Build a good base to develop your creative skills. Designed for recent users or as a refresher, the course covers essential tools and techniques for single operators, using professional camcorders and accessories; camcorder parts, controls & basic menu settings, routines, supports and camera movements, moving image language / the frame, basic lighting practice, microphone types & placement.
Cost ex VAT: A: Unavailable B: £180 C: £270

Aimed at those new or recent users of digital editing, with practical exercises and examples, the course will cover: setting up a film project, file management, log & capture, using the canvas, timeline and tools, editing clips, transitions and effects, mastering.
Cost ex VAT: A: no longer available B: £90 C: £135

Using professional DV camcorders, participants learn the principles of Chromakey in a fully equipped blue screen studio and using Macs for composting their work with Final Cut Express. Amongst other applications, Chromakey is used for BSL “in frame” interpreter translation.
Previous practice with non linear edit systems or having attended WFA’s ‘Intro to Final Cut Pro / Express is essential.
Cost ex VAT: A: no longer available B: £180 C: £270

To record quality sound is essential to film craft and avoids major and costly problems at post production. Designed for intermediate / advanced practitioners to develop their skills in field sound recording and knowledge of appropriate tools and techniques. With hands on practice the course covers: microphone types, uses, placement and boom operation, recording on DV camcorder, basic audio and sound theory, phase, acoustics, mono / stereo, phantom power, portable (Shure, ASC, SQN) mixers, planning & recording techniques.

Cost ex VAT: Rate B : £440, Rate C:  £660

You will work with the tools and features to edit images in Photoshop CS and learn to make the most of this powerful package. This intensive course covers: basic concepts, overview of tools, viewing documents, colour modes, working with text, making selections, paint tools & basic image manipulation.
Cost ex VAT: A: £38 B: £90 C: £160

Designed as a complete introduction for those new to Dreamweaver or to web page authoring, the course covers: overview and planning your site, creating pages, the document window, formating text, hyperlinks, basic images, tables and managing your site, uploading and downloading.
Cost ex VAT: A: £38 B: £90 C: £160

Flash is a powerful programme for creating interactive websites and animations.
The course gives the basics to design your own project and covers: working with graphics, adding animations, interactivity, movie clips, adding audio and video, publishing Flash documents.
Cost ex VAT: A: £38 B: £90 C: £160

This ‘entry level’ intensive course covers essential tools & techniques to shoot and edit a short film, using professional 3 CCD camcorders and Mac Final Cut edit software, from concept to finished programme.
Cost ex VAT: A: no longer available B: £180 C: £270

An intensive course looking at tools & techniques of pre- to post production with professional DV camcorders and Final Cut Pro software.This course aims to update participants production practice as well as give a production grounding to those new to this discipline. Max 10 trainees.
Cost ex VAT: Rate A £152, Rate B £360, Rate C £640

This 1 day introduction gives you an overview of the processes used in model animation. Covers the principles of creating and lighting a set, using stop motion capture, creating models. Software used: Adobe premiere.
Cost ex VAT: Rate A £38, Rate B £90, Rate C £160

This 1 day introduction gives you an overview of the processes used in model animation. Covers the principles of creating and lighting a set, using stop motion capture, creating models. Software used: Adobe premiere.
Cost ex VAT: Rate A £38, Rate B £90, Rate C £160

This 1 day course provides an introduction to DVD Studio Pro professional software for designing and creating your own DVD's. Covers designing menus and buttons, importing media and encoding methodology.
Cost ex VAT: Rate A £38, Rate B £90, Rate C £160

These are tailor-made to requirements, following training needs analysis and include: Media 100 on-line editing, Final Cut Pro HD Level 2 incl. motion, colour correction, quicktime conversion, Photoshop Level 2 and the whole range of our programmes. Contact us for further details.
Cost ex VAT: Rate A £180, Rate B £250, Rate C £325
per person/ per day. Discount for group bookings. 

Transforming Learning with Creative ICT

Over the past 6 years, WFA has developed & delivered a diverse range of creative projects to help teachers incorporate ICT across the curriculum.
Our in-set training programmes have been designed through our work with Creative partnerships and a large number of schools and are used as models of good practice. You gain hands on practical experience in the context of either secondary or primary curriculum with our tailor-made workshops using Digital images, digital video & audio and animation.
Contact us. We’ll design the programme you want & you’ll have the benefit of educational rates.