University degrees: Workshops
Course length: 5 days
Gain an understanding of the basics of documentary filmmaking, including the UK film market, budgeting and funding, in this intensive overview of the industry. This five-day course is designed to provide first-time filmmakers with the skills and strategies they’ll need to get a factual film project off the ground, and to the finish line.
Work with current industry professionals, learning how to apply effective research and storytelling skills, and come away with the ability to develop your factual film idea into a full treatment, complete with the knowledge of how to pitch to the industry and how to successfully promote your completed documentary project.
Duration: 5 days, full time
Hours: 10:00 – 17:00
Key Features
This documentary filmmaking course provides you with all the information you need to get your first documentary made. It focuses on the difficulties that first-time documentary filmmakers are up against and provides strategies that enable you to get to the finish line.
You can apply for the course with a project already in development, but this is not a prerequisite. The week is used for project consultations and group work designed to move your project forward. You cover documentary development, pitching, paperwork, budgets, production, directing and post-production. Case studies are used to explain different production strategies and the course culminates in pitching techniques for project presentations.
We offer practical advice on thinking through a documentary film career, with an emphasis on a multi-disciplinary approach and new strategies for making, presenting and distributing in new formats.
