Why Study This Course?
Are you a self-motivated filmmaker looking to take your skills to the next level? This course offers the opportunity to expand your technique and visual language skills and understanding through thematic exploration and individual projects. You’ll benefit from group practical sessions, critiques and personalised tutor consultations. Advance your filmmaking style, challenge your comfort zone and create effective, informed film and video rooted in cinematography, photography and theory. This course is perfect for filmmakers seeking to refine their vision and create specific types of digital videos.
Course Content:
Research Ideas Development: Exploring and refining your filmmaking concepts.
Practice/Technique: Honing your technical skills and experimenting with new approaches.
Reflection: Critically evaluating your work and identifying areas for growth.
Refining how to develop an idea for a video: From initial concept to final execution.
Be able to pitch an idea and approach: Effectively communicating your vision.
Be able to effectively use visual language in structuring composition and editing for greater precision in meaning within your film and video outcomes.
Mastering visual storytelling.
Discover ways to record and apply sound to your videos.
Be able to effectively edit video using a range of post-production techniques.
Preparation for and participation in a screening / promoting yourself and your practice: Showcasing your work to a wider audience
Course Outcomes:
• Be able to use a range of filming techniques to capture video for a specific intention.
• Be able to record audio using a range of techniques to build a complex soundtrack for your video.
• Be able to use a range of post-production techniques for a specific intention.
• Develop an understanding of different film theories and how they can apply to your filmmaking.
• Develop an understanding of visual language techniques and how they apply to filmmaking.
• Develop evaluation skills and be able to critically reflect on outcome development and creation.
To be eligible for this course you must be 19 or over on the start date of the course.
A previous Level 2 film qualification or portfolio of work of an intermediate level is required.
An interview with the tutor is also required.
Q&A, observations, PLPs, practical sessions using specialist classroom facilities to build a body of coursework and different outcomes that incorporate new techniques and processes.
If you require further course information or advice & guidance that is not answered in this outline please email info@rhacc.ac.uk or drop in to our main reception area.
Please note that tutors may occasionally be changed at short notice. While teaching styles may vary, we ensure consistent quality across all of our courses. For this reason, a change of tutor does not qualify for a refund.