Freelance/Student £315
Members £280
The perfect course for those looking for a fast-paced but thorough crash-course in editing with Final Cut Pro X (FCPX). This two-day workshop will teach you everything you need to know to master what has become the most affordable and popular editing software for journalists and filmmakers. We will show you how to import and organise your media, create a rough cut, trim and cut, add music/effects/titles and voice over, colour correct and export for multiple platforms. This practical, two day course will cover:
- Importing/transcoding files, creating events, keywords, grouping clips reviewing media and marking
- Sequencing clips: Magnetic timeline, adding clips to the timeline, clip timing, auditioning, story lines and compound clips
- Adjusting video: Speed, scaling, cropping, distorting, keyframing and text
- Music and audio: Editing/enhancement and recording voiceover
- Effects: Template effects, adjusting effects, colour correction, auto balancing/matching colour and manual correction
- Sharing: Quicktime/Apple devices/Vimeo/Youtube and Compressor
This course assumes no prior knowledge or experience in editing. Praise for previous workshops:
- “As a teacher, I can sincerely say that Simon is a way above par educator. Aside from his comprehensive expertise on the subject, the clarity and structure with which he presented the course, ensured that I took in as much as was possible. . . . It was worth every penny – thank you!”
- “Simon is the best teacher that I ever, ever had. He gave absolutely clear, understandable explanations and answered all my silly questions!”
- “Simon is an outstanding trainer! I have been on several technical courses and this is definitely the best! Great if you like fast-paced learning.”
About the trainer: Simon Ruben is an award winning editor and video trainer with over 15 years experience. He has designed and delivered popular courses for the Frontline Club since 2007. Simon has also tailored courses for FT.com, Save The Children, The Telegraph, KPMG, Accenture, Medecins Sans Frontiers, LV, Soho Editors and the NUJ. Please note: The Frontline Club will provide media with which to practice editing. However, we strong recommend that you bring your own Mac laptop with the following installed software in order to get the most out of the workshop.
- Final Cut Pro X version 10.4 can be purchased here.
- A fully functioning 30-day trail version can also be downloaded for free here.
- Please note, Final Cut Pro X is not compatible with Windows/PCs.
- You will need to have OS X v10.11.4 or later installed on your Mac. You can download the latest OS, High Mojave here.
- In order to maximise training time, it is essential that the software is installed and operational before the course starts.
- Please ensure that your iCloud settings are switched off the default in order that you can work off your computer’s desktop without files being automatically copied to iCloud. See this page for help in doing this.
Freelance/Student £170
Member £145
This essential, one-day workshop will equip journalists, filmmakers, producers and editors with the digital tools and knowledge needed to protect themselves, their stories and their sources in a hostile digital environment. No prior experience is necessary.
Journalists and investigative filmmakers often publish or broadcast what someone else does not want published – and the risk of being electronically disrupted has never been greater. With the ever increasing accessibility of sophisticated surveillance tools, almost anyone from state-level security services, to corporations and criminals, has the power to surveil or disrupt your work.
This workshop will teach you how to digitally protect yourself at a variety of risk levels, whether in the UK or abroad, using entirely free and open source software.
During this course participants will:
- learn about state surveillance capabilities and the law and how to assess your digital risk and and choose cybersecurity tools.
- be guided through installations of a core digital toolbox, including anonymous browsing, encrypted calls and messaging, and PGP encrypted emails
- gain hands-on training on how your new software works and how and when to use it.
- learn about scenario planning and you receive hands-on practise using your new security software.
About the trainer:
Silkie Carlo is the co-author of Information Security for Journalists, published by the Centre for Investigative Journalism in 2014, and has trained journalists, lawyers and campaigners internationally. She is Director of the civil liberties and privacy NGO, Big Brother Watch. Previously, she was the Senior Advocacy Officer at Liberty where she led a programme on Technology and Human Rights and launched a legal challenge to the Investigatory Powers Act. Prior to this, she worked for Edward Snowden’s official defence fund and whistleblowers at risk.
Note: a personal laptop may be preferable to a work-issued laptop, as you will need full administrative control over your laptop in order to install software.
Freelance/Student £170
Members £145
More and more people are now using their smartphones to shoot and create stories whether they are for a short film, multimedia/journalism or corporate content.
This workshop is a hands-on experience which you take you through how to record video and audio, edit your footage and export the content online or social media. During the course you will also get a chance to use a variety of microphones, grips and tripods.
The workshop will cover the following:
- Learn how to record audio and use a microphone to get the best sound
- Shoot video interviews and learn how to frame the subject correctly using well established cinematography techniques
- Shoot voxpops, point-of-view shots, action shots
- Use your smartphone to film establishing shots and cutaway shots
- Learn how to use natural lighting as a key light to model and illuminate the subject
- Use good interview technique and learn how to edit for the sound
- Take photographs and learn how to use picture composition and rule of thirds
- Learn how to edit your clips on the smartphone and create a video news story
- Launch video news stories online and blogs using social media sites.
Before the course, we will contact participants to find out what type of smartphone they’ll bring to the course and to provide a list of apps to download before the workshop. The majority of these are free, but the list may include a couple of paid-for apps. These should not come to more that £20 in total.
About the trainer:
The course tutor, Bill Shepherd teaches mobile and video journalism using smartphones and mirrorless cameras at billshepherdmedia.com. He is a member of the National Union of Journalists, the Guild of Television Camera Professionals and he is also a production editor at The Guardian and The Observer.
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Freelance/Student £140
Member £115
*The tickets include lunch
This day long workshop will equip you with the digital tools and knowledge to protect yourself, your stories, and importantly your sources in a hostile digital environment. No prior experience is necessary.
Investigative journalism is printing what someone else does not want printed – and the risk of being electronically disrupted has never been greater. With the ever increasing accessibility of sophisticated surveillance tools, almost anyone from state-level security services, to corporations and criminals, could attempt to surveil or disrupt your work.
This workshop will teach you how to digitally protect yourself at a variety of risk levels, whether in the UK or abroad, using entirely free and open source software.
What will be covered:
- you will learn about state surveillance capabilities and the law and how to assess your digital risk and and choose cybersecurity tools.
- you will be guided through installations of a core digital toolbox, including anonymous browsing, encrypted calls and messaging, and PGP encrypted emails
- hands-on training in how your new software works and how and when to use it.
- scenario planning and you will practise using your new security software.
*N.B. Your personal laptop may be preferable to a work-issued laptop, as you will need full administrative control over your laptop in order to install software.
About the trainer
Silkie Carlo is the co-author of ‘Information Security for Journalists’, published by the Centre for Investigative Journalism in 2014, and has trained journalists, lawyers and campaigners internationally. She is Director of the civil liberties and privacy NGO, Big Brother Watch. Previously, she was the Senior Advocacy Officer at Liberty where she led a programme on Technology and Human Rights and launched a legal challenge to the Investigatory Powers Act. Prior to this, she worked for Edward Snowden’s official defence fund and whistleblowers at risk.
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]]>Freelance/Student £140
Member £115
*The ticket includes a light lunch
This day long workshop will equip you with the digital tools and knowledge to protect yourself, your stories, and importantly your sources in a hostile digital environment. No prior experience is necessary.
Investigative journalism is printing what someone else does not want printed – and the risk of being electronically disrupted has never been greater. With the ever increasing accessibility of sophisticated surveillance tools, almost anyone from state-level security services, to corporations and criminals, could attempt to surveil or disrupt your work.
This workshop will teach you how to digitally protect yourself at a variety of risk levels, whether in the UK or abroad, using entirely free and open source software.
What will be covered:
- you will learn about state surveillance capabilities and the law and how to assess your digital risk and and choose cybersecurity tools.
- you will be guided through installations of a core digital toolbox, including anonymous browsing, encrypted calls and messaging, and PGP encrypted emails
- hands-on training in how your new software works and how and when to use it.
- scenario planning and you will practise using your new security software.
*N.B. Your personal laptop may be preferable to a work-issued laptop, as you will need full administrative control over your laptop in order to install software.
About the trainer
Silkie Carlo is the co-author of ‘Information Security for Journalists’, published by the Centre for Investigative Journalism in 2014, and has trained journalists, lawyers and campaigners internationally. She is Director of the civil liberties and privacy NGO, Big Brother Watch. Previously, she was the Senior Advocacy Officer at Liberty where she led a programme on Technology and Human Rights and launched a legal challenge to the Investigatory Powers Act. Prior to this, she worked for Edward Snowden’s official defence fund and whistleblowers at risk.
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]]>Freelance/Student £150.00
Members £120
Learn how user-generated and open source content can boost your journalism. Journalism is changing. Are you keeping pace?
This one-day workshop will help you apply traditional journalism to an interconnected digital environment. With this aim in mind, participants will learn the skills used by intelligence agencies of search and discovery, data collection, source verification, understanding networks and data analysis.
The aim of this workshop is to improve awareness through open intelligence. You will be taught how to:
- Choose appropriate tools to effectively monitor the Internet and user-generated content
- Identify possible leads
- Discover tools to dig quickly and deeper into a source or lead
- Understand and analyse trends
- And verify sources and contents of user-generated online material.
Step-by-step, hands-on exercises will engage the journalist in you, and you’ll gain practical online investigation techniques.
This course requires a computer and accounts to the following services: Google+, Facebook and Twitter. Please ensure that you have a laptop available and have created the above accounts in advance of the course.
About the trainers
This workshop will be led by trainers from SecDev, a company which specialises in open intelligence and builds search and discovery infrastructure, conducting expert analysis on data uncovered. SecDev has delivered training for media organisations such as BBC and Frontline Club as well as various Canadian and US government departments.
Freelance/Student £125.00
Members £100
Confused by codecs, formats, frame sizes and frame rates? Can’t figure out your data rate from your data size?
This workshop will teach you how to compress video, organise workflows and perform batch-encodes. It will also teach you to create podcasts, mobile and web video, email movies, DVD files and more.
The workshop’s goal is to empower participants to understand what video is made up of and how to handle any digital file, no matter where it has come from or where it needs to go.
Handouts and course materials will be provided.
Software covered
Apple’s Compressor, QuickTime, Handbrake, JES Deinterlacer and MPEG Streamclip.
Please bring your own laptop and software for this workshop. Although this is optional we recommend it in order to make the most of the day. And please note that although compression applies to all platforms, all practical exercises will be demonstrated on Mac.
The Frontline Club will provide media with which to practice compression.
To follow the entire day’s workshop on your own Mac, please ensure you have the following software installed:
Compressor 4.2 (£34.99) can be purchased here.
MPEG Streamclip (1.9.3b8 beta for Mac OS X) can be downloaded for free here.
Handbrake For Mac OS X 10.6 to 10.10 can be downloaded for free here.
JES Deinterlacer v3.8.40 can be downloaded for free here.
About the trainer
Simon Ruben is an award-winning freelance editor and video trainer with a decade of broadcast experience across a range of genres. He has designed and delivered popular courses for the Frontline Club since 2007 including Final Cut Pro, Compressor, DVDSP and Motion. He has also tailored courses for FT.com, Save The Children, Accenture, Medecins Sans Frontiers, LV, Soho Editors and the NUJ.
Freelance/Student £125.00
Members £100
This one-day workshop acts as a refresher, to update delegates on new areas of media law. It also serves as an introduction to media law for those with little or no experience in this field. David Banks, three-times editor of McNae’s Essential Law for Journalists, will focus on the law as it applies to online publications and social media, illustrated by the latest cases.
This course covers:
• Libel
• Contempt
• Reporting the courts
• Sexual offences
• Privacy and confidentiality
• Copyright.
The course also includes updates on:
• The future of press regulation after the Leveson report
• The Defamation Act 2013
• The Bribery Act
• RIPA
• Data Protection Act
• Misuse of Computers Act.
While featuring online aspects the session is also suitable for those working in print or broadcast journalism as well.
The day is a mixture of lectures and interactive workshops, where attendees will work in teams to solve legal problems drawn from real-life situations.
Those attending will leave with a good working knowledge of the legal issues listed above as well as the ability to recognise where risks arise, take action to avoid them and ensure they can defend themselves effectively from legal threats.
Schedule:
Morning – Crime, the courts and victims
9.30am: Crime and reporting proceedings – magistrates, crown court and other courts
10.30am: Children, and anonymity
11am: Sexual offences and victims’ anonymity
11.30am: Contempt of Court – dangers and defences
Afternoon – Libel, privacy and ethics
1.30pm: Libel – dangers and defences
2.30pm: Privacy, confidentiality, data protection and the public interest
3pm: Ethics after the Leveson inquiry
4pm: Copyright
4.30pm: Questions and finish
About the trainer
David Banks has been a journalist for 25 years and has been training journalists since 1999. He is an expert on media law and has taught courses to most of the major national and regional newspaper groups, as well as a range of other organisations including the Crown Prosecution Service, the Post Office, police forces, local authorities, charities and NGOs. He was a member of the Ministry of Justice working party on libel reform in 2010 and contributed to the Leveson Inquiry into press standards. He co-authored three editions of McNae’s Essential Law for Journalists and now writes for The Guardian on media law.
Freelance/Student £150.00
Members £120
[user generated content: the source and the story]
Disruptive technology is transforming journalism. Revolutions are tweeted. Drug lords and hitmen have Facebook fans. Wars are waged with cyber attacks. Surveillance and espionage have never been so widespread or easy to conduct.
The social fabric of cyberspace is as important as the physical world. From commerce to sex, every interaction is mirrored online. Traditional media feel left behind by bloggers, social media, and the race into cyberspace – but that race has just begun. The next-generation news organisation will be agile and smart. It will apply the trusted techniques of traditional journalism to the online world. Speed is just as important as accuracy – and both can be won.
The SecDev training programme considers how journalism has changed, and offers solutions for media professionals to break the news without compromising credibility and integrity in a real-time digital age.
With emerging digital tools and methods, journalists can:
• Discover the what as it happens
• Determine the where – globally – with speed
• Find and engage the who directly – anywhere in the world
• Understand the why, putting it quickly into a multifaceted context
• Access the how through an unlimited amount of available resources
• Verify the source with precision and efficiency
All aspects of traditional journalism still apply, but are supercharged in the digital age of media. It’s more than counting tweets, trending social media or data-driven journalism: it’s the future news environment – and it’s here today.
8:45 – 9:00 REGISTRATION
9:00 – 9:15 WELCOME MESSAGE
9:15 – 10:00 WHY DOES SOCIAL MEDIA MATTER? Presenting the ways in which social media has become the news, this information session considers how journalism has changed as a result and what media professionals can do to break the news without compromising credibility in a digital age.
10:00 – 10:45 KNOW THY THREAT Avoid being a target. Learn how to quickly distinguish fact from fiction in an online environment. This session covers issues related to cyber espionage such as what devices are easily compromised and tips for secure communications.
10:45 – 11:00 BREAK
11:00 – 12:00 BREAK THAT STORY Tools and methods for using social media to get to the story first with a structured and iterative drill designed for journalists to reinforce analytics techniques and approaches.
12:00 – 13:00 LUNCH
13:45 – 14:30 KNOW THY SOURCE Techniques and methods for verifying sources, focusing on verification of cross domain sources, culminating in a hands- on drill to test and validate core skills of participants.
14:30 – 17:00 HANDS ON PRACTICUM Let’s find the news! A breaking news simulation exercise where students will be challenged to apply their new skills in a real-time scenario, working as a team.
The trainer:
Rafal Rohozinski is co-founder and principal of the SecDev Group, a recognised leader in complex analytics. He spent 17 years working in an operational capacity in 37 countries including conflict zones in the former Soviet Union, the Middle East and Africa. He is also a co-founder and past CEO of Psiphon, he served as director of the Advanced Network Research Group University of Cambridge, is the co-founder of the OpenNet Initiative and Information Warfare Monitor, and co-author of the Ghostnet study of Chinese cyber-espionage. He has written many publications and is a frequent commentator on cyber security and cyber war.
The workshop will be followed by an event with Rafal Rohozinski on Tuesday 20 May at 7:00 PM, for details see here.
This course requires a computer and accounts to the following services: Google+, Facebook and Twitter. Please ensure that you have a laptop available and have created the above accounts in advance of the course.
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This one-day workshop will teach you how to make the most of lighting interviews, pieces to camera and talking heads. It is aimed at journalists, self-shooting producers and other filmmakers using DSLRs or small cameras.
This workshop will be equip you with an understanding of the role of lighting in creating good television pictures. You will be taught how to use Dedo lamps and the differences between hard and soft light sources. You will gain an appreciation of how light can ‘sculpt’ a presenter’s face on camera.
You will also learn how to set up simple three-point lighting suitable for shooting an interview or a piece to camera, and be given a simple understanding of colour temperature, camera exposure and of using colour to introduce drama, mood and style.
Participants will be expected to have used a DSLR, broadcast or other DV camera. This workshop is aimed at those with experience of shooting but no previous experience of using lights.
No equipment necessary except a notebook. Please bring with you any examples of good or bad interview lighting that you have spotted on television (bring these along as screenshots on your phone, files on a laptop or email them to peter.price@ppmtelevision.com so that we can share them with the group).
About the trainer
Peter Price specialises in high-end TV production for global audiences on BBC World News. He has recently travelled the world to direct the AIB award-winning My City travel series for BBC World News and BBC.com. In 2012 he directed and produced the Africa Beats and LatAam Beats music performance series for the BBC HD channel. Currently a technology reporter for BBC Click (BBC World News/ BBC 2), he previously produced Digital Planet for World Service radio. Before joining the BBC, Price worked as the lighting designer on two youth musicals at the Edinburgh Fringe and lit countless stage plays, comedies and rock concerts at his school’s 250-seat theatre.
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