Found Footage Filmmaking: Make Great Videos with a Camera
Penny Lane
48:16
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With access to the vast world of online video, every creative person has the tools to be a filmmaker—no camera or crew required!
Why make new images when so many already exist? Join award-winning nonfiction filmmaker Penny Lane to discover a fun and freeing approach to making movies: working with found footage. Penny never really liked operating a camera, so instead she developed a unique approach to storytelling that transforms existing content—from historical archives to YouTube videos—into innovative and irreverent films.
Now, she’s sharing what she’s learned so you can do the same. From sourcing to editing, Penny guides you through best practices, tips, and techniques to craft original stories using entirely existing footage.
Each lesson explores a different aspect of found footage filmmaking, including how to:
- Unlock your creativity by working within constraints
- Discover untold stories all around you, from newsreels to reality TV
- Make familiar footage your own while respecting the original context
- Edit using simple steps in Adobe Premiere, or your program of choice
Plus, you’ll join Penny in the studio to work through a hands-on exercise—assembling a short film out of found clips—with plenty of creative problem solving and laughter along the way.
Whether you’re a movie buff looking for a fun weekend project or an experienced filmmaker curious about a fresh format, Penny’s approach will open up a whole new way to express your creativity. Sharpen your storytelling, expand your editing skills, and make any video you can imagine—like the world of found footage, the possibilities are endless!
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All you need to follow along is a computer and your video editing software of choice. New to video? Check out the Projects & Resources tab for links to recommended free editing programs.
What You'll Learn?
- Film & Video
- Video Editing
- Creative
- Adobe Premiere
- Video
- Video Intro
- Videos
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Penny Lane
Instructor's CoursesPenny Lane has been making award-winning, innovative nonfiction films for over a decade. Her most recent feature documentary Hail Satan? was released by Magnolia Pictures in 2019. Her three previous feature documentaries are The Pain of Others (2018), Nuts! (2016) and Our Nixon (2013).
The Pain of Others premiered at Rotterdam and went on to Sheffield and BAMcinemaFest. Nuts! premiered at Sundance where it won a Special Jury Prize for Editing. Our Nixon premiered at Rotterdam, won the Ken Burns Award for “Best of the Festival” at Ann Arbor, and was selected as the Closing Night Film at New Directors/New Films.
In 2018 Penny was honored with the Vanguard Award at SF DocFest, a Chicken & Egg Breakthrough Award and was admitted into the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.
Her short films, such as Just Add Water (2016) and The Voyagers (2010), have won accolades at film festivals and popularity online. Film festival screenings span the independent and experimental film worlds, including Sundance, Rotterdam, Images, IMPAKT, Hot Docs, Full Frame, CPH:DOX and Oberhausen.
She has been awarded grants from the Sundance Institute, Creative Capital, Cinereach, TFI Documentary Fund, Jerome Foundation, Catapult Film Fund, LEF Foundation, NYSCA, and many other organizations.
And yes, Penny Lane is her real name.
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View courses SkillShare- language english
- Training sessions 12
- duration 48:16
- English subtitles has
- Release Date 2024/01/09
