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      Michigan State University

      Write A Feature Length Screenplay For Film Or Television

      Skills you'll gain: Communication, Creativity, Entrepreneurship, Research and Design, Writing

      4.6

      (166 reviews)

      Beginner · Course · 3-6 Months

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      Michigan State University

      Getting Your Film off the Ground

      Skills you'll gain: Marketing, Communication, Computer Graphic Techniques, Computer Graphics, Social Media, Web Development, Accounting, Entrepreneurship, FinTech, Finance, Financial Accounting, Media Production, Research and Design, Web Design

      4.6

      (39 reviews)

      Beginner · Course · 1-3 Months

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      Michigan State University

      Photography Basics and Beyond: From Smartphone to DSLR

      Skills you'll gain: Computer Graphic Techniques, Graphics Software

      4.7

      (6k reviews)

      Beginner · Specialization · 3-6 Months

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      Wesleyan University

      Understanding Memory: Explaining the Psychology of Memory through Movies

      4.7

      (2.1k reviews)

      Mixed · Course · 1-3 Months

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      McMaster University

      Finance for Everyone: Debt

      Skills you'll gain: Finance, Financial Management, Entrepreneurship, Leadership and Management, Market Analysis, Marketing, Accounting, Behavioral Economics, Budget Management, Business Psychology, Decision Making, Financial Accounting, Human Learning, Sales, Strategy, Strategy and Operations, Account Management, Banking, Cash Management, Investment Management, Payments, Risk Management, Securities Trading

      4.8

      (125 reviews)

      Mixed · Course · 1-4 Weeks

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      University of California, Davis

      GIS Data Formats, Design and Quality

      Skills you'll gain: ArcGIS, Statistical Programming, Data Analysis, Data Visualization, Databases, Spatial Analysis, Spatial Data Analysis, Geometry, Mathematics

      4.8

      (2k reviews)

      Intermediate · Course · 1-4 Weeks

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      University of California, Davis

      Fundamentals of GIS

      Skills you'll gain: ArcGIS, Statistical Programming, Data Visualization, Data Analysis, GIS Software, Geovisualization, Entrepreneurship, Leadership and Management, Problem Solving, Research and Design, Spatial Analysis, Data Management, Data Model, Data Structures, Spatial Data Analysis, Theoretical Computer Science

      4.8

      (5.2k reviews)

      Beginner · Course · 1-4 Weeks

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      Advancing Women in Tech

      The Business of Product Management I

      Skills you'll gain: Design and Product, Entrepreneurship, Leadership and Management, Marketing, Product Management, Strategy and Operations, Market Analysis, B2B Sales, Customer Relationship Management, Customer Success, Finance, Market Research, Product Development, Product Strategy, Research and Design, Sales, Business Analysis, Business Psychology, Customer Analysis, Cyberattacks, Decision Making, Human Computer Interaction, Marketing Psychology, Security Engineering, Strategy, User Experience

      4.5

      (608 reviews)

      Beginner · Course · 1-4 Weeks

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      University of Toronto

      GIS Data Acquisition and Map Design

      Skills you'll gain: ArcGIS, Data Visualization, Statistical Programming, Geovisualization, Business Analysis, Data Analysis, Data Management, Data Model, Data Structures, Data Visualization Software, GIS Software, Geometry, Mathematics, Theoretical Computer Science, Spatial Analysis

      4.9

      (601 reviews)

      Beginner · Course · 1-3 Months

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      Stanford University

      International Women's Health and Human Rights

      Skills you'll gain: Epidemiology, Entrepreneurship, Leadership and Management, Planning, Supply Chain and Logistics

      4.9

      (1.4k reviews)

      Beginner · Course · 3-6 Months

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      University of Western Australia

      Blood Film Morphology - A Practical Guide

      5.0

      (17 reviews)

      Intermediate · Course · 1-3 Months

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      University of Pennsylvania

      Modern & Contemporary American Poetry (“ModPo”)

      Skills you'll gain: Business Analysis, Communication, Creativity, Entrepreneurship, Research and Design, Strategy and Operations, Writing

      4.9

      (487 reviews)

      Beginner · Course · 3-6 Months

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    In summary, here are 10 of our most popular film making courses

    • Write A Feature Length Screenplay For Film Or Television: Michigan State University
    • Getting Your Film off the Ground: Michigan State University
    • Photography Basics and Beyond: From Smartphone to DSLR: Michigan State University
    • Understanding Memory: Explaining the Psychology of Memory through Movies: Wesleyan University
    • Finance for Everyone: Debt: McMaster University
    • GIS Data Formats, Design and Quality: University of California, Davis
    • Fundamentals of GIS: University of California, Davis
    • The Business of Product Management I: Advancing Women in Tech
    • GIS Data Acquisition and Map Design: University of Toronto
    • International Women's Health and Human Rights: Stanford University

    Frequently Asked Questions about Film Making

    • Film making is a form of visual storytelling that captures images, words, people, scenes, and more. Essentially, all of the elements involved in the process of making a film is known as film making. The phrase film making used to refer to the use of film stock being used in a film camera to shoot a movie. As the digital revolution has advanced forward, more film making today is created on digital video cameras and digital phone devices, resulting in video files.

      Prior to the digital revolution, film making used to include many disparate elements for a finished product that was primarily used to entertain people. In making a film, operators set up locations to shoot film scenes, get permits from towns and cities for permission to shoot a film, use actors in the scenes who speak lines that are written and rehearsed, and create the visual story that is written to have a start, middle, and end.‎

    • Film making is important to learn as it helps you understand how to organize a story, from an idea to a finished visual entity. In learning film making, you have to have a solid theme or topic for which to make a movie, figure out how to make the idea visually appealing, understand how to use a camera to film these parts of your movie, and how to get the best visual effects using landscape imagery, or dark indoor building shots.

      Making a film involves all of your creative instincts, from using your imagination to creating a theme around a character, to figuring out how to share a purpose or a moral for your audience, using the film making elements you've gathered. For instance, if you just want to make a film about the beauty of being on a beach, you would then spend a lot of your time shooting video of the beach sunrises and sunsets, and the motion of the waves to layer into your film.‎

    • The type of career opportunities that you can find when pursuing film making involves jobs like set designer, production technician, camera operator, scriptwriter, film director, actor, or director of photography. Jobs for people interested in the field of film making can be found in the creative side of film making, on the production side of film making, and on the technical side of film making. There are also career opportunities in digital video and animation, which involve software knowledge, data animation, visual acuity, and graphic design. Those jobs may include computer animator, multimedia artists, art director, or graphic animator.‎

    • When you take online courses about film making, you can gain insights into camera control to how to properly use the principles of composition in your scenes. You may learn how to make light use effective in your film, how to position a camera accordingly, how to frame a scene, how to use good microphone techniques, and how to edit scenes using computer software. With so much of today's film making work being shot on video cameras or mobile phones, you'll likely also learn how to use digital editing skills and film making software tools.‎

    This FAQ content has been made available for informational purposes only. Learners are advised to conduct additional research to ensure that courses and other credentials pursued meet their personal, professional, and financial goals.
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