This certification program is intended for those with a passion for film-making, music video production, documentary and TV production and aerial cinematography.
It covers a wide range of topics under the following areas;
DIGITAL BROADCASTING PRIMER
TV Broadcast essentials
Online Streaming Formats
Teleprompting
DIGITAL PHOTOGRAPHY
Identifying the parts of a camera
Working with Lenses
Setting Up A Camera For Manual shooting
Shot Compositions
Aperture Control: Creating Dept of Field
LIGHTING
Lighting up a scene
Lighting your subject
Studio lighting techniques
DIRECTING
Directing for Film
Directing for Music Videos
Directing for TV & Documentaries
Directing for Visual Effects
CINEMATOGRAPHY
Digital Photography
Cinematography/Advance Camera Techniques
Working with dolly, slider and jib/crane
Working with Teleprompters
Lighting
SCRIPTWRITING
Introduction to scriptwriting
Writing a movie script
Writing an advert script
Writing a music video script
Writing a documentary script
GRAPHICS DESIGN
Graphics Design
Branding
Image Manipulation
ANIMATION & VISUAL EFFECTS
Motion Graphics Animation
3D Modeling
3D Animation
Compositing & Advanced Chroma Keying
Visual Effects Conceptualization & Development
Advanced Colour Correction
DIGITAL VIDEO EDITING
Video Editing
Synchronizing multi-camera actions
Compositing
Chroma Keying (background removal & replacement)
Colour Correction
Exporting video for use on different platforms
MUSIC PRODUCTION & SOUND ENGINEERING
1. Introduction to Audio & Sound Engineering
2. Creating Instrumentals from Scratch
3. Arranging instrumentals
4. Mixing and finalizing instrumentals
5. Setting up up multi-track recording session
6. Connecting mixers, microphones, guitars, workstations and other audio inputs
7. Recording multi-track session audio
8. Mixing
9.Mastering
10. Saving and exporting your files to different formats
DRONE PILOTING/AERIAL CINEMATOGRAPHY
Safety regulations for drones and remotely controlled aircrafts
Flight simulation for multi-copters
Drone Set up
Flight Techniques
Aerial filming techniques
ADVANCE CINEMATICS
1. Thinking in Graphics (Advance Graphics & Branding Class) – theory & practice
2. Advance Colour Correction – Practice
3. Advance Camera Settings & Operations – practice
4. Setting up and balancing motorized multi-axis camera stabilizers – practice
5. Advance Cinematic Shots – Practice
6. Directing multi camera scenes for TVs, movies and reality shows – practice
7. Directing music video scenes – practice
8. Music Video tips & tricks (concepts, camera movements and editing styles)
9. Directing Visual Effects scenes for music videos – practice
10. Camera Tracking (Visual Effects) – Practice
11. Computer Generated Visual Effects Development – practice
12. Advance Digital Video Editing – Practice
13. Encoding videos to different formats for use on various devices – practice
DURATION: 9-11 months
FEES
Three Million, Two Hundred Thousand Naira (N3,200,000)
Seven Thousand US Dollars ($7,000)
Weekend Classes: Not available for this course