Online Mobile Filmmaking Course

No one teaches filmmaking at this cost. This is a specially designed 30 hours, 2 credits course for colleges and institutions. This course can prove valuable for NAAC Accredition as it falls under skill development and innovative courses.

Do check the specially developed curriculum.

How is it possible to teach and learn filmmaking online? Well, hundreds of participants who have attended our workshops and courses vouch for it. With our unique style of coaching and pedagogy, we have been able to create a structure that gives hands-on, practical training in filmmaking. This course is innovative, practical, hands-on, and conducting this course in a College / Institution / University helps in NAAC assessment.

Course Overview

Today audio-visual is one of the most important forms of communication in the digital world we live in. By learning this very important skill, students will be able to create short films for their projects enhancing their presentations, making them more effective. Mobile phone is a very powerful device that can be easily used to make films. This course teaches students to make their films on their own mobile phones in zero budget, negating the need for expensive camera and equipment. Additionally, this course also has sessions to teach video editing on computers.

Course Objectives
  • At the conclusion of this course students should
  • have a fundamental understanding of film techniques and terms. l
  • learn to analyse and deconstruct a film or an advertisement.
  • be able to write their own story, or adapt it for making a film.
  • write their own screenplay and make a storyboard for their own film. s
  • shoot and edit, and produce their own film prepare their film for distribution on various social media platforms.
  • learn how to create their own YouTube Channel and popularize it.

For students, this course gives many benefits:

  • You learn a new skill which will be useful for you not only in college, but also in your career in any field.
  • Video is one of the most important forms of communication in today's digital world that we live in. You will learn how to make vidoes and films for your projects and for your social media
  • Instead of making amateurish videos for your posts, stories and reels, learn how to make videos for every social media. Get those likes and shares!

Online Mobile Filmmaking Course

  • Get ready for a hands-on, practical training experience. Become a filmmaker. Make your own films, share on social media.

Camera Shots, Angles, Movements

  • Basics of a mobile camera, How to hold your camera, Frame sizes and frame rates, video resolution, which resolution to use while shooting, Type of Shots, Camera Angles, and Camera Movements

Writing / Adapting a Story, Script and Storyboard

  • How to think about a story, how to adapt a story, learning how to make a story out of unplanned shoot, how to think in the language of cinema, writing your script, preparing your storyboard for the video shoots like a picnic, or a get-together

Video Editing Software

  • The elements of PowerDirector, Timeline, Project window, Monitor window, menus, How to import your video, adding it to the timeline, line-up shots according to your storyboard, Making the first cut

Hands-on practical sessions

  • Editing with the trainer on a previously shot video. Using the tools to prepare a shot line-up, cutting the video in the story format, adding tracks, mixing the video tracks, adding music, mofifying the video and music, using croma key

Showtime

  • Finishing the video, adding transitions and effects, manipulating sound, making the first cut, re-editing the NGs, finalising the video, export to MP4, sharing with friends and relatives, SHOWTIME!
Detailed Course Structure
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Dr. Mangesh Karandikar has over 30 years experience in media.
He started his career in marketing of pharmaceuticals and then in electronic products. He got introduced to computers in 1990, which took him on an exhilerating career journey.
He started his business with graphic designing and printing. When people were wondering what Internet was, he learnt and started his web designing business and made several website. He then learnt programming in C, C++, Java, Oracle and Visual Basic, and started another venture in interactive CD ROMs.
This introduced him to filmmaking. He assisted several filmmakers and then ventured into a very successful filmmaking business, specializing in Corporate Films.
On invitation, he started teaching in the University of Mumbai, where he realised that he had found his calling in the field of teaching. He joined the University of Mumbai's Department of Communication and Journalism, and started Web Designing and Filmmaking in the University in 2005. He earned his doctorate in media and communication in 2013. Dr. Karandikar then moved from the University into private service and recently has returned to the world of business having taken a very early retirement from service as Director, MET Institute of Mass Media. He has taught more than 2000 media students the art of sound editing completely free of cost, more than 200 entrepreneurs, 150 school children, and over 200 educators the skill of filmmaking during the last year, helping them utilize their time effectively, and imparting an additional skill that is useful life-long.
  • Fee ₹2500/student
  • Duration 2 Weeks/30 hrs.
  • Speciality Practical training
  • Sessions LIVE!
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