One term course
Many of our students hold jobs at the same time as being enrolled on our courses. The one-term course is designed so students can be employed at the same time and work around the tuition or be a full-time student creating more projects. The course is run over a period of 10 weeks (not including a one week break at half term) and we have multiple practical learning days with professionals in the industry per week.
Each topic will be practical and project-based, working on specific items either sourced by the participants or derived from the mass of potential stories available to our research team and magazine producers.
Content will include the following:
• Camera skills for broadcast quality using Canon C100s, Canon XA20s, Canon XC10 kits alongside various other cameras such GoPro Hero6, Sony NX3s and BlackMagic studio cameras.
• Advanced camera skills utilising picture profiles, bitrates, lenses and camera techniques
• Filming in multi-cam setups for actuality filmmaking
• Setting up a good interview, lighting, sound, vision, 1/2/3 camera shoot
• Getting the ’Top line’ right and assembling a good narrative
• Asking good questions on camera. Probing and follow-up
• Editing: Getting the best from Final Cut Pro
• Editing: Getting the best from Adobe Premiere Pro
• Editing: Learning how to edit to broadcast standards – finding the narrative
• Editing: Colour correction, effects and title sequences
• Location sound and post production fixes
• Presentation skills, studio practice and reading from a teleprompter
• Studio skills: Cameras, mixing rather than editing, lighting, scheduling and broadcast
• Studio skills: Livestreaming
• How to plan and make a good short documentary piece (theory & practice)
• How to plan and make compelling long form documentary pieces
• How to pitch ideas to production companies
• How to use green-screens effectively
• How to build and set up a studio environment
• Treatments, scripts and pitching ideas for programmes
• Producing and directing: What’s expected and how does one perform these roles
• Protecting rights and releases. Regulations, safety and good practice
• Business and commercial skills: How to set up your own business, find work and CV advice
The nature of the activities will be flexed to suit the skills, abilities and interests of the participants whilst ensuring that we cover the topics listed above. Wherever possible we will work with current topical content with a view to creating material that can be broadcast – thereby generating credits for the course participants.
In terms of video genre we tend to cover what is appropriate to the student group based on their ideas though we do prepare some projects beforehand to get you started on the course. The range of genre we tend to cover are arts & culture, science, music, events, performances, short and long form documentary-filmmaking, advertisement and promotional-filmmaking, religion, sports, etc.
Second and third terms are also available to enrol on to take your skills to the next level.
All of our equipment and facilities are available for students on this course.
Book your place now
September course
Starts: 24 September 2018
Half term: 22 October 2018
Ends: 7 December 2018
Price: £2250
January course
Starts: 21 January 2019
Half term: 18 February 2019
Ends: 5 April 2019
Price: £2250
April course
Starts: 29 April 2019
Half term: 27 May 2019
Ends: 12 July 2019
Price: £2250