Courses Archive - Virtual Film School

Orientation Week

Learn how to win the content creation game at Virtual Film School.

Fundamentals of New Media

Learn the fundamentals of the New Media ecosystem; how it works, who are the major players, and how content creators stand out in crowded markets and get rich.

Introduction to New Media Production

The art and business of creating and producing web video content. You will develop basic expertise in content ideation, creation, and production by creating and producing a video or web series pilot with viral potential.

Acting Fundamentals for New Media

Learn the craft of a professional New Media actor and gain the on-camera training and audition techniques necessary to succeed on the web and mobile

New Media Videography, Lighting, and Sound Techniques

The theory and practice of professional videography, lighting, and sound for 21st-century formats, using your mobile phone as the camera and recording device.

New Media Writing I: Writing a Digital Series Pilot

Learn the history and techniques of New Media writing. You'll write an advertising video, a comedy video, and a video of your choice. This course covers conceptualizing and writing an original web series pilot.

New Media Writing II: Writing a Digital Series

How to create and write a series pitch & bible, an art & business plan, and the episodes of a digital series based on a new concept, or based on the pilot episode concept produced in the prerequisite course (New Media Writing I)

Online Video Directing

Learn directing fundamentals: script analysis, how to create a shot list and storyboards, and how to work with producers, casting directors, actors, production designers, and cinematographers, while gaining confidence and leadership skills.

Online Video Pre-Production

Master the process of planning the elements involved in creating a full-scale production: scheduling and budgeting, casting, props, location scouting, green screen and set construction, call sheets, clearances, permissions, etc.

Online Video Production: Producing and Shooting a Digital Series

Learn the secrets of success of the most powerful role on a video set. Students will learn why producing is like “herding cats” while they produce their webisode series from script-lock to financing, casting, shooting, re-shooting, and all the other aspects of production.

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