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Get Ahead in Documentary

DFG is the UK's leading provider of documentary-specific training for established and aspiring filmmakers and a member of the elite Skillset Media Academy Network. We provide a wide range of consultancy services, long and short courses, corporate and bespoke training, covering every aspect of documentary filmmaking. All our tutors are practicing industry professionals.

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Easter DocLab
  • Runs 02.04.2012 – 16.04.2012
  • Category Intensive
  • From £1750

*THIS COURSE IS NOW FULLY BOOKED*

Want to start making your own documentaries?
Get the skills and make your own documentary with DFG's DOCLAB - an intensive two week training and documentary lab. Learn to shoot, direct and edit your own documentary over two weeks in London.

This truly intensive workshop is for people prepared to eat, sleep and breathe documentary for a solid two-week period, absorbing the production process whilst making your own documentary film. You’ll gain theoretical and technical knowledge, and engage in debate with fellow doc lovers during this unique training course. Working in small groups with individual tuition, you'll also get extensive practical experience. You'll learn to work independently, as well as in a small crew, both invaluable skills for contemporary documentary filmmaking.

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The Filmmaker’s Development Toolkit: The Idea, The Proposal, The Pitch and The Taster Tape - March
  • Runs 10.03.2012 – 10.03.2012
  • Category Short Course (1 day)
  • From £58.33

Filmmakers often have great ideas, but lack the necessary skills and resources to know what to do with them. This one-day course helps you identify what makes a good idea, and gives you the main tools to get a project off the ground, namely:

  • A well-written proposal
  • A great, confident and compelling pitch
  • A much needed taster tape
  • Tips for working with production companies,
  • An overview of various funding opportunities

Using examples of commissioned proposals and taster tapes, and with an overview of funding and commissioning objectives, it’s an essential one-day intensive for moving ahead with your own project.

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