Summary
Learn how to evoke mood using the proper camera angle from an Emmy-winning producer and director!
Get a detailed glossary of 11 shots you need to know and the equipment you need to capture them!
As a filmmaker or cinematographer, knowing how to tell a visual story is one of the most important parts of your job. But to do so, you have to understand how to use the tools at your disposal. It is not enough to just put your actors in front of the camera and start rolling. Every shot setup you choose will affect how your story is told, and if your desired effect is perceived by your audience.
Get a crash course – or perhaps for our more advanced filmmakers, a refresher on the cinematic basics you need to know and what the purpose of these essential eleven angles offers to you, the storyteller. Learn how to build a foundation that gives you the time and confidence to be creative – one that you will be very proud of now and when you look back on it in the distant future. This webinar will give you the tools necessary to make sure you cover all the basics needed to tell your story while allowing you the freedom and flexibility to create a visually stunning project.
We are thrilled to have multi-Emmy Award-winning Producer and Director, Shane Stanley as your instructor for this webinar. Shane has worked with Marlon Brando, Mira Sorvino, Thomas Hayden Church, Donald Sutherland, Marisa Tomei, Sean Penn, John Travolta, Dwayne "the Rock" Johnson, and Charlie Sheen to name a few. Shane is bringing years of experience to this webinar to help you learn how to capture the right shot!
You will leave this webinar with a better-equipped filmmaker who understands who has a strong understanding of camera angles and lenses, how to get more angles with fewer setups, how to set the mood of the scene, how to use camera angles to capture the story in a more dynamic way, and so much more.
PLUS! Get this downloadable document:
- Detailed glossary of 11 shots you need to know and the equipment you need to capture them!
Praise for Shane:
"Shane was thorough and encouraging. Easy to listen to and follow. I'll be signing up for other classes he teaches in the future." -Karena K
"Just straight-forward, real, the kind of producer most of us would kill to work alongside." -Clark R
"Shane was relevant, knew what was happening, and could walk the walk." -Chuck R
What You'll Learn
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Understanding Camera Angles and Lenses
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What are you trying to say in a shot
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How the wrong lens can contradict your story point
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How to support a character stance
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Get more impacting angles with fewer setups
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Focus on the Important Things
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Capturing your story the way you mean to tell it as a filmmaker
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Creating different atmospheres
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Establishing relationships between characters and their environments
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Adding larger-than-life elements to your scenes
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Different shots for different characters
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Setting the Mood
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Building tension and catching the audience’s attention
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Effective ways to disorient your viewers
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Building a sense of vulnerability
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Establishing strength and prominence in your shot
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Pushing your agenda as a filmmaker
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Additional Tools of the Trade
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Adding bells and whistles to improve your shot
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Understanding how to use them
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When enough is enough
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- Understanding the power in your hands as the filmmaker designing the shot
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Q&A with Shane
Who Should Attend
Filmmakers of all levels who want to sharpen their abilities to plan out the shots that capture the mood and emotion they are looking to evoke.
DPs of all levels who want to learn from an Emmy-nominated filmmaker how to better capture their Directors' vision.
Writers of all levels who want to understand how what they are writing can be transferred to the screen by using the appropriate shot.
Executive
Shane Stanley is a multi-Emmy® Award-winning filmmaker and best-selling author who grew up in/around “the biz” in Hollywood. As a childhood actor he appeared on-screen in over 100 projects with Hollywood legends which included June Lockhart, Lloyd Haynes, and David Arkin. By age ten, he was comfortably running an Arri 16mm camera, a flatbed-editor, and Moviola.
Along with his father, Lee Stanley, Shane produced The Desperate Passage Series which, during its six year run, received world-wide syndication and was nominated for 33 individual Emmy® Awards winning 13 statues. Two specials from the series went on to become successful feature films including Gridiron Gang, which was acquired by Sony Pictures and became the #1 box office hit starring Dwayne ‘The Rock’ Johnson which Shane executive produced. Additionally, he has overseen and produced dozens of big-budget motion pictures which have starred Marlon Brando, Mira Sorvino, Thomas Hayden Church, Donald Sutherland, Marisa Tomei, Sean Penn, John Travolta, and Charlie Sheen.
Shane began his writing career penning episodes of Zalman King's Red Shoe Diaries for Showtime Networks before creating an original television series for Jeff Sagansky, former Head of CBS and developing scripted drama for Fox Television Studios under then Vice President, David Madden. Shane made his directorial debut with a film he also wrote entitled A Sight for Sore Eyes which was invited to screen at Cannes the following year. Additionally, he has directed countless television commercials and highly acclaimed music videos, including two that went #1 on VH1's Top 20 Video Countdown and another that made the network’s list of Best 100 Music Videos.
Other directing credits include the romantic-comedy, Mistrust, starring two-time Golden Globe® and Emmy® Award winner Jane Seymour and amidst COVID, Shane produced and directed the action-comedy, Double Threat starring Matthew Lawrence and Dawn Olivieri (Yellowstone, 1883), which The New York Times listed on their Top 5-Action Movies to Stream (July 2022) and was the sole indie feature amongst Hollywood blockbusters on Amazon Prime's “Top 10 in the US” list remaining there for several weeks and peaked at #4. This year, Shane’s action-thriller, Night Train, starring Danielle C. Ryan and Diora Baird premiered on HULU where it reached #1 on the platform and remained in the top spot for an astonishing four weeks. Currently, Shane is in post-production on Six Days in Evergreen, a music-drama with a star-studded cast and is prepping to direct a psychological thriller for legendary producer, Mario Kassar (Terminator, Rambo, Total Recall, Basic Instinct) slated to start filming next year.
In addition to his Emmy® Awards, Stanley has received 11 Telly Awards, 2 CINE Golden Eagles Awards, 5 Aurora Awards, 4 WorldFest Remi Awards, and 28 International Film Festival Awards. He has spoken at several prestigious film and art institutes around the country including The Screen Writers Expo, the world’s largest tradeshow for screenwriters, alongside Oliver Stone, Michael Goldenberg (Harry Potter franchise) and Adam Herz (American Pie) about the secrets of marketing to today’s youth.
Testimonials
"Shane was thorough and encouraging. Easy to listen to and follow. I'll be signing up for other classes he teaches in the future." -Karena K
"Just straight-forward, real, the kind of producer most of us would kill to work alongside." -Clark R
"Shane was relevant, knew what was happening, and could walk the walk." -Chuck R