Courses for Professional Journalists

We are specialists in Video Journalism at Up To Speed.

Our tutors have extensive industry experience and they have trained hundreds of people to tell video stories in recent years.

We can provide courses for you in our fully equipped newsroom, but we are also happy to come to your premises.

Our two-day courses are intensive, practical and friendly. Each delegate shoots and edits two video stories. Two tutors are on hand at all times to advise on the technical aspects of filming and editing, but also on story selection, construction and video reporting skills.

Reporters who have completed our courses are ready to put their skills to good use as soon as they leave us, but we are always happy to comment and advise on work they produce later.

Case Study

Six reporters from Newsquest titles in North and East London attended one of our courses. Two of the items they filmed and edited during the course were used on the group's websites the following week and over the next four weeks each of the six delegates produced two items each for the web site. Their video reports covered an air show, greyhound racing, a hit and run accident, elections and environmental issues.

Recommendation

"Many thanks to you for leading such a productive and motivational video training course. It was exactly what we needed, exceeded my expectations in every respect - and the six journalists involved were unanimous in giving your hands-on approach a huge vote of confidence. Spot on!" - Dan Mason, Managing Editor, Newsquest North and East London.

Ideas For The Future

We are happy to discuss the latest developments in video for the web and to find ways to adapt your website's video output to take advantage of these changes.

The singing fishmonger below was shot on a mobile phone and embedded on an exciting video-sharing site called vimeo, which also caters for reports shot in high definition. The report about Amy Winehouse was filmed and edited by one of Up To Speed’s fast-track students.

Contact

Call us now on 01202 667863 to discuss ways we may be able to help you.