OCCASIONAL COURSES
DIRECTORS SERIES
(please ensure finances are in place as payment required in full by 6 July)
ShortCourses@NFTS is delighted to announce its ever popular Directors’ Series for 2012, the script-to-screen intensive four-week directing course that will give you the creative confidence to realise your film.
The series is limited to 8 participants—giving you exceptional opportunities to practice your technique and have 1-2-1 access to our tutors, not to mention a raft of industry personnel. Using professional actors and crew as well as specially constructed sets, you will have the opportunity to rehearse actors, direct a full crew, and most importantly, receive running feedback on your work.
What participants said about past Series:
"We have been given the information and the blueprints - now we just need to make the plane fly. - Wonderful thank you"
“I really got a lot from the series- it’s been incredible valuable, and changed the way I think as a Director.”
“Reading a script and being able to draw from it was a very important session for me. I think actors will understand me now and I them."
“Invaluable :-)”
Week One: Focuses on how a director reads and analyses a script in order to prepare for work with the actors; how to give playable directions, and how to get the truthful and spontaneous performances you want from your actors. You will have the chance to work with professional actors on challenging scenes as well as the opportunity to study and review those scenes from the original films.
Weeks Two & Three: Participants will be given a focused overview of the processes of film-making from the point of view of the director preparing a shoot and going through post production. You will be given a screenplay that will form the basis of much of the work over the 2 weeks; there will also be camera, staging and visual-storytelling exercises to build on the study and an assigned scene to stage with professional actors (and shoot as a workshop).
Week Four: Participants will have the opportunity to test their skills directing a complex scene of their choice in the studio with a professional cast and crew, which will then be edited for review and feedback.
This course is by selection only – and is aimed at experienced professionals for whom this course is a feasible next step.
Although we require you to pay the standard £100 deposit upon application, should you not be offered a place, this will be refunded to you minus a 10% bank/admin charge. However, should you be offered a place but not be able to attend we will retain 100% of the deposit.
You must apply direct to ShortCourses@NFTS using their online application system here
Number of Places: 6 Length: 20 days
DEADLINE FOR APPLICATIONS:- 12:00 FRIDAY 29 JUNE 2012(please ensure finances are in place as payment required in full by 6 July)
ShortCourses@NFTS is delighted to announce its ever popular Directors’ Series for 2012, the script-to-screen intensive four-week directing course that will give you the creative confidence to realise your film.
The series is limited to 8 participants—giving you exceptional opportunities to practice your technique and have 1-2-1 access to our tutors, not to mention a raft of industry personnel. Using professional actors and crew as well as specially constructed sets, you will have the opportunity to rehearse actors, direct a full crew, and most importantly, receive running feedback on your work.
What participants said about past Series:
"We have been given the information and the blueprints - now we just need to make the plane fly. - Wonderful thank you"
“I really got a lot from the series- it’s been incredible valuable, and changed the way I think as a Director.”
“Reading a script and being able to draw from it was a very important session for me. I think actors will understand me now and I them."
“Invaluable :-)”
Week One: Focuses on how a director reads and analyses a script in order to prepare for work with the actors; how to give playable directions, and how to get the truthful and spontaneous performances you want from your actors. You will have the chance to work with professional actors on challenging scenes as well as the opportunity to study and review those scenes from the original films.
Weeks Two & Three: Participants will be given a focused overview of the processes of film-making from the point of view of the director preparing a shoot and going through post production. You will be given a screenplay that will form the basis of much of the work over the 2 weeks; there will also be camera, staging and visual-storytelling exercises to build on the study and an assigned scene to stage with professional actors (and shoot as a workshop).
Week Four: Participants will have the opportunity to test their skills directing a complex scene of their choice in the studio with a professional cast and crew, which will then be edited for review and feedback.
This course is by selection only – and is aimed at experienced professionals for whom this course is a feasible next step.
Although we require you to pay the standard £100 deposit upon application, should you not be offered a place, this will be refunded to you minus a 10% bank/admin charge. However, should you be offered a place but not be able to attend we will retain 100% of the deposit.
You must apply direct to ShortCourses@NFTS using their online application system here
