Training
We can provide a range of practical workshops delivered by experienced trainers. Talks and discussions are also available on past and present productions.
Workshops include:
- Planning your video project
- Interviewer skills for camera
- Representation of disabled people in film and television.
Contact us to discuss your specific training needs.
Planning your video project
Participants will work through the planning process, defining their aims for the project and developing their initial ideas. At the end of the workshop, they should be ready to begin practical work on their film. The workshop will include:
- What do you want your film to achieve ?
- Defining your audience
- Researching your subject
- Defining your approach and structure
- Storyboarding and scripting
- Technical decisions
- Budgets
Interviewer skills for camera
By planning and carrying out filmed interviews, participants will experience being both interviewer and interviewee. The group will analyse the resulting footage and use it to develop guidelines for their own use. Areas for consideration include:
- Understanding the filming process and setting up for the camera
- Styles of interview
- Readiness for the interview: preparation and improvisation
- Phrasing your questions with the answer in mind
- Selecting your interviewee and getting the best from them
Representation of disabled people in film and television
Using examples from popular culture and their own work, participants will analyse the representation of disabled people in film and television and develop practical guidelines for use in their own work. Some of the questions for discussion include:
- What are the effects of representation?
- How is disability used?
- What messages are given?
- How real are the disabled characters lifestyles?
- What language and images are used?
- How does the book portray related issues, including race, sex, and sexuality?
This page last modified: 07 Sep 2007