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 in partnership with Goldsmiths University of London. Learn to shoot, direct and edit your own documentary over two weeks in London
** SPECIAL DISCOUNT ** - Save £500 if you book by Friday 21 November
When:
1 - 15 December 2008
(with final screening on Monday 15th at 6pm)
Where: DFG
“This course was absolutely brilliant. It exceeded my expectations. I really appreciated the level of teaching and the dedication shown by the tutors and staff. Everyday was a great learning experience. " DocLab participant, May 2008
INTENSIVE TRAINING COURSE AND DOCUMENTARY PRODUCTION FACTORY
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.
DOCLAB is taught by award-winning industry professionals that give you the skills you need to pursue your career in documentary filmmaking. You will gain essential technical skills on industry standard HDV cameras, sound equipment and digital editing on Final Cut Pro. Through making your own documentary under the expert guidance of our tutors, you will gain knowledge of and insight into the documentary production process to get the edge in this highly competitive industry.
The course is a highly interactive combination of formal information delivery (tutor lecture plus handouts) and practical group and individual exercises, where each participant gets to create, shoot, edit and direct their own film. Participants are given tasks to complete under staff supervision and in their own time, culminating with the production of a short documentary film. Thus ensuring a solid foundation on which to build your documentary career.
Screenings support the seminars and practical classes inspiring discussion and creativity.
In partnership with Goldsmiths University of London.
DAYS 1 TO 4:
Focusing on the technical operation of HDV cameras, sound equipment and digital editing. These first few days will also be used to analyse the different ideas for your final project. At the end of day 4, your choice of subject will be defined.
Each day ends with an evening screening and discussion. These first few days are deeply intensive and very long, often ending at 8pm.
DAYS 5 TO 8:
Looking at Story Structure, Interviewing Techniques, Research, Production Management for Factual and Health and Safety and relating them to your particular project.
DAYS 9 TO 11:
Production - the actual shooting of your project!
DAYS 12 TO 14:
Postproduction - this is when you will edit the picture and sound of your film.
DAY 15:
Screening. A public show of your hard work at our headquarters.
"Overall I am satisfied with the course. I think it is excellent. The staff are bloody marvellous, dedicated, caring, powerful and capable leaders." DocLab Participant, 2006
Dates: 1 - 15 December 2008
+ final evening screening on the 15 December 2008.
** SPECIAL DISCOUNT ** - Save £500 if you book by Friday 21 November
How much:
Freelance: £1540 + VAT = £1809.50
Corporate: £2540 + VAT = £2984.50
Book a place on Doclab and you also get:
DFG Membership
By booking on to the Doclab you automatically become a DFG Member for a whole year, giving you access to discounts, events, advice, and to the DFG community - an exciting corner of the web for DFG Members to meet, network and share ideas.
and
Documentaries....And How To Make Them
You'll also get a copy of Documentaries....And How To Make Them, full of all the insider knowledge you’ll ever need! Written by Andy Glynne, Founding Director of DFG, MD of Mosaic Films and Director of the One World Broadcasting Trust, it is a "comprehensive, up-to-date and very well informed guide". Completely indispensable!
Venue
DFG
For more information email training [ at ] dfgdocs.com or call 020 7249 6600
TO APPLY
PLEASE DOWNLOAD THE APPLICATION FORM HERE
(PDF).
Download:
DocLab Enrolment form
