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This sell-out intensive 4 week training course will give you the creative confidence to realise your directing aspirations.
The course is limited to just 10 participants, giving you exceptional opportunities to practice your technique and have 1-2-1 access to our tutors, not to mention a raft of industry personnel.
Using professional actors and crew, as well as a specially constructed set, you will have the opportunity to rehearse actors, direct a crew, and most importantly, receive running feedback on your work.
What participants said about past Series:
"We have been given the information and the blueprints - now we just need to make the plane fly. Wonderful thank you"
“I really got a lot from the series - it’s been incredible valuable, and changed the way I think as a Director”
“Reading a script and being able to draw from it was a very important session for me. I think actors will understand me now and I them"
“Hands down the best course I have ever attended….already resulting in approaches from producers in US and Australia, as well as an Honourable Mention at the Berlin Flash Film Festival - so I would say that’s a strong recommendation!”
Week One: Focuses on how a director reads and analyses a script in order to prepare for work with the actors; how to give playable directions, and how to get the truthful and spontaneous performances you want from your actors.
You will have the chance to work with professional actors on exercises which will then be edited for review and feedback.
Weeks Two and Three: Participants will be given a focused overview of the processes of filmmaking from the point of view of the director by a host of top industry professionals, brought in from a range different specialisations.
There will also be staging and visual storytelling exercises and workshops to stage and shoot with professional actors.
Week Four: Participants will have the opportunity to test their skills directing a scene of their choosing on set with a professional cast and crew, which will then be edited for review and feedback.
If you need any assistance please contact us at shortcourses@nfts.co.uk or call us on 01494 677 903
Places are awarded on a first-come first served basis - so don't miss out on the chance of a place on the superb series!