5 Free Online Classes in Professional Filmmaking

Learn essential filmmaking techniques - such as casting and using shots - recommended by experts

In a film production capable of creating powerful stories, several areas of expertise come together to create a great product that will delight thousands of people.

During the creative process, decisions are made about casting, lighting, shots, script, and direction of photography, for example. To help you learn how each of these steps is done, we have selected the free lessons below, created by great experts.

To view each lesson, simply click on the title in red. Enjoy!

Free Class: The Casting Process - Decision Making & Workflow

In this lesson, you will learn how casting decisions are made and how the workflow of a casting professional works.

This content is part of Luci Lenox's course, The Art of Casting.

Free Class: Designing the cinematography of our history

David Curto is a director of photography and teaches the course Introduction to Film Photography Direction. In this class he teaches how to design the cinematography, the position of the camera, and the location of each of the lights.

All this through a design program that allows you to draw how the set will look and what the distribution of all the equipment will be.

Free Class: The art of creating a structure with images and sounds

In this class, which is part of the course Screenwriting for Fiction Short Films, Alejandra Moffat explains how to design an audiovisual scene.

To do this, she shows how the scenes in a script create a rhythm that can be represented graphically and changed at any time for better performance.

Free Class: Type of plans and their use

For video editor and director of photography Juanmi Cristóbal, each shot size tells the story in a different way; therefore, it is essential to understand its use so that the story is told as planned.

In this class from the course Audiovisual Editing and Narrative for Short Films, he teaches all the types of shots commonly used in the film industry and their narratives.

Free Class: Typography and cinema

In film, typography can be used to create a graphic language, and it also contains a lot of valuable information.

In this lesson from the course Credit Titles: Typography and Cinema, Jose Luis Coyotl Mixcoatl, graphic designer and art director, talks about the function of typography in the context of a film production.

These classes will be open until March 22, 2021. If after that date you want to access the remaining content, you can do so by registering for each course.

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