Creating the Five Minute Nature Video with Craig Blacklock Mar 28-Apr 1, 2011 9:30am - 5:30pm

© Craig Blacklock

Members: $1025 • Non-members: $1095 • Prerequisites: None

Space Limited to 12 participants.

Description

With the growing popularity of video, and new video capabilities on still cameras, many photographers are capturing video. But if you want to take it beyond showing clips on your television straight from your camera, they need to be edited. Often we discover too late, that we have a lot of unrelated clips that don't fit together. Great video editing starts before you push the record button.

This workshop will discuss how to plan out your story before you head into the field, and even while you are shooting it, as often happens when an unplanned opportunity presents itself. Then, you learn how to take hours of clips, organize them, select them, and finally edit them into a 5 minute presentation. Why five minutes? This is an adequate amount of time to develop and conclude a stand-alone story about a single theme. Longer videos are often comprised of five-minute segments. So, whether you are working on a short story, or an hour- long presentation, you will need the ability to succinctly edit each section.

This is not a technical workshop. The concepts discussed, and examples shown, can be created using any decent video-editing software. You will create two videos during the workshop: Everglades Morning; and Atlantic Sunrise. Each morning will be spent gathering video, and the rest of the day editing, and watching a few examples, and having critiques of partially done work.

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Biography

CRAIG BLACKLOCK is a Senior Fellow at the Center for Spirituality and Healing at the University of Minnesota, where is co-producing 5 and 20 minute nature videos for the health care industry, and general stress relief. With 35 years of experience, Craig has evolved into one of the country's leading nature still photographers, and now has transferred his signature compositional style into video as well. As one fan of Craig's put it, "I'm convinced you've created a new medium: Kinetic Still Photography."