Video News Production: Intensive summer course

Program Description

This course is designed to provide students with the skills to be successful in developing video news stories. This is a video news production course that will allow you to kick start a career in internet/mobile sites, news sites, and television. You will be given real deadlines as if this were a real-world environment. You will work in teams or individually to create edited, written, and professionally shot stories. These videos are suitable for demo reels and resumes and the production will take place in Prague.

A talented director and video editor and a skilled producer and network news reporter will be your instructors. These are award-winning and experienced teachers.

Highlights

Students learn to structure and write scripts
Interviewing techniques
Recording video sounds
Framing and lighting techniques
Best camera types for any given situation
Non-linear editing
Digitizing source materials
Developing titles

The course will be taught using both video and DSLR cameras

What`s Included

The course fee includes the following expenses:

-Tuition for the course
-Tuition for the pre-course, online learning component
-Accommodation (including breakfast) at a hotel in Prague
-City transportation pass for Prague
-Select group social events.

The course fee does NOT include the following expenses:

-Transportation to Prague
-Lunch and dinner in Prague
-Visa fees (if applicable), travel and health insurance, or personal expenses.