Are you an aspiring filmmaker aged 16-19?
Are you passionate about film?
Would you like to develop your skills and gain invaluable insights to work in the film industry?
STOP PRESS: Application deadline extended until Wednesday 16th October 2024
Are you passionate about film?
Would you like to develop your skills and gain invaluable insights to work in the film industry?
STOP PRESS: Application deadline extended until Wednesday 16th October 2024
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Running from October 2024 to January 2025, sign up now to:
This is your chance to get-ahead in the film industry. You'll be working with professional filmmakers across a range of activities including workshops, masterclasses and screenings; and you'll get stuck into all aspects of production, working with other students to make your own short film.
The cost to join is £25.
If finding the course fee is difficult for you, a bursary might be available and can also help to cover travel and other expenses such as care or support costs. We welcome and encourage applications from people; with disabilities, who are LGBTQIA+, from lower socio-economic backgrounds, from ethnically diverse communities, and from other disadvantaged groups. We want to prioritise people under-represented in our workforce and in the industry. Based at City Eye in Southampton but serving the wider Solent and South-Central region, our 2023/4 BFI Academy Short Course recruited talented young filmmakers from Guildford to the New Forest and along the South Coast from Portsmouth to Southampton. City Eye is working closely with partners across the region to ensure that this year's activity is accessible to all young people.
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Course Highlights:
• Masterclasses from industry experts • Virtual Production Studio visit • Pre-Production planning & previsualisation • Scriptwriting • Camera training (cine & DSLR) • On-set etiquette, language and hierarchy • Short film production from inception to exhibition • Production and post-production audio skills • Editing with Adobe Premiere Pro • Intro to colour grading with Da Vinci Resolve • Film study and review • Festival & Film Exhibition Qualification
You will also work towards an NCFE level 'Preparing to Work in the Film Industry' qualification. Film Premiere At the end of the course your short film will be screened at a red-carpet premiere for friends and family. Freddie's Story
In 2023, Freddie joined the BFI Academy Short Course and here tells us about his experience of taking part... For more information about the BFI Academy Short Course at City Eye in 2023/4 click HERE!
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Course Dates for 2024/5 are:
It's really important that you can attend all dates listed above. |
In order to apply you must:
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BFI Film Academy Short Courses are delivered at locations across the UK and supported by the Department for Education, National Lottery, Screen Scotland and Northern Ireland Screen. This programme is part of the BFI Film Academy Short Course, South West Consortium. A BFI funded programme led by Watershed in partnership with Somerset Film, City Eye and Screen Cornwall.
