Video Production Weekend Course

This training course is now available online. Please visit our online courses page for more details.

Our Video Production Weekend Training Course is an accessible introduction to digital  filmmaking techniques, designed to offer individuals and groups a way to rapidly, affordably acquire comprehensive video production skills

The course is suitable for complete beginners and people with basic video skills from any personal or professional background, and is led by Mark Saunders, a professional filmmaker with decades of industry and teaching experience.

We aim to provide all participants with a solid foundation of practical knowledge: a working understanding of digital cameras, sound recording, interview techniques, filming on location and industry language. The course is hands-on from the start of day one, with a maximum of three people to each camera set up (camera, sound, interviewer) on practical activities. 

We strive to instil participants with the transferrable skills and confidence to use a wide range of equipment, and focus on the 'future-proof' principles of video production, which remain constant despite changes in technology and formats.

As our standard, introductory course, the Video Production Weekend attracts a varied crowd. Previously we've taught emerging documentary filmmakers, aspiring 'self-shooter' journalists, photographers, students, hobbyists, and people who want to brush up old skills or improve self-taught techniques.

We receive exemplary feedback from almost all our participants, and many have come back several times to build on their skills in  additional courses, or to seek one-to-one help with the video projects they've embarked upon. Some have arranged for us to teach at their universities or institutions.

What you WILL learn on the course

- How to prepare for a shoot
- How to use a digital camera (focus, white balance, aperture, formats etc.)
- How to use microphones
- Framing, types of shots, camera movements, cutaways and other techniques and tips
- How to conduct and shoot an interview
- Shooting on location
- The principles of lighting, both natural and artificial
- Filming to edit
- Legal issues, permissions and copyrights

What you WON'T learn

- Post-production (editing): to learn the entire digital filmmaking process from start to finish please take our Four Day Filmmaking Course, or you could book an editing session in addition to the weekend course.

The online version of this course is split into modules. Please visit Video Production online course for details.

SUITABILITY

Complete beginners and people with basic video skills, from any background.

COURSE SIZE

There will be between 4 and 8 participants on each course.

COURSE DATES

BOOK NOW Online Courses Intensive January 11-12-14-15

BOOK NOW Online Courses Intensive March 8-9-11-12

BOOK NOW Online Courses Intensive May 3-4-6-7


Our face to face courses will be rescheduled as soon as the pandemic lockdown allows, our online courses will continue.

BOOK NOW for a place on future face to face courses.

If you need any assistance with bookings please contact us on  training@spectacle.co.uk

You can look at the dates of all our different courses on our course Calendar

PRICE

£280

For information on the payment methods we accept, please click here.

LOCATION

Unit 25 of the Battersea Business Centre, 99-109 Lavender Hill, SW11 5QL.

Detailed travel instructions are included in our FAQs and will be sent to all enrolled participants on booking and a week before the course begins.