The Lone Video-maker’s guide to making videos at home
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Original price was: $54.99.$14.99Current price is: $14.99.
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What you’ll learn
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Make pro quality videos on a budget
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Shoot videos at home or set up a home studio
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Choose and use cameras, microphones and lighting
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Script, present and produce videos all on your own
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Take the first steps to an online career in video
You can make professional-looking videos all on your own. In this course, Huw Collingbourne reveals the secrets that have helped him to become a top-selling online instructor. He takes you behind the scenes of his home studio to show you exactly how he makes videos – entirely on his own – with good visuals, sound and lighting. He explains everything you need to know in order to make a good quality videos without spending a fortune on expensive cameras. And if you want to take the next step towards really pro-grade video productions, he explains how to set up a dedicated home video studio
In this course you will learn about:
- Cameras: pocket cameras and phones, tablets and digital SLR cameras
- Microphones: desktop USB mics, camera-mounded mics, lapel mics, hand-held recorders and more
- Audio: using ‘pop filters’ and ‘dead cat’ wind shields
- Video with your iPad: and tips on recording great sound with an external microphone
- Lighting: Natural lighting, cheap ‘softbox’ lighting and pro-grade LED lights
- Backdrops: White, black and coloured backdrops or ‘on location’
- Scripting and presenting: talking to camera, using teleprompters or autocues
- Plus: Field monitors, GoPro cameras, selecting tripods, filming with multiple cameras, synchronizing audio, optimizing video and much more…
Who this course is for:
- Anyone who wants to make a career in online video
- Newcomers to video-making who need to know where to start
- Someone with basic video-making experience who wants to take the next step
- Anyone who needs help to choose equipment to make good videos alone
- This course is NOT aimed at video-production teams with large budgets
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The Lone Video-maker’s guide to making videos at home
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Tim Miner –
It was a really good overview after all. The first couple sections were not worthy of high marks. However, I do not know how those topics could be made better.
Graham Thompson –
I really enjoyed my run through this course and I know I will be dipping back into it as I progress in making my own videos.
I like the presentation style used, makes a change from the baseball cap wearing (sometimes) ‘yo buddy’ over excited approach used in some courses.
The information is sound regardless at what level you are and is obviously from experience rather than having briefly read about it.
The principles shown, and demonstrated, work just as well for corner of the room or dedicated space users, in fact the course really covers both and demonstrates what can be achieved when setting out.
I am now in a position to consider specific things when I set up to do a ‘talking head’ video and ensure certain aspects are correct before I start. Before this course, I took a much less structured (ok, I was lazy) approach.
So why not 5stars? Well, nothing is perfect and although sound, lighting, backdrop and are very well covered, I would have liked a little more from the camera setup, I.e. The actual filming rather than the equipment side, the creative side I suppose. However, I am being a bit harsh in saying that. This is a great course, loads of content and well produced.
Arturo Suástegui –
Shows very good tips for setup a home studio.
The presenter is really experienced about making videos and is quiet clear all explanations made by him.
Bob Garner –
Excellent course, filled in all the hidden parts of video making that I had questions about, Huw answered all of them perfectly
Another great course by Huw
Danai Florou –
This is a great course. Very informative, well paced and the explanations very clear and thorough. The instructor did a fantastic job explaining everything I needed to learn about video making. I now know where to start and what I´ll need; I have a very clear idea about the equipment, the technical part and many smart, low budget tips and suggestions!
Kamil Trzebiatowski –
Very accessible for a total rookie such as myself! Absolutely astonishing – and so easy to understand. I made an Excel list of things to buy / invest in as you went a long and I hope within 4 months I’ll be able to put my course on Udemy… Wish me luck!
Jack Redpath –
I have no previous experience or knowledge of video making. This is providing me with the sort of knowledge I require. Pace is great. Absorbed a lot of useful information to help me get into making a teaching video.
Roop Chander –
The sections on sound recording and microphones are very good.
If the instructor adds more lectures on video-editing and screen-casting, it will be even better.
**** TiCo **** –
I enjoyed the detailed in-depth view and explanations of equipment. That is very helpful to the stuck novice. I own many Udemy video courses and this one felt more like a caring friend who wants me to know what works and what doesn’t with equipment. It’s right to the point and doesn’t waste your time if you’re pressed to make video to expand your business’ reach. (Even showing names, where to get equipment, fair price ranges, and why the product is the best to use or not.)
The white shirt worn in some clips kept grabbing my attention because it was perfectly pressed, except for the creases where it was packaged from the cleaners. Not anything that would bother most humans. Just OCD types like me.
I can see this instructor took lots of detailed invisible behind the scenes time to put together a course that was thorough and very helpful to those of us who have needed good video info, but have no clue how to do a quality job. Simplicity may look easy to do, but it takes lots of hard work. Bravo to Huw Collingbourne. Not only does he help us learn video skills, but he also helps us stay indy and not need to count on other humans who are human and may let us down and keep us stuck.
Barry Poulson –
This is one of this Instructor’s two video creation courses. Sufficiently varied such that I am glad I took them both. This is somewhat more thorough.
Not only did I learn what I needed but I learned important things about video I did not even know existed. A solid five stars.
Vincent Wilkin –
It is super basic and does not go into details but it’s perfetc for anyone strating from scratch as me.
It gives a good map in order know what to learn in each and every field of video making.
Toby Robert –
Thank you very much Huw for your course.
It wasn’t the course that I was looking for. As I said in my initial reason for choosing this course was to improve my taking and editing of drone, underwater & Land based footage of mostly nature and landscapes.
However. I have been most pleasantly surprised. I have made a green screen out of an old shower curtain, a teleprompter from my iPad and a polystyrene vegetable box and been enthused with the picture in picture mode, which I have been incorporating into my footage.
Your notes on lighting and sound have been most useful here as well. I shall take many of your tips forward into my future work. ?
Again thank