script | film | act | edit
Create great short films and learn essential skills for engaging YouTube and social media content with your iPhone, Samsung or any other smartphone with a halfway decent camera!
4-day summer workshop 2024 now booking. 22 - 25 July at Canterbury College, CT2 9DT.
9.30 to 4.30. All equipment provided. Limited availability. Just £220 per child. BOOK NOW.
Canterbury Film Factory runs children's film workshops in and around Canterbury.
These are fun sessions that teach hands-on smartphone production skills for 11 to 17 year olds.
Led by broadcast TV professionals, the workshops teach practical skills to create great films with a smartphone camera or a DSLR and introduce students to free video editing apps and software.
Canterbury Film Factory workshops teach valuable production skills:
- ideas and script development, production planning
- directing, camera skills and operation, with tips and tricks for ‘in-camera’ visual effects
- acting and performing for camera
- post-production: editing, audio and simple visual effects
Every term finishes with a friends and family screening as well as digital files to take away.
While taught and guided by professional working film-makers, all films created during Canterbury Film Factory workshops are conceived, written, performed, filmed and edited by the students.
Watch last summer's workshop productions here!
In addition to creative skills and film production, students will learn creative AV skills for social media and online video production that will make them an asset for any future employer. These skills will be backed up by applicable levels of certification.
Students don't need access to a smartphone, digital camera or DSLR to take part in the sessions as we do have equipment available, but to take the learning home with them and really get the best out of the workshops, it would be an advantage.
We work hard to be ‘platform agnostic’ and work with both android and iPhone products.
Most of the software we use is either multi-platform or has alternatives across platforms.
All workshops are led by TV professionals with DBS certification, first-aid training and full public liability insurance.