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Learn how to write compelling novels, memoirs, short stories, or screenplays. Explore the fundamentals of great fiction and get practical tips to you sharpen your own writing.
Creative writing enthusiasts of all stripes-from accomplished novelists to novices struggling with their first screenplay-could benefit from a review of the basics. In this course, Jessica Brody and Joanne Rendell dive into each of the key ingredients that make up great fiction,...
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Discover how filmmakers and audio engineers import, edit, mix, and export the dialogue, sound effects, and music for a short film to provide the best audio impact for the story.
Dialogue, sound effects, music, and other audio elements play a big part in creating a compelling narrative and theme for a video. In this course, author Scott Hirsch demonstrates to filmmakers and audio engineers how to import, edit, mix, and export all of the associated...
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Learn the secrets of developing great characters and telling stories for animation. Animators Andrew Gordon and Nate Stanton recreate the story process for us.
Why do some animated films resonate with audiences and others don't? The answer goes beyond the tools; it lies in the story and the characters. In this short documentary, you will get an insight into how some of the industry's top creative minds approach story and character to create memorable...
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In this installment of the Creating a Short Film series, learn how to enhance and punch up your story using key editing techniques.
Learn what it actually takes to create a short film-from the brainstorming stage, all the way until opening night. Each installment of the 13-part Creating a Short Film series focuses on different aspects of the production workflow. Here, filmmaker Chad Perkins focuses on editing, providing real-world context by showing...
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Learn how to use lights and your camera to enhance a story. Explore the fundamentals of cinematography, including how to adjust exposure, frame a shot, and light your actors.
The 13-part Creating a Short Film training series showcases what it actually takes to create a short film-from the brainstorming stage, all the way until opening night. Each installment of the series focuses on different aspects of the production workflow. Here, filmmaker Chad...
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Learn about being a great film director, from directing actors and crew to planning and capturing great shots. Get tips to become a better director, storyteller, and communicator.
Directing movies means being in charge of all creative decisions on a movie set: performance, wardrobe, lights, camera movement, color palette, music, and the overall tone of the film. Some directors focus on directing actors, while others focus on telling stories, building...
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Learn about writing a great script including storytelling, working with screenwriting software, and revising scripts. Discover filmmaking tips for anyone who wants to make a short.
Creating a Short Film is a 13-part training series that shows the actual struggles and challenges filmmakers have to overcome to get films made. Author Chad Perkins and his team made a short film, The Assurance, and documented the process: from writing and directing to...
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Learn how to plan agile projects by creating user stories.
Agile project teams create short user stories as a way to plan out the work for upcoming sprints. In this course, agile expert Doug Rose shows how to write these user stories and prioritize them in the product backlog. He also shows how to avoid the most common pitfalls with agile project planning.
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Follow along with Ben Long as he shoots, edits, and color corrects a short film, using a video-capable DSLR.
Photo superstar Ben Long is back, but this time he's focusing on the video capabilities of DSLR cameras. This project-oriented course follows Ben as he shoots, edits, and delivers a short promo video for friend and actor Stephen Kearin. He concentrates on creative composition during filming, and then returns to the editing booth to show how...
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Tell more effective stories with data. Learn two storytelling methods to help craft compelling narratives from data.
The same techniques that are used to tell stories with words-structure, conflict, resolution, emotion, and surprise-can be used with data. You can craft compelling narratives that help audiences visualize information, without complex charts or graphs. Join Paul A. Smith, author of the best-selling book Sell with a Story: How to Capture...
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Learn how to tell your story with Adobe Creative Cloud and create elegant graphics, videos, and webpages with this free graphic design toolset.
Graphic design is all about telling stories. In this course, author Rich Harrington shows you how to tell your story with Adobe Creative Cloud Express, the free web-based design tool that's also available on iOS and Android. If you have access to the premium features, you may be interested in the tutorials...
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Learn how to tell your story with Adobe Spark. Create elegant graphics, videos, and webpages with this free graphic design toolset.
Graphic design is all about telling stories. In this course, author Rich Harrington shows how to tell your story with Adobe Spark, the free web-based design tool that's also available as three great apps. First, Rich covers how to upload content to Spark. If you have access to Spark premium features, you may be interested...
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LinkedIn Learning instructors share stories, both professional and personal, about events that have helped inform and influence their careers.
Things happen at work-sometimes things you never could have anticipated. Unexpected experiences often teach us important lessons about work and about ourselves. In this short course, LinkedIn Learning instructors share stories, both professional and personal, about events that have helped inform and influence...
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Create a video for your nonprofit. Learn how to make a short, compelling, and professional-looking video on a limited budget.
To succeed as a nonprofit, you need to share your story. Video is one of the most effective ways to communicate your mission-to clients, donors, and future volunteers. But what if you don't have a lot of resources, or the money to hire a video team? This course is designed to help non-video people make short, professional-looking...
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Introduces essential storytelling concepts and creative editing techniques for creating a narrative short film with Premiere Pro, from selecting shots to placing cuts.
Adobe Premiere Pro is a great tool for putting all the pieces of your short film together and allows you to reorder your ideas in real time. This course introduces the essential storytelling concepts and editing techniques you'll need to put it to good use. Author Christine Steele...
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Learn how to edit video in this project-based introduction to both the aesthetic and technical aspects of video editing.
Get a project-based approach to the aesthetic and technical aspects of video editing. Staff author Ashley Kennedy begins this introductory course by exploring storytelling and an editor's role in it. Using classic and contemporary examples in cinema, she examines the "grammar" of editing, showing how an editor's decisions impact...
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Get a short and simple beginner's guide to creating a dashboard in Power BI.
Get a short and simple beginner's guide to Power BI. In this quick course, Joshua Rischin demystifies the process of building dashboards in Power BI, the powerful business analytics and data visualization tool from Microsoft. Joshua begins with a quick primer on how Power BI dashboards work, including the building blocks of a dashboard. Next, he shows how to select the right...
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Warby Parker cofounder and LinkedIn Influencer Neil Blumenthal shares insights on branding, being a socially conscious business, and building a company in a brand-centric manner.
Think about your favorite brand. What's their story? What do they do? What do they stand for? In six short years, Warby Parker has defined itself as one of the most successful new American brands. Here, LinkedIn Influencer Neil Blumenthal shares his perspective on branding,...
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In this short documentary, learn about Motionographer, the online community for motion graphics artists, animators, and filmmakers around the world, and its founder Justin Cone.
Motionographer is more than a website. It's a curatorial space, and a community for motion graphics artists, animators, and filmmakers around the world. In this documentary, we profile founder Justin Cone, who decided to shine a spotlight on motion graphics at a time when...
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Learn how to animate a logo in After Effects. Explore six different logo animation techniques for communicating the story of your brand.
Bring a logo to life with After Effects. Logo animation is the bread and butter of many designers. After Effects gives you the creative and technical options to achieve about any effect your client desires. This course takes six real-world vector designs and uses After Effects to build short openers for each logo....