Writing for Wildlife Documentaries Course

Kick off 2011 by learning essential new skills for your career! We're pleased to announce a brand new course to start next year on 7-9 Jan 2011: Writing for Wildlife Documentaries.

A script can make or break a wildlife film. Beautiful and powerful images can be undercut and damaged by the wrong words at the right time and vice versa. The thread of the narrative can be unravelled by an incongruous choice of phrase. So how do you start? What's more important, the words or the pictures? When does one take precedence over the other? How do you judge which style to employ, what mood to convey, what emotion to elicit? The Writing for Wildlife Documentaries course gives guidance from highly experienced wildlife writers, provides examples across different genres and offers constructive help with not only scripts but also treatments, synopses, TV Billings, DVD covers, websites and articles.

The course is taught by Caroline Brett, who is a highly experienced and award-winning producer/ director, Alan Miller, an accomplished director, writer and editor, and Madelaine Westwood, a wildlife and conservation filmmaker for international broadcasters and conservation charities for many years