SCIENCE DOCUMENTARY FILM-MAKING COURSE, EVORA, PORTUGAL
2022 Dates TBC
CASA MORGADO ESPORAO
DATE
21-25 November, 2022
PRICE
Contact www.scienceretreats.com
INCLUDED
5 days tuition
GROUP SIZE
Up to 15 students
HOW TO BOOK
Booking for this course is via the ScienceRetreats website: www.scienceretreats.com
The Science Documentary Film-making Course at Case Morgado Esporao in Evora, Portugal is a five-day residential course teaching the basics of film-making. The course material is based on years of experience making science documentaries for the BBC.
COURSE DETAILS
This 5-day film-making course will take you through all the stages of making a short documentary about your work. It includes:
- Documentary theory: what makes a good film? How to think about using film and video to promote your work. The language of film: Shot sizes, camera movement, and how to use them.
- Pre-production: Planning your film, researching content, organising shoots. Understanding equipment, copyright and permissions, and story-boarding.
- Production: Shooting interviews, shooting additional material, getting good quality sound, and lighting your interviews.
- Post-production: Editing your film, boosting the colour and audio of your film, best use of music, adding simple graphics, titles and web links.
- Promoting your film: Upload to Youtube, search engine optimisation, social media, and getting your film seen.
Each day will combine learning theory in the classroom, with practical, hands-on experience of filming techniques, and analysing footage. Each participant will have the opportunity to be involved in every stage of the film-making process. They are invited to come prepared to make their own film on the course, and will be taught all the stages to produce a finished film after 5 days.
ACCOMODATION
The course and accommodation are both at the 15th Century Casa Morgado Esporão in Évora in Portugal.
For more information about accommodation, visit: www.casamorgadoesporao.com/accommodation
WHAT TO BRING
A camera that shoots film: Ideally a DSLR but anything will do.
A Laptop
Editing software: We recommend a professional editing package like Premiere Pro or free packages like iMovie or HitFilm Pro
In addition, students can bring: Tripod, audio equipment including microphones, external hard drive but these are not essential.
TESTIMONIALS:
“I’m definitely going to use all the things that I learned. I work in communication for a big airline and I can use all the techniques that I learned in this week. I would definitely recommend this course.”
“As Managing Editor of Ecography, I often help our authors to communicate their research via social media. This course gave me additional tools to make short videos for authors. I gained understanding in film-making theory as well as how to shoot films and what to think about when interviewing researchers. In addition, I learned how to edit film material in film-making software, and with simple tools, make a film look really professional. I highly recommend this course!”
“I’m a biologist, and it’s important to talk not just to your peers, but to the public. What was great about the course was it covered all the stages of film-making in a week, and we got a good idea how to make effective movies that we can use in our jobs.
The teacher’s background and effective communication skills were very important in conveying such a huge amount of information in just one week.”
“I didn’t really understand all of the steps involved in making a short documentary. Before the course and with my science training I would have probably prepared something descriptive and boring. The tricks for effective storytelling of scientific results in a video documentary were really useful and the techniques for shooting and editing videos were foundational to me. You basically leave the course with the knowledge and skills to start preparing your own videos. ”
CLIENTS INCLUDE:
University of Oxford, University of Bristol, University of Bath, University of Evora (Portugal), NHS