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Course Description

You will learn to tell a short audiovisual story through exercises. Your story will include video, sound, and music. Bring your laptop. Classes in groups of a maximum of 7 people.

This course is ideal for beginners in audiovisual storytelling. It is also useful for intermediate students who want to practice their skills and learn in a group. Students will be able to create their own audiovisual works independently. They will learn about basic story development, preproduction, production, postproduction, and delivery of a short video. The course also covers the use of basic audiovisual technology. The teacher will provide learning materials such as video tutorials and PDFs.

What will you learn?

  • To tell your audiovisual story

  • Record video and sound

  • Write a simple script

  • Collaborate with others in the creative process

  • Basic cinematography: lighting, shots, and camera

  • Basic color theory

  • Introduction to different audiovisual aesthetics: set design, costumes...

  • Basic sound design

  • Edit video on your computer

  • Share your project with the world

Requirements

  • You will need your own laptop with editing software installed

  • A mobile phone to record video is enough, but if you have a video-capable camera, even better

  • No prior experience needed

Course Content


  • Introduction to the course
  • Examples and references for creating your video
  • Exercise to practice basic recording and editing
  • Introduction to audiovisual storytelling
  • We create the script with a narrative outline
  • Audiovisual aesthetics, lighting, framing, and camera use
  • We discuss your video ideas
  • We adjust the script and do preproduction
  • We practice recording
  • Recording your video
  • We edit your video
  • Color and sound
  • Feedback session for your video
  • Reflections on the future

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What are students saying about us?

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  • Jeremias
    Filmmaking Student

    Lu is extremely nice and generous and manages to make this course a very good first experience of experimentation and exploration of audiovisual possibilities

  • Eva
    Filmmaking Student

    Engaged teacher, interesting new things that I didn't know from before.

  • Naomi
    Filmmaking Student

    I gained confidence to continue making short-films and learning more about this beautiful art.

  • Julia
    Filmmaking Student

    The exercises helped me to further understand how I can express my feelings and views through video and sound