Reels, Shorts, and TikToks: Telling Engaging Stories with Your Smartphone
1h 1mGeneral2025-03-14
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Skillshare
Course details
Explore the world of video creation in this course, as you dive into the fundamentals of storytelling structure, camera settings, lighting, and timing. Learn how to set up shots with an understanding of composition and movement, and dive into static, pan, tilt, zoom, push, pull, track, and truck techniques. Discover the importance of improvising during shooting, then go over some useful tips on how to hone your editing skills and select the right music for your videos. Identify practical steps for posting your videos, with a focus on captioning and the effective use of hashtags. This course can help aspiring videographers, content creators, and marketers to enhance their video production skills for various platforms and audiences.
Skills covered
InstagramVideo ProductionSocial Media MarketingVideoMarketingOne-Off
Concepts
0. Introduction
- 01 - What makes a video interesting
- 02 - About the course project
1. Planning and Getting Ready
- 03 - Planning - Storytelling structure
- 04 - Setting up - Camera settings
- 05 - Lighting and timing
- 06 - Exploring composition
- 07 - Movement - Static, pan, tilt, and zoom
- 08 - Movement - Push, pull, track, and truck
- 09 - The importance of improvising
2. Shooting, Editing, and Posting
- 10 - Creating a shot list and shooting
- 11 - Editing and music
- 12 - Posting - Captioning and hashtags
Conclusion
- 13 - Next steps
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