Documentary and Filmmaking

Documentary filmmaking is not just about storytelling; it is reality woven in series to portray most beautifully and pleasantly. It is considered to be a non-fiction style of filmmaking that has some relation to real events. Pushing the traditional limits of filmmaking, it offers one of the most promising and challenging career options.

Documentary filmmaking is an art and Soul trains you to master this art of documentary filmmaking. For a well-knitted real story, it begins with having a successful vision and being innovative in creating the vision.

Course description

It is recommended, but not mandatory to have basic knowledge and skills about shooting video and using different footage technology. This course improves the cinematic creative video. Learn special tips and tricks about the pro broadcast camera and know how they make exciting, engaging content.

What you’ll learn

At the end of the course, you would have complete knowledge, improved skills with a clear understanding towards the beginning of your documentary filmmaking. 

You would become an outstanding videographer with specialized video editing skills. This course would improve decision-making skills for choosing the correct footage for the perfect storytelling.  

Who this course is for

Level 1

• • Anyone interested in creating and blending creativity, reality, and technicality through cinematic quality content.
  • Creative imagination skills.
  • No previous experience is required.

Level 2

• • This course is for increasing videography skills and creating engaging content.
  • You won’t be able to learn specific cameras, lenses, codecs as this is not an entirely technical course. It is a level 2 course; here, we are concerned about shooting and editing.
  • If you are a photographer and you want to learn to shoot, this class provides basic knowledge of the cinematic shooting.
  • You love to work on set and getting involved in shoots but, you hesitate to work with directors and producers.
  • This course gives you the idea of selecting footage for the required documentary ideology.

Level 3

• • If you wish to work on your lighting skills and making your photos or videos more effective, you must enroll in this course.
  • To learn the design of lighting and improving lighting adjustments on live sets to get the experience of professional shooting on location/ sites.
  • It is not an indoor course; this course requires curiosity of exploration and creating perfect requirements for a given script.
  • If you want to learn about dealing with real-time problems on a shooting set, such as weather, equipment, technicalities, and light timing sources, this is the perfect level for you.

Level 4

• • If you want to create your short film and learn by experiencing the actual environment of shooting, you should enroll in this course.
  • Filmmakers and YouTube content creators.
  • Multimedia producers.