Summer: Filmmaking

You will study in intensive workshops, with your own tutor and you will work in teams to make your films. You will assume a variety of roles: writer, producer, director, editor and performer In each area you will be supported and taught by experts. This is an intensive course and you will be expected to work with your team in the evenings and at the weekends.

You will have access to a kit-room stocked with Canon XA10 camcorders, booms and lighting rigs. Once you have finished filming, you can edit your films in our edit suites installed with industry-standard editing software: Avid, Apple Final Cut Pro and Logic, Adobe Creative Cloud Premiere and After Effects.

Most of all the film will be fun. You will come together with like-minded people, sharing the adventure of filmmaking with all its challenges and thrills and you will leave us with a fully-produced short film.

Topics Covered

• Scripting for the short film: the idea, the story arc, writing convincing dialogues, the creation of credible character and character in action
• The elements of miss-en-scene: how to do settings, to tell stories
• The key grammar of film: how to shoot so that your footage will always edit back together: how to use the full range of shot sizes and angles to construct meaning, how to ensure that your film looks professional in every way
• How to record location sound
• How to edit your materials together so that they are seamless