DV & HD Documentary Camera and Lighting Bootcamp Saturday March 21..10am-7pm

Location
475 Francisco Street
Sf, CA 94133
(415) 810-5934

Link to Details at our DVworkshops.com Website

http://www.dvworkshops.com/dvcamerabootcamp.html

Hands-on Professional Lighting training, use of gels , mixed lighting lessons
and Audio area all covered in the First Day of this workshop.


This is your chance to get either one or two full days of hands-on experience
shooting a real documentary. Everyone will shoot and set up lights and
microphones during this class.

DV Camera Bootcamp is designed for beginners or those who wish to improve their
basic skills. Class will shoot on location and conduct hands-on lighting
exercises at our studio/school. Learn to light the perfect
interview....Understand basic documentary, pre-production and scripting/logging
tape strategies.

Instructor is award winning documentary DV Filmmaker Aron Ranen. He has
received two Fellowships from the National Endowment for Arts, and his last film
premiered at the New Documentary Series at the Museum of Modern Art in New York
City.

Students Learn:

The Five Elements of Documentary
DV Camera use
White Balance and basic understanding of color temperature
Exposure techniques
Camera menu functions
Camera techniques
Use of negative space and proper eye line level audio for DV video
Best microphones for each documentary situation
Interview techniques
How to choose a background for your subject
3 point lighting & basic lighting set-ups
Controlling exposure and understanding zebras
Use of color correction gels for mixed light (day light and indoor light)
Basic documentary pre-production
Release forms
Logging footage and scripting ideas, (How to deal with all the videotape you
have just shot)
DV Camera Bootcamp Two Day includes a Second day of shooting and real life
experience shooting interviews and putting the Five Elements of Documentary into
practice.
This is achieved with a second full day of Documentary production in the field,
interviewing and
working on shooting a real documentary. All student footage will be critiqued
by the instructor thru out the day..this allows enough time for students to
rapidly improve their shooting and interview skills as the day progresses. This
day also provides an extra day to use all the lighting equipment.


Class Cost:

$95.00-One Day Workshop
$295-Two Day Workshop

Link to testimonials
http://www.dvworkshops.com/testimonials.html