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Creative Film Skills for Journalists [01JLM320]


Duration: 5 days

Training fee: £2760

Description:
Create television features that please and stimulate the viewer. Think of original and engaging ways to tell a story in sound and vision. Take a more original approach to filming and editing. An opportunity to direct more sophisticated sequences and set-ups; understand the best means of communicating complex ideas on location with a camera crew and VT editor; understand if any extra equipment can be used and how to get good value from it. The course uses current affairs two-person crews only for training and learning reasons even if participants usually work with one-person crews, or film for sound and vision themselves.

Who it's for:
This course is scheduled when we have sufficient demand. The minimum number of delegates required to make this course viable is four. If you are interested in attending please contact us.  
experienced broadcast journalists at all levels who have worked in television and/or bi-media newsrooms or any Region or with Newsgathering 
television journalists who need to understand more about storytelling with quality sound and vision
Aims:
understand how to create attractive television news reports 
take a more original approach to filming and editing
Outline:
direct attractive sound and picture sequences 
communicate complex ideas on location with a camera crew and a VT editor 
enhance the appearance of reports for national and regional television 
understand when special equipment can be used and get good value from it
Prerequisites:
participants must be experienced television news journalists/producers/reporters  
For non BBC delegates, please send through a brief paragraph explaining why you wish to attend the course and what you hope to get out of it, so our trainer can check that this course will be suitable for you. 
Please email to: training@bbc.co.uk, or send with your completed booking form.
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