Doc Diploma
- Posted: April 1, 2010, 5:11 pm
- Category: Intensive
About the course
DFG's one month intensive Diploma in documentary filmmaking will give you the technical and practical skills you need to enter the industry and become a broadcast documentary filmmaker. By the end of the course you will be a confident self-shooter. You will have directed and edited two short films and be able to write, research and pitch your ideas - plus much more!
DFG are partners in the Goldsmiths Media Academy - part of the Skillset Media Academy Network.
Limited places are available for this course. Early booking recommended.
£500 Deposit required to secure your place.
Rate:
Freelance: £2950 + VAT = £3466.25
Corporate:£5200 + VAT = £6110.00
This rate includes a years DFG Membership and a copy of Documentaries…And How To Make Them by Andy Glynne.
Location: DFG, 4th Floor, Shacklewell Studios, 28 Shacklewell Lane, London
More details
The aims of the course:
This highly intensive Diploma is designed for people who may not be able to afford to take a year off to study at Film School, and who want to gain the technical and practical skills you need to start working as a broadcast documentary filmmaker - fast.
This will be achieved through seminars, hands-on training, and through the production of a short documentary by every participant.
The course basics:
4 weeks, five days a week with some occasional weekend work
Hours:10AM - 6PM basic with screenings and occasional individual work on some evenings and weekends
Tutored by award-winning broadcast filmmakers
The course will cover:
- Camera skills, using industry-standard HDV equipment. Students will gain competence inthe use of camera and sound recording equipment
- Editing: Familiarisation and basic competence in non-linear editing,using Final Cut Pro.Story structure in documentary and the grammar of editing
- Production management, clearing copyright, budgeting, scheduling, legal issues etc. The aim is to give students an awareness of basic production management skills involved in larger scale productions.
- Researching, writing a proposal and pitching with practical exercise.
- Each student will undertake several shooting exercises and direct and edit their own short documentary film.
- Sources of funding in the UK and Europe
- Making films for online television and multi-platform delivery
- Screenings of seminal and innovative documentaries will be set in their historical context and used as a springboard for discussion about theory and ethics
- The course is mapped to Skillset standards and is run in partnership with Goldsmiths Universityof London. Participants will receive a DFG certificate on completing the course.
Schedule
WEEK 1:
Overview of documentary film past and present
Screenings of innovative documentaries (evenings)
Hands-on - HDV camera operation and sound recording
Hands-on - Editing on Final Cut Pro
Finding a good film idea
Short exercise: shooting and editing
Research techniques and researching own film
WEEK 2:
Story structure
Interviewing techniques
Proposal writing
Health & Safety
Advanced Camera / Lighting techniques
Advanced Sound Recording
Pitching
Short exercise: shoot 1 2min film
WEEK 3
Production management ‚ budgets, scheduling, copyright issues etc.
Fundraising
Grammar of editing
2 days shooting of own five minute film
WEEK 4
Editing and completion of own film
Business Skills in the factual world
Distribution / Marketing
How to Get Ahead in Documentary- networking, career planning.
Screening of completed films and party
Course details:
Where?
DFG, 4th Floor, Shacklewell Studios, 28 Shacklewell Lane, London, E8 2EZ
When?
This course has already run.
Please check out details of other related courses to call us on
+44 (0)20 7249 6600 / e-mail training@dfgdocs.com for more details.
Who teaches this course?
Rosa Rogers - Producer-director Rosa Rogers has established an award-winning track record in innovative programmes that have been made and shown around the world. Her interest in opening up surprising perspectives and experiences to a wide audience through compelling human stories has taken her from Rio to Mumbai; Bamako to Beijing. Films made closer to home range from a documentary about the unsolved deaths of 13 black teenagers and a profile of Britain’s most performed living playwright, to poetry and dance films and television drama. As well as producing and directing her own films, Rosa works as a mentor, advising and training new film makers in a range of skills. She runs camera workshops, research workshops and directing workshops. She was a participant in the EsoDoc 2006 programme for European social documentary makers. In addition to her broadcast work, Rosa has worked with a number of NGOs, including Oxfam, Plan International, YMCA, Save the Children and RNID. She is a trustee of the participatory video organization, Living Lens , who use video as a tool to work with conflict resolution and with excluded groups of people in the UK and abroad.
What did people think of this course?
"The course is designed in a thoughtful way, and students are supported throughout the process and made to feel that their experience of taking the course is just as important as the quality of the film they produce. I would highly recommend this course to anyone interested in learning how to make a documentary film." Doc Diploma Graduate, 2009
"It gave me the skills and confidence to apply for jobs that I never would have considered before. Before the course I had worked with journalists and filmmakers but never created on my own material."
Ruth Evans, DFG Graduate 2009
"My tutors were brilliant, thanks to them I rediscovered my passion for documentaries, the poetry of reality - I had great support from the whole of DFG and after less than 6 months I had my first Three Minute Wonder commissioned by Channel 4!"
Valeria Coizza, Doc Diploma Graduate 2007