DOCUMENTARY FOUNDATION
5 days, full time
Hours: 10:00 – 17:00
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.
KEY FEATURES
- Gain an intensive overview of the documentary industry, including festivals, broadcasters and funding bodies
- Development discussions involve: researching “the story”, producing and conceptualising, scriptwriting, defining your audience and finding your key team
- You are given example documents, including treatments, release forms, schedules and permissions
- We help you think through the budget – crew size, camera format, sound set-up, length of shoot and postproduction – and how to balance practical and artistic considerations
- Look at how to film an interview discreetly, ethically and safely
- Consider the post-production needs of your documentary, from viewing and logging footage to producing a finished film ready for distribution
- The opportunity to pitch your project and receive feedback
- Exhibition, distribution and broadcast strategies are discussed with a range of case studies from traditional TV documentaries to new media platforms
- Expand your contacts and collaborate with students from all courses as well as via Club Panico@LFA
For further information email enquiry@londonfilmacademy.com or call LFA on +44 (0) 207 386 7711 to book your place with a credit/debit card.
NB. Discounted course fee for ClubPanico@LFA members: £525
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