Shooting Documentary

Film Oxford

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Description

  • Type

    Workshop

  • Level

    Intermediate

  • Location

    Oxford

  • Class hours

    12h

  • Duration

    5 Weeks

In this practical hands-on course students are taught the main principals of Documentary Production, before going on to research, develop, schedule & plan a short documentary. Students then shoot the film over 2 days. Suitable for: Suitable for those with previous filming experience and interest in Documentary

Facilities

Location

Start date

Oxford (Oxfordshire)
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54 Catherine Street, OX4 3AH

Start date

On request

About this course

This course is aimed at people who want to produce their own documentaries. It will give you the tools, techniques and knowledge required to research, develop, schedule and plan a short documentary.

This course is aimed at new and developing filmmakers who have already dome some practical training (ideally the Shooting Video Course), and/or people who have worked as production assistance,
journalist, editor, in other disciplines. Those who have little or no experience should do one of the beginners courses.

For people who:

Want to improve and enhance their documentary skills
Are passionate to tell factual stories and get diverse concepts across
Want to rise to the challenge of producing low budget documentary
Have aspiration to take the first step towards getting into factual TV and/or making feature documentaries
Ambition to develop non-broadcast work such as corporate productions
Desire to use digital video as a tool to communicate their work or service

Students on this course should have taken an introductory video course (such as OFVMs Shooting Video or Experimental Film & Video courses or similar courses elsewhere), or have made a short video themselves. Students without this basic knowledge are unlikely to enjoy the full benefits of this course.

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Subjects

  • Filmmaking
  • Film Production
  • Film Studies
  • Documentary Film Making

Teachers and trainers (1)

Sharon Woodward

Sharon Woodward

Tutor

Sharon Woodward – Is an independent award winning filmmaker with a passion for documentary and a keen interest in history and heritage. She trained at The National Film and Television School, Newport Film School and in the BBC. She produces factual content for non-profit organizations, local government, SME’s, NHS and others. Sharon has also taught filmmaking for over 20 years. She is a member of the Institute For Learning and BECTU.

Course programme

Course review:

Today’s documentary filmmakers are required more and more to be multi-skilled. Not only are they asked to do the research, write the treatment and direct the documentary, they also have to shoot and edit it as well! In this practical hands-on course students are taught the main principals of Documentary Production by researching, developing, scheduling & planing a short documentary. Students will then shoot the film on HD cameras over 2 days (a weekend), which they will then edit over several evenings and a weekend.

Oxford is a Documentary City: as well as being home to many award wining documentary filmmakers, (including OFVM trustee Rob Lemkin who won best documentary category at 2010 Sundance), it also has a large international documentary Film Festival OXDOX (which in the past has shown work made on this course), as well as a thriving film & TV industry, with many small documentary companies based in the city and county making programmes for BBC, Channel 4, Channel 5 and Sky. Many have reported to us the lack of local skills, so forcing them to seek crew and production staff from outside the County. This course is a chance to make the next step in developing your documentary skills and improve your employment prospects.

Additional information

http://www.filmoxford.org/course/shooting-documentaries/

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