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Dates:
One Day Duration plus Individual Follow Up Tutorials to suit.
Course One - Saturday Feb. 9th
Course Two - Saturday May 10th
Course Three – Saturday September 20th
Fee :
£175 incl. VAT.
Group Size: 6 max.
Tutors: John Goddard and Tony Cook.
Participants :
Journalists in print or radio or television; researchers; associate producers, camera, producers or directors in other genres.
Innovative Element:
Intensive One Day Training Course
Later follow up one to one tutorial (within 6 weeks) to work through project idea(s) prepared by participant.
Content:
Current Affairs films are a different beast to documentary or news or news features in content, look, feel, taste and grit. The ideas, the research and development, the production are somehow vastly different to other types of film. Current Affairs is a particular genre of film and programme making that can do any number of things about contemporary issues, characters and stories including:
- Go behind the news in greater depth and detail than a short news bulletin
- Actually break a new story or entirely fresh perspective directly and with great clarity
- Reveal and challenge major institutions, their thinking and their actions
- Critically explore areas of British and international life , and in so doing spotlight and overturn accepted ways of thinking.
This course will aim to do two specific things: 1) Give you the mind set to think in a Current Affairs fashion, and 2) Cover the basic skills to enable you to originate, develop and make Current Affairs films.
Specifically covered will be: the Current Affairs mind set; possible markets for ideas and jobs; Current Affairs research and development, treatments and pitches; Current Affairs production and post-production, where the cycles and approaches and techniques are vastly different to the norm; legal situations, copyright, interviewing relating to Current Affairs.
Teaching Methods:
Presentations, Case Studies, exercise, camera demonstration.
NB: There are no hands on practical elements of filming for participants on
this course though a camera will be used to demonstrate various techniques.
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