COURSE: Documentary Film Making
* Single day course available.
Single day courses include entrance to evening event and meal.
£95 per person, per day (Drawing Masterclass £75 / Poetry £75).
TUTORS
Anson Hartford
Hugh Hartford
Chris Jones
Nathaniel Lane
COURSE DESCRIPTION:
Three day introductory course to filmmaking with the emphasis being, where fiction ends and documentary begins.
A discussion about film using film clips as illustrations of the various approaches to filmmaking. Followed by a workshop on HDV cameras, getting the best filmic look from video and how to shoot for the edit and a workshop on sound and its importance.
Using the cameras and the locality of the Dartmoor Arts workshops. Three groups of three will go out and film either an event or a process that is going on. In the afternoon the footage (roughly 1 hour) will be ingested onto Final Cut Pro, the basics of the editing programme will be explained whilst the footage is ingested and a short editing script will be drawn up, with special attention to sound and music.
Workshops will be run on how to use FCP to cut a film. The day will be spent putting a scene together from the footage, with music, sound and titles. Video formats will be explained, as will making a DVD and putting a film onto tape.
Screening of final films and crit.
Cameras and materials provided.
