Producing Foundation

London Film Academy: This is an ideal course if you are a short film maker looking to produce and possibly direct or write your first feature or a more ambitious short film. In a group setting you will learn how to take a film project from start to finish – this will include how to source a good script and work with a script editor; hiring key crew and talent; getting to grips with all the contracts, production forms and the processes involved in setting up a limited liability production company. You will learn what is important to include when packaging your film for finance and development cash and how to plan the shoot in the most cost effective way. Successful film Producing is also about managing relations, expectations and the money; this course aims to build on these skills so that you can get through the shoot and beyond, without pulling your hair out! There will also be lectures by guest speakers who are industry experts in their own fields.

The course also covers:

* Pitching projects to financiers/commissioning editors/talent etc.
* Planning a shoot, schedule and budgeting a feature film
* How to find, recruit and manage key crew members.
* Strategies for raising finance and recouping
* Delivery, Sales Agents & Distributors and negotiating the deal

This course is also very useful to Production ‘teams’ such as Producers & Directors who are about to work more closely on a bigger budget project.