In the Autumn Term of Filmmaking Classes, the young film crews have been busy exploring a new creative theme… Read on to discover what young filmmakers have been up to during the second half of the autumn term classes at Sparks Film School… Parallel Editing: Creating their own complex edited sequences One of the areas … Read more
Introducing a brand new creative theme to explore visual storytelling Every term at Sparks Film School’s filmmaking classes, our young film students explore a different creative theme. Every theme helps us to introduce a wide variety of different filmmaking techniques and styles, so that over time, filmmakers develop well-rounded knowledge, understanding and awareness of different … Read more
The Sparks Film School Film of the Month Award celebrates a new film from the imaginative filmmaking talents of Sparks Film School students every month. Each month, a film production made by Sparks Film School crew members is chosen by our panel of judges. Congratulations to the crews behind Lost in The Backrooms from Sparks … Read more
At Sparks Film School Filmmaking Classes, the young film crews have been exploring a new creative theme – Finishing Touches – where they have been exploring different aspects of post-production work and techniques. Read on to discover what young filmmakers have been up to during the first half of the autumn term classes at Sparks … Read more
Behind the Scenes: Getting Creative with Colour in Film Sparks Film School members have been finessing their use of colour in film this term as we have been exploring our new theme ‘True Colours’ in our weekly workshops. Each term, our members of our weekly film classes are introduced to a new theme focused on … Read more
This week at Sparks Film Schools we’ve been creating tension, solving crimes and piecing together the evidence as our filmmakers created films inspired by the theme: Scene of the Crime. Pulling Off the Perfect Crime Film Over the course of three days, members our our filmmaking courses have explored filmmaking techniques and narrative features of … Read more
In even more film festival success this week, young film students from Sparks Film Schools took part in the Little Venice Film Festival. Young filmmakers from Sparks Film Schools in Balham, Highgate and from Sparks Communities CIC had their work selected for inclusion in the 2023 screening programme. The films How Do You Feel? by … Read more
We catch up with Robin Baxter, Sparks Film School alumnus, a Film Studies graduate, screenwriter and also a film critic with Whatculture.com. Robin first joined our filmmaking classes in 2012. As part of our initial ‘Startups’ crew, which later became known as Studio 5, our programme for filmmakers age 14-18. Robin also joined the Sparks … Read more
Young filmmaker Emmi, age 16, is a student at Sparks Film School in Balham, where she works as part of the film crew in Studio 5 (our filmmaking classes for aged 14-18). Find out more about Emmi’s time as a young filmmaker and as a Sparks film school student. Tell us about when you first … Read more
As Halloween approaches it is the perfect time of year to settle in and watch some horror films. It’s also the perfect time to try making a horror film all of your own! Take inspiration from some spooky films you have watched and get planning for some terrifying horror movie making this October… So, how … Read more
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