Want to make your FourDoc but haven't got the money or the equipment? Try these places for an excellent deal on materials and advice for filmmakers on a budget.
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An amazingly friendly and helpful centre in Hackney, East London, where you can edit on Final Cut Pro, After Effects, Combustion and Flash for £35 per six hour day. Open Wednesday to Friday and booking is essential. They also do great value post-production courses.
www.spacemedia.org.uk
Four Corners is a long-established centre in Bow for moving image and photography. They're brilliant for helping career development in new filmmakers. Here, you can hire DV, 16mm or Beta SP equipment to film on, from £20 a day. Sound equipment is from £30 a day, and offline editing is from £100.
www.fourcornersfilm.co.uk
Free training, equipment and editing, but you have to live in Camden or Islington and attend their part-time courses. An amazing opportunity to have a £500 budget and professional help if you do though.
www.maketv.org
An educational charity in Camden,whose objective is the education and empowerment of adults, children and young people in the art of film, video and other types of media. They aim to work particularly with those people who are in need by reason of disability, age or economic circumstance. They also house the cooperative Exp TV, who offer free editing for their members.
www.filmworkshop.com
www.exptv.net
A community learning centre whose extensive courses and facilities include multimedia access, often totally free!
www.platform1.info
A media arts centre in Belfast offering access, training and resources in digital video, television and new media to people marginalized by mainstream media or denied self and/or collective expression. Theire resources are free if you're making programmes for their cable TV station.
www.northernvisions.org
An organisational body that unites small media providers and television stations dedicated to communities. Contact them to find your nearest community media provider.
www.commedia.org.uk
An arts led internet TV station with free facilities and training for making factual programmes.
www.letsgoglobal.tv
Excellent source of all things innovative in moving images in the North, with an emphasis on the artyer end. They have an audio-visual resource for everyone to use, with prices from £30 for hiring cameras and from just £5 for add-ons like microphones.
www.lumen.org.uk
Organisation offering 25 years of experience in helping low-budget filmmakers. They provide facilities hire, film and media training and initiate local and community production schemes. Generally just a great source of info and resources!
http://www.sheffieldindependentfilm.co.uk/
The revamped arts centre now includes 'The Ant Lab', an area of multimedia workstations.
www.junction.co.uk
Digital media facility in North-East Scotland offering comprehensive broadcast quality media production, post-production and training services to small businesses, community groups and individuals at affordable rates - daily rates from just £6 for cameras, £20 for lights, £20 for sound; £32 for Avid suite. And you get a better deal if you're a community group or low/unwaged.
www.admc.tv
A well-established resource centre for independent film makers based in Leicester and the surrounding area. £40 per day for a camera; £20 per hour for editing with an operator.
www.lineout.org
A unique centre offering artists from all over the world the chance to work with the community of Karosta in Latvia, plus aims to provide the youth of Latvia with the chance to bring in ideas and work on creative experiments in the fields of visual arts, especially film and new media.
www.karosta.lv
A centre for socially-engaged culture, they offer a wide range of facilities and workshops to their community.
www.rex.b92.net
A youth-oriented organisation and centre offering resources, training and education in filmmaking and visual arts for social benefits. They also have their own TV station.
www.media2image.net
A cultural centre open to the public, born of a result of neighbourhood residents' struggle to restore the area to public use. It has many resources for film production and creativity.
www.noubarris.net/ateneu
An open community art and craft centre where you can turn your creative ideas into reality in 10 well-equipped studios.
www.huset-aarhus.dk
A large independent and non-profit cultural centre in Bremen. It offers a media workshop in one of its towers, which includes media education and artistic projects, contract work and rental of technical equipment for cultural media productions.
www.schlachthof-bremen.de
A cultural centre open to contemporary research in the fields of arts and society, offering multimedia production equipment to the public.
www.mainsdoeuvres.org
A non-profit and non-governmental private institution, which supports civil and social initiatives and multicultural co-operation.
www.pekarna.org
1.Ask around.
2.Often local arts centres and cinemas have equipment lying around that they don't publicise
3.If you're at college or university, it will almost certainly have a film society with some level of kit, or be entitled to apply for some.
4.Best of all, speak to your regional screen agency for advice - there's a full list here on the Screen Yorkshire website
5. Speak to the Community Media Association (see above)
6.Failing all that, some basic free editing packages are available via the link at the bottom of this page (we can't guarantee how good they are though!)
If you're a facility or company that can help those without resources and you're not listed here, tell us and we'll add you!
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