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Film Courses

Film-Courses



Most university courses train students to produce written work through intensive and long-term training in essay writing. But the world has moved on. For the vast mass of humanity, digital, visual communication is not the future but the present. UCL is therefore leading the way in providing more formal means for students to acquire the time-consuming and difficult skills of visualisation and visual communication. Our two parallel – for-credit - courses provide students with new ways to engage with the world, distinctive means to generate knowledge about it, and to think about how that knowledge can reach a wider audience. This film-making training fosters a new kind of diligence, new modes of attentiveness and styles of thought that enable students to turn their ideas into visualised narrative. In their films students who have been through our courses have found expressive forms for their ideas and with these they have inspired and spoken to others in a fashion that the traditional ‘student essay’ has never or only very rarely done.

The anthropology department, which has pioneered this practically oriented work in digital communication, runs a major series of practical, hands-on, professional training programmes in documentary and digital video for social scientists, scientists, arts and humanities researchers and students. We offer two parallel degree modules in terms one and two to allow both for timetabling conflicts and to provide diversity within this program. The degree module, ANTHGS20 in the autumn Term 1 focuses on the ethnographic style of observational filmmaking. ANTHGS25, which runs in the spring term 2 also caters for broadcast-style pre-scripted documentary filmmaking. These postgraduate courses can be taken as part of a masters degree for credit or they can be audited with a certificate of completion provided. Non-university graduates can take these courses for certification. We also provide, during the course of each year, a one-week (introduction to camera technique), a two-week (brief introduction to film making) and the module-equivalent three-week summer course resulting in the production of a 5-10 minute film. Evening and weekend workshops, run by InSight Education, can be taken by anyone including non-university participants for certification.

Now that still cameras and mobile cell-phones can capture digital video, every researcher has the tools of the trade to hand whether they are in Ouagadougou or Whitby. This programme harnesses this technology and trains people to use it with skill, creativity and professional standards so research data can reach a carefully defined audience.


WATCH THESE FILMS MADE BY STUDENTS ON THE DEGREE COURSES AND WORKSHOPS.
Click on any brick in the wall to play the film.




OUR RANGE OF FILMMAKING COURSE

1. Practical Filmmaking Module for Credit and to Audit

a. Practical Ethnographic and Anthropological Filmmaking Module: social observation style, Autumn Term 1. For details click here

b. Practical Documentary Filmmaking Module: interdisciplinary scripted style, Spring Term 2. For details click here


2. Workshops and Summer Schools

a. A series of 5-day, 10-day and 3-week workshops and summer schools during Reading Weeks and the Easter and Summer vacations. For details click here

3. Evening and Weekend Workshops

a. An extensive series of short evening and weekend workshops and masterclasses run by InSight Education at UCL. For details click here



OUR FILM SCREENING PROGRAMME

During term time we hold a weekly FREE SCREENING of relevant documentary films every Thursday evening with a Question and Answer session by the filmmaker. For details click here


FILMMAKING FACILITIES & SERVICES

1. Camera and Filming Equipment

2. Editing Suites

3. Mentoring, advice and supervision

4. Technical facilities and assistance

5. Archiving and storage

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VIDEO & DVD LIBRARY

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FEES, COSTS AND REQUIREMENTS

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TUTORS

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TESTIMONIALS AND WEBCASTS

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