Shooting Your Research Video

BeginnersExtra run

Why is YouTube popular? Because people love watching videos. A research video can be a great way to get your message across to your collaborators, your friends, and the wider world as well as being a condition of some funding bodies.

But it isn't easy to do well - and this is where this course will make a difference. Come along and learn the skills needed to plan and shoot high quality footage for research videos so that your video can stand out from the crowd. You just need yourself, a camera phone and your enthusiasm!

GSLS PhD students and post-docs.

• Bring a fully charged smart phone with a camera or a digital camera capable of shooting video
• USB cable to transfer footage to a laptop.
• Charger in case your battery doesn't last
• Laptop with free 'Hit Film 4 Express' software downloaded (https://hitfilm.com/express) (whilst participants will be introduced to editing, this course is focused on filming. For more editing training please see the course 'Editing Your Research Video')

• If you do not have a phone or camera you should contact charlotte.carroll@admin.cam.ac.uk to arrange to borrow a camera. We only have a few available.

Number of sessions: 1

• Use your phone camera to record video
• Shoot more professional video clips
• Plan a film
• Conduct a good video interview
• Do some basic editing (the focus of this course is filming, for more editing please see the course 'Editing Your Research Video')

Interactive workshop with practical components

• Laptop with free 'Hit Film 4 Express' software downloaded (https://hitfilm.com/express) This is compatible with Mac and PC

Lunch is provided.

Trainer is Ryd Cook

1 day (9:30am - 4:30pm)