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A new course for artists and filmmakers who are interested in using archival material in their work, and scholars who are interested in probing further into the archival turn in non-fiction filmmaking. Read More

Archives in Non-Fiction Cinema

Jan 19 — Feb 16

Online Distance Learning

This course will now be delivered via online distance learning. Students will require their own computer or other internet connected device. If you have any questions or concerns about this, please get in contact with Ripley. "I am arguing for politics and epistemologies of location, positioning and situating, where partiality and not universality is the condition of being heard to m... Read More

Cinema of the Margins (Online)

Feb 10 — Mar 17

Online Distance Learning

For documentary filmmakers, film academics and non-fiction enthusiasts looking to further their approach and understanding of non-fiction cinema and its theoretical applications. Read More

Documentary Storytelling (Online)

Jan 11 — Feb 15

Online Distance Learning

This course provides the basic skills needed to get out there and start recording and putting together an audio documentary, podcast or radio programme. Read More

Making Radio Documentary (Online)

Feb 24 — Mar 24

Distance Learning

This course will now be delivered via online distance learning. Students will require their own computer or other internet connected device. If you have any questions or concerns about this, please get in contact with Ripley. An industry-focused course aimed at Producers and Assistant Producers looking to make the move into directing, or new producers and filmmakers looking to gain t... Read More

Making the Move into Directing for Television (Online)

Feb 18 — Apr 8

Online Distance Learning

A ten-week practical documentary filmmaking course led by a working filmmaker. Read More

Practical Documentary Filmmaking

Apr 30 —

Student Central, Malet St, Bloomsbury, London WC1E 7HY

Make a film in six weeks with filmmakers Katharine Round and Marc Isaacs Read More

Summer Film School

Jul 5 —

UCL Anthropology, 14 Taviton St, London, WC1H 0BW

This course is for documentary practitioners who want to translate their ideas and material into a market-ready pitch. The programme will offer a detailed overview of the forms of pitching preparation, written and visual materials, and tactics of approach needed to approach funders and commissioning editors. The course is aimed at new and emerging producers and directors. It will cover both sho... Read More

The Art of Industry: An Introduction to Documentary Pitching

Jan 14 — Feb 4

Online Distance Learning

‘Visual Anthropology and the City’ looks at documentaries on the city starting from the city symphonies of the 1920s to the video diaries of Jonas Mekas in New York and James Benning’s style of ‘Slow Cinema’ in Los Angeles. Read More

Visual Anthropology and the City (Online)

Feb 9 — Mar 30

Online Distance Learning

Past Courses

Covering all aspects of 360 spatial audio recording, mixing, and exporting for delivery on multiple platforms such as YouTube, Facebook, and Virtual Reality Head Mounted Displays, learn how to create soundtracks for 360 degree videos. In this practical evening course students will learn how to create soundtracks for 360 degree videos. It covers all aspects of 360 spatial audio recording, mix... Read More

An introduction to Spatial Audio (Online)

Sat 24 Oct, 00:00 ... ...

Online Distance Learning

If you have an interest in storytelling, technology or just want to plan your ideas in 3D, this is the course for you. Using Virtual Reality as the primary tool, students will learn how to animate characters, objects, cameras and lights to create animations that come to life in front of viewers in 3D space as in real life. Over the course of six sessions students will gain hands on expe... Read More

Creating Animation in Virtual Reality

Sep 26 — Oct 31

Student Central Malet St, Bloomsbury, London WC1E 7HY

For documentary practitioners who want to critically frame their filmmaking in order to produce thought-provoking films that have social and cultural implications. Read More

Documentary Concepts and Research (Online)

Nov 16 — Dec 7

Online Distance Learning

Learn key strategies for building relationships with contributors, filming in intimate situations, developing narratives over time and drawing out themes that will connect with an audience. Read More

Documenting Life On Film

Nov 13 — Dec 4

UCL Anthropology, 14 Taviton Street, London, WC1H 0BW

Course Outline This practical audio storytelling course will build on basic audio foundation skills to help you make a short (up to 15 minute) audio feature. The aim of the module is to provide the technical and narrative skills required to tell short-form audio documentaries in a variety of styles including portrait of place, multi-person narratives, action-interview and montage. There will... Read More

Intermediate Radio and Podcasting

Jan 17 — Mar 27

A practice-based course designed for people interested in making VR interactive 360° film content. Read More

Introduction to Interactive VR 360° Film

May 17 — Jun 14

Students Central Malet St, Bloomsbury, London WC1E 7HY

Investigate strategies of exploration and representation through experimental, ethnographic and documentary film. Read More

Investigations and Appropriations in the Ethnographic and Documentary Film

May 13 — Jul 8

UCL Anthropology, 14 Taviton Street, London, WC1H 0BW

Since the invention of cinema, non-fiction filmmakers have worked with ‘limitations’. Read More

Limitations As Strength: Embracing Restrictions When Making Non-Fiction Films (Online)

May 26 — May 29

Online Distance Learning

Since the invention of cinema, non-fiction filmmakers have worked with ‘limitations’. Read More

Limitations As Strength: Embracing Restrictions When Making Non-Fiction Films (Online)

Mon 20 Apr, 00:00 ... ... ...

Online Distance Learning

This course provides the basic skills needed to get out there and start recording and putting together an audio documentary, podcast or radio programme. Read More

Making Radio Documentary

Jun 5 — Jul 3

UCL Anthropology, 14 Taviton Street, London, WC1H 0BW

This course provides the basic skills needed to get out there and start recording and putting together an audio documentary, podcast or radio programme. Read More

Making Radio Documentary

Oct 30 — Nov 27

UCL Anthropology, 14 Taviton Street, London, WC1H 0BW

<This course will be delivered via online distance learning. Students will require their own computer or other internet connected device. If you have any questions or concerns about this, please get in contact with Ripley. Observation is at the heart of most non-fiction films, yet it can take many varied forms. From staging 'reality' to animation, from provocation to filmmaker participat... Read More

Observation Is Dead, Long Live Observation (Online)

Jul 16 — Jul 30

Online Distance Learning

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