Past Workshops
Workshop: How to Make a Radio Documentary
Radio can be an incredibly powerful way to tell a story, and it’s a growing medium. This one-day course will get you started in some of the key techniques of radio documentary making.
Two-Day Workshop: Filmmaking on a Canon EOS 7D Mark II DSLR
This two-day course gives an overview of DSLR and larger sensor Canon cameras for video and filmmaking, detailing in particular the Canon EOS 7D Mark II DSLR camera.
Workshop: Writing for the Web with Jon Bernstein
Pioneering website editor Jon Bernstein will lead a day-long workshop that will give you an understanding of the principles of writing for the web, how it differs from print, how to establish a successful blogging persona and why the headline must work much harder online.
Workshop: Marketing Workflow for Photographers
This intensive one-day workshop will cover all aspects of marketing for photographers. The workshop will give photographers the skills to tailor their marketing efforts to the real needs of their clients, giving them practical tools to enhance their self-promotion and raise their conversion rate.
Workshop: Writing and Storytelling for TV Journalists
Join us for a day-long masterclass with Vin Ray, moving from the basic elements of television packaging through to the most sophisticated scripting techniques to help you improve your storytelling. It is designed to work for both newcomers and experienced professionals who want to improve their storytelling.
Workshop: Storytelling for the Edit
This one-day workshop will inspire participants to think about storytelling from an editor’s perspective. It is designed to help you confidently make decisions in order to create a concise and powerful digital narrative. We will look at theoretical approaches and how to apply practical tips and tricks.
Workshop: Mastering Social Media with Jon Bernstein
In the fast-paced evolution of digital journalism, it is essential to get to grips with the social media landscape around you. Pioneering website editor Jon Bernstein will lead a day-long workshop to teach you how to get the most out of your online tools.
Workshop: Human Rights Investigative Reporting with Iain Overton
Whether researching human rights abuses in a civil war, or exposing human trafficking in the sex trade, this one-day workshop will introduce you to the life of investigative reporting – from filing a Freedom of Information request to being aware of ethical implications of going undercover.
Workshop: Public Speaking
From pitching to an editor or presenting to an audience, to interviewing key witnesses and getting in front of the camera, speaking well in public is a necessary skill to help you tell your stories. This one-day workshop will cover some of the main stumbling blocks associated with speaking effectively in public. These include relaxation, voice projection, effective use of pauses, owning the text and good and open body language.
Workshop: Writing for the Web with Jon Bernstein
Pioneering website editor Jon Bernstein will lead a day-long workshop that will give you an understanding of the principles of writing for the web, how it differs from print, how to establish a successful blogging persona and why the headline must work much harder online.
Workshop: Improving Audio
Improve your audio for video, film and other audio media with this one-day workshop. Suited to self-shooters, those currently producing media content who have not previously specialised in sound and others new to sound production.
Two-Day Workshop: Filmmaking on a Canon EOS 7D Mark II DSLR
This two-day course gives an overview of DSLR and larger sensor Canon cameras for video and filmmaking, detailing in particular the Canon EOS 7D Mark II DSLR camera.
Through a series of modules, you will learn how to shoot video with the EOS 7D Mark II, how to deal with sound, lighting and movement. You will look at different styles of shooting, comparing treatment types and discussing the advantages and disadvantages of directed film making against more ‘organic’, ‘run-and-gun’ style filmmaking.
Two-Day Workshop: Introduction to Editing with Final Cut Pro X
FCP X works with new paradigms from tapeless workflows. This two-day workshop will take you through this revolutionary new way of editing video from start to finish.
Workshop: Mastering Social Media with Jon Bernstein
In the fast-paced evolution of digital journalism, it is essential to get to grips with the social media landscape around you. Pioneering website editor Jon Bernstein will lead a day-long workshop to teach you how to get the most out of your online tools.
Filming Undercover: Security, Verification and Impact
This interactive workshop will explore the pitfalls, the logistics, the security issues and ultimately, the impact, of using hidden camera footage in documentary filmmaking. We will discuss its role as an advocacy tool and what responsibility, if any, filmmakers have to distribute this sort of footage beyond the scope of the film.
Workshop: Storytelling for the Edit
This one-day workshop will inspire participants to think about storytelling from an editor’s perspective. It is designed to help you confidently make decisions in order to create a concise and powerful digital narrative. We will look at theoretical approaches and how to apply practical tips and tricks.
Workshop: Old Dog, New Tricks – Journalism at internet speeds
This one-day SecDev workshop will help you apply traditional journalism to an interconnected digital environment. With this aim in mind, participants will learn the skills used by intelligence agencies of search and discovery, data collection, source verification, understanding networks and data analysis.
Workshop: Human Rights Investigative Reporting with Iain Overton
Whether researching human rights abuses in a civil war, or exposing human trafficking in the sex trade, this one-day workshop will introduce you to the life of investigative reporting.
First Aid for Conflicts and Challenging Environments
If you have done a first aid course before or a hostile environment course, then this is the one day programme to refresh those skills. This practical workshop will allow you to update your core skills to save someone’s life in the field. Basic Life support – breathing and bleeding and other useful tips as well as how to do this in a hostile environment. Our practical simulations will provide you with a good reminder of what to do, refresh those forgotten skills.
Workshop: Writing for the Web with Jon Bernstein
Pioneering website editor Jon Bernstein will lead a day-long workshop that will give you an understanding of the principles of writing for the web, how it differs from print, how to establish a successful blogging persona and why the headline must work much harder online.