The Complete Filmmaking Course

Ages: 18+
Term: Autumn
Length: 15 weeks

Overview

This extended filmmaking course is ideal for those wishing to gain all the essential skills to take a film project from concept to screen in as little as 15 weeks!

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What you need to know

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Information about resourcing specialist materials/consumables that you may need to bring these with you

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Short Courses FAQs – Evening and Weekend and Saturday Art School

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About this course

Aimed at aspiring filmmakers with little or no previous film making experience, this part-time 15-week (45 taught hours) course offers a hands-on practical introduction to writing, shooting, directing, and editing your own films. You’ll master the essential skills and get to grips with every aspect of filmmaking under the expert guidance of practising university and industry professionals.

Meet your tutors

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Celeste Joy Engel

Celeste Engel studied Theatre and Drama at Australia’s La Trobe University before embarking on a career in the Melbourne Fringe theatre.

Tereza Tzelepaki

FAD and IFD Technician Demonstrator

Filmmaking gallery

Darius Shu stands on a bridge with a film crew, peers through and holds a camera, filming on the set of Secret Child

Group of people in a park. One of them is crouched down by a film camera.

A film crew gathers on a beach and shoots a scene with an actor in costume walking along a shoreline.

A person in a face mask looks down at a film camera; another person holds a film clapper board in front of it.

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A film camera directed at a vintage car with two people, one outside the car, the other inside. A green screen is on the background.

A group of people standing in a corridor around a big film camera.

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Beyond the course

This could just be the start of your creative journey! After this course, you could further your film skills with another short course or look to the future and explore our creative qualifications that can prepare you to further your current career, enable you to retrain to an alternative career path or prepare you for future creative arts studies.