English For Filmmakers Foundation

This course is an essential preparation if your first language is not English and you wish to study or work in an English-speaking country or within an English speaking crew. The English for Filmmakers course can be taken either as a two-week course or as private tuition (length determined by the individual's needs).

Key Features

• Practical hands-on training by practising Film and TV industry professionals
• 50% practical filming and editing, 50% English language grammar and vocabulary
• Excellent tutor-to-student ratios: small groups of maximum 8 students
• Knowledge that can be applied in novice filmmaking, to assist successful applications for further training or to obtain work in the industry as a runner
• A fast-track onto the LFA Filmmaking Foundation, Certificate and/or Diploma selection process
• The opportunity to meet like-minded people
• A course that can fit into holiday entitlement whilst studying or between jobs

Course Overview

Tutor Sessions

• Language acquisition exercises which are applied to the following subjects:
• Hollywood and European cinema
• Film scripts and documentary treatments
• Film stock, formats, cameras and lenses
• Lighting for drama and documentaries
• Sound, editing and post-production
• Working on a feature film set
• Working in the film industry

Non-Tutor Sessions

• Theoretical exercises and practical projects are set, for example: writing reports on classroom sessions,
  writing a short film script, shooting and editing your film.

Course Length and Commitment

• 2 weeks, full-time (15 hours per week), Monday to Friday
• Hours: 10:00—13:00 Tutor session, 14:00—17:00 Individual Projects, no tutor
• Students are also expected to work additional hours after the lessons