social media content and we were both extremely impressed with the course. Paul is approachable, it’s very easy to ask questions and he set the course out in a way that was jargon free and meant we understood what he was teaching us quite easily. I was quite surprised just how much of a difference has been made to the quality of our content in just two days if I’m honest. In terms of an investment, this was well worth the money.
Tanya –
Having attended Paul’s two day content creator course in London I was extremely impressed with just how much we covered during the course and how easy he made it all to understand. From learning the camera, taking photos and shooting videos Paul was a fountain of knowledge and an excellent teacher. I hadn’t expected it but some of the biggest value I got from the course was picking Paul’s brain about YouTube and how to get more views on videos. Paul clearly has a huge amount of experience in this area and I implemented a lot of his ideas straight away which gave my channel and videos an instant boost in views and engagement.