Creating Documentary Short Films with a DSLR Camera

Overview

“Now I will address the importance of cover images and how important they are to telling a good story. I will also show some useful techniques that help to stabilize the camera, create creative plans and capture audios to help teleport the viewer into the interviewee's home.”

In this video lesson Rafa Jacinto addresses the topic: Cover Images, which is part of the Domestika online course: Creating Documentary Short Films with a DSLR Camera. Produce a complete audiovisual project from script to post-production using your DSLR camera.

Partial transcription of the video

“Cover images In this lesson, I’m going to show you how I capture coverage images, how I move, how I frame details and how I direct the character to help me tell the story. Coverage images are the images we cover with the interview after edited. These are images that do not necessarily illustrate what the character says, in this case Angélica. Angélica is an entrepreneur and mother, that's what images should convey. In fact, her company is about paternity and motherhood. House details, daughter's objects, books, photos in picture frames, help us to tell the universe of the Angélica mother-en...”

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Course summary for: Creating Documentary Short Films with a DSLR Camera

• Level: Beginner
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• 4184 students
• 4 units
• 18 lessons (3h 9m)
• 5 downloads

• Category

  Photography & Video

• Software

  Adobe Premiere

• Areas

  Audiovisual Production, Film, Filmmaking, TV, Video, Video Editing