Part Time Filmmaking Level 3 Award

Filmmaking Level 3 Award (Jan '10) Attention budding filmmakers!

This course information relates to courses starting in January 2010.

Course code: B0475

Course category: Part-time

Starting and ending month: January to June

Starting year: 2010

Days of the week: Friday

Course duration: 18 weeks

Time of day: All day

Formal assessment: Formal assessment required

Course location: City College East

Course aims:
Budding filmmakers will be able to develop their creative skills in a new media course at City College.
The course covers HD camera work, lighting techniques, pre-production planning, script development, location filming, editing and sound design.
Working in crews, you will research and rotate roles and responsibilities, produce a synopsis and treatments in preparation for a pitching session and develop the successful scripts into a 5 minute short film.

Course content:
On this course you will learn about:

• High Definition Sony Z1 camera operations
• technical instruction
• lighting techniques
• pre-production planning
• script development
• location filming
• Final Cut Pro editing
• sound design
• screening and evaluation of the final product.

Facilities for students:
The College has a new iMac suite that will give all students access to their own edits, broadcast quality cameras and sound recording equipment, as well as the possibility of lone working outside of class time.

Course modules:

• Audio Visual Production
• Sound in Multimedia

Awarding Body: BTEC/Edexcel

Entry Requirements:
No formal qualifications are required. You must be aged 19 years or over.

Interview for entry: Interview required

Interview preparation:
Acceptance onto the course is subject to a satisfactory interview with the course tutor.

Qualification in Context and Future Opportunities: Simon Wilkinson Director of Junk TV:
'This course is exactly what has been missing in the region and will enable people to update their skills and be trained to work in the TV and film industry.
With access to the industry standard equipment and professional teaching support, they will be able to produce high quality short films and progress onto their chosen careers'

Academic Centre:
CMED - Media

Costs of your Course:
There are five parts to the cost of your course:

• Tuition Fees
• College registration
• Awarding Body registration
• Resource Fee
• Exam / Assessment Fees

Tuition fees

How much will the Tuition Fees cost?

Below are the fees for 09/10.

Home/EU students tuition fees (per year) : 300.00

If you are under 19 on 31st August 2009 you do not have to pay Tuition Fees, the College Registration, Awarding Body Registration or Exam/Assessment Fees. However, you will have to pay any Resource Fees. Under 19s entering Higher Education will have to pay full costs.
Once you know your tuition fee, please look at the 'Additional Costs'. This will tell you all the extra costs you will have to pay in order to begin or complete your course.
Additional costsPayment dueTotal
Exam Fees 69
Supplementary Resource Fee 26