The Trainer says…“The Frontline camera and directing courses are an excellent way for people already in media jobs to get the new skills and confidence that are now essential in an evolving and demanding workplace.”

This is a more intensive course teaching new skills and enabling the course member to solidify any previous experience and learn new skills. Participants on the intermediate course cover all the elements of the foundation course at a more advanced, technically detailed level.

In addition the intermediate course includes:
* Creative manipulation of aperture, gain, shutter, and white balance for special shooting situations
* The camera’s extended menus and creative manipulation of colour, saturation, “film look”
Plus:
* Additional practice in shooting for the edit
* Practice with camera movement and shooting sequences

Duration: 1 week
Who it’s for: Those with prior training in camera work and/or experience shooting a finished programme.
Aims: offers all the elements of the foundation course at a more advanced, technically detailed level and will enable course members to develop additional advanced skills
Trainer: Anthony Wood
 
A previous participants says……“Just to let you know, Daniel’s course was brilliant and I used the training to direct/film a making of patient 17, thriller film. Whilst my interest is documentaries and news reels, directing the special feature and interviewing the actors was brilliant experience.” -Bill Shepherd | Production editor | ESD

With increasing demands on journalists to be multi-skilled and be able to shoot video themselves, these courses gives instruction on working as an independent, solo broadcaster. These courses havebeen developed in response to the increasing demands on journalists to become multi-skilled and embrace the rise of video journalism. Taught using a mixture of theory, hands-on practical training and constructive feedback, the course runs in two different formats. Solo Video Journalism is taught intensively over two straight weeks whereas the Condensed Solo Video Journalism is split into four weekends so that it is accessible to those working journalists and budding broadcasters who are keen to upgrade their skills, but can’t give up the day job while they do it!

The Solo Video Journalism and the condensed solo video journalism are both taught at Foundation level, which requires no prior camera experience or specific knowledge to attend.  Intermediate level; aimed at those with some previous training in camera work and/or experience shooting a finished programme.
 
The course contains two main elements:
* Camera craft and shooting sequences for the edit – combines theory and practical daily shooting exercises with regular feedback and critique
* Editing with Final Cut Pro – taking the rushes generated while shooting participants learn how to create final rough cuts

Duration Full Course: Two weeks 9.30am – 5.30pm every day
Duration Condensed: over 5 days
Who it’s for: Condensed solo video journalism is for those unable to attend the two week course The two week Solo Video Journalism course takes the extra time to explore how to write for broadcast and publish the finished videos online.  
Aims: To equip journalists at all levels with the skills to  they need to embrace the rise of video journalism
Trainers: Anthony Wood and Simon Ruben

A previous participant says….“The trainer’s war-reporting experience transferred seamlessly to suit my tennis PR needs. The learning curve really ramped up in the second week when we all had our own edit suite. The course is brilliant for forward-thinking photographers and even non-journalists who want to learn how to work on their feet while filming in conflict zones.”

Many of today’s documentaries and news stories are shot by small crews or just one person working alone  who is expected to do all the shooting, directing and everything else necessary for a completed shoot. This course shows you how by attending to the simple element of lighting you can dramatically improve the look of your film.  

Course outline: 
Part one – 
  * An introduction to different lighting techniques
  * “Naturalistic Lighting” – learning to maximize the use and manipulation of existing light  sources, complemented by your lighting kit
  * Classic 3 and 4 point lighting – key, back, fill and set light
  * The use of hard light and soft light
  * The use of diffusion and gels to control light and for colour correction
  * Working with “mixed light” – natural and artificial light
  * “Incognito” lighting – protecting the interviewee’s identity
  * The use of “negative fill”
  * Outdoor night-time lighting options
  * Safety  
Part two – 
  * An introduction to different types of compact documentary lighting equipment
  * Small compact “open-faced” lights
  * Fresnel lights
  * Battery lights
Tools available to control each of these lights

Duration: One day  
Who it’s for: Anyone who has already completed a Frontline shooting course. People with some shooting experience on small format cameras like the Sony Z1. Professional stills photographers who are learning to work in video.
Aims: This one day course explores how we can balance time constraints with carrying a heavy lighting kit and shooting solo to get the best lighting results.   
Trainer: Anthony Wood

A previous participant says…..the trainers show particiapnts ‘how to USE light not just how to add it. How to make best use of available light and how to control light to enhance an image with minimum fuss and minimum kit. A really practical and useful short course.’ –Jill Nicholls