Have you ever wanted to pick up a video camera and make a short video or film, but felt intimidated by your lack of knowledge? The explosion of film-making for websites and mobiles gives people and organisations the opportunity to tell their stories and show what they have to offer, at low cost. This collection of exciting videos features The Open University’s experienced team of filmmakers, who will show you some of the craft secrets that underpin good filmmaking, and how professionals stay up to date. You will learn the basics of editing, how to conduct an interview, the role of the producer and other crew members and how to archive your finished project. This material forms part of The Open University course T156 Digital film school.

The aims of the course are:

* to introduce you to strategies for stimulating creativity and engendering ideas for writing;
* to introduce you to a wide variety of the skills and methods associated with the writing of fiction, poetry, and life writing;
* to help you to write, revise and edit your own fiction, poetry, and life writing;
* to help you to evaluate and develop your own emerging texts and those of your peers;
* to teach you to read as a writer, building up your own repertoire by studying other writers’ strategies;
* to provide you with an introduction to the world of publishing and the requirements of professional presentation.

This course is suitable not only for aspiring writers, but for any students with a strong enquiring interest in reading and writing and will be of interest to Literature students keen to learn more about the kinds of strategies that writers commonly employ.

“Can we not devise a system of liberal education which shall find its foundations in the best things of the here and now? Literature and art are all about us; science and faith offer their daily contributions; history is in the making to-day; industry pours forth its wares; and children, no less than adults, are sharing in the dynamic activities of contemporary social life . Not in the things of the past, but in those of the present, should liberal education find its beginnings as well as its results.”

— David Snedden, “What Of Liberal Education?” The Atlantic Monthly, 1912

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