Film and Animation

This course covers the principals of directing drama for the screen and shows students how to apply them in practice. It is run by film-maker Simon Hook, who made several award-winning shorts before going on to direct more than sixteen hours of broadcast television. He demonstrates the principals of directing drama through analysis of film and television clips and follows them up with practical exercises with the camera.

Directing Screen Drama is a weekend course for students wishing to learn or develop their directing skills.

Who is After Effects for?

After Effects is used by independent Producers to improve their own films, as well as ‘high-end’ specialists like Motion Graphic Designers, Compositors and VFX artists as an essential part of their software toolkit.

It’s also great for animators who need to need one package that lets them draw, animate and enhance footage.

What can After Effects be used for?

After Effects resolution is flexible so you can generate and transform moving images for delivery from the smallest mobile device up to movie theater screens.

Who is this course for?

This course

Today’s documentary filmmakers are required more and more to be multi-skilled. Not only are they asked to do the research, write the treatment and direct the documentary, they also have to shoot and edit it as well! In this practical hands-on course students are taught the main principals of Documentary Production by researching, developing, scheduling & planing a short documentary.

Do you have a burning ambition to make a film but do not know where to start? This course explodes the myth that film producing is a dark art and shows that anyone with passion and drive can produce a film. Led by multi-award winning film producer Bruce Windwood, the course strips away the mystique of filmmaking and explains in a very practical nuts and bolts kind of way, how to make and then market your film.

This introduction to video-making covers the whole process of video production from the initial idea through to a final program. The course is designed for those wishing to make their first step into video production. Students will work in one group of five to produce a short video using our digital cameras and editing digitally with Adobe Premiere Pro software.

This introduction to video-making covers the whole process of video production from the initial idea through to a finished film. The course is designed for women wishing to make their first step into video production. The six students will be given a written brief to produce a short documentary video that relates to the topic of International Women’s Festival 2012. They will then work together to develop the documentary idea, shoot it on our digital equipment, and then edit the film with Adobe Premiere computer software.

Introduction to Screenwriting Weekend

Screenwriting weekend is an introductory course for people either planning their first screenplay or hoping to brush up on their writing skills. It arms you with the concepts and practices you need to be aware of before diving in.

Who is this course for?

This course is aimed at artists, designers and developers who are new to Flash and want to get to grips with the user interface and learn the basics of animation and interactivity.

Assumed Knowledge

As this course is aimed at beginners all that is assumed is that delegates are familiar with computer use, the web, its terminology and how Flash is used within this environment. Drawing skills not essential. PCs and Macs are available, although you may not get a choice as to which you use.

Final Cut Pro delivers high-performance digital nonlinear editing, native support for virtually any video format, and facility-class extensibility and interoperability. Its workflow extends through the other Final Cut Studio applications and Final Cut Server for even more power. Whether you are working solo or collaborating with a team, Final Cut Pro gives you more creative options and technical control than ever before.

Editing with Final Cut Pro

This course is designed for new editors and directors looking to take the first steps into editing.