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University of Colorado Boulder

A Blueprint for Success – Your Video Pre-Production

In this course, we will learn about pre-production, which requires levels of planning before you ever pick up a camera. We will share with you the terminology used widely in production work, along with our ideas for affordable camera gear and editing applications. We’ll also discuss strategies to help you generate story ideas and the focus, find characters, write treatments and scripts, draw storyboards, and even pointers on how to pitch your stories.

Status: Cinematography
Status: Editing
BeginnerCourse11 hours

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Reviewed Dec 4, 2023

Best experience i ever had, thank you coursera for this opportunity

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Reviewed Dec 4, 2024

I know more than I did before I started the course. It has been eye opening, and informative. Thank you for sharing your knowledge with me.

TT

Reviewed Jul 7, 2025

It's enriching, and you get to learn the basics from scratch while practicing.

NG

Reviewed May 13, 2025

Es un curso que desde el punto de la narrativa visual te abre los ojos para desarrollas proyectos de mayor interés para los espectadores, es claro práctico y profundamente inspirador

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