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Making the Successful Micro-Budget Feature Film | June 2020 | Application Form |
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Making the Successful Micro-Budget Feature Film
Dates: 4th - 6th June 2020
Location: BBC Scotland, 40 Pacific Quay, Glasgow G51 1DA
Description
Learn how to turn your script into a feature film and get it released in the cinema
Course Content
This course is aimed at directors who want to make a micro-budget feature and get it shown in the cinema.
This course concentrates on the most important things that need to be in place before going out to shoot your film: from getting the script right, to dealing with agents to deciding on a look, from the basics of knowing where to put the camera, through to working with a composer, and getting the film out into the world in front of audiences.
To participate in this course, please bring along an idea or project you are working on to develop and share during the course.
Tutor
Col Spector is an award-winning writer/director who started in non-fiction at the BBC and now also works in fiction: writing and directing feature films for the cinema. He also runs his own documentary consultancy business www.thedocumentaryconsultant.com
Col started at the BBC directing various short comedy-dramas series. He then went on to direct a number of highly distinctive, critically acclaimed documentaries for Channel 4 and BBC including Just Enough Distance, Trouble At The House, Puccini Cappuccini, The Real Alan Clark, and The Lost Supper.
Dates: 4th - 6th June 2020
Location: BBC Scotland, 40 Pacific Quay, Glasgow G51 1DA
Description
Learn how to turn your script into a feature film and get it released in the cinema
Course Content
This course is aimed at directors who want to make a micro-budget feature and get it shown in the cinema.
This course concentrates on the most important things that need to be in place before going out to shoot your film: from getting the script right, to dealing with agents to deciding on a look, from the basics of knowing where to put the camera, through to working with a composer, and getting the film out into the world in front of audiences.
To participate in this course, please bring along an idea or project you are working on to develop and share during the course.
Tutor
Col Spector is an award-winning writer/director who started in non-fiction at the BBC and now also works in fiction: writing and directing feature films for the cinema. He also runs his own documentary consultancy business www.thedocumentaryconsultant.com
Col started at the BBC directing various short comedy-dramas series. He then went on to direct a number of highly distinctive, critically acclaimed documentaries for Channel 4 and BBC including Just Enough Distance, Trouble At The House, Puccini Cappuccini, The Real Alan Clark, and The Lost Supper.
Fees:
Freelance Rate: £460
Corporate Rate: £885
Once you have been accepted on the course we will invoice you, by email, for the full amount of the fees. We must receive your payment 5 working days before the course at the latest. Your place on the course is not confirmed until we have received full payment from you, or you have received written confirmation that you have been awarded a bursary.
Application and deadlines
This course is currently open for applications.
The bursary deadline for this course is Monday 18th June 2020 at 9 am.
Bursaries
Thanks to funding from the Scottish Government, discretionary bursaries may be available to those who are eligible. Bursary information is available from www.nfts.co.uk/scotland and on each course information page. Please contact scotland@nfts.co.uk if you have a bursary query.
Data Protection
The National Film and Television School respects your personal information and undertakes to comply with the Data Protection Act 1998.
Our full Data Protection Policy can be found here.
Once you have been accepted on the course we will invoice you, by email, for the full amount of the fees. We must receive your payment 5 working days before the course at the latest. Your place on the course is not confirmed until we have received full payment from you, or you have received written confirmation that you have been awarded a bursary.
Application and deadlines
This course is currently open for applications.
The bursary deadline for this course is Monday 18th June 2020 at 9 am.
Bursaries
Thanks to funding from the Scottish Government, discretionary bursaries may be available to those who are eligible. Bursary information is available from www.nfts.co.uk/scotland and on each course information page. Please contact scotland@nfts.co.uk if you have a bursary query.
Data Protection
The National Film and Television School respects your personal information and undertakes to comply with the Data Protection Act 1998.
Our full Data Protection Policy can be found here.